// #eevblog — 2026-05-15
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00:22:22 <MrMobodies> MY dad got a call from Anglian water
00:22:40 <MrMobodies> they said they wanted to install a smart meter
00:22:45 <MrMobodies> he said why
00:22:54 <MrMobodies> this is the wettest part of Cambridgeshire
00:23:02 <MrMobodies> they said it's to "DETECT FOR LEAKS"
00:23:24 <MrMobodies> he said no, he can hear it if it did
00:23:35 <MrMobodies> Heard that one before, detect for leaks
00:23:57 <MrMobodies> 3 people at the pub who said they had one installed under thay guise
00:25:09 <MrMobodies> then they told them they detected leaks, they got a plumber in to look for this leak and run tests. No leaks, no leak allowance as promised but still kept the bill higher after with them saying they "resolved" the leak.
00:26:01 <MrMobodies> and they did this the landlady at the pub as her's was outside on the road where her bill has gone up over 40% after they discovered this mysterious leak then said it was resolved
00:26:31 <MrMobodies> I bet in the dry part's they use climate change and temperature as the excuse.
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00:30:35 <Nothing\> welp, I think i broke the record for the biggest bruise ever
00:30:45 <Nothing\> definitely broke my all time personal record
00:30:48 <Nothing\> https://i.ibb.co/27MJVPX4/20260513-211025.jpg
00:31:02 <Nothing\> it wraps around my back to my shoulder blade
00:31:38 <Nothing\> all the blood that's been seeping out of my collarbone is pooling wherever gravity pulls it
00:31:59 <Nothing\> my left pec is so full of fluid it feels like an honest to god booby
00:32:11 <Nothing\> ditto for my bicep
00:32:53 <Nothing\> seems to have stopped at my elbow because i've been keeping my arm constantly bent and cradled in my good arm
00:33:07 <Nothing\> fuck so anxious about this surgery
00:33:55 <Nothing\> i just keep reciting the litany against fear like it's my mantra
00:34:01 <Nothing\> which i guess it has become
00:34:35 <Nothing\> and being on methadone, i can't have ANY pain control
00:35:07 <Nothing\> even a non-opioid nsaid is contraindicated because my stomach would be empty and it would destroy my stomach lining
00:36:21 <Nothing\> i found a type of nerve block they can do where they locally anesthetize a couple of your cervical nerves coming out of your spine but that leaves your arm paralyzed for at least 24 hours
00:36:38 <Nothing\> not unlike an epidural, really
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00:46:06 <Nothing\> heya Kuschelpony
00:46:18 <Kuschelpony> and hello Nothing
00:46:25 <Nothing\> how ya doing, friend?
00:46:50 <steve30> o/
00:47:44 <Kuschelpony> mmmh, too silent here :(
00:48:03 <Nothing\> ヾ(＠⌒ー⌒＠)ノ
00:48:12 <Nothing\> Kuschelpony, lol story of my life
00:48:24 <Nothing\> Kuschelpony, i think i broke the record for the largest bruise ever
00:48:31 <Nothing\> definitely shattered my personal record
00:48:32 <Kuschelpony> oh
00:48:46 <Nothing\> https://i.ibb.co/27MJVPX4/20260513-211025.jpg
00:49:47 <steve30> ouch
00:49:57 <Nothing\> not as painful as it looks, it's mostly fluid from the broken bone that's pooled due to gravity
00:50:31 <Nothing\> the worst is where my collar bone is still broken and about 2in higher than it should be. But even that's surprisingly not that painful.
00:51:03 <Nothing\> i had way more pain when i broke my big toe in the fashion of putting a piece of chalk length-wise into a vice and tightening it because I kicked a wall
00:51:52 <Nothing\> even without opioids, i've only needed 1/3 of the nsaids i'm alotted
00:52:23 <Kuschelpony> your life is interesting...
00:52:56 <Nothing\> the worst, really, is the sensation of the broken bones and stuff where it doesn't belong rubbing/clicking/clacking against one another. Which is just extremely uncomfortable more than painful.
00:53:24 <Nothing\> Kuschelpony, it's a lot of nothing punctuated with large events like this
00:53:54 <Nothing\> but yeah, oddly enough I've found this whole experience more interesting than anything. I've certainly learned more about shoulder anatomy and orthopaedics
00:54:35 <Kuschelpony> must resist to buy one more CRT...
00:54:49 <Nothing\> i've got one you can have
00:55:01 <Nothing\> the board's cracked, but the tube's intact
00:55:22 <Nothing\> i'm sure shipping a 27in CRT to Germany won't cost much lol
00:55:58 <Kuschelpony> this specific one i am looking at is a VCR97, would be the perfect one to build an Argus
00:56:45 <Nothing\> i've always wanted to turn it into a a crude oscilloscope. Or I've seen diagrams from a magazine in the 70s on how to build a fully analog pong console that uses 555 timers for the graphics. It's pretty ingenious.
00:57:02 <Nothing\> they even generated a score board using these 555 graphics
00:57:25 <steve30> mmm, tubes
00:57:36 <Nothing\> Kuschelpony, i envy the amount of joy you seem to derive from your hobby
00:57:49 <Nothing\> joy/satisfaction/purpose/whatever
00:57:51 <Kuschelpony> uhm... you VERY overestimate that
00:58:13 <Nothing\> heh, hence why i said SEEM to derive. lol
00:58:42 * steve30 dug out his 14" TV yesterday
00:58:51 <Kuschelpony> its more like im trying to not fall not deeper into really bad depression, and keep my brain sharpened, but otherwise it does not give me joy
00:59:02 <steve30> funny to think that that is 22 years old now.
