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Thanks everyone. It is probably indicative of everything going on right now that I am just replying to this thread a half a day late. Dinner with the family last night was good. Work remains far more challenging than I could have imagined 40 some days ago. More celebration this weekend when time.permits.

The common contemporary treatment seems to be if not caught and removed before rupture, eliminate the infection and leaked fluid through drain and antibiotics, then a bit of a race with waiting up to 6-8 weeks for the majority of inflammation to decrease, including rupture point self-healing, then removing laparoscopically, before the slowly climbing rates of possible obstruction reoccurrence. In our case had to go back on antibiotics for a week between. I’ll just say, we’re only twelve hours after the latter step, but it was outpatient, Esmé had solid food last night, sleeping soundly now, and we’re just on alternating regular doses of Motrin and Tylenol. Such a huge difference from the multiple hospitals, days without eating, week long stay, crazy January experience.

Marinara, mozzarella, sweet Italian sausage, fennel and onion with a sprinkle of parmesan.

Vanished an appendix from the world

For the appendectomy there was no eating after dinner the day before, a few things like milk were allowed up to six hours before and then clear liquids ceased when leaving for hospital (which was about 2.5 hours from surgery). And Rob this whole process was different than I expected, but a co-workers in-law went through the same steps a couple of months prior.

I stumbled upon this store while wandering around Ho Chi Minh City today. Thought you blokes might fancy a gander 👀 20250304_103352.mp4

I'm also O-neg and this reminds me to get back to donating. 1,100 times is epic.

She had a ruptured appendix from January until now? I had assumed it was removed back then...

Happy Birthday Nate! (You are safe from Gemini / Imagen3 - for Now)

Claire and I ended up joining Steve's steak dinner and there was still too much food! Everything was delicious.

Have a great one Nate! Cheers!

I have arbitrarily decided that today is a drinking day.

Thanks for the post and lots to unpack here. The issue with using lower bias is less potential on the diaphragm and it has to be compensated to a degree with the drive voltages. That really doesn't work so it opens up a can of worms with regards to peaks and spikes making it onto the drivers, causing damage. It's all about balance. For me, 1uf caps are also way too big for what is supposed to be a high impedance circuit. I'd then put a large value resistor between them and a much smaller cap before the ballast to limit energy transfer. The choice of a Villard voltage doubler puzzles me as it is a terrible circuit with no real redeeming factors while it would cost next to nothing (even less) to use a far better circuit. I'd be less worried about switching noise in the diodes etc. over what it is a bad circuit. Smaller caps with cheaper diodes would work much better. The bias is also summed so any benefits from channel seperation are along gone. One the Stax SB units they took took one AC line from each of the channels to grab the highest potential as the impedance of the transformer would minimize any channel cross talk. Thanks for the offer but I don't need anymore stuff. I like the price and some of the ideas here but I'd switch to a better bias supply, maