tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38086334923920918332024-03-12T18:37:48.497-07:00Daylight in the SwampWoodswalkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11722867105805296960noreply@blogger.comBlogger24125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3808633492392091833.post-51734825418927070952021-10-25T13:51:00.007-07:002021-10-26T07:04:41.483-07:00We call that Coercion.<p> </p><p>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">In the current situation, things are going from bad to worse.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">We have slithered from "2 weeks to break the curve" to going on 21 MONTHS now...and from no masks, to masks, from no vaccine to a vaccine that the Dems denounced and refused because it came from he whose name shall not be spoken (T) to EVERYBODY WILL HAVE THE VACCINE. And lets not forget that So-called "Herd Immunity" has been redefined from 65%, to 70%, to 78% to 85% and now to EVERYBODY WILL HAVE THE VACCINE, regardless of the risks. (REALLY, they are very small... Trust us. "Just take it" the pundits hawk, like carnival barkers, (Pay no mind to the patient behind the curtain).<br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">With a Federal vaccine MANDATE, with some nebulous exemptions listed, but scoped so tightly and with so many dis-allowals that they make no sense and likely are causing more harm than good. We have now passed into the twilight zone.<br /></span></span></p><p>
</p><p class="xxmsonormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span>The
so-called medical exemption statutes do NOT allow for an allergic reaction to a
previous vaccination. Nor do they allow for the natural immunity from already having HAD COVID.😠<br /></span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><p class="xxmsonormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span>Apparently
it’s OK to deliberately induce a life-threatening anaphylaxis and treat THAT,
for the dubious benefit of added (perhaps) immunity over the natural immunity
gained from an all-natural COVID infection. (BTDT, was tough but not insurmountable...and I did it alone in a foreign country no less)<br /></span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><p class="xxmsonormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span> If
you have never experienced a severe anaphylactic reaction, the form it took for me
was the sensation/reality of not being able to breathe...until I passed out. At
some point afterwards I was injected with an Epi-Pen or something similar and
revived. </span></span></span></p><p class="xxmsonormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span>So I'll invite anyone who wants to dismiss the possibility of
the reaction to simulate it by taping a plastic bag over one’s head and struggling to
breathe until they pass out. After you pass out, and someone else takes off the bag, come back and tell me that it’s OK, that its no big deal.You better chose someone you trust...maybe someone you owe money to?<br /></span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><p class="xxmsonormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span> Were
there a simple 1) get vaxxed or 2a) get tested regularly and on demand, that
would be FINE...but the addition of 2b) OR Lose Your Job is not acceptable or
ethical in any case that I can see. </span></span></span></p><p class="xxmsonormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span>We Call That Coercion.<br /></span></span></span></p><p class="xxmsonormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span>The straw men and red herrings abound...comparisons to Typhoid Mary, to deliberate killers roaming and coughing on the innocents to deliberately infect them. To Selfish People who care not for their fellow denizens. The list is almost as long as a NY phone book.</span></span></span></p><p class="xxmsonormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span>Yet, there are those for whom the vaccine is contraindicated, and we are scorned, shamed and called unpatriotic. For those people, taking the vaccine can be likened to playing Russian Roulette with only one chamber empty instead of the traditional one chamber loaded. Is it any wonder they do not wish to run the risks? And yet the scorn, the shaming and the firing from employment are heaped upon them like hot coals. Is it any wonder that they are angry, hurt and feeling unwanted in society?</span></span></span></p><p class="xxmsonormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span>We are creating a divided society, one where the dividing line is the taking or not taking of a vaccine of dubious efficacy, one that doesn't PREVENT the disease! (The definition was even revised to account for this...WHAAT?) Just change the rules of the game if its not going the desired way.</span></span></span></p><p class="xxmsonormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span>WHEN this currently perpetual pandemic finally blows over and the COVID-19 is little more than another type of flu (you know the one that kills 30K-60K folks every year?), how will the scorned and shunned reintegrate into society? </span></span></span></p><p class="xxmsonormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span>Will they just shrug and embrace those who shunned, scorned and abused them? Human nature tells me "Not so Much", this behavior, especially for those who lost their livelihoods, homes, friends (obviously, shallow ones) and sometimes loved ones will not go back like it was before. I think that there will be a lingering animosity that will come out at unexpected intervals and in random situations and the pro-vax fraction will be surprised and stunned...and STILL not understanding how their actions brought this reaction upon them... It's likely that those who were run out of employment and all that it enables will harbor a long-lasting anger and possibly a desire for vengeance. Politics will change over this, as will habits. Not for the better.</span></span></span></p><p class="xxmsonormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span>I think that history will not look kindly on the unkind side of humanity, on the scorn and humility and for the unvaxxed, the loss of incomes, homes and livelihoods and the resulting problems that brings.</span></span></span></p><p class="xxmsonormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span>And remember if you laugh scornfully and say "Quit whining and take the vaccine, I did!", what if you were one of the ones who died after taking it...normal, healthy, vivacious folks like a young mother who wanted to be a room mom to her daughter, like the single mom who took the vaccine to be an example to her daughter...and died for her wishes. Like the folks who come out with an enlarged heart or other severe injuries and all the health problems that they brings, the other vaccine related injuries...will you also scorn them? Or are they just casualties in the great drive forward...un-lamented but for their own people? Maybe they are your family, daughters, sons, mothers, fathers wives, husbands parents and grandparents...is their loss just to be swept under the rug?</span></span></span></p><p class="xxmsonormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></span></p><p class="xxmsonormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span>And finally why the lies about the deaths, the counting of decapitations, death from gunshot wounds, Motor vehicle incidents and a host of other NON-COVID causes that are logged as COVID deaths, is it the perverse incentive for the hospitals, that they get more money? Why are the risks of taking the vaccines not laid out like the litany of risks for the latest wonder drug to fight one of our society's growing host of ills? Why are they hidden, the deaths downplayed, the permanent negative health effects not covered in the same light as the deaths and permanent negative health effects of COVID? </span></span></span></p><p class="xxmsonormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><br /></span></span></span></p><p class="xxmsonormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span>Give people the FACTS and let them make an informed decision, allow them that, instead of the scorn and shaming that they do not follow YOUR choice.</span></span></span></p><p class="xxmsonormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Threatening ones livelihood is Coercion. It will come back to bite us as a society</span></span><br /></span></p><p class="xxmsonormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></p>
