Winning on a soggy and windy Tuesday morning with about an hour to go until sunrise.

Cheers.

Well I tried to put my left shoe on today, my left foot is swollen and red and painful when I almost had the shoe on my foot.

DMV $135 next month which is due by the 8th or buy Shoes or not be able to pay the rent, buy food, take 6 bags of trash out, get my mail, vote...

This is just from a fall, there are 1 inch rocks surrounding my home on all sides and I need my left foot to get in the car, normally the drivers side is over concrete, it's over the rocks right now.

I'm barefoot...

If you hadn't said it was from a fall, I'd have sworn that looks just like Gout.... REALLY BAD GOUT!!! If it's that swollen
from a fall, something is broken or fractured. I'd get to an ER and have X-Rays done, and IF broken or fractured, a cast
would be the thing to have done.

IF; however, X-Rays show nothing or are inconclusive, I'd then go Gout and have prescriptions of Colchicine AND
Indomethacin filled by your Doctor or the ER to your local pharmacy immediately. Gout, untreated, can go to
Gangrene and could cost you the foot.

Get treatment, in any case, immediately. Swelling that bad indicates that you need immediate attention.


TL

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At 6am here it was a soggy 10C (felt like 5C), our expected max for today is 10C, 90mins later it's down to a (even more soggy) 5C (feels like 0C) and snow is now in the forecast for this evening. So it looks like it might be 1 of those days where the temp goes backwards. I even doubt that Dog will come out of her shed today so I guess that it'll be room service again for her dinner this evening.

Oh well, I didn't have anything planned to do today as lockdown continues on.

Cheers.

Over here we have a soggy but warm... Feels like a summertime evening again!

And time flies far too fast!! Lots to do yet...

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Well I near on got blown away and chilled just going out to the rain gauge as it's still 5C (feels like 0C), but the was 7.75mm in it to 51.75mm for this month so far (well our long term average of 48mm has been passes) which takes out total for the year so far up to 720.25mm so we're almost 200mm/8" ahead of the long term average up to this point of the year.

Severe frosts are expected for the next 3 days before wet stuff returns to finish this month off.

Well it's far too early for a beer as yet here so I may have to become a pirate. Arrrrrr........

Cheers.

The right foot is swollen and white, just not red or painful.

My Doctor said it could be fractured, he also mentioned physical therapy and a twice a week nurse, plus restarting my IHSS application since I'm surrounded by 1" rocks.

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The mercury here is back up to 6C, but it feels like -2C outside and some of these showers are now turning into sleet.

Oh well, the dark'n'stormies are going down well and I've turned up both the heat and thermostat settings on my air column heater up just to maintain 20C in my little 20'x20' unit upstairs in the back of my shed.

Cheers.

In September assuming I can get the car turned 180 degrees, I'm buying a Hot Shot fogger kit from Amazon and I'm gonna wipeout any and all bugs in here.

I'll be committing Mass Bugacide...

Before I go to bed tonight I'm spraying around each foot of my bed, it's a good thing there are only 4 legs and that the Ortho sprayer can spray at any angle.

I had a small orange bug(a clover mite) land on me and it's the 3rd I've seen in here, earlier today I killed what might be a black tick by drowning it.

Of course for 3 hours all 3 foggers will be active and Grace & I will have to be out in the car, then 2 hours to pump the fog out by turning the LG window a/c unit on to bring outside air in and to open 4 windows and the front door.

The 3 foggers can do 744sqft, my home is 810sqft in size, the difference might be the studs, closed attics, & the space where the gas water heater is at since it's pretty close to what I measured at one time of all the rooms here which is about 759sqft.

Then Hot Shot will continue for 6 weeks all by itself, it smites mites. I have not seen anymore try and get in past the Ortho barrier, so some must be inside still.

I was hoping that I would not need to, but it seems that I must, so be it. Graces food that is out will have to go back into the refridge and her water emptied and stowed in the refridge too, if I can.

I think I was bitten, which might explain me not being able to carry much when I walked, its been about 3 weeks since I could carry something while walking, tonight I carried a full glass of punch & a forearm crutch.

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A sunny morning win.

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We have: A bright overcast!


And for debugging of the biological critters, I've found a good old fashioned UV tube light electro-zapper to be the most effective.

That's a little more power hungry than the UV-led types, but greatly more effective.

Also, vastly better than swimming through a pesticide chemical smog in your own home/office!


Stay healthy!!

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And those UV attractor/zappers keep working, one has to regularly re-do the chemical warfare agents as they don't last for ever. Some of them are very good for short-term cures. (A puff of DEET on an open window's inside cill certainly stops the little flying blood suckers for a night, but not two nights.)

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Living on an island I have an abundance of slow-moving or standing water. To deter mosquitos I use UV zappers at several strategic locations, plus I installed several bat caves/houses. Bats love to eat mosquitos. I installed 2 on each boathouse, one inside and one outside as well as one in my back yard. They are all inhabited and neighbors have commented on how few mosquitos we have this year. You can buy or build a few of these.

There are probably 20 or more bats in each one I installed.

A better solution I've found is somewhere down the proverbial road, 1st install the car's 'new' adjustable steering wheel, then a new window for the rear bathroom which is a bit pricey, but when it's shut the bugs can't get in thru there and the bathroom will also be cooler than outside too, now if I can get someone to install two pieces of weatherstripping on my outside doors I could minimize any entry. I used the last of an inside can of Ortho Home Defense Max last night on the rear bathroom window, Ortho lasts about 1 year.

Grace is starting to sleep with me, last night I could swear she didn't leave the bed, I should have bought a king sized bed back in 2006, oh well.

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Incomprehensible part numbers!!!

OK for "HGS" maybe equals High-Pressure/Heavy Gas Strut. As for the others... That's anyone's drunken guess! (And that's if you can read the writing...)

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Winning on a gloomy Hump Day morning.

At least the mercury should go in the right direction today.

Cheers.

Two hours and ten minutes (more or less) to Humpday here.....

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2 pm post. Berkeley time.

Phew...

Found a critically missing pin vital for some equipment. All very good for that one.

As for the (should be simple) HGS... Completely corroded and dead and anyone's guess to the stroke and what 'MegaNewtons' and we don't fancy weighing the pylon and trigonometry for it... Yet, that is. For! We have the engineering drawings and... [Expletive...] That part got changed with the clear details hand scribbled out and the new details looking like something from a drunken upside-down three fingered sloth scratching out Mandarin hieroglyphs. ... The supplier might give a quote 'sometime'...

Time for a... Brew break!

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Winning now that my brewroom is ready for some more action tomorrow morning.

I'll have the heat on for tomorrow morning's -5C forecast.

It must be time fore a beer or 2 now. ;-)

Cheers.

Hump Day morning win.

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