Today's known projects, all yet to come:

1) Medical appointment with Primary Care Manager, 0900. This is a long scheduled maintenance appointment. I expect lab work to be done, so did without breakfast to avoid making a special trip just for that. Am allowed water, so must remember to drink plenty in case urinalysis is required, which isn't always the case. I'll only lightly touch on recent bouts of poor health, as I saw a specialist about those last week. I will, however, bring up the sudden reappearance of a lesser issue that plagued me last year but thankfully disappeared, I thought for good.

2) Grocery run, during report from appointment. Standard fare here, except I need to pick up a prescription issued during last week's specialist visit. (I should have picked it up Friday, but Walmart Pharmacy was out at the time.) Grocery Runs normally occur Mondays. Waiting until today (Tuesday) saves me auto gas money.

Completed Project, mow lawn (yesterday):
My second mow of the year. Should have mowed days ago, but didn't feel up to it. No problem whatsoever yesterday health wise, and grass wasn't as hard on the mower as it looked to be.


I've no insights to offer as it hasn't crashed on me since updating to v9x. I of course might just be lucky. Have you researched the problem?

I've tried researching it. What happens is I'll load the project just fine, but when I try to play the video in the preview window, the sound keeps going, but the video stops, and the program flat out crashes about half the time I try to use it.

It's put me off working on my video project, which has been languishing in Hell.

This suggestion is NOT backed by any evidence it will affect your situation in any way. But it can't hurt to try, can it???? (Famous last words.)

In Filmora, click Files, then Preferences. In the resultant window, click the Performance Tab. There is an option for GPU acceleration. If it's selected, try de-selecting it and see if it helps. If it isn't selected, select it (and make sure it uses the correct GPU). Again, I've no idea if this will help. (For what it's worth, I have it selected and set to my GTX1070.)

Also, I launched the program a few minutes ago to double-check GPU acceleration info. Found out I was several updates behind. Took care of that. Noticed one of the most recent updates addresses unexpected program termination. You of course might already have that update, but worth opening the program long enough to see if you're 100% up-to-date. (I needed to open a work project (or start a new project) before the update announcement message kicked in.)

I'll check that. Thanks for the suggestion I haven't run it in a while, been kinda bleh since it started crashing all the time. Didn't do it til after I was halfway done with the project.

Project: read and understand Cholesterol Tab Test results
Status: <scratches head>

Received printed lab results from yesterday's Primary Care Physician medical appointment, which consists solely of Choresterol info. Their website provides links with explanations of what each test category means, but those explanations leave much to be desired. At any rate, here's the results:

Triglycerides 47mg/dL standard range <150mg/dL
(Mine is apparently a quite excellent reading.)

Total Choresterol 124mg/dL standard range <= 200mg/dL
(This too is pretty good.)

HDL (good Choresterol) 44mg/dL standard range >=40mg/dL
(This looks to be the worst of my readings. It's good, but on the low end of good.)

Cholersterol/HDC ratio 2.8%
(The report lists no "standard range". Nor did its explanation link provide adequate info. I've thus no idea if my reading is good or bad.)

LDL calculated (bad Choresterol) 71mg/dL standard range <100mg/dL
(This too looks to be a decently good reading.)

During an oral out briefing from my doc's assistant yesterday, prior to receiving printed results, she stated that one of my readings was "amazing." She said it had been over a year since she last saw results as good as mine (in that one category). No idea which it was, but suspect Triglycerides?

That's the good (?) news. Me being me, there's almost always bad health news to report these days. My latest misfortune is not related to yesterday's appointment. Indeed, it did not surface until afterward.

I stopped on the way home to buy this week's groceries. Once here I changed into comfy clothes (sweats and house slippers) and immediately put said groceries away. The very last food item stored was my trove of Fuji apples, kept in the fruit bin at refrigerator bottom. Bending to place those apples, I was suddenly hit with intense lower back pain that has plagued me ever since. No forewarning whatsoever. Boy is it unpleasant...at the best of times.

It's not the first time my back has gone out on me. At one time it did so at least once a year, almost always a bit before the Christmas holiday. Those episodes came to and end years ago. It's been a LONG time since this last happened. Gonna be some rough days ahead, until it begins to mend itself...assuming it does.

Such is life amongst the decrepit.

Keeping The Little Yellow 'Cavator warm in the winter?







Lifting anything and bending over is a bad move against your lower lumbar at any age. Bend your knees and keep your back straight; lower yourself to the level of the bin.

