{"id":435,"date":"2010-03-17T00:01:03","date_gmt":"2010-03-17T07:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/hultquist\/?p=435"},"modified":"2010-03-17T00:01:03","modified_gmt":"2010-03-17T07:01:03","slug":"mon-tuesday-saved-by-a-cold-wind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/?p=435","title":{"rendered":"MON. & TUESDAY — saved by a cold wind"},"content":{"rendered":"

John had an annual medical physical scheduled for Tuesday at 2 P.M. and then the return drive from Cle Elum.\u00a0 We might have gone for a short physical therapy walk up the driveway but with him on his return he brought the infamous Valley wind \u2013 from the northwest and off the snow covered Cascade Mountains.\u00a0 When he got home the temperature was 63o <\/sup>F and an hour later it was 53o <\/sup>F with sustained wind at 37 mph and gusts to 46 mph.\u00a0 He (John) bundled up and went out to give the horses hay.<\/p>\n

We didn\u2019t go for the short walk up the driveway as on previous days, and that was fine with me.\u00a0 Monday\u2019s trip was a bit much.\u00a0 The first 40 yards of the driveway is up a slight grade, not much, but noticeable.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t take the walker and so used John as support but that meant I didn\u2019t have a place to sit and rest as we went.\u00a0 While I can walk, fast<\/em> and far<\/em> are not part of the descriptors \u2013 slow<\/em> and exhausting<\/em> fit. \u00a0In the Rehab physical terror room they monitor my heart rate and when it passes 85 bpm we stop, it drops, and we start again.\u00a0 I tried to mimic this routine but without a continuous monitor I was going just be my sensing my heart rate.\u00a0 I made it to the road (about 100 yards) and back.\u00a0 That was enough to do me for two days.\u00a0 I was saved by the cold west wind today.<\/p>\n

Much of my time these two days was taken with routine and not so routine computer chores.\u00a0 I wasted a lot of time repairing access to Safari on my university account.\u00a0 First, before finding out I had been denied access because of more than 3 attempts to get to my account with the wrong password, I took the advice of the Help Desk and deleted Windows Explorer 8 from my system, added Vers. 7, and then had to download and install all new XP security updates.\u00a0 What a pain. \u00a0When that didn\u2019t help I then learned of the 3-bad-tries-and-you-are-blocked rule.\u00a0 I did NOT have to go through all the other at all and I\u2019m back to having an old version of Explorer installed too.\u00a0 Bummer.<\/p>\n

Much of the rest of Monday was spent learning again how to put a web page out on my site \u2013 I use a server in Texas.\u00a0 I wanted to upload information John collected and photographed for the weather station and include air photos taken by a friend.\u00a0 I was busy for several hours getting the package \u201cjust right\u201d and going back and forth with a couple of friends on the procedure \u2013 including clickable thumbnails<\/em> to link to the large image files.\u00a0 Soon this info will join over 1,000 others in a weather station atlas for the country. \u00a0\u00a0http:\/\/www.surfacestations.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n

We had a call from the doctor\u2019s office that my insurance provider approved the out-patient physical therapy from the place where I was.\u00a0 I only have till March 31, to complete those.\u00a0 It will also require a co-pay of $25 \/ visit.\u00a0 Once I am more sure of myself and things I should be doing, it might be cheaper to join a health club for a few months.\u00a0 We\u2019ll see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

John had an annual medical physical scheduled for Tuesday at 2 P.M. and then the return drive from Cle Elum.\u00a0 We might have gone for a short physical therapy walk up the driveway but with him on his return he brought the infamous Valley wind \u2013 from the northwest and off the snow covered Cascade … Continue reading “MON. & TUESDAY — saved by a cold wind”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recovery-stage"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p72iNf-71","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=435"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":437,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435\/revisions\/437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}