Thoughts. Music. Photography. Oh, and of course cats…
As you can probably see, we’re back. Not yet like before our webhosting company changed their setup (and broke our sites in doing so), but we’re working on it. So rest a bit, and wait for new content and/or changes from us.
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Since yesterday, I’m officially (doctor-approved) rid of my orthosis, and also off of these daily heparin injections – yay!
The doctor told me to be careful, and to still wear that orthosis in case I’ll have to walk a longer distance – and I told him that with being 69, one should have learned to be careful. Or, as someone once said: “Listen to your body when it\’s whispering – then you don\’t have to hear it scream” 😉
In fact, last week Wednesday I had tried to walk without that boot in the flat for 5 minutes – no complaints, didn’t hurt. Then on Pentecost Sunday I’ve made that 10 minutes, and on Monday 15. So when I came back from that doctor’s yesterday, I took off that boot, and walked 15 minutes again. My step counter ist registering my first steps as well, although I’m far from reaching my former daily goal of 10k steps – that will still take a while.
So I’m taking it slowly, as advised. And I’m thankful for having had good doctors who found the cause of my problems, and who helped solving it.
Oh, and in case you’re wondering about these step numbers above: my Fitness band only counts steps if it detects arm swings while walking, so if you’re extra careful, it sometimes misses lots of steps… (on Monday I walked 5 minutes more than on Sunday, but it doesn’t show)
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It\’s Pentecost Sunday, May 24th, and I\’m feeling a bit better since I broke my foot on Easter Sunday which was on April 5th. And as you can see in the screenshots from gadgetbridge on my phone, fed by my Xiaomi Smart Band 8, at first I just continued to walk until my diagnosis:
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You see my daily steps going down quite a bit after April 5th, and after April 17th they were over – on April 21st I gave up on them, and my step counter went to about 0 steps a day. Most doctors advised to not use that foot for a few weeks, and so I did.
My fitness tracker now starts to count a few steps again, after I started walking without crutches. On last Wednesday I tried to walk for 5 minutes in the flat without my boot, on Friday and Saturday I had to go out *with* that boot, and today I walked for 10 minutes indoors without it again. So far, no complaints, no pain, but I\’m still being careful to not crack my heel again, as the doc suggested. You see my weekly steps in the right screenshot taken from my phone.
On Tuesday, I\’ll have the next appointment with the doc again, and I hope that he allows me to get out of that boot, and off of those daily heparin needles (as thrombosis prophylaxis) again – after all, I\’m also taking Aspirin 100 already for the same purpose of preventing blood clots.
So I\’m careful, I\’m letting my heel heal as suggested, and wish me luck then 🙂
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Jo Bager and tante have interesting comments on the restructuring of Google Search. This is recommended reading, Jo\’s article is also available in German.
Just trying UbuntuStudio 26.04 in a virtual machine, and stumbled over this lovely singsang tune…
Wonderful, those 2 birds, ain\’t they? And I remember playing this live with Oliv in a cloister in Steinfeld, Germany, until I\’ve got his chord progression right… Thanks for listening 🙂
Taken today with my Olympus OM-D E-M10 Mk2 and with Mitchie’s Panasonic Lumix G 20mm/1.7 lens. Cropped to 3:2 format and used an Ilford HP5 film simulation in RawTherapee:
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As the Linux kernel developer Jonathan Corbet lets us know from the \”Bits of the Release Team\” Mailing list on his lwn.net (currently under high load), the upcoming version 14 of Debian with the codename \”Forky\” will require reproducible builds. That\’s security done the right way, so listen up Apple and Google!
High Five to all Debian developers, and belated congratulations to Sruthi Chandran who became the elected DPL (project leader) for this year! More about her here, or in case you use Instagram, here. And to all DDs: You girls & guys rock!
For those who don\’t know: you can try Forky already, just install Debian, and then go and change the repositories from \”stable\” to “testing” or to “unstable” (or “sid” which is the same as unstable). Then sudo update && sudo full-upgrade, and you’ll have Debian as a rolling release just like Arch…
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Wikiloops isn\’t only the best site for musical collaborations, it\’s also some kind of social media site since someone started some kind of \”diary\” thread on it (thanks for that, Shamika!). And so I wrote my schedule and plan for today there – it even contains a link to some beautiful music.
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… and I\’m not even in the market for the Apple Macbook Neo. Nonetheless, how \”fireborn\” approaches it, it\’s flawless. And in case you need a notebook (aka laptop) in the price range of slightly abouve 600€ (according to German price search engines), go for it. \”fireborn\” also tells you if/when you need to spend more than that. So read his review in case you need one.
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I don’t read “X” or any other of those big tech “social media” sites, so take it from 3rd party, in this case from AndroidAuthority. I forwarded it to noyb already, because as it seems, we need to convince our authorities to never make use of these trojan horse tactics and “features”, and to also threaten to sue those makers not to distribute such nonsense anymore. A perfect example of a boiling frog tactics, so don’t fall for it…
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