You can also get yourself one of those back support bands that work like an over-sized Ace Bandage and just give your lower lumbar region protection from being strained by inadvertent moves like what happened here. My Dad used one, he said it was really comfortable.

Oh, and I also had a Doctor that used to get ghoulishly enthusiastic over my blood results, lol. (Unfortunately, they don't read as well anymore, lol).

But that said = I'm really amazed at your results; too! Maybe I need to start following your meal plan!!!

Not really, it's more for the tractor. That little bugger is difficult to start when it's cold

Maybe it had a Chevy engine!

Project: receive State tax refund
Status: complete (or close enough to not matter)

Checked my State's "Where's my Refund" web page first thing this morning. It says there's still no record of my Return in the system. As you might recall, I telephoned the appropriate agency weeks ago and was told my Return was indeed in the system. Resolved to call again NLT this coming Monday and ask if there is some sort of problem with my submission causing the delay. Next, I visited my bank account's online page. It clearly shows my State Refund being processed as I type this. All's well, it seems, despite what the State "Where's my Refund" page says.


I first read your reply soon after its posting. At the time I was wearing something similar to what your dad wore. Am still wearing it. In reality, it's what I call a 'sweat girdle.' I've had it for decades. (Maybe four????) I originally bought it to use while running/jogging, following periods when I let myself go and developed a belly that sloshed around too much when out pounding the pavement. So far as I knew, it's not really a back support device, but does serve that function to an extent.

As to knee bending, I'm in a no-win situation. As I might or might not have alluded to during my stay here, my knees went bad on me Nov 2008, a week or so before Thanksgiving, give or take. They caused me a great deal of pain for several years, pain which grew consistently worse as time passed. Then, knee pain began to slowly fade, a process that took another couple of years. I finally reached a point where my knees don't bother me much at all...so long as I baby them. That includes no more than modest bending. Which of course means I need to bend in other ways. Which means, depending on what I'm doing that requires bending, I must rely on my back more than I ought to. But what can ya do????

Now that you bring it up I think I do remember your knees giving you problems. Bless your heart, you're between a rock and a hard place then. Can you maybe try using a chair set by the refrigerator's open door and sit down to empty your groceries that need to go into the lower bins? Or maybe even just put a hand on the back of the chair to ease the strain off your back while bending over? (that or clasp the counter firmly with one hand while you place the items in the lower bins).

Another trick you can try would be to = (at the grocery store when you are bagging up the Fuji apples and other fruits) = don't put as many into one bag. Divide the same number of apples you want to buy up into several of those plastic bags they give for bagging fruits. Only put small amounts into each bag so you don't have as heavy a sack to lower in that bent over position.

Also, make sure you are wearing that back support every time when you put the groceries into the lower bins.

Sometimes you have to find ways around the way you normally do stuff just to save yourself days of pain. I had a car accident over a decade ago that wrenched my back where I had to be in the hospital in traction for several months and then ended up having to have spinal surgery on it. For the remainder of that first year I learned quickly to find every way possible to avoid putting any strain on my spine until it healed from all that. As long as I don't do anything to put a strain on it, it is fine; but even now over ten years later if I lift anything wrong or twist the wrong way = I'll get three days of pain from it too.

Will taking a supplement like Glucosamine Chondroitin help your knees? The Vet gave it to my Rottweiler when he got painful joints; but it is supposed to be good for human joints.

Project Building Firewood Shed Using Old And Crappy Lumber continues!


Last weekend I dug the holes and today we filled them in. Always tedious to align the foundation properly but it's time well spent when moving forward.
We don't want to build it further out since it would take up space where we drive the tractor and it's already narrow as it is. But if we want we can always extend it later.


Before
After
In between 1
In between 2

Nice job getting those foundation supports in right!

Thanks, Acadian


Project BFSUOACL continued today on this day off.


Went smoothly I must say and I'm now at the point of putting plastic up on the roof before laying down the actual tin roof which will be done this Saturday. Don't know when we'll board it up though.


What it looked like when we arrived today
What it looks like now
My lovely saw

Squared off roof? I'd imagine wanting it slanted so rain and snow falls off.

Looks like it slopes to the back. At least some of those side bars aren't parallel.

WOO HOO! Some more Mirocu projects!!! Wow, you really have a ton of space set aside for your firewood! How much of it do you use every year? (or do you sell it?)

I love the pretty blue water pump, by the way.

