Day +60 and feeling great
It doesn't feel like 60 days since I was being pumped full of my own stem cells in Wake Forest but here we are on day +60, another milestone. Being a Sunday, I didn't get to go to a hospital to have an arm emptied - that's tomorrow and I only have to make the trip to Mission in Asheville rather than schlepp all the way to Wake Forest. That comes on day +100, round about mid-April. I don't know if I will be back at work by then or not - apparently flu and gastric problems abound and the school doesn't have a "100% vaccination" requirement so I suspect they're going to tell me not to go back tomorrow.
Physically, I am doing great. My walks are up to a couple of miles now and neither hills nor stairs are knocking the wind out of me, at least for the first 20 meters / 30 stairs or so. Probably head for Lake Lure tomorrow for a couple of flat miles. I'll resist renting a canoe. I've just quit an online course on using the Raspberry Pi with the internet of things - the guy's presentation was just too bloody slow. Still wading through the algorithms course but I don't think I'll be asked to teach it next year as it's pretty tough going in places. I'm slowly gathering the parts for my Frankenbot which I plan to build out of bits from 3 different types of robotic equipment. Need one more vital part before I can make a serious start at which point my desk will become even more cluttered and I will drive myself nuts by having 3 keyboards on it.
I'm doing OK mentally - I can manage evil Ken Kens again but I have forgotten a lot of debatably useful stuff like which transistor to use in given circumstances. Fortunately it's all available on the web but I still expect to fill the house with the yummy smell of burning plastic a few times in the next couple of weeks as I short out bloody great batteries and connect things the wrong way round. Probably shouldn't teach that next year, either.
And now, much to my delight, there is a glass of Highland Breweries' newest IPA (I think it's called Southern Six) beside me. I still like the alcohol-free beer (Clausthaler for preference) but it's good to have a real one sometimes.
Physically, I am doing great. My walks are up to a couple of miles now and neither hills nor stairs are knocking the wind out of me, at least for the first 20 meters / 30 stairs or so. Probably head for Lake Lure tomorrow for a couple of flat miles. I'll resist renting a canoe. I've just quit an online course on using the Raspberry Pi with the internet of things - the guy's presentation was just too bloody slow. Still wading through the algorithms course but I don't think I'll be asked to teach it next year as it's pretty tough going in places. I'm slowly gathering the parts for my Frankenbot which I plan to build out of bits from 3 different types of robotic equipment. Need one more vital part before I can make a serious start at which point my desk will become even more cluttered and I will drive myself nuts by having 3 keyboards on it.
I'm doing OK mentally - I can manage evil Ken Kens again but I have forgotten a lot of debatably useful stuff like which transistor to use in given circumstances. Fortunately it's all available on the web but I still expect to fill the house with the yummy smell of burning plastic a few times in the next couple of weeks as I short out bloody great batteries and connect things the wrong way round. Probably shouldn't teach that next year, either.
And now, much to my delight, there is a glass of Highland Breweries' newest IPA (I think it's called Southern Six) beside me. I still like the alcohol-free beer (Clausthaler for preference) but it's good to have a real one sometimes.
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