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<![endif]--></p>Woodswalkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11722867105805296960noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3808633492392091833.post-33183071402610534182019-05-22T10:32:00.000-07:002019-05-22T10:35:11.058-07:00Censorship in the Prog/Lib Echo Chamber.So I periodically comment on on-line version of the local fishwrapper. Being the flagship fishwrapper of the PDRS (Peoples Democratic Republic of Seattle), they of COURSE have STRICT POLICIES as to what is considered civil discourse.<br />
<br />
After attempting to point out the inconsistency of the author's points I get the following message when I tried to post:"Your post contains one or more words that are not allowed."<br />
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Lets see that again: <i><b>"Your post contains one or more words that are not allowed." </b></i><br />
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Indeed, so first thing I did was to re-read the post to see if I inadvertently used something that violated the rather lengthy list of sins, including but not limited to:<br />
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"Disparaging an entire identity or ideology, or any other behavior that embodies or emboldens bigotry. This includes, but is not limited to: racism, misogyny, ableism, anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, homophobia and transphobia. <span style="font-weight: 400;">Causing, inciting, threatening or advocating for violence or harm.</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Obscenities, profanities and slurs; and </span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Promoting, encouraging or making light of illegal activity."</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Nope, none of the above. (or anything else apparent in the <a href="https://www.seattletimes.com/help/#commenting-code-of-conduct" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Commenting Code of Conduct</a>.) </span></span><br />
<span style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">So I pasted the comment back in and by trial and error determined that the words illegal and alien used the same sentence or in close proximity seemed to be the offending words. I then wrote a NEW post that instead of using the phrase "illegal alien" i noted the factual and LEGAL definition of one who entered a sovereign country in contravention of the laws of said country, made note that the ST was shaping the conversation by banning direct or indirect legal and factual descriptions of a condition resulting from the violation of immigration laws of the subject country. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">That post as well as the one that I altered to not use THOSE WORDS was deleted.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">It seems that if one wants to shape the conversation and to present a DISTORTED view of the purported "views" of the readership of the fishwrapper, then all one has to do is to employ moderators of the "correct" political leaning who will pounce on "incorrect views" and make them vanish.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Its pretty bad when they stoop towards deleting dictionary and legal definitions in an effort to shape the conversation...</span></span><br />
<span style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">As in many other venues, in Legal proceedings, Laws and the enforcement of same, Words have meanings. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">To Whit: </span></span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Precision in the law is a vital principle, since the exact words used in
statutes, regulations, contracts, guidance documents, and policy
statements can significantly affect how they are applied and
interpreted.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Illegal Alien: </span></span><span class="ILfuVd"><span class="e24Kjd">An <b>illegal alien</b> is any foreign national inside a country where he or she has no <b>legal</b> right to be.</span></span><br />
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Federal immigration law uses the term “illegal alien.” For example, <a data-external="yes" href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1365">8 U.S.C. §1365</a> is
a provision that deals with a reimbursement program the federal
government has for states that are incarcerating illegal aliens. Its
very title refers to “illegal aliens,” and that term is used in the
statute itself, which defines an illegal alien as anyone “who is in the
United States unlawfully.”<br />
“Alien”—rather than “immigrant”—is the correct legal term, since “alien” is defined in <a data-external="yes" href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1101">8 U.S.C. §1101 (a)(3)</a> as “any person not a citizen or national of the United States.”<br />
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An essay from<a class="author-card__name" href="https://www.heritage.org/staff/hans-von-spakovsky"> Hans A. von Spakovsky</a><u>,</u> <span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://www.heritage.org/immigration/commentary/undocumented-immigrant-made-term-ignores-the-law" target="_blank">"Undocumented Immigrant" Is a Made-Up Term That Ignores the Law</a> deals with this in detail, from which the above definitions and USC are excerpted.</span><br />
<br />Woodswalkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11722867105805296960noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3808633492392091833.post-86734602563144260152019-02-04T09:23:00.001-08:002019-02-04T09:23:51.858-08:00Healthcare, delayed, can be fatal...<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">This post is a rather lengthy one with a friend's perspective as well as mine. KK has watched both parents get ignored to death, literally, by the healthcare system. Similarly, my brother may suffer (and i do mean SUFFER) the same fate.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">From <a href="mailto:kathyjupiter@yahoo.com" rel="nofollow">KK</a>: </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">She heard a
story in January 2019, that sounded quite familiar.<span> </span>It was a tale of rejection, from an insurance
company that has been the least successful, most stressful-to-deal-with when in
poor health model of ineffective health care:<span>
</span>Group Health.<span> </span>(commonly called
Group Death, for reasons described to her as utterly horrific, which she will
relate herein)<span> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;">The
switch-over from Group Health to Kaiser Permanente in 2017 changed nothing,
according to all the people in our Island County who have been denied
air-ambulance services even though they are Island, with no ferry or roadway at
all in times when a crisis occurs…spurs her to relate a very personal story
about the denials of healthcare that turned her into an orphan, and now she is
fighting for her life against the same board of directors who are making
medical decisions that affect her ability to maintain her health.<span> </span>Let’s begin…</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;">Her Father
was diagnosed with a small spot of malignant growth on the outside of his lung
in 1986.<span> </span>The oncologist at Group Death
recommended a full body scan, due to familial cancer history, and it was denied
by the board that oversees such needlessly expensive procedures.<span> </span>Her Dad was treated, and declared cancer
free…until a year later.<span> </span>Her Dad wasn’t
feeling great, and went to the doctor, who told him to just “take it
easy”.<span> </span>(for a guy who NEVER missed a day
of work for sickness, and had no experience with regular healthcare due to
vigorous health, this was expected.<span> </span>It
couldn’t be anything serious, right?)<span>
</span>This continued for 8 months, until the woman’s Dad had to put his foot
down and ask for some tests to see why he was feeling worse and worse.<span> </span>Of course…it was cancer.<span> </span>Lymphocytic carcinoma, metastasized to every
major organ and all his<span> </span>bones.<span> </span>They had no idea where it originated from, it
was all over and the Dad had a very short time to prepare.<span> </span>He died at 48 years old.<span> </span>Could he have survived, with a PET scan 1
year and 8 months earlier?<span> </span>Perhaps.<span> </span>Guess she’ll never know.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;">Fast forward
to 1992.<span> </span>The woman’s mother was in need
of a very large hernia repair, sternum to pubic bone.<span> </span>Her doctor tried to get approval to do a
lung-scan prior to the surgery, because the normal surgical approach could
compress the patient’s lungs, and the suspected a severe case of emphysema in
the patient’s lungs.<span> </span>The procedure was
denied by the board that oversees such needlessly expensive procedures.<span> </span>The surgery did indeed compromise the
patient’s lungs, and kept her in-patient for 14 days as her lungs would not