Our neighbors keep 3 years worth of firewood in his yard. Tis a lot of wood.

Wow, 3 years? That makes me wonder how many years ahead Mirocu has? His family might be using wood decades from now that he chopped up a couple years ago!

Yes, it slopes to the back. Not so much but I have to go with how much the garage slopes since I'm building against it.


I wouldn't expect any other reaction from our beloved forum squirrel


Ever since we sold the house we don't use much firewood at all anymore. Only some in the cottage in the fall, so most of what we produce now we sell. When we had the house we were not three years ahead but two which was well enough

Unfortunately that waterpump is just for show. Would love it if it worked.

Yeah, said neighbor burns wood for heat in winter and he's got like a plot the area of his house full of corded firewood. Another area full of logs that are either needing cut or smaller logs needing split.

Keeps the old man busy.

It's good having things keeping you busy. It's what saved my sanity when I was unemployed.


What? It doesn't show, you say..?

Aw!








Aw, that is nice!

Project [whatever letters I used] continued today.


Went smooth and now the roof is up. As I said I don't know when we can board it up since it depends on when we can get hold of boards as our own supply has run dry.

Plastic fantastic
Maybe I should save one corner?
Look how cozy it is!


I will take care of the hangover plastic at both ends eventually.

Had two weeks off from work, so we decided to get rid of this shoddy old hut that the previous owners built as a place to store all the crap they were collecting (or well the crap that he was collecting). This hut was basically a car port with some panels attached to the side. The floor was a whole variety of different pavement stones - leftovers - with gravel and sand underneath. Now, our plan was to remove the hut and have some bushes and stuff planted there, but for our two week vacation, we mostly just wanted the hut gone. This is what the ensemble looked before we started:


You can tell from the picture that even in the small bit of pavement you can see, there's at least three different types of stones used. There's another set of stones under the hut itself.
The roofing of the hut was especially wonderful: when a hailstorm destroyed the original roof, they replaced it with polycarbonate. Now polycarbonate, when it's been exposed to the sun for a while, is a material far worse than styrofoam: if you so much as look at it, it breaks. And it splinters into a thousand pieces. Never use polycarbonate.

Before, I had already removed the poison ivy you can see in the background. That was a pretty nasty experience since that poison ivy had been allowed to fester for about 20 years. It had destroyed much of the wall on the backside of the hut with its sucktion cups already and, I don't know if you know this, if you cut down a lot of poison ivy, it's all poison dust trying to choke you for your trouble.

I also previously removed most of the pavement stones and stacked them up on the other side of our property for later reuse. There was just a small strip left.

When tearing down the hut, I started by removing the wooden panels at the side which I thought were just normal boards but which actually were connected to each others with tongue and groove. Since the boards are all interlocked and since most of the screws used to fasten the boards were already pretty scruffy, I just used a hammer to get most of them off.

I then pondered how to get the roof off. I didn't feel like getting a ladder so I tried hammering at the polycarbonate from below. That worked: the stuff cracked and there were splinters all around. So I stopped and took a break to think on this further. In the mean time, the wind picked up and was starting to solve the problem for me: it got under the now exposed roofing and tore off some of the polycarbonate and threw it on the neighbour's property. This was not appreciated by the neighbours a lot who panicked and nearly stampeded. I surrendered, got a ladder and started to unscrew the plates while holding on to them with all I had. In the process of getting it all off, another polycarbonate plate flew over the fence, but by then, the neighbours had been evacuated so no harm done.

The next day, it was time to dig out the concrete foundations. Now, the previous owners were pretty stingy, so it came as a surprise that they weren't stingy with the concrete. This is what I had to dig out:

I'm not sure it shows from the picture, but those things were pretty damn huge and heavy. Now I can lift a lot of weight, but I couldn't even lift the lightest of these. Maybe it was because they're difficult to grab, but I'm guessing they were just way too heavy, especially the third from the left, the big wobbly one. I ended up using the support beams of the hut to lever these out. I got them all out in a single day, which made me kind of proud. However, it also gave me pause: I had previously thought I could just throw them in the car and drive them to the disposal site. But, knowing I couldn't even get them off the ground and also only having a "normal" car and not a dump truck or something, this I could rule out. So we had to order a rubble container and while we were at it a wood container as well to get rid of all that.

Of course I had also been so naive to think I could just put the gravel into bags and reuse it for another project. I had no conception of just how much there was.

