Voting Time~A Name for McG's New Puter

[Agent0013]

Very funny, there McG. You made me laugh, and I thank you for that.
If I play left handed, I use a lefty guitar. I have seen some that can turn the guitar over to to play it left handed, while it is strung for a righty; however I'm not one of them. I have to have the strings in the proper order rather than the inverse. I actually learned to play on the right handed guitar, so to be fair, I play more right handed than left handed. It kind of equals out some of my ambidexterity, somewhat. My left is still used more but not by much.
Again, thanks for the laugh! I really needed it today.
Cheers!

[McGrandpa]

Only thing about playing the same guitar both handed is one way is normal, the other way messes with the brain cell!  ;)

[Agent0013]

In my experience, the best medical care facilities are (or were) attached to the military. When My Pop was in the Navy, I was cared for when needed by Navy doctors, nurses, and staff. All were extremely professional, accurate, and thorough.
When I was 6, and in the first grade, I dislocated my right elbow twice in less than a month. First time I had it reset and put in a cast. Second time was by my idiocy, getting on a swing and swinging as high as I could go. Fell out of the swing, woke up in the hospital. Had a harder cast on the arm with metal to keep it stiff and unable to bend. Had to stay in the hospital for the remainder of the school year, and did my studies there. They had done surgery on my right elbow to clean out the internal bleeding. I had to go each day, twice a day to the soaking room and soak the arm in a vat of medicated hot water. I passed the first grade, even with the absence from school, as I was really thirsty for knowledge.
Now, 59 years later, the right elbow works perfectly, as good as the left. I'm ambidextrous, but because of the complicated injuries, I only write with my left hand. everything else I can do with either or both hands. I chose to be a lefty pitcher when I played Junior League Baseball, as I could pitch a sidearm lefty curve ball that looked like a corkscrew coming at the batter. If it was hit, my spin on it would make it either go foul, or pop up. If popped up either me or the catcher would easily catch it. The season I played, we were undefeated, and none of the opposing teams even made a run off my pitches. Almost all of my games were no hitters for the opposition. A pretty good record, and it got me MVP for the circuit we played in.

But this is actually about my right arm, so things I can do equally well with either arm or hand:
Play guitar, run heavy equipment in a woodshop, shoot baskets, cook, sew, and just about anything that is done using my hands. It has served me well in my work life.
Nowadays, I get arthritic pains in my left arm, but none in my right. I think it's because I favor using the left more, so it gets about 65% of all work I do. Still, I do use the right a lot for many things. Habits form in a short time for sure, as the habit of using the left arm more was instilled in me by the described injuries. I think that is quite understandable.
Incidentally, in the second grade, my teacher would come to my desk and whack the back of my left hand with my wooden ruler, saying that being left handed is evil! I told my mother what that teacher did and said, and she went to the school with me and had a talk with the principal, who called the teacher over the intercom to come to his office. I was present at the meeting, and witnessed the threats my mom made to that teacher. The principal witnessed it too, and agreed with mom. I was transferred to another class that very day. For the rest of that school year, when I saw that teacher and she saw me looking at her, I would stare at her with as stern a look as I could muster, and she would be unable to outstare me. It was a small win for me, but it was enough to make me have more confidence in myself. She most likely learned a lesson herself from that; "How Not to Treat a Young Student".

[thelufias]

My brother is like you...he is so pleased with his VA in Providence RI....And it's all new...the old one is finally torn down...

[McGrandpa]

Aw man I did not mean to stay away.  I thought of The Attic while I was being "redressed" by the nurse, who was also talking shop with the Dr. Perez about a different patient that had come in earlier in the day via ambulance/emergency room.   I am so glad I landed in these peoples hands.   This week is another busy round, at least 3 days of appointments, and then the weekend!  Meanwhile, it IS The Weekend!  LOL!

[thelufias]

Keep listening and following their instructions my friend....Glad to see you in here...we get worried when one of our own stays away to long.

[McGrandpa]

   Looks great!  :D

Good place for this one.   Dr. Perez determined I got staph infection in that foot.  She was not surprised at all, and actually seemed relieved that it is doing 'normal' stuff.   Super antibiotics prescribed.   Ahh ... So I am self-infusing potent antibiotics in my new PICC line in right arm.  Every single morning.  The home health nurse takes lab samples from the other arm, and changes dressing on PICC every week.  I have had it two weeks now.  4 weeks to go!   The chronic osteomyelitis is also getting the hammer during this.  When its complete, and labs show 'clear', Dr. Perez is gonna graft the hoodoo outta that wound.   THEN I get to learn to walk on that foot again!   It will be one year on Dec. 21'st that I got on that ambulance to Amarillo VA.  Been a while, true.  But no matter which way the surgery had to go, it would be a long recovery.   I will never forget her getting my attention, to ease my nerves, "yes that catheter is small, it is half a millimeter, about the size of the wire in my earring.  Can you see that?"   SEE it?  I wanted to KISS that cute little ear!  Ha!  I was groggy from everything and exhausted.   The anesthesiologists had already put the IV in.   In my hand.  That was the catheter I was asking about.  But not even making words right.   A few minutes later, and it was Christmas Eve Morning (to me it was, after being woke up after surgeries it was quite a time jump!).  Tadaaaa!  I still had both feets!  :D  Oh crap they hurts. . . but I smiled and laughed, cause that meant they were REALLY there!  Yeah buddy!   I still laugh and smile at that.  And now, when the foot hurts, I smile.  Cause it's ALIVE!  :D

[McGrandpa]

That is smart, yup.  Though I was surprised at how much "stuff" the programs and Windoze does keep on the boot drive!

Meanwhile, I am still planning this new "Data Move Adventure" so when I shut down and start unplugging drives, I DO have the boot drive properly id'd!   The rest can do the merry-go-round thing.  heh!

[thelufias]

LOL.....They are nice to have.   Big Boy is down and out for the moment but I'm going to switch hard drives with Slow Boy and see what happens.  No big deal...i keep NOTHING on the computers hard drive so I loose NOTHING.....

[McGrandpa]

drums fingers, rolls eyes, scritches head. . .I got ELEVEN SSD's now.   BadMoonRYZEN has eight SATA ports.  I reckon the smaller ones gotta come out!  Heh!  ;o)