re-inflate due to severe emphysema, also known as COPD.<span> </span>The result was that the lungs never
re-inflated, thus decreasing the capacity to move air, putting strain on the
patient’s heart.<span> </span>The disease progressed
much more rapidly due to inability to do any sort of exercise that strained her
need of air, as her heart would work so hard she would pass out.<span> </span>She passed away from coronary complications
of COPD, at age 65.<span> </span>Could the woman’s
mother have survived a longer lifetime, pain and heart-problem free?<span> </span>Perhaps.<span>
</span>Guess she’ll never know.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;">Now we
arrive at the present.<span> </span>The woman has
been diagnosed with Diabetes, high blood pressure, and COPD.<span> </span>She is 53, and works hard to stay fit and
vital.<span> </span>She was only able to afford Group
Health / Kaiser Permanente health insurance, and knows she has a fight on her
hands with this insurance HMO and some chronic health issues.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;">Kaiser
Permanente has switched her insulin from one that was a long lasting Lantus
insulin to one she must use 2x a day instead of one.<span> </span>More needles, more insulin, more money out of
her pocket.<span> </span>Then the medicine the woman
had used successfully to treat her COPD is no longer covered, and she has been
put on a less-effective, more required usage to get good result inhaled
medication.<span> </span>She actually had to fight to
get this medicine at all, since the doctor doing vacation relief waited 5 days
to answer a medication request for a rx to treat her COPD, and told the woman
to ask the pharmacy for medical advice…<span>
</span>Yep, she was advised to ask the pharmacist what she should be placed on
for a critical need.<span> </span>The woman knows if
she had not called the nurse line and gotten some emergency help, she could
have died from lack of oxygen.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;">Can she
survive the downgraded meds for 2 deadly chronic illnesses, the vacation relief
that takes zero responsibility for the patients they are to care for, the
increasing amount coming out of pocket for less coverage and benefits?<span> </span>Probably not.<span>
</span>However…she is not a complacent patient.<span>
</span>She won’t just take “no” for an answer, if she feels in need of medical
attention.<span> </span>She knows how to
self-advocate and will, without a doubt, go into the clinic and throw herself
down on the floor, AGAIN, <span> </span>and have a
fucking fit, should this prove necessary, or should she feel she is being
marginalized due to her health conditions.<span>
</span>She’s been treated better on Obamacare through Molina Health in the
past.<span> </span>She has had access to better care
all her life, and will accept nothing less.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;">Bless you
for listening to why Kaiser Permanente / Group Death should be dismantled and
sold for pig-food.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;">And now to my brother...</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;">He has been having INCREASING back pain after multiple surgeries, and for nearly 2 years has been going to his Dr and requesting an MRI to see what is going on in there...which his Insurance carrier refused each time the request and INSISTING that he needs physical therapy EACH time when he has already told them that the PT does NOTHING but INCREASE the pain. So finally he assented and did the PT...and the insurance STILL declined to spend the money on the MRI. This continues for probably 8 evolutions until the events of January 2019. I and the rest of our brothers feel that this egregious failure of the healthcare system at the behest of penny-pinching for-profit healthcare may have killed our brother...or as one put it, "the for F-ing profit Healthcare system may have Murdered our brother." The 2015 MRI showed no signs of issues.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">A letter from him last Friday:</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Well, some less
good news. About three weeks ago, I was bending down to pick something up, and
something in my back went, “pop”, and then it hurt like hell. I took some extra
drugs and hobbled off to work anyway, but by the end of the day, I couldn’t
stand it anymore, and had the wife take me in to the hospital.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">
They gave me some
meds and took an xray and waited for the meds to take effect. They weren’t
doing the trick, so they gave me another dose, then the doc came by and said
that I had fractured my L2 vertebrae, and that they were taking blood samples
and giving me a CT scan.<br />
<br />
If you notice,
the L2 has what looks like a big hole in it. That’s sort of the case. It has
essentially demineralized, and is kinda soft. The doc said based on that image
and some proteins in my bloodwork, that, “you probably have cancer called
Multiple Myeloma”, and recommended I see an oncologist.<br />
<br />
LOTS of blood
work, tests, a bone marrow sample (5”, 14 gauge needle into the pelvis), a full-body
X-ray survey, an MRI, a full-body PET CT, and they have confirmed that I do
have stage 1 Multiple Myeloma, a blood cancer (specifically, the plasma cells
grow out of control, attacking the bones and the kidneys.)<br />
So far, the L2
looks like the only bone that is affected (at least to this degree), and it
hasn’t attacked my kidneys yet, so prospects for long-term survival can be
quite good (5 years is 70%, 10 years is 50%), some folks make it 20-30 years. <br />
Unfortunately,
this cancer is never considered ‘cured’, and basically everyone relapses
eventually. It can be treated again, though the second treatment is usually a
little less effective than the first. Depending on how quickly you relapse,
they can either use the same treatment, or a different, stronger, and more
harsh treatment.<br />
Lather, Rinse,
Repeat.<br />
<br />
So, at the
moment, I’m looking forward to a standard treatment plan of: Radiation on the
affected bone(s), followed by 3-4 one-month rounds of a three drug cocktail.
After that, they give you a drug to stimulate the production of stem cells, and
they take a week to filter them out of your blood and freeze them to use later.
Next is a massive dose of Chemo to kill all the remaining cancer, and your bone
marrow. Once confirmed that it’s gone, they put your stem cells back in, and
the cells rebuild (hopefully) a healthy blood supply, free of cancer. The stem
cell process and recovery takes two months, mostly isolated since I won't have
an immune system after the chemo. There is about a 1% chance of death due to
complications during or directly after the stem cell part of the treatment,
primarily from infection, or bleeding/clotting issues. (and that’s if you use
your own stem cells. If you can’t produce enough, and have to use cells from a
matched donor, like a relative, then the percentage jumps to 25% because the
donor stem cells could see your body as foreign and attack it.)<br />
If the treatment
is successful, I’d be on some kind of suppressing medication, and be monitored
periodically, forever.<br />
<br />
At some point, a
spine specialist will go in and inject some plastic compound into the damaged
L2 bone to fill in the hole, and will probably also do some work on my L5-S1
fusion to clean it up a bit, do something about the new disc bulge/herniation
at L4-L5, and probably install a nerve stimulator implant to knock out the
chronic pain I have in my low back and right leg. That will hopefully reduce
the amount of pain medication that I have to take, which will un-burden my
liver and kidneys a bit (they’re going to need all the help they can get).<br />
So, I’m going to
get to explore the Wide World of Medicine a lot more… whether I like it or not.<br />
<br />
I’ll keep you
posted.<br />
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Woodswalkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11722867105805296960noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3808633492392091833.post-78109137133942738902017-03-10T09:49:00.003-08:002017-03-10T09:50:46.047-08:00Traffic, drivers...other irritants.Merging onto traffic...Its really NOT difficult.<br />
<br />
To be sure there are situations and conditions that might make the average merge into freeway traffic more difficult than it should be. Some might be heavy traffic on the targeted freeway, lack of sufficient entry ramp to gain speed, slower traffic in front, a weak-kneed vehicle that cannot accelerate faster than its squirrels can run or perhaps a timid driver, lacking in intestinal fortitude, situational awareness and the will to press sufficiently on the accelerator pedal.<br />
<br />