So the containers were an especially good idea. Especially because this happened: we went to our favorite nursery to look at and order some bushes for later delivery, and we had this really nice selection all setup on their yard and then the boss comes over and says "well, we'd have to deliver that pretty soon though, it's high season and we can't store these for your for very long" and then they asked if they should deliver the same week or the next week and I was all like

So yeah, that meant that I didn't just had to remove what was left of the hut, but also prepare the whole ground for new plants. Since the ground had been extremely compressed and there was only gravel and sand on it, that meant the sand and gravel had to go and fresh soil had to be thrown on top. That was thursday.

Friday evening, we did some calculating and realized we needed four cubic meters of soil. In freedom units, that's over 141 cubic feet. That is also roughly 6.5 METRIC TONS.



^- Our nosy neighbours kept watching me work all the time!

Spent the entire friday weekend removing the gravel and sand mix and throwing it into the container, and on sunday I dug out huge poison ivy roots in the vain hope that it wouldn't return anytime soon. Of course it will, because that is what this hellspawn of a plant will do, but...

Monday morning, my gf started to phone around and luckily, one supplier actually dumped those 6.5 metric tons of soil on our property the same afternoon. So all of thursday, I was busy wheelbarrowing and shoveling those 6.5 metric tons. Wednesday was a public holiday and on thursday, the nursery guys came over and planted what we had selected. They actually complimented me on the prep work for the patch. That felt really good.

This is what it looked like when I was done with it:

So as you can see I cut out a quarter circle from the lawn as well, so that was more stuff to be thrown into a container because of stupid laws.

When I was done, the first two containers looked like this:

Sorry for the potato quality picture, but you can tell just how much rubble that is.

I'll do you one better and put it in numbers though.

That's around 750 kilos of wood (or ~1650 lbs)
That's also 5670 kilos of rubble (or ~12500 lbs)

I know, because we got the bill today and that stuff is billed by weight.

I'll get a picture with the plants in later, but ... yeah that was our vacation project.


Did I mention I only had a shovel and a wheelbarrow, not an excavator?

That's what it looks like now:

Still some work left to do: the empty area in the front will be filled with lawn, and there will be a stone border separating the lawn from the bushes.

Oh, s***w you


Just kidding! Just kidding! Lower that Banhammer!


Really nice result, there! Looks way better than before

This afternoon I at long last mowed the lawn! Most of it.

I desperately wanted and needed to mow around a week ago, during our last day of dry weather prior to days of potential heavy rains and/or storms. But... I wasn't far enough along recovering from my back having gone out on me some days prior. I felt a bit better by then, but didn't dare risk relapse.

Today is the first day since then I deemed it anywhere near dry enough to attempt a mow. Even that was stretching things. The ground is still thoroughly soaked, grass/weed bottoms damp. Parts of back yard, abutting the rear fence, remain under water.

Be that as it may, several hours of potential rains/storms are predicted for tomorrow morning. It was now or never, with grass already uncomfortably tall.

Went out this afternoon under cloudy skies. Pulled the mower from my (covered) front porch to the front walkway. Checked gas...A-OK. Got ready to pull the start string. Plop...plop...plop...a light drizzle set in. Pushed the mower back onto the porch. Stood under the porch overhang a few minutes. Light drizzled became an occasional spit. Pulled mower onto the front walkway. Fired it up. Off I went.

Much to my surprise, I was able to mow all I hoped to, front yard, sides, and all the back except roughly a sixth near the rear fence. The mower conked cut three times, clogged by wads of damp clover. Truth to tell, I fully expected to not be able to mow that large section of back yard at all. All in all it came off surprisingly well.

Tuesday Morning Addendum:
Rain/Storm predictions are now removed from today's forecast. Had I known this yesterday I might have waited until today to mow, in theoretically drier conditions. That said, I'm glad to have gotten it out of the way, dampness or no dampness.

This morning I fired up Filmora and combined video clips for what will become Transport Fever Scenic Excursions ep19. It's a re-visit to the short railway passenger route first ridden ep12. Much has changed since then scenery wise. Even the train itself is different. No idea when it'll be finished and available for view. A few days away at least.

Also, it's grocery-run day!

Monday evening addendum:
I surprised myself in splicing together, editing and (text) narrating TpF SRA ep19 in a single day. The result is nothing to write home about. Still, I expected it to take far longer. That said, I don't have the mental energy to create a YouTube description and the necessary YT thumbnail tonight. I'll do so tomorrow or day after...maybe.

