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Title: Hurting
Date: July 19, 2024

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  One of my partners had their birthday yesterday. We were out getting some
items at Wal-Mart, and their truck decided to have issues. We call AAA (my
family has me on it), and while waiting for a tow truck, we go in to get some
drinks, since it's 36C outside, and the humidity pushed it to almot 40C. On the
way out, my knee gives out as I'm stepping down off the curb, and I go to the
ground, knees hitting hard and palms trying to deflect me to one side, but
just landing flat and impacting my wrists.

  Now, I'm hurting pretty bad, but my knees and wrists are recovering, and I
didn't hit my head on the asphalt. That's something I'm thankful for.

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  To give me an even better bit of happy news, a friendly face I met in a
private authors chat helped me fix the UEFI problem I have with my laptop, and
now I'm no longer worried that a `sudo apt upgrade` is going to kill my ability
to boot this poor Dell Latitude, as it did over the last few days.

  Admittedly, that also gives me more time to get used to get Emacs set up as
an alternative for Scrivener. Between the `binder` package, putting my notes in
a dokuwiki and using `dokuwiki-mode` for editing the files, and using a number
of Markdown templates with `pandoc`, I might actually be able to make this work
properly for myself.

  And if I do that, it means I'm another step closer to my green living goals
too, since I can use an RPi 400 (or even my RPi0W) as a low-powered machine on
purely solar power without breaking the bank. Or power bank, for that matter.
But one step at a time, or I'll just overwhelm myself. I've got enough of a
list to work with as it is.[0]

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[0]: gopher://prismdragon.net/0/green_todo.txt