On my way to the shop yesterday I was in the right lane for my upcoming exit ramp, maintaining traffic speed with over 30 lengths open ahead of me and perhaps 10 behind me, when a minivan attempted to enter the freeway from my right. Now to be sure, the ramp is only a 3/10 mile long from the turn-in to the fade-out of the merging lane. The van started to merge DEAD BESIDE ME...no head check, no blinker, just blithering along totally oblivious to the fact that there were OTHER VEHICLES ON THE ROADWAY. A blast of the horn brought a swerve TOWARDS me as well as further braking on the part of the merging vehicle that was already traveling at approximately 45 mph to merge into 60 mph traffic. Due to traffic to my left I was forced to brake heavily as the van forced its way onto the roadway at now-indicated speed of 35 MPH. <br />
<br />
I laid on the horn again to indicate that the van was now obstructing traffic and the formerly 10 car gap between me and following traffic was now on the order of 2 lengths and still shrinking as the following driver braked heavily.<br />
<br />
NOW the van driver finds the accelerator pedal and speeds away from me reaching speeds estimated at over 70 mph and slides over across 3 lanes (with little regard to other traffic, in fact producing several hard braking incidents on the part of other drivers to avoid collision) to the HOV lane and departs northward.Woodswalkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11722867105805296960noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3808633492392091833.post-80717034748126208512015-08-13T10:07:00.000-07:002015-08-13T10:07:32.100-07:00Things that go "BUMP" in life.<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Yeah </span>I know that things happen as we get...Uhm, <i>(Older)</i>, some of which are good - like gaining some wisdom regarding life.<br />
Other are less good - like discovering that its food sensitivities that are causing the rest of the body to get slightly whacked out and uncomfortable.<br />
<br />
So at the urging of a Dr friend, I had the requisite testing done.<br />
<br />
<b>WELL HELL...WHATAYAMEAN PRACTICALLY EVERYTHING I LIKE??????????</b><br />
<b>($%&@#$(&%$()^*(&%!@#$()*@%(%&^()@#$*%^~!#)$*%(@%^_@... </b><br />
<br />
Wheat - there goes yummy breads, pizza crusts, hamburger buns, things coated and deep-fried.<br />
Eggs - WHAT??....no eggs with morning steak, to be wiped up with the <i>Verboten</i> toast.<br />
Dairy - there goes cheese, yogurt, a tall cold glass with the now banished Oreos.<br />
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Almonds - my FAVORITE nut snack...and the source of ONE of the non-dairy substitutes.<br />
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Means that things like my usual on-the-run breakfast sandwich (English muffin, ham/bacon/canadian bacon, cheese and an over hard egg) is reduced to a slice of ham. Its harder to eat things that you need to be sitting with a fork to do when you are at a dead run from A to B to C and back to B again all in two hours. Breakfast wraps - washed right out. PIZZA....yeah there are Gluten free crusts...and non-dairy/soy/almond cheese-like substances...just don't QUITE have the same zip...or texture or taste.<br />
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Talk about a radical upturning of ones daily routine.Woodswalkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11722867105805296960noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3808633492392091833.post-27479488797810422522014-04-22T16:00:00.002-07:002015-08-13T10:07:19.281-07:00Reasonable Bytes: The Looters need you...<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://reasonable-bytes.blogspot.com/2010/05/looters-need-you.html">Reasonable Bytes: The Looters need you...</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Work harder, lazy people need your money.</b> Entitlement programs are YOUR responsibility.<br /><b>Work harder, you need to pay for other people's poor decisions.</b>
They chose whether or not to do their homework, study, try, go to
college, where to live, and therefore the jobs that they have available.
It is YOUR responsibility to pay for their lack of health benefits,
their lack of retirement savings, THEIR lack of a job. It's your DUTY
(insert guilt here) towards your fellow humans.<br /><b>Work harder, your investment in your education needs to help pay for those who didn't even try.</b>
Most of them decided along time ago that it took too much effort to be
successful members of society. So much easier to just get by.<br /><b>Work harder, your investment in your business needs to help pay for those who don't care.</b>
You need to work late to keep your business alive so that you can keep
paying for those who leave at 3:30 to go home and drink beer not to
think about work again until an hour after they show up the next
morning. <br /><b>Work harder.....the Looters need you.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This is the kind of thing that leaves me grinding my teeth<b>, </b>yes its tongue FIRMLY in cheek in its delivery...but its also the <b>Bit-O-Truth</b> for the day</span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">. Yes, there are folks who genuinely cannot fend for themselves, they DO need some help as a part of our humanity and the obligation to care for those who cannot truly do so for themselves. This does NOT excuse the JUST FLAT LAZY who would rather dabble in games, art, mindless sloth, babies for dollars or pharmacological oblivion. I feel NOT ONE BIT of obligation to support them for a second. Some may think that this is a horrible and unfeeling position, if so, please open your purse or wallet and just randomly hand any money in it to the next person you see. Do this EVERY time you have ANY money in your wallet. Now...don't you feel enlightened? Possibly BROKE? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I care, for people, for friends, even for strangers who, having lived lives of work and honor, just need a little support. Those folks I do not mind in the least, sharing what I may have that will help them through the setback. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">As for the terminally lazy and unmotivated? Sorry (or not) I have worked HARD for what I have, what I have made of things and I am not in the least sympathetic for those who do not wish to put out the effort.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">So Sue Me. </span><b></b><br />
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Turkey hunting on a friend's ground and very successfully to boot! Some time in the hills with a rifle, around trips to the Land of the Rising Sun, but no deer to fill the freezer with.<br />
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All of those things rammed into and around an incredibly heavy, every expanding workload...hiring 5 folks wasn't enough, 15 more followed and STILL the workload climbs past capacity. As it turns out...various minor models are NOT Red, Blue and Green Legos...and do NOT fit together that way. Integration is the watchword, the curse and the muttered password, said with rolling eyes.<br />
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My boys and I spent the last few evenings checking out the trucks and preparing them for the forecast foul weather...shovels, tire chains, flashlights, gloves (axes, chainsaws, ropes, logging chains, peavy and safety gear in mine) sandbags and raingear. Its seldom that we cannot get where we need to go, in spite of the conditions of the roads and other drivers.<br />
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Ah well... such is life, today will pass, safely one hopes and tomorrow will come.Woodswalkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11722867105805296960noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3808633492392091833.post-73297845351405014952012-05-02T14:12:00.001-07:002012-05-02T14:14:20.843-07:00Blargh...but life goes on. (Shaking the rust off...)Well, I am sort of back in the saddle, a bit the worse for wear but doing OK. I'm told that getting back on the horse is the remedy for being tossed off.<br />
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Life has a been a multitude of twists and turns over the last year, some good, some bad. This too shall pass, or so I am told. This year's celebration of my arrival in this world reminded me that I have a cadre of good friends as fine wishes and thoughts brightened the day.<br />
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The wild wintery weather has given way to spring-like bouts of rain (toad-strangler variety), blustery wind (branch and tree carpets on the ground) and brief bouts of a blinding light emanating from the glowing yellow orb in the sky. Its still chilly enough on most days to need a jacket or at least an extra shirt.<br />
