Breaking My Kid’s Heart, and Making Amends

For my eldest son’s birthday, I bought him a small tool kit.  One of those snap-the-tool-into-the-plastic-case jobbies.  I figured I would get him a basic kit as one of those “Let us see what Squirt does” kind of gifts.

He loved it!  He would show it to everybody who came to visit, he would [...]

iPod Touch Digitizer Replacement

Because I’m an idiot, I set my iPod on the cowl of the Fiendish Firefly, whereupon it fell down and into my grinder sparks.  Nice.  Really ticked me off.

I bought a new digitizer off eBay, which also came with the tools to do the replacement.

Tips:

Review a couple of tutorials online.  They [...]

No wordpress admin login?

THAT was an ordeal.

For whatever reason, my WordPress installation decided to send all Admin Logins to a 404 error.  I did a WACK of Googling, and was only able to log back in after renaming the .htaccess to .htaccess.old .  Deleting it could work too.

I tried disabling plugins.

I tried restoring a [...]

Curse you, bathroom fan vent

 

Curse you.  And curse your impossible to get to fan location.  And curse your roofing nail proximity to the skin on my back – good thing my Tetanus shots are up to date.  And curse your impossibly hot Okanagan attic heat.  And curse the vent ducting that couldn’t stay in one piece. And [...]

Yay Amoxicillin

Had strep throat mid-January.

Got on Amoxicillin for ten days.

Day five of Amoxicillin, I got a full-body rash.  Cool.  Maybe an allergic reaction to the antibiotic, or maybe I had Mono?  Got a blood test for Mono – didn’t hear anything back (which usually means the results are negative).

Day ten of Amoxicillin, [...]

Merry Christmas and Happy 2012

From us, to you, with all that that implies.  Don’t get arrested.

On-X heart valve

My wife went into surgery Tuesday Aug 9th at 8am to replace a bicuspid aortic heart valve.

They found the existing heart valve was smaller than expected, so they fitted a 19mm mechanical heart valve and put the heart back together. This resulted in an unacceptable gradient, so they removed the valve, enlarged the [...]