00:59:18 <Nothing\> I never had a 14in TV. My family was always well to do when i grew up. The first TV I had in my romo was 14in
00:59:19 <steve30> Cost £75. I think i've had my money's worth.
00:59:22 <Kuschelpony> electronics is non longer my passion, just to fill my time and avoid rusting away
00:59:30 <Nothing\> er 24in
00:59:43 <steve30> hehe, i wouldn't have had room for a 24"
01:00:03 <Kuschelpony> Nothing, with CRTs from S-VGA monitors, scope bandwiths of somthing 100kHz were possible
01:00:11 <Nothing\> steve30, my house had 2 living rooms
01:00:25 <Nothing\> my friend had a hot tub in his basement
01:00:37 <Nothing\> my other friend's dad had TWO bars in the house
01:00:39 <steve30> nice
01:00:46 <Nothing\> AND a sauna
01:01:13 <Kuschelpony> still needing a TDA7293 running to the voltage limits to drive the deflection colis at somethign 50V peak
01:01:23 <Nothing\> not that I live anywhere near like that anymore. I'd kill just for an extra foot on each side of my room.
01:02:42 <Nothing\> hell, my family took a month long trip to florida one winter in the 80s, and because my brother and I were so bored they bought us a nintendo and some games to keep us occupied
01:02:54 <Nothing\> even though we had a nintendo back home
01:05:14 <Nothing\> still, it was hard when my family fell apart and i lost all of that spoiled privilege. Going to living in a 1BR apartment with my new wife that only had 3 rooms total (rooms PERIOD, not bedrooms)
01:27:26 <Nothing\> Kuschelpony, i invented a german word the other week
01:27:36 <Nothing\> a perfectly legitimate german word
01:27:46 <Nothing\> ein uhrwerkmensch
01:28:03 <Nothing\> or uhrwerkmenschen
01:30:02 <Nothing\> i got the idea from the title of "a clockwork orange" where a clockwork orange is some sort of organic thing, a person, or what have you, which works purely on cold, deterministic clockwork rather than having any sort of free will to think or do what it wants
01:31:07 <Nothing\> and if there's one thing Philip K Dick novels have taught me, it's that anything sounds 10x better when it's german
01:31:24 <Nothing\> terms, labels, etc
01:32:23 <Kuschelpony> hmmm
01:33:38 <Kuschelpony> i think "Uhrwerk" (clockwork) has in germany a much more positive meaning that this type of person, its more like "this thing runs with low mainteance and very precise"
01:34:37 <Kuschelpony> i amoff for about one to two hours, see you later back
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07:06:24 <MrMobodies> Nothing, did you go for your operation and how did it turn out?
07:06:53 <MrMobodies> I see the thing on your collarbone isn't has high as last time
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18:54:09 <Nothing\> fuuuuuuuu-
18:54:21 <Nothing\> going in for surgery in an hour
18:54:30 <Nothing\> fucking terrified out of my wits
18:55:05 <Nothing\> it's like, i'm fine all week, it's even been amusing. I've laughed. I've learned a lot of about shoulder anatomy, and I love medicine.
18:55:39 <Nothing\> but now, the reality's setting in and i'm trying to hold onto my wits here and not go into full on deer-in-headlights panic mode
18:56:23 <Nothing\> i REALLY hope i can convince them to give me pre-op sedation. they didn't give me shit last time.
18:58:48 <Nothing\> actually the last time i literally walked out because I wasn't comfortable with the factory farm type set up they had where it was just like 12 of us in a row and they go from one person to the next setting up their IVs I didn't feel they could give me the appropriate attention if it's being divided between 11 other people simultaneously. Maybe if we were separate, sure. But I just felt like i was in a hospice or something.
19:00:14 <Nothing\> not to mention my consult with the anesthesiologist was that same day, and I felt like he half assed the consult and was just trying to get me out so he could move on
19:00:35 <Nothing\> told them outright that i revoke consent and demanded my clothes back. They refused.
19:04:23 <Nothing\> took about 5 times before they gave them back and only because i was screaming at them at that point and they just wanted me out of there
19:04:53 <Nothing\> disgusting it took that much just to revoke consent for a fucking elective surgery
19:05:57 <Nothing\> it was just getting a buncha teeth removed surgically. So, I did it in the office under nitrous. It took all of 45 minutes. Friggin hospital people were just trying to milk my insurance.
19:46:06 <Nothing\> welp, wish me luck
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19:50:19 <electrohead> !coffee
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20:04:03 <steve30> my smoke alarm is making a funny noise. Instead of a shrill "peep peep peep", its making more of a loud buzz
20:04:17 <steve30> I replaced the battery.
20:04:28 <steve30> Still detects smoke OK.
20:08:07 <steve30> They were manufactured in 2005 so I suppose they've had a good life span
20:16:17 <electrohead> Being that old, it could be out of calibration
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21:29:01 <steve30> well, they both beep when smoke is applied, so they work
21:29:18 <steve30> just sounds like the beeper is going bad on one
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