Tuesday morning addendum:
Surprised myself yet again by creating the needed YT description and thumbnail before bedtime yesterday. Not overly happy with either, but they'll do. Could have uploaded overnight. Didn't.

Mowed the lawn after lunch. Could have waited a few more days...if storms weren't predicted for tomorrow.

Need to remember to buy a new air filter for the mower. Been trying to remember that (when it counts) for over a year now.

Wait, in the first pic there are some stairs; but they are gone in the last pic! Where did they go? And is that an outhouse in the background?

The floor = is that gapped to aerate and keep the wood dry? I pictured myself falling through those gaps trying to stand in there and hoist the wood out, lol.

It all looks great, Mirocu! I love seeing your projects!

Holy Cow, you did all that with just a shovel? That is amazing!








Oh, this is beautiful! I hope you show us the finished work with the stone borders then!







Darn your back, I hate to think about you being in pain! I hope you are okay after mowing on damp ground, that has to make it harder to push around.








Mowers have air filters?

Project: Upload new Transport Fever 'Scenic Excursions' episode
Status: Complete

I uploaded episode 12 overnight. It is now available for viewing. A link can be found in our "What are You Playing" thread.

Hit a slight SNAFU during the upload process. Discovered I had somehow gotten the dimensions wrong for my custom YT thumbnail. Had to rebuild it from scratch. No biggie, except it was late in the process when I discovered the mistake. I was ready for bed by then, and rather groggy. I could have waited and uploaded a fix this morning. But I knew that if I didn't correct the issue then and there I'd likely have a hard time falling asleep. Fix it I did...and still needed a sleeping pill to nod off.

Thanks to my brief unemployment I got lots of stuff done at the cottage today. Among the things were putting up a backside on the firewood shed. Wasn't easy as we don't have any long boards left. Had to scrounge up some short ones and piece it together.

Project: Eye Exam
Status: Complete
Had the exam yesterday, Friday 24 May 2019. My left eye worsened only a little since my last exam, all the way back in 2014. My right eye remains the same. Exact results:

RIGHT....+1.25...add +2.25
LEFT......+1.50...add +2.25

I was told I have cataracts, which he says is common for folk my age. However, so long as my vision is correctable to 20/20 via glasses or other means, which mine is, they need not be removed. He did stress that from now on I need to make sure I have yearly exams to monitor them. That's fine by me so long as I have insurance that covers yearly exams, which I do at the moment.

Project: Order new eyeglasses
Status: Ongoing
So far as I know I'm still authorized one free pair of eyeglasses per year from the Navy as part of my military retiree benefits package. The pair of bifocals I wear now was obtained that way. Only, the order page has changed. I find it rather confusing. Gonna need to ponder it over the next some days to ensure I don't screw this up.

I also need a new pair of computer glasses. The prescription for those is Right +2.25, Left +2.50. (Exactly as I guessed beforehand.) I'll need to pay for them, so must search the web for sellers of inexpensive yet trustworthy eyeglasses.

Project: Mow lawn
Status: Must do soon
Am thinking to do so either this evening or tomorrow evening after supper. It'll be hotter than I like either way, but what can ya do this time of year?

Project: Wait for water to be restored
Status: Complete
Discovered no water coming from my faucets not long after the end of yesterday's supper. Walked outside to find our street waterlogged...on a sunny, near cloud free day. Noticed several digging machines parked in front of a house about halfway up/down the street. Street water flow started at that house. Still now water when I retired to bed last night. Thankfully, water had been restored when I hobbled out of bed this morning.

Project: mow lawn
Status: complete
Did so yesterday evening during my brother's visit. (He was asleep on the sofa the whole time.)

Project: drive brother home
Status: complete
My bro's car conked out on him at our town's one traffic light. He got help pushing it into our gas station lot, then a ride to my house. This morning I drove him home. This being Memorial Day nothing much he can do about it until tomorrow. I'll need to take him to work tomorrow morning. Since he works at an auto dealership everything should lock in place after that. <crosses fingers>

Project: groceries
Status: complete
Got them on the way back from driving my bro home. (He lives quite near the Walmart I shop at.)

Project: Prepare scenery for TpF Scenic Excursions filming
Status: Ongoing
This episode is likely to be a re-visit to the Chesham goods run first seen around ep6-7. I'm not overly enthusiastic about this one, but it should serve.

Project: Create new TpF SRA episode and publish it online
Status: Complete
Uploaded to YouTube overnight, 30/31 May 2019, now available for view. A link is found in our What are You Playing? thread.