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Its firewood gathering season again...wood cutting permits, chainsaws and splitting axes. Also to include the occasional stuck truck or blown tire due to arrowhead rocks in the roadway. Pictures to follow soon of the magificent views in the woods of the great Pacific North'Wet, the slash piles that get converted to firewood and other things of note in the woods.<br />
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Its also spring turkey season, an opportunity to hit the hills and match wits with a tasty bird. Friends have graciously offered the use of their land for the search. I'll be taking them up on it. I'm looking quite forward to that!<br />
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The Himalayan blackberry, the scourge of the open lands up here, is also growing but with a good coating of last winter's snow to smash it flat...it is vulnerable to the blade of the Billy Goat brush mower and later the torch. Land is getting cleared, next will be rototilling and gardening.<br />
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Work, that thing that pays the bills, is starting to slow down long enough for me to take a breath. I have managed to hire 6 folks so far, more to follow, which will help reduce the workload to something that only requires 8-10 hour days...and maybe only 5-6 days a week. GAH...thought that a new program would have alleviated that. <br />
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We are well into the process of designing one of the world's finest flying machines for the USAF to replace the now-long-in-the-tooth craft by the same company nearly 50 years ago that are being flown by crews young enough to be the children of the original crews. Its a fun and CHALLENGING job, fraught with pitfalls, surprises and the usual churn of taking a design and reworking it to do something very different from what was originally intended.<br />
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<br />Woodswalkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11722867105805296960noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3808633492392091833.post-55041508354713524992011-03-28T20:39:00.000-07:002011-03-28T20:49:43.281-07:00NOT 24 anymore.Dang I'm SORE...you wouldn't think that a single trailer of rack would be too much to unload. Heck it even looks like a spot of work, but nothing too strenuous.<div><br /><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-2VM0HFQyGeQ/TZFVOvCejQI/AAAAAAAAACk/4h6RfFGxjW4/s1600/PICT0050.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-2VM0HFQyGeQ/TZFVOvCejQI/AAAAAAAAACk/4h6RfFGxjW4/s400/PICT0050.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5589342324176882946" /></a><br /><br /></div><div>HAAH...just unloading this one load, mostly the STANDARDS, which are heavier than they look, ...left me sore and feeling way closer to my age. They will support 3000 pounds per shelf...and 10,000 total per pair of standards which PROBABLY exceeds the floor's capacity.</div><div><br /></div><div>Next is getting Long-term College Friend's shop ready to receive those pumpkin beauties, bolt them to the floor and start filling them and clearing the floor space.</div><div><br /></div><div>That of course means moving the ammo cans again. My back is already cringing. Full of nuts and bolts, screws, washers and clips...they are heavy. A few even have ammo in them.</div><div><br /></div>Woodswalkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11722867105805296960noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3808633492392091833.post-90268240478045794632011-03-12T22:18:00.001-08:002011-03-12T22:36:09.936-08:00Jobs, work and steady employment!Having been at the same Salt Mine for just shy of two decades, I sometimes regard management, managers and the whole idea of direction a bit askance. ( Lots of !WHAT! were they THINKING????)<div><br /></div><div>After the last 6 years of extreme stress and unending toil, dismaying new discoveries, incessant globe trotting and not nearly enough sleep, I've suddenly found myself doing something I hadn't chosen to do. Apparently several of the management types decided that they needed an experienced Sr Manufacturing Engineer to attempt to side-step some of the hassles that have befallen the previous program.</div><div><br /></div><div>I was shanghaied.</div><div><br /></div><div>Much to my surprise things are much better, while not by any means laid back, I have some control of the trajectory short of turning in my badge and I get to choose the folks who will be working on my assigned work-package. </div><div><br /></div><div>Per the last visit with the Doc, the BP is down 20 points or so...I'm sleeping again (well sorta) and I see daylight NOT through a window but actually walking about in it producing Vitamin D the old fashioned way. At least I will as soon as the Deluge ends.</div><div><br /></div><div>It appears that there MIGHT be something TO this gig after all!</div><div><br /></div><div>While the financial strictures of the program tell me that we will be doing anything and everything with very little resources, I'm confident that we DO know how to make THIS project work and be a moneymaker in spite of a very Scotch bid to get the work.</div><div><br /></div><div>I'm working on the initial estimates to get the workload, to spec out and hire a crew and get down to doing what we are known the world over for... making flying machines. This time for the USAF, a very demanding customer.</div><div><br /></div><div>I've even been told that a smile has crossed my visage in the last few weeks.</div><div><br /></div><div>What next, Sunshine?</div>Woodswalkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11722867105805296960noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3808633492392091833.post-59958208746800728502011-03-12T21:58:00.000-08:002011-03-12T22:12:59.367-08:00SLOG, Splut and splash...Splash, slip and slide.<div><br /></div><div>THAT is what happens when the Rain Gods decide that the Deluge needs to be repeated 10 times over 15 days.</div><div><br /></div><div>Took the Brown Dinosaur (my 1981 Chevy 4x4) and new-to-me car trailer up to Longtime College Friend's place so he could move some heavy duty warehouse racks. In order that I not need a ride back home, I strapped my trusty S-10 to the trailer and ventured off into the miasma.</div><div><br /></div><div>Evidently, even with a constant supply of rain, SOME folks cannot remember how to DRIVE in it. You know its bad when the evasive maneuvers move the S-10 around on the trailer such that it requires shuffling and repositioning prior to chaining it back down even MORE snugly. A yahoo cut me off in traffic, braked heavily, flew me the #1 sign and changed lanes again and departed into Warp Drive. Once my heart rate assumed something less than a vibration and more resembled beating, I slowed to the widest shoulder i could find and repositioned the S-10 on the trailer and continued on my way.</div><div><br /></div><div>Once at LCF's place I discovered that continuous rain also makes his back 40 more closely resemble a swamp than a driveway. Time for four wheel drive and GENTLE applications of the Loud Pedal - instead of my more normal use - to coax the truck and trailer back to solid, if not dry, ground.</div><div><br /></div><div>The Brown Dinosaur and trailer are awaiting his venturing out. The drive HOME was not nearly as exciting.</div><div><br /></div><div>I want to go shooting on a not-raining day. It appears I'll be waiting a bit more...</div><div><br /></div><div>Life in the PNW.</div>Woodswalkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11722867105805296960noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3808633492392091833.post-35093289563463367622011-02-07T20:50:00.000-08:002011-02-07T20:52:43.975-08:00Stretch...Cracking knuckles.<div><br /></div><div>Back, on a new project, hopefully a bit more time...as the saying goes...Miles to go before I sleep.</div><div><br /></div><div>Have a few waiting in the wings, some good days, some funny things.</div><div><br /></div><div>More to follow SOON.</div>Woodswalkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11722867105805296960noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3808633492392091833.post-84513554087597507712010-07-07T21:54:00.001-07:002010-07-07T21:56:44.531-07:00Life and busy-nessThere are some times that there are just NOT enough hours in the day... It will be that I'll be back. Just might take a bit. sleep(a bit), work, drive between the two. That about covers the daily activities.<div><br /></div><div>I'll be back (as a semi-famous actor/governator once said).<br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div></div>Woodswalkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11722867105805296960noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3808633492392091833.post-26383523233872938062010-06-06T12:00:00.000-07:002010-06-06T15:01:57.871-07:00Still raining....RAINING.Holy COW its been a WET past month or so...we are verging on several records for rainy streaks in the "Dry Season"! There is a 5 gallon bucket on the back porch that is my unofficial rain gauge, one that I have had to empty twice in the last 3 weeks...that is a LOT of water.