Jim has been having some trouble with his foot recently and along with some other treatments his doctor also gave him a sample of Biofreeze. On the bottom of his foot, it provided some relief. On the top, however, he instead got a excruciatingly painful response with tightened skin and prominent veins.<\/p>\n
I was curious about this since I’ve never seen a reaction like that and – in a show of solidarity – I suggested he put some on the top of my foot. Because I’m a bad-ass, also.<\/p>\n
He was hesitant, but went ahead with the roll-on applicator.<\/p>\n
Nothing. No reaction at all.<\/p>\n
He then added some of the gel version – still nothing. It didn’t get hot or cold – maybe just a little cooler from evaporation.<\/p>\n
We were both puzzled, but I put my sock and shoe back on and went on home.<\/p>\n
Thundercat was interested in the smell of my shoe and since he likes to chew on shoe laces, I took my shoe off and was just in my sock feet.<\/p>\n
That was a mistake.<\/p>\n
The smell of the biofreeze was intensely fascinating to him and he kept licking and biting at my sock-covered foot. When I tried to get him to leave me alone, he lashed out at me with full-on claws.<\/p>\n
After a couple hits, I sat on my foot on the couch to defend it. He keep walking past to check to see if I was vulnerable, but I stayed in defensive mode until I went to take my shower and wash it off.<\/p>\n
We have a… strange relationship, my cat and I.<\/p>\n
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Jim’s also been having trouble with his laptop and he called me last evening for some tech support. The screen had gone black, but he was still getting the pop-up calendar reminders. And there was a youtube video of a watercolor painting tutorial still playing somewhere – we could hear the audio only.<\/p>\n
I suggested a couple of things – restarting, checking to see if it was in presentation mode, etc. – but no luck. We exhausted what I could suggest over the phone and he was going to have to call Apple support after he was done with his homework.<\/p>\n
I finished up a project I was working on at home, then realized it was early enough to go over to his place and see if I could help in person.<\/p>\n
I got there and he handed me the laptop. I sat down, opened the screen…<\/p>\n
…And everything was fine. The wallpaper was up on the screen and we had files and program icons there as well. We had to switch desktops to see the log-in and that let him in. There was a note about an update having installed and I’m guessing it was in the middle of that when he started using it.<\/p>\n
So, I “fixed” it literally by being in the room and touching it.<\/p>\n
Skillz.
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I got contacted by the Maker Faire people for the event coming up in May. They had featured me in their Meet a Maker newsletter and a local reporter wanted to interview me. Super cool!<\/p>\n
(note: that was Meet a Maker. Not Meet Your Maker. Which would be an entirely different kind of faire.)<\/p>\n
I responded back right away and said I’d be happy to. Then the reporter found out I lived and worked in Akron – and their paper only covered certain counties. So, no interview for me.<\/p>\n
I’m making progress on rebuilding the giant cube to make it more portable. 2\/3 of the way down with the folding and then I’ll need to put them together. Slow going, but I’m getting there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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