| 31.October.2025 14:38 | boxy | update: dad 2 |
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sat with him on thursday. he's feeling a lot better, but still weak. i would imagine so after surviving a stroke. today they're moving him over the rehab place a town over. brand new building; opened sometime at the beginning of the month. he's probably going to receive the best possible care/therapy. the conversation about putting him into a home or not is one for another day. one day at a time, at this point. as i was leaving the room yesterday, dad said through crazy broken speech "i appreciate what you and [sister] are doing." i said "of course. you can count on us." then i fucking broke down in the hallway |
| 29.October.2025 13:20 | boxy | update: dad |
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he got a MRI done on tuesday. we found out it was not two "mini" strokes. it was a singular big one with seven smaller pieces, like a buckshot blast. the heart/valve misfiring part is true. add in a lifetime of eating fried food which has caused a blockage somewhere. blockage caused blood cells to get stuck and ultimately coagulate/clot. something cause the clot to dislodge, break apart, and shoot into his brain (stroke). the bigger part hit his motor/speech skills area and the other smaller pieces went wherever. so.. he's doing "better" but that is relative; he's alive. understands what happened. understands what we're saying, but cannot formulate the words to respond. entire right side of his face and body were affected. we're in the process of getting him admitted to a "full service" physical and speech therapy rehab place where they will keep him until they are satisfied he can communicate and be mobile. his wife is 90lbs soaking wet and couldn't lift a sack of peanuts if her life depended on it. getting veteran affairs involved as well. for what, i am unsure. sister, step-mom, and i are taking turns - morning/day/night - sitting with him. |
| 27.October.2025 10:15 | boxy | PSA: get your heart checked |
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dad is 81. before all this, he was having trouble walking; shaky. has a cane, but is stubborn and doesn't use it much. on saturday, he had two TIA (Transient Ischemic Attack) "mini-strokes" and fell, busting up his arms on the way down. it's a stroke all the same, the mini designation means it can happen in rapid succession, more than once. if you have one, there's a very high chance you're going to have another. by some miracle, his older sister was there. she couldn't pick up a sack of peanuts let alone a 250lb man. she called the fire department to pick him up and get him into a chair. my sister, on a daytrip to houston, was in a HEB grocery store looking at coffee. she said she called dad to find out which brand he liked and she would get him some. dad said "i think i better tell you this.. i fell in the bathroom." sister immediately called me. i get over there and the ambulance and fire dept is on scene. dad is in a chair with EKG probes hooked up. this was the aftermath of the second fall. they get him loaded onto the gurney and say they're taking him to [local hospital] emergency room. after the crowd left, my wife and i got him a bag of clothes and toiletries together. then i do a once-over of the scene.. evidently he was in the shower, went to get out, had the stroke which affected his entire right side, couldn't lift his right leg, tripped, and hit everything on the way down. this was the first one. the second hit shortly, like maybe 30 minutes, afterward while he was taking a piss. hit everything on the way down again. fucked up his arms badly. "skin tears" is what they called it. i get to the emergency room and they've got him hooked up to all manners of probes and tubes. they're drawing blood cultures and are pumping him with a hardcore antibacterial called "zosyn". the last time he had a stroke, sometime last year, he had an unchecked UTI which ultimately went septic, got into the bloodstream and hit his heart. this time, it is also an unchecked UTI which was close to going septic. the emergency room was treating him for the UTI and a hospitalist came in to tell us that, they were getting him a room ready, and had not done a CT scan at that moment to verify. when i had called sister to relay the situation, she was fucking pissed at this knowledge. she said they should have done the CT immediately and treated the entire situation as a stroke. she has said she is going to "take this to the top so that it doesn't happen to anyone else." meaning the hospital could lose its "Comprehensive Stroke Center" certification. there's not a fine or anything involved, but reputation could be damaged. in turn, causing a loss of revenue. the hospital is a business and it could look incredibly bad on them. sister said they should have immediately administered "Activase" which could have dissolved the clot to restore blood flow to the brain. this was not done when he arrived at the ER. she did not have access to his digital chart to confirm, however.. we're working on getting this. she is extremely not pleased. a sedentary lifestyle - doing fuck-all and sitting in his comfy chair to watch westerns - contributed to this greatly. after he contracted china AIDS (covid), he received "valvular regurgitation" where the heart valve doesn't fully close after a beat. instead of 1 (open/close) 2 (open/close) 3 (open/close) 4 (open/close) it is now 1 (open/close) 2 (open/close) 3 (open/close half way) 4 (open/close) the half-closed valve has allowed blood to pool and coagulate over time. he takes a baby aspirin at night and that is very likely the thing that saved him. they currently have him on some hardcore anti-coagulant blood thinners. the nurse said for him to be extremely careful to not blow his nose too hard as if he starts bleeding, they might not be able to get it to stop.. so. sunday morning, they did a panel of tests and CT scan, confirming it was two back-to-back strokes. right side was affected; speech is all fucked up. sister is a RN at a hospital in california. she's gone into "nurse mode" and may not be able to turn it off. advocating for patients is one thing; advocating for her own father which is a patient is going to do irreparable shit to her psyche, i am convinced. fun weekend. having to come to terms with a lot of things really, really fast. get you a full physical done with all the bloodwork possible, please. |