<div><br /></div><div>OTOH, I don't have to water the grass, not even the new re-seed which may drown before it sprouts. Some of it is growing nicely as i walked through it with bare feet this AM while checking the mailbox that no-one thought to get yesterday.</div><div><br /></div><div>YESTERDAY was really nice, a few puffy clouds, sun and a light breeze, not even enough to loft a good sized kite. Of Course, I was WORKING again...and today, when I'm OFF...its RAINING.</div><div><br /></div><div>Fah.</div>Woodswalkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11722867105805296960noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3808633492392091833.post-31514765351682850082010-05-16T20:04:00.000-07:002010-06-06T07:57:43.851-07:00SometimesSitting at my desk on Sunday grinding on mandatory training, not neglected, just not made high enough priority to shoehorn into incredibly BUSY days. Thinking of all the places I would RATHER be today...Woods, Lakes, Rivers, Mountains....just about ANYWHERE but a desk.<div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ST0hE1ECLII/S_C1buCcwUI/AAAAAAAAAB8/XqEOK1DETgg/s1600/IMG_1557.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ST0hE1ECLII/S_C1buCcwUI/AAAAAAAAAB8/XqEOK1DETgg/s320/IMG_1557.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5472073035074552130" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ST0hE1ECLII/S_C1bSG3AEI/AAAAAAAAAB0/J5T21MKErEA/s1600/newhalem4_21.bmp"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ST0hE1ECLII/S_C1bSG3AEI/AAAAAAAAAB0/J5T21MKErEA/s320/newhalem4_21.bmp" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5472073027576856642" /></a><br /><br /></div><div>Yesterday I was here as well, listening to the growl of radials and the snarl of big V-12s powering the warbirds up and out of the pattern to come around and then thundering down over the crowds. Saturday was General Aviation Day at the local airport, leavened with a large dose of the wonders from a bygone era. One of the local successful folks has a flying collection of the wonders of those days, mostly in flying condition unless the parts to return them to the skies are made of Unobtainium or are just too difficult to handle and too dangerous for Modern Sensibilities. Fah.</div><div><br /></div><div>After work I went over to the source of the beautiful sounds, just as the doors were closing, shutting away the sleek lines and unbridled power. I'll have to get over there next weekend when some of the others will be flying, along with some visitors.</div><div><br />Thinking back to the travels of late, I was AT the site of the birth of the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries A6M Zero, an unassuming concrete clock tower, now the site of the MRJ and the MHI portion of the Boeing 787. This shot was one sunny evening, just before the sun fled below the hills across the bay. The light was surreal and crisp enough to stop and take a minute to appreciate it. </div><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ST0hE1ECLII/S_C5BXDa-tI/AAAAAAAAACM/eO02dEH9r08/s1600/IMG_0545.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ST0hE1ECLII/S_C5BXDa-tI/AAAAAAAAACM/eO02dEH9r08/s320/IMG_0545.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5472076980274526930" /></a><br /><div>Now where factories stood making the nimble aircraft, while the B-29s tried to remove that capacity, a new generation of aircraft takes shape. Maybe its irony that the same Boeing that designed the B-29 to reach the Empire of Japan, now works with the same companies it built bombers to destroy in order to further the reaches of aviation.</div><div><br /></div><div>That minute nearly cost me the walk to the main station instead of the spur train, but with a steady jog I made it just as the bell for the doors rang. In Japan, when the doors close, the train GOES. The walk is not a bad one and until recently it was leavened by the glow of a beer machine on the corner near the station. The demise of the beer machine is all the more reason to jog to the spur train. </div><div><br /></div><div>Back to my training so I can get OUT of here and go see the marvels of a by-gone era...</div><div><br /></div></div>Woodswalkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11722867105805296960noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3808633492392091833.post-16100623337029249842010-04-10T22:36:00.000-07:002010-04-10T22:57:55.986-07:00Friends and smiles, changes in life.One of my dearest friends is working through suddenly raising her <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">grand kids</span>, circumstances don't matter for the small ones...all they know is that they now live at <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" class="blsp-spelling-error">Oma's</span> house. <br /><br />It has had its moments with the 12 year old deciding that life is unfair, wrong and being generally difficult as only a 12 year old girl can. The youngest has conquered some small people things and is blossoming with the example of her Grandmother's guidance, the middle one, a boy, starting to make that transition from a boy to a young man. He is learning the intricacies of making <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_2" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">fish sticks</span> and fries, and more complex things with the pride showing through as he serves his little sister's dinner and makes up his own plate. He has conquered pancakes from scratch (with oversight) and is learning that WASHING the dishes is important as well as dirtying them.<br /><br />The youngest has the warmest spot in the house, the spot by the wood stove that heats the modest house of her grandmother, a space that she shares with the ferret and occasionally the cats, though the cats usually sleep in the <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_3" class="blsp-spelling-error">elder's</span> room (does double duty as a home office) while still having the run of the indoors.<br /><br />I marvel at my friend's flexibility and <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_4" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">resourcefulness</span>, raising kids on a tight budget is challenging enough without all the added expenses that today's kids seem to have. She is a <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_5" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">wonderful</span> cook, a fact not always appreciated by kids raised on boxes of stuff that can have water added for a "faster" meal. I have seen her whip up the same type (tho hardly same class - FAR outranks the box stuff) of food in LESS time than the box preps require. Parent - teacher conferences, trips for the kids, field trips and all manner of things that HER children didnt have that its assumed that all kids do today.<br /><br />With all of this she is starting a new career at a grandmotherly age, tho NOT demenor, working through the startup of a business that can be quite demanding while still doing the old job to cover the expenses and feed the new mouths at the table. She is also an archer with her own longbow and a huntress with a rifle as well. She and the grandkids have been camping, hiking and generally out goofing off with their Oma and they love it. <br /><br />Having been raised in the city, in apartments, the kids had to learn about the outdoors, mud and less pavement. Its been a learning experience for the kids as well as their Oma.<br /><br />I'm proud of her though for doing so well with the sudden influx of life.Woodswalkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11722867105805296960noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3808633492392091833.post-60285124164601548742010-03-27T02:30:00.000-07:002010-03-27T03:07:31.372-07:00The King's ForestsIt's come to me of late that all this "saving the woods" is coming at the expense of being able to go INTO the woods. What with the county having closed off the gates and shooed away anyone with a constitution less hardy than a Missouri mule on the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">FS</span>62 Road (its a long STEEP climb out off the highway several miles and a few <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">thousand</span> feet in elevation to a safe place to shoot), closed out the Pit ORV area and closed every gate in concert with the state <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">DNR</span> that would allow access to said woods, that our tax dollars continue to pay for the upkeep etc of....I'm <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">BEGINNING</span> to feel somewhat shat upon. And I'm NOT the only one.