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Skriven 2014-10-07 20:08:00 av NANCY BACKUS (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av MICHAEL LOO
Ärende: Re: health 61
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-=> Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus on 10-05-14  01:07 <=-

 NB>>> Age may be catching up to you...  ;)
 ML>> It certainly is. You can tell by the ttypos.
 NB>> I suppose.  ;)
 ML> With this head thing, they're worse than usual today.

You did seem to have caught most of them, though... :)

 ML> Also the problem with the keyboard and the mouse is
 ML> especially bad today. I've decided it's a multifaceted
 ML> issue. First, the replacement keyboard is not a great
 ML> thing (remember, the repair guy got a "good deal" on
 ML> a Japanese Acer keyboard and seems to have made the
 ML> natural wonkiness of the touchpad worse during the
 ML> installation of it). Second, the new motherboard made
 ML> the system not recognize some of the installed drivers,
 ML> including the Synaptics one; so I got another mouse driver,

Apparently your repair person didn't do you much of a favor there...

 ML> but it refused to install. Third, I'm extra                    pos,
 ML> electric (I always am, but it's worse than usual, and
 ML> I can feel the current between my wrists and the housing
 ML> as they come into contact from time to time, and once
 ML> in a while I feel an extra zap, and the cursor jumps
 ML> to some unexpected place). Fourth, the computer seems to
 ML> be possessed - by demons, intrinsic orneriness, or
 ML> malignant influences of human origin, I am not prepared
 ML> to say. Last, I am in no mental condition to reread
 ML> stuff enough to catch the tty
 ML> see what I mean?

That was a real Cute Typo...  nice jump...!  ;)  (to keep it, I had to
do a little extra work).  Although, I'd tend to attribute it to the
jumping cursor, not your doing really... ;)

As to feeling the current... I had been thinking at one point that I was
just imagining things, because my little notebook does the same thing to
me, when my wrists touch the corners, at times... Never had the cursor
jump, but then, I'm only using a keyboard, not a pointing device... 

Almost sounds as though an exorcism is being called for... or a
different 'puter... 

 ML>> As he so readily points out, if he weren't hyperconcerned
 ML>> with his health, they wouldn't have found his leukemia (which
 ML>> he spells leukaemia, as though he were a Brit or something).
 NB>> Weren't we just talking about pretension...?  (G)  I'm sure it would
 NB>> do no good to point out to him that with something like leukemia, it
 NB>> would have been probably found out, just from some basic regular
 NB>> testing, and a little paying attention to symptoms... or that
 NB>> sometimes, hyperconcern ends up with one being pooh-poohed by the docs,
 NB>> instead of being listened to...
 ML> It could be a Catch-22, but one thing one can say for the kid
 ML> is that he is very persistent when he wants to be. Most of
 ML> the time he gives up easily, but I guess health is one of
 ML> his hot subjects.

There are worse things to be consumed about... and if his doctors can
deal with him the way he is (and vice versa), that's a good thing.

 ML>> Asparagus is considered to be a diuretic -
 NB>> It appears to be particularly good as a sodium balancer
 ML> That's mostly what diuretics are, since as I understand it
 ML> the balance of Na and K in the intracellular and extracellular
 ML> fluids (ICF and ECF) is important to well-being.

The prescription ones, though, can lead to a K deficiency if used
long-term in sufficient quantity (a UBI, picked up while dealing with
MJ's health)...  Mushrooms can work well, too, though, as another
natural one... I suspect the natural diuretics do a better job of
balancing ICF and ECF Na and K..   When asparagus is way out of season,
I'll make do with mushrooms... or potato skins... ;)

 ML>> Richard's theory is widely accepted.
 NB>> It does seem to explain why Richard and I don't have any lactose
 NB>> issues... potentially, anyway...  ;)
 ML> Certainly does, and lucky you, as you can eat Stroganoff
 ML> with impunity.

Nice to have some things to have with impunity.. ;)  (she says, with a
sigh of satisfaction [g])...

ttyl         neb

... Experience comes from making mistakes.  We have lots of experience.

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