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What Was Your First Computer?

What Was Your First Computer? For me…. Let me narrow that one down a bit. “What was the first computer you owned?” since my first computer was an Apple II in high school.  Back then, our AV lab had three of them. I was in a video production class as a junior, so I was [...]

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Adventures In Health Care (Part II)

Good and bad news today. See here for background. The Good: It’s an angiogram, not an angioplasty. I’m having it done Friday morning. The Bad: It could become an angioplasty if they need to, but they can do it at the same time. Just an overnight stay if that’s the case….but at least this time [...]

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Adventures in Health Care (Part I)

Some background first (sorry, this is going to be a long post). Back in the late 90s, I was diagnosed with something called “Mitral Valve Prolapse” prior to all of my kidney problems in 1999/200. It’s something that does not need to be treated as long as the symptoms do not become problamatic. They never [...]

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Issues

Have not posted due to illness and my experience with the Catholic Health System here in Colorado Springs (it was not good). Once I get things straight with the new doc tomorrow and have a few tests done, I’ll post the story. Stay tuned. Is it Shareworthy? Tweet

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Sorry, Suffering From Writer’s Block

How I’m feeling today..   Why? Well, many reasons. Let’s start with how uninformed the general populace is. Many people who regularly use the internet had no idea what SOPA/PIPA was (is?) until the blackouts of January 18th. Here are some examples (from here)… This kind of thing really annoys me. Sure, some of them [...]

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