Area transportation for seniors is a laudable goal and most communities seem to have implemented something. Some contract with a local bus company to help get seniors to their doctor appointments while others establish their own systems. When I lived in Meeker, CO they had their own, a cute little bus called the Meeker Streaker. Here in Monmouth county NJ they took a similar approach, but for the life of me I can’t imagine how they managed to settle on the name; SCAT. Yup, just the one word, no periods in between letters to indicate it is an acronym, and no mention of what that acronym might be anywhere on the busses.
I understand that as an intransitive verb it means to go away quickly, but ignoring the noun that means fecal droppings is a significant oversight IMHO. By the way, after searching the Monmouth County web site transportation section I finally discovered that SCAT is an acronym for Special Citizen Area Transportation. The entire committee must have been asleep when they approved that one.
This isn’t a busy site and there certainly isn’t any reason for anyone, including bots, to spam my posts with comments. It still happens. Fortunately the Askimet plugin catches 99% of them and they never even make it to me for review. Some of them do slip in and they are always a delight to read. Here is the latest example:
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Aardvark Topsites is a php script that was originally developed about 15 years ago, designed to present websites as a dynamic ordered list. A topsites list ranks a group of related sites by popularity. Webmasters join the topsites list and are given a button to put on their site and link back to the topsites list. Aardvark Topsites PHP is a free topsites script built on PHP and MySQL. It is licensed under the GNU General Public License. The last official release was in 2009.
Aardvark has a number of issues but the most annoying for those running the script are the poor spam detection and the inability to run under recent releases of php. I have been running an Aardvark topsites script since 2005 (usaweatherfinder.com) and have managed to work around both of the most annoying problems mentioned above. (more…)
Over the past year I have noticed a steadily increasing numbness in my right hand, primarily affecting my thumb and middle finger. A trip to an orthopedist confirmed a carpal tunnel constriction diagnosis. In addition to the numbness the doctor pointed out a significant muscle atrophy of my Opponens muscle at the base of my thumb.
So, open release carpal tunnel surgery was completed a few weeks ago. It was an easy procedure performed on an outpatient basis that took 15-20 minutes and kept me there for a few hours total. It was done under MAP (Managed Anesthesia Care), the same twilight sedation used for a colonoscopy. I missed two days of work and have been back doing modified light duties.
Recovery was straightforward; OTC pain meds for a day or so, then just a bandage until the 6 sutures were removed 12 days later.
After two weeks I notice little improvement, in fact the nerve pain seems more pronounced. My doctor says that the nerves will slowly begin to recover from being pinched, but may take 90 days or more, during which time they will cause some acute sharp pain as they come back online.
I guess this is what I get for using a keyboard and mouse for over 36 years.
