Learning more about 3D printing

It turns out you have to be good at this in the present. Lots of things can fail in the part change and depending on what fails you get various, sometimes mysterious symptoms. I’m going to describe some I’ve gone through recently, but I’m sure these wont be the last ones. Let me start by……

Revision Surgery Update 10/13

Not a great deal to say. I went to see the surgeon about a week ago. Everything way healing normally. I’ve passed that early stage of aches and pains, and I can now go back to things like ibuprofen or naproxen for my odd attacks of joint pain. I had some minor feedback from the……

3D Printing, not for the faint of heart

I’m currently awaiting some parts, but I’m getting ahead of myself. Starting about a week and a half ago, just after things started working, things stopped working reliably. Isn’t that always the case? In particular, the x-axis would “slip”. What I mean by that is that the zero point would move, so instead of a……

Bittersweet

A long draft of drink she took To slake a thirst gone on too long A journey far to lands so fair Her new  home to gaze upon She thought of how the journey went Those left behind in towns they past Her own true lover false did prove Lost in the distance now at……

To Take a Knee

Up to now the protest on the part of the football players has been somewhat abstract for me. I have been sympathetic for sure, but it didn’t touch me directly. I was appalled at how a clear statement about the continuation of bigotry, prejudice and inequality under the laws of the USA being peacefully demonstrated……

SRS – Revision – October 2017

I originally talked with my surgeon about having developed a tight spot around eighteen  months ago. At the time his advice was to step up on dilation and to use my thumb to put pressure on the scar “ring” that had formed. Unfortunately, nothing I did seemed to make any difference. This was complicated by……

3D Printing

About a week ago I gave myself a birthday gift, a 3D printer kit. The kit is based on a standard open source design  The organization is Rep Rap and the idea is that the 3D printers can reproduce themselves (with some human assistance of course). The  heart of the kit I bought is the design of……

Anti Drama

It’s Sunday evening and I’ve had the last solid food before surgery. Tomorrow is about having a liquid diet interspersed with powerful antibiotics meant to kill every microbe in my gut and other powerful bactericides to kill those on my body. All of which ends with a power, well, I’ll leave the last to your……

UTI Resolved

I called the plastics service yesterday in case the UTI would interfere with surgery and after talking with them went to my doc’s office to have my urine looked at and chat. The bacteria were down to almost nothing and apparently 2x 500mg cipro is a high dose, I was told to just take two……

UTI Redux

Just when my ducks were lined up. I was feeling a bit off with fasting for Yom Kippur. Not just hungry (not a big deal),  not just thirsty (more of a deal) but off. I couldn’t make it through the entire morning service. I did my torah portion with a quavering voice and left about……