| 25.October.2025 10:33 | boxy | valve is so based |
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| 25.October.2025 10:05 | boxy | also, this |
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>IGN i don't care |
| 25.October.2025 09:56 | boxy | chrome sucks shit |
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• Family View Anti-Prompt extension (google|github) i have family view enabled on the steam application. on the steam website in chrome, there's an authentication dance and chrome interferes. i just want to check out a game go away google |
| 24.October.2025 21:43 | boxy | hot off the presses |
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meme them until they cry, then meme them for crying |
| 21.October.2025 19:09 | boxy | new caddy server |
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• github.com/caddyserver/caddy/releases would recommend if you can't be assed to do [thing] |
| 20.October.2025 22:21 | boxy | canada.exe |
| • boards.4chan.org/pol/thread/519404560 |
| 20.October.2025 16:25 | boxy | A R C _ R A I D E R S |
| 20.October.2025 16:01 | boxy | TWITCHCON WAS A SHITSHOW |
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lol imagine that |
| 15.October.2025 20:09 | boxy | collargate 2025 |
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evidently, if you're of the CORRECT OPINIONS and/or HOT over at twitch, you can get away with anything. and clout demons will run defense for you. extremely believable. normies getting on the fucking internet was a massive mistake. |
| 15.October.2025 19:16 | boxy | this was eight years ago |
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don't let the journos lie to your face >antifa doesn't exist >it's just an idea >there are no leaders they're ancaps at the very most |
| 13.October.2025 14:37 | boxy | a few more changes |
but it's final final i've never owned top of the line computer shit, ever. it was SUPER uncomfortable spending $650 alone for the cpu/mobo.  the cpu/mobo combo did include a "MSI MAG Coreliquid A13 360 Black" AIO, but i ain't using it. too many friends in the past have called when their cpu thermal'd out because either the radiator fan died or the pump was kill due to sediment in the lines. |
| 09.October.2025 23:23 | boxy | made some adjustments |
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TEAM RED for the first time, ever. >BBBUT MUH 1440p GAYMING i don't give a single fuck about 1440p gaming. don't even have a monitor that can go over 75hz as it is. so if it does 60hz solid, i'm good. i'll dive into 1440p when it's a distant memory. |
| 08.October.2025 21:31 | soc | Hasan's Dawg |
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Of all the things, people are outraged about a fucking dog collar. Are you kidding me? I really want Jesus to come back soon, I am tired of living with people who are more concern about a dog and not the fact that society could break down at any moment. Also, I have to clean the gutters soon. fuck |
| 08.October.2025 19:20 | soc | Me too Me Too |
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Well, more like for my father cause he keeps pestering me to come up with a build. He is hardcore into encoding and making up m3u lists and that. I figured 80 year olds talk about the war, guess I am wrong Intel Build AMD Build  HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO~ |
| 06.October.2025 10:01 | boxy | hey kid im a computer |
 current save-up. all parts are infinitely better than what i have currently. (cpu-world)   in my old age, i genuinely don't give a shit about losing anything i've downloaded. i know where to go and/or how to get it. on my current rig, if/when i upgrade, i'll turn it into a server and fill it full of enterprise spinning hdds. ME ME ME |
| 03.October.2025 13:57 | soc | NO MILES! NO!!!!!!! |
| AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
| 02.October.2025 17:24 | boxy | damn i forgot |
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happy spooktober poast skeletons |
| 01.October.2025 20:59 | boxy | chrome is a bogged down shitheap |
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and i want to imagine it's because all the google services tied to it. so ima try helium. i have no idea if it works. i don't like the way the mozilla rendering engine behaves sometimes. chromium when it's stripped bare is so fucking good. google canary is wonderful when google services aren't attached. it's become a ram hog for no good reason. • helium.computer [e, 9:31pm] very, very snappy. can use chrome extensions and comes with ublock origin preloaded. youtube loads instantly. 4ch works fine. memory footprint is super-low. seven processes versus thirty, doing god knows what.  to be fair to someone, my chrome.exe has like 6 extensions strictly to make other websites not look like shit and a dozen tampermonkey ones for various reasons.  MAN full page load is .20 seconds faster for me using helium. which doesn't sound like much. the website is like 99% text and should load in under a second, two tops. three if there are huge images |
| 01.October.2025 08:26 | boxy | "but i'm not a nazi" |
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maybe. but you are a fat retard larping as a revolutionary. |