Project: Order new free-to-me military standard issue Bifocals
Status: Ongoing
Got a bit behind in this due to my brother's car issue, an internet outage, and matters I'll not detail. Am back on course now...I hope. Filled out and printed the needed online form as best I can while ago. Printed mailing and other instructions. Might need swing by my local Eye Doc's office this coming Monday morning and have him sign the form before mailing. (I had him sign a few copies during my exam, but later found out eyeglass selection has changed since I last ordered a pair.)

I need to get new eyeglasses. :/

#MeToo but I'm too cheap. Also I use contacts more so, meh.

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Project Building Firewood Storage Using Old and Crappy Lumber is complete! Except for paint

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Inside

Nice job, mirocu!

I can't wear contacts.

As a side note, is there some kind of formula for determining how much gravel one needs to adequately cover a driveway?

I expect there is a simpler way but all I would know to do is the basic math approach:

Determine the area of the driveway (length x width for a simple rectangular driveway). Then multiply the square footage area by the desired depth of gravel for a cubic measurement. Then convert the cubic measurement to cubic yards since that is how gravel is often sold - in the US. Perhaps mirocu could help more - especially if your project is in Sweden.

Here's a video on my current project.

I need to figure out a border and how much gravel I'm gonna need.

And if I need to dig or not. I don't know if I want to disturb the lower layers of gravel. :/

Reaper, very pretty and nice choice for music.

Thanks its actual music from the She-Ra Princess of Power series soundtrack .

Project: mow lawn
Status: complete
Did so yesterday afternoon. Man was it hot! If it's this bad early June I shutter to think what it'll be like during the hottest part of the year. Might have held off until today, but several hours of storms were predicted for the morning that didn't materialize. It's out of the way in any case...for a week.

Project: balance checking & savings accounts
Status: complete
Did so this morning right before lunch. Feared it'd be a major hassle this month, with my receipts not as well organized as usual. Turned out to be a piece of cake.

Project: eyeglasses
Status: incomplete
I hoped to have an order in the mail yesterday. Ran into a SNAFU discovering I have filled out an important piece of info wrong on the order form. Had to redo the form and run it by the examine's office for a new signature, which I did during yesterday's errand run. The holdup now is that I've been waiting two days now for a return call from the Navy about one info block on the form I'm not 100% sure what to write. If I get no response by tomorrow I'll likely make my best guess and submit.

Project: grocery run
Status: complete
Did this yesterday morning after a brief visit the the eye examiner's office.

Project: create new YouTube thumbnail for TpF SRA ep13
Status: complete
Did this not long ago. I hope to eventually submit 'improved' replacements for all SRA episodes whose thumbnails I'm less than pleased with.

Wednesday Morning Addendum:
Eyeglass order is in my mailbox awaiting pickup. Never got a return call from NOSTRA. Annotated the submission form to reflect my primary concern and will hope what I sent suffices.

Project: Exercise Walks
Status: Ongoing
After a several month hiatus since my first, disastrous, walking attempt this year, terminated after only one walk, I resumed walking either this past Saturday or Sunday. Walked every day except yesterday (rare scheduling conflict). Leave the house circa 0545-0600. Follow my long-established 25-30minute route. Only day-one did I go out later. Gotta say the earlier walk time suits me far be, but then I've long been a morning person. Carried an umbrella one walk due to predicted rain/storms, but nothing came of it.

Project: Routine Dental Exam
Status: Complete
I need a crown. Bloody 'ell.

Project: Crown
Status: Scheduled
I go in 24 Jun. My copay is $540.10US, start to finish. Or so I'm told.

Project: Cardio Appointment
Status: Upcoming
A long-scheduled routine maintenance visit, 18 Jun. Or so I hope.

Holy Crap!

That is a really high copay for a crown, are they making you a solid gold grill? Geez!


Best wishes on both; and hope your Cardio appointment goes really well!

That is high. I was quoted 200 for stainless when I almost needed one.

Project: Mow Lawn
Status: Complete
Did so yesterday in reasonably mild weather for this time of year. I'd rather have waited until today, but didn't want to risk a chance of predicted storms...which didn't materialize.

Project: Create new TpF Scenic Excursions episode
Status: Ongoing
Spent most of the waking day at it. All needed video clips are captured via OBS, then combined and edited in Filmora. Might have all needed text narrative in-place. If all goes well, I'll finish up sometime tomorrow for an overnight upload, weather permitting.