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John I @sporosarcina.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

I got my yearly atypical pneumonia, but caught early enough to not have to be admitted. Ironically, I caught it early because I started coughing up blood. On the downside, the CT showed a possible solid mass on my trachea. Gotta wait to retest after lungs clear.

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John I @sporosarcina.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Ten and a half years, that is all we will get with our dog Lena. We thought we caught the sarcoma early, grade 1, but we were wrong, now there are tumors throughout her lymphatic system. She is still playful, so we are waiting for when the bad days out number the good.

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John I @sporosarcina.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

One of the things I got from my mother moving through out my childhood wasn't the resiliency she touted, but rather the inability to connect names to faces, because every relationship ended in too short of a time to bother. I swear I remember about five people from all of high school.

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John I @sporosarcina.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

So far this month I have successfully disassembled, fixed, and reassembled our dryer. I have also fixed a mirror on my wife's car for $100 and fifteen minutes, when the dealership quoted $1300.

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John I @sporosarcina.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

"I can't do the math on the chem exam fast enough." "Did you work through the practice homework?" "YES, of course I did." "Are you sure?" "Yes, are you calling me a liar." "No, I'm just saying that the homework wasn't loading for anyone until about an hour ago due to an error."

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John I @sporosarcina.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

I love my #Subaru cars, but sometimes their repair estimates are ridiculous. My wife's passenger mirror got busted. The repair estimate was $1300 with no salvagable parts. I looked at it and was able to repair it for $50 for the mirror glass and a cooling, all the other parts worked fine.

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John I @sporosarcina.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

I am stupidly happy that I was able to successfully disassemble our dryer, diagnose a blown fuse, replace it, and reassemble the dryer.

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John I @sporosarcina.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

I'm feeling nostalgic today. My mom moved us constantly during my high school (5 total). That means I was always the new kid. I hated it, even though my mom said it made me resilient. I always wonder what it would have been like to stay at just one school. I would have chose #Dover.

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John I @sporosarcina.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

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John I @sporosarcina.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

The other day I was sitting in the med lab, waiting to get a blood draw. This lady was in there and very saucy about not being done yet. She was swearing every other word (fuck this and fuck that). I politely asked her if she could stop swearing... man she went ballistic. Security had to be called.

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John I @sporosarcina.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

You know it is perfectly fine to expect consequences for both Trump and Clinton if the files show that they committed criminal acts.

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John I @sporosarcina.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Now, the Orange in Chief is tackling such issues of pressing national interest as getting the Washington Commanders to change their name back to the #Redskins.... good lord we are living in #idiocracy

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John I @sporosarcina.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

I know it is barely visible to other people, but I can feel the fracture in my chin. It is just sheared a little off from normal, but man, it bugs me. The plastic surgeon said it would be more trouble than it was worth to fix it.

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John I @sporosarcina.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Little known side effect to hot flashes, you have to scream to hear each other over the fans.

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John I @sporosarcina.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

I fell face first onto concrete. I broke a mental protubrence in my chin and broke halfway through the elbow side of my ulna. Both breaks were not displaced, so they should heal. However, I also damaged a tendon in my elbow, which causes pain in my forearm. They say it could take 18 months to heal.

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John I @sporosarcina.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

Tis the season of graduation parties. If your kid is graduating, you have a lot of other parties to attend. We have three parties to attend today.

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John I @sporosarcina.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

I hit my head on concrete hard enough to fracture my chin. Now, I am waiting to see if the CT scan shows I need a plate in my chin. Fracturing my chin was not on my bones to break bingo card. #brokenbone

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John I @sporosarcina.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

A long way from the reliability and reusability needed to put a person in it.

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John I @sporosarcina.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

I cannot believe I made it to 50 before I found out that you could use Dawn before the wash to get out even set oil based stains.

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John I @sporosarcina.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Because we know that those in the right always wear masks. /s

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John I @sporosarcina.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Fun fact, when Lincoln did it, he was rebuked by the Supreme Court.

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John I @sporosarcina.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Final grades are in, another semester in the books.

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John I @sporosarcina.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Damn @microsoft.com that latest beta build totally borked every one of my devices.