<br /><br />The proverbial straw was the closure of the LAST sanctioned outdoors spot to shoot. Granted some of the folks who live nearby and not so nearby having gotten their panties in a knot about the all-daylight-hours use, which DOES get tiresome...its really partly the County and <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">DNR's</span> DOING that the whining is about. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">DNR</span> and county have relentlessly closed off any and ALL places in the woods to shoot (with the exception of a county councilman's OWN private place of course) and had been RECOMMENDING that folks go to the last place around. This of course drives UP the usage to a considerable degree. Hence the neighbor's complaints. Some could be dismissed as hysteria, a young lady waving an empty cartridge case around and proclaiming in a <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">theatrically</span> quavering voice that she found THIS BULLET in her driveway, some were stonily delivering facts derived from who knows WHAT source (but WRONG ones nonetheless) while others were bemoaning the terrorizing of the "Birds and the Bees in the Cottonwood trees" all in all adding up to the council <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">choosing</span> to ignore the protests and actual factually correct data from the shooters pointing out the absurdity of the emotionally laden testimony and closing the pit.<br /><br />Now this might seem like business as usual in the ever-expanding of suburbia were it not for the fact that the county council has had a SHOOTING RANGE on the books for the better part of <strong><em>40</em></strong> years and has been pressed hard for the last <strong><em>20</em></strong> years to GET IT BUILT. <br /><br />Zip, Zilch...NADA. Even for a government program that is ASTOUNDINGLY poor performance.<br /><br />Mind you now, its NOT really a MONEY issue as its been put so many times as the county has had the money to open or build out several new parks, new trails, camping yurts, birdwatching huts and a host of other things in that 20 year <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8">time frame</span>...but never a dime to spare for a range. AND in that time the trap ranges have been closed, the various shooting pits closed off or the roads gated and the shooters concentrated into smaller and smaller places. <br /><br />True there ARE public and private ranges SOMETIMES available, but the wait for membership in the ones with ranges past 100 yards is measured in YEARS, while the occasionally open public ranges have lines and ever-increasing fees to where its actually cheaper to take the family to the MOVIES than to the range.<br /><br />Which leads me to the title of the post. It sure feels to me like We the People are being pushed out of the woods that we pay for with our tax dollars....and its STARTING to feel like its the Kings Forest instead of the National and State forests. Every gate has a sign, NO SHOOTING, NO MOTORIZED VEHICLES, NO CAMPING....NO, NO, NO, NO... And to top it off the new Wild Sky Wilderness that has been foisted off on us in actuality meets NOT ONE of the requirements for a WILDERNESS under the federal statutes with which its being promulgated. The lands enclosed in this new playground for the unemployed environmentalists to sign up to take a hike in have been logged, mined, riven with roads, power lines and all manner of other man-made items. They are NOT in the definition of a Wilderness, yet there they are, locked away from access but to the stout of body and expansive of time. While I'm still stout of body, Time is measured in <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9">dribs</span> and drabs around the extremely demanding job of producing the worlds most advanced passenger airliner.<br /><br />Now the path through the mountains is lined with gated roads, with their signs of NO, a raceway for the denizens of the local <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10">metropolis</span> impostor to rush through on the way to the playgrounds of the Sunny East Side. for those of us who prefer to roam the green, quiet and drippy forests of the west side, its increasingly difficult to do so with anything but a short pass behind yet another locked gate.<br /><br />The access to the Kings Forest is ever restricted and increasingly stringent.Woodswalkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11722867105805296960noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3808633492392091833.post-48935830588874597842010-02-18T20:56:00.000-08:002010-04-10T22:36:32.442-07:00Weather and the sun.The trek to the salt mines this week has been broken with some simply STUNNING sunrises! <div><br /></div><div>Monday was the river bottoms full of a thick flowing fog with the forlorn tips of trees poking out, disappearing in the shifting mass and reappearing seconds to minutes later. Mountains sharp, black and stark, like cut from a thick steel plate and placed against the fire and fury of the sun. Tuesday was a desert-like in the deep blue with a ring of pastel orange and yellows around the horizon Wednesday was swaddled in a blanket of fog until I climbed out to see the mountains stark and pink in the waning sunrise. ALL the river bottoms were thick and heavy...wipers on like light rain. Thursday was wraiths of fog all lit by the beams from a cosmic torch...colored and bright..like driving into bountiful light. Friday was much like Monday...thick fog in the river bottoms (where the roads run of course) and bright on the hilltops poking out of the fog.</div><div><br /></div><div>Its like April in February or so says the news. One thing I HAVE noticed is that the trees are blooming already...Cherry blossoms and pussy willows...in February...we often do not see our last frost until late April...and I've had snow on my birthday around April's end.</div><div><br /></div><div>Anthropomorphogenic Global Climate Change... right.</div><div> </div><div>* this one has been hanging about for a few months...while I have been visiting the Land of the Rising Sun*</div>Woodswalkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11722867105805296960noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3808633492392091833.post-10719283942361439832010-02-11T22:14:00.000-08:002010-02-12T22:44:35.804-08:00Sunday was NOT such a bad day...SLEPT until I woke naturally...what a change...then SSS and get ready for the day. I got myself out of the house around 11ish..headed to the model train show after checking on a friend, at the train show until they kicked me out. I miss my train, the time to putter with it and the space to work with it.<br /><br />Then went to the hills and shot the 7mm-08 a bit, it hits well and it's FLAT shooting. I found 2 bx of ammo in town...one Federal premium for a SILLY-STUPID price as it was loaded with 140gr Nosler Ballistic Tips and a box of Winchester for slightly less stupid for 139 gr PowerPoints. I got dies with the rifle...it's a GOOD thing. Think some more brass is in order....was thinking Winchester or Remington. I'll load some Hornady's for whacking and some Barnes TSX for critter-gittin'. While kiddo and I waited for a slot in the BUSY gravel pit I decided to go for a wander.<br /><br />Hiked in the newly logged out areas in the Basin, whacked Wile E Coyote with a Nosler, as he was running a deer...185 yard shot. I whistled him to a stop, Pow. MANGY critter with lots of missing hair, bugs in the bare spots and stinking wounds with maggots in them...might have done him a favor.<br /><br />Hiked to the top of a new cut and found the equipment tracks and followed them to the point of entry...where i thought it was. Note to self: WEAR BOOTS for climbing clear cuts, tenny-runners just don't cut it. I was constantly stopping to take off a shoe and dig the rocks/twigs/dirt out of them...my socks were muddy when i got back to the truck.<div><br /></div><div>About that time I was notified that the pit was clearing, so back I went. While shooting Nature took control..or something I ate was not compatible with me...eventually I headed down to the house and the restful climes of a dark and cool room the house.</div><div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ST0hE1ECLII/S3ZKIbg-tFI/AAAAAAAAAAk/Ik6VTVKHGi8/s1600-h/002_23A.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ST0hE1ECLII/S3ZKIbg-tFI/AAAAAAAAAAk/Ik6VTVKHGi8/s320/002_23A.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5437615108781945938" /></a><br /><br />What I REALLY wanted to do was to sit in the woods until dark listening and watching the water running over the wier...<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ST0hE1ECLII/S3ZJWBL4klI/AAAAAAAAAAc/yxt4nYQUN7Y/s1600-h/006_19A.