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Who’s decorating for the holidays?

We are!! I can share pics later as well. (Although it looks mostly the same as last year)

Mr SK put our two trees up before thanksgiving. And then I got them decorated over a period of a few days (since I’m less mobile than normal I spread it out a bit more).

We have a wreath on the front door and I’m hoping to add wreaths on the garage door carriage lights.

But no big yard lights. That’s the one thing I haven’t figured out yet. The lights of it, I mean. I love outdoor lights though so I would love to have some …

Thanks for posting that!

Self-training AI is a bit scary to me. We (or rather, AI trainers) already don’t fully understand how it does what it does. And quality control, checking for veracity etc. is already an issue. How will we be able to evaluate AI that’s self-trained?

@jon-nyc Indeed!!

@Piano-Dad said in Just my luck…(health update):

I'll try some PT to strengthen the area

P*D, somehow I missed this comment when you originally posted it (apologies!)

How is your knee these days? I have osteoarthritis in my knees, so my experience might not be relevant for you if your problems are due to a tear, but… if you can go to PT, I highly recommend it. My PTist gave me a series of exercises to focus on building strength in the legs around the knee and it has really been beneficial for me. You could also google around and find exercises to do on your own, but a few session with a good PTist can make a huge difference.

(Since I started PT in January of this year, I have been telling everyone I know to go to PT for practically every ailment!

I had another visit at the podiatrist’s yesterday. I had another x-ray of my foot and he confirmed that my toe is still broken but he did say the bone looks good and there isn’t any new dislocation — which is good bc the walk-in doc told me to do buddying taping and put a carbon insert in my shoe (to prevent the foot from bending). But I did neither of those things (bc I couldn’t get a shoe in with the buddy tape and the taping itself hurt, and I didn’t want to have a carbon insert to throw off my balance and mess up my heel/instep). So I was relieved to learn that my strategy of just shuffling around instead of walking was the right thing to do.

The doc also said that there’s some soft tissue damage (which the walk-in doc didn’t discuss). He gave me some info about care and what I can and can’t do (exercise bike is ok as long as it doesn’t hurt, yay!) and I’m supposed to go back in 7 weeks.

Oh and he said that contrast bathing doesn’t help healing, although it’s good for pain relief and relieving swelling. Then he talked about how it does help with circulation. I didn’t push back and ask more but it seems to me that helping circulation would help with healing, because everything I’ve read and heard from several doctors (including this one, the foot surgeon, and my PTist) says that one of the main reasons feet problems heal so slowly is because of poor circulation. My PTist said there’s not really research on things like contrast bathing because there’s no money in it (i.e., this kind of research wouldn’t result in new pharmaceutical or surgical treatment).

Anyway, I did the contrast bathing twice a day for about two weeks. I’m not doing it now, but if I find myself on my feet a lot and my pain increases, maybe I’ll add it in again. But I still have a hard time believing that it doesn’t help just beyond pain management. The bruising I had was so bad, and it’s almost totally resolved, which is a sign of good circulation.

Anyway, that’s my update, sorry for rambling!

@Bernard the indoor pic especially is lovely! Your wall looks perfect!

We got a little bit of snow during the night on Monday. Enough to make things pretty but not so much as to cause a lot of trouble. The public schools were closed yesterday, but I was able to get to my doctor’s appointment (thankfully!) I hastily snapped some photos before we left.

that's super interesting @steve-miller !!

Happy Birthday @mary-anna !!

@Axtremus said in Window heat pump:

Google's AI summary says heat pump is more efficient than central air HVAC system, and while the initial investment for heat pump is higher, it's not higher by a lot.

This is probably an aggregated summary of heat pumps in general, and, based on what I know about heat pumps (which is not a lot, but I used to live in a "heat pump" region and we owned one), missing a lot of information and details.

Also, this is exactly the thing I would avoid AI for, because it's not likely to include the most recent information. Like the new product @wtg linked.

@Axtremus said in Window heat pump:

Why is heat pump not more popular than it already is?

I think that's because most heat pumps really only work in certain geographic regions.

BTW:

I'm pretty sure my mom has this exact same chair.

/threaddrift

We're getting round two here tonight, and they're saying we're supposed to get accumulation over night. We didn't last time, despite predictions.

I have an appointment with a podiatrist tomorrow, arrival time is 8:05am which means I would need to leave the house at maybe 7:45 or 7:50am.... I hope the roads are clear, I really don't want to miss this appointment.

@CHAS Oh dear! Does that mean you can't see out of the eye that's missing the lens?

Hopefully they will be able to resolve this for you quickly!!

@wtg OMG!! Are black bears the ones that are less aggressive? Even so, that's not the kind of roommate you want!!

@wtg thanks! Maybe we’ll try that.

@wtg I feel bad for all the people needing to get home after a Thanksgiving trip!

@Axtremus said in Congratulations to the new couple - Cory Booker & Alexis Lewis:

A very good looking couple too.

Indeed! Those photos look like fashion shots!

@wtg said in Do we sense a theme here?:

@ShiroKuro

I don't mind snow; I really don't like ice. Stay safe.

Exactly! Fortunately we don’t have anywhere we need to be today. Also I bet as the morning goes and it warms up a bit, and more people are out and about, it will resolve.

We came in around ten inches of snow with possibly another inch or two this morning. A bit more coming late tomorrow afternoon.

Yikes! That’s a lot!!!

@steve-miller and @wtg what stuffing are you talking about? Maybe we should try it. (Despite its UPF label

Looks like we had rain over night and now everything is frozen and probably miles of black ice all around… yay.

@wtg said in Happy Thanksgiving - What's your story?:

UPF Nazi....

UPF = ultraprocessed food?

We got maybe an ice, not clear whether it will snow any more over night though.