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John I @sporosarcina.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

He is generationally damaging the economy. The other markets will realize no matter who we elect next, we are at most four years from another lunatic.

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John I @sporosarcina.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Okay, for once, #Windows has actually borked two of my computers with updates. The main desktop can be retrieved, I think. The older SD850 equipped computer is screwed due to lack of drivers for that older platform. I don't mind wiping a computer and rebuild, but it is still a pain.

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John I @sporosarcina.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Trump is single-handedly destroying whole manufacturing sectors.

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John I @sporosarcina.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Considering Tesla has complete OTA access, it wouldn't surprise me.

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John I @sporosarcina.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Can you hear that bus coming up behind you JD.

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John I @sporosarcina.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Having a wife and a teen daughter that don't get along is always fun. Both take it out on me and then expect me to go solve it, which gets the other to start in on me, for taking the other's side.

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John I @sporosarcina.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

My college just informed me that I was nominated for our inaugural course design awards for my Fundamentals of Chemistry course. I must be doing something right.

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John I @sporosarcina.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

I'm going to have to say goodbye to my Yoga C630 (Snapdragon 850, early WoA laptop). An update bricked it, Windows can't repair or rollback. Lenovo doesn't support the recovery image anymore. The bios is locked down, but I'll see if I can get it open and load linux.

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John I @sporosarcina.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

My 17 yo daughter got a lesson in adult ingredients, her first case of identity theft. I explained how to fix it and let her take care of it. #parenthood

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John I @sporosarcina.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

My wife and I just scheduled a 10 day trip in Ireland for our 25th anniversary.

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John I @sporosarcina.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

I am not surprised at all. It is sad because we enjoy watching Hop every Easter. At least it is only his voice in the movie. www.msn.com/en-us/news/c...

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John I @sporosarcina.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

I hope all those who couldn't bring themselves to vote for the highly qualified women are sleeping well now.

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John I @sporosarcina.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

I am a little concerned about the #NitendoSwitch2, it seems as though they are pushing docked performance over handheld, with the same thickness most likely leading to poor battery life. Plus the rumored cart price being between $70-90, I'll be waiting for the used market.

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John I @sporosarcina.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

I started watching #TheApothecary'sDiaries because of the memes, but it is a surprisingly engaging #anime

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John I @sporosarcina.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Hey, Sen. Schumer you should take note of @booker.senate.gov , that is real leadership in the face of the biggest constitutional crises since the 1800s.

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John I @sporosarcina.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Well, not the flu or covid, but I definitely have chills and aches.

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John I @sporosarcina.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Yet another example of how dumb Musk is. He just makes stuff up or sees a meme and tries to create policy based on that infantile version of reality.

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John I @sporosarcina.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

I would be looking at the trading of his family. Are they shorting ahead of his proclamations?

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John I @sporosarcina.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

I've been disappointed with #Instagram pushing video over photos and having an ad every four entries. I've moved to #Pixelfed a new photo-centric social network.

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John I @sporosarcina.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Get ready Medicare recipients, coming soon, AI rejections of care.

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John I @sporosarcina.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

I took my new #Nikon d7500 and 70-200mm f4 lens out for the synchronized swimming state finals. The auto focus on this camera is amazing.

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John I @sporosarcina.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

I can't wait to try out my new #Nikon d7500 and 70-200mm f 4.0 combo at my daughter's synchronized swimming state meet. #sportsparent

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John I @sporosarcina.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Did she not seek treatment due to her concern about her husband's ability to deal without her? How terrifying must his final days have been?

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John I @sporosarcina.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Today is my daughter's last sporting event in high school. She swam varsity for three years and synchronized swimming for four. It is just one more marker on her path to adulthood. #parenthood

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John I @sporosarcina.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

I splurged and updated from a #Nikon d5000 to a d7500 (the last and best DX DSLR by Nikon). I also upgraded my zoom lens to a 70-200 mm f4.0 AF-S, only slightly slower than the f2.8 lens, but a lot cheaper used. Bonus, the lens has internal zoom, so filters are easier to use on it.

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