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 214px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ST0hE1ECLII/S3ZJWBL4klI/AAAAAAAAAAc/yxt4nYQUN7Y/s320/006_19A.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5437614242720682578" /></a>Oh Well back to the Salt Mines.</div>Woodswalkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11722867105805296960noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3808633492392091833.post-87192680985404060772009-12-21T10:00:00.000-08:002009-12-21T11:20:21.565-08:00Bugs.<span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-error">Bleah</span>.<br />Viruses are nasty critters, with consequences no less.<br /><br />After four hours in the RAW weather leading up to First Flight I thought that I had a small cold. NOT SO. I had/have a BIG cold that has transmogrified itself into a sinus infection. YUCK. This has NOT been my year for staying well, I have used up about 3 years worth of nasty-sickness time in one shuffle of 3 serious illnesses. Stress must have something to do with weakened immune systems.<br /><br />This to shall pass, <sigh>though being restricted to my bed bores me to tears and even sick I see all the stuff I think I should be doing. the 9.3x57 loading program languishes as does the 300 Win Mag load development and the 30-06 load development. Since I managed to get through the season with out seeing the critters that were legal THEN AND THERE... AND were in range there is an emptiness in my freezer and a hollow in my soul. Illness stole elk season as well, hence my well-and-truly-sick-and-tired-of-being-sick rant.<br /><br />Not near enough time in the woods, too much at work and not enough to quell the need in my soul for peace and greenery. A few ducks so far, but not the elk roasts or venison chops nor the sausage I so crave.<br /><br />Think I need to re-think some priorities. Maybe now with things finally underway in a <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">noticeable</span> manner, work will ease its insatiable demands just a touch. Give us veterans of the salt mines a minute to breath before being flung back into the pit.<br /><br />A <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_2" class="blsp-spelling-error">lootery</span> (lottery) would be really nice to win just about now. Of course one has to play to win. <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_3" class="blsp-spelling-error">Aahhh</span> you say..that is a key component. What would i do? Sleep until I was done sleeping, get up and start a pot of coffee and take a LONG, hot shower, then consider all the "stuff" that fills my waking dreams, pick one and start on it. Pretty simple really. A few things in the Buy-It-Now column just to set the stage. Nothing much more beyond living life.<br /><br />Time for more coffee today.Woodswalkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11722867105805296960noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3808633492392091833.post-53516187097070716532009-12-12T20:22:00.000-08:002009-12-12T20:58:50.019-08:00Not any warmer...Its the end of a chilly week, work has been mayhem all week, big announcements, lots of busy-ness and long hours. After sleeping until the body announced "enough sleeping" instead of the alarm, I scooted around for the day. Went out and about, stopped to help a friend with frozen pipes meeting with limited success, hit work and discovered that after all the hoo-rah and shouting...I didnt need to be there after all. So I fought my way through the shopping madness traffic and tried hit the woods for a while. <br /><br />Tomorrow I will be up when i awaken and try this again...no other chores tomorrow. Just me and the trees...and HOPEFULLY an unwary blacktail buck.<br /><br />Looked out a few minutes ago..no snow SO far.Woodswalkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11722867105805296960noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3808633492392091833.post-18329572003370064612009-12-03T21:20:00.000-08:002009-12-04T20:53:13.127-08:00Brisk they say...BRISK.Its been chilly at the <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-error">rancho</span> the last few days...temperature telling thingy has been solidly stuck in the 20s and 30s with the windshield solidly iced up at 0450 when I slide out the door for work.<br /><br />If not for Work (more of same) being its own reward, I MIGHT be out in the woods. On the other hand I have that thing called a JOB that far too many do NOT have these days....so I won't gripe too hard about 12+ hour days this week. Even though its making hunting impossible. Hopefully the weekend will allow me to get into the woods with the <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">muzzle loader</span> again.<br /><br />Last weekend was a few LONG hikes in the woods with a funny walking stick. Covered about 5 miles of <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_2" class="blsp-spelling-error">DNR</span> roads on foot...sat a lot of COLD places while being heckled by squirrels. Waded creeks where there USED to be roads, found places that used to be roads that had been obliterated. Like the one I planned to take back OUT. Lots of hopping over creeks at the bottom of deep man-made gullies, scrambling up the MUDDY sides to do it again 10 yards later....all the way back to the gate where I left the truck.<br /><br />Oh well. Still better than working.Woodswalkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11722867105805296960noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3808633492392091833.post-78115080459171010922009-11-27T21:17:00.000-08:002009-11-27T21:39:17.342-08:00Evening's sightsAfter spending the afternoon doing stuff and things, visiting with a friend and partaking of a slice of fresh pumpkin pie...I headed out of most of "civilization" and into the woods. I took off into the back of a section I have the forester's permission to hunt. It backs onto a small cornfield on one edge and some 3rd forest reprod on the other... with one state park closing the back and a highway on the other edge. For all that its almost medieval once inside, ~50 year old forest that has been maintained, thinned and pruned, almost like a European one in some ways. I walked in a ways on the road, the plot is about 2.5 miles deep and a mile wide from the state highway, after parking out of sight of the highway. There was a small opening on the side near the cornfield with signs of a great deal of traffic into and out of the small bit of standing corn where it was too muddy to harvest. Finding a comfortable tree that was still within muzzleloader range of the trail and the standing corn I sat down for a wait until evening.<br /><br />Not to be, the first deer appeared about 5 minutes AFTER shooting light, I had set tight through the end of light after hearing something moving in the woods off to the left of the opening. A doe and a yearling entered the gap first followed by a 3x3 buck and another doe, nice to watch even if I couldnt shoot. After watching them into REAL darkness, I roused myself, switched on the headlamp and headed back to the truck.<br /><br />Even though I didnt fire a shot, it was nice to rest in the peace and quiet of the woods. It is something that recharges me and is calming.<br /><br />Home again to make some breakfast for dinner, sausage, eggs and toast.<br />A good end to a great evening.Woodswalkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11722867105805296960noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3808633492392091833.post-39650136547815164602009-11-27T09:12:00.000-08:002009-11-27T09:26:57.839-08:00Daylight<span style="font-family:arial;">Its a cold, wet, raw morning with the coffee brewing. Both cats wanted OUT into the heavy leaden grey sogginess that has been the woods of late. The rivers are up and have swept out the bits from the corners...the rest of the rotting salmon carcasses, odd trees, stumps and the dietrus of humanity's use (OK, Abuse) of the world. This too shall all wash out to the bay, to be deposited on the shores.</span><br /><span style="font-family:Arial;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:Arial;">Tasks for the day: Find where the deer are hiding, get the space around the stove cleared so I can burn a fire, list the "stuff" to sell on Evilbay - cleaning out the closets and my life, find some food that does not involve turkey, start loading for the 1937 Husqvarna sporting rifle in 9.3X57 and see if the gear from yesterday is DRY yet.</span><br /><span style="font-family:Arial;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:Arial;">Checked the work cell phone...no Hair-on-Fire-Screaming-Emergency-of-the-Day (tm) to deal with, so for now the time is mine.</span><br /><span style="font-family:Arial;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:Arial;">More later...</span>Woodswalkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11722867105805296960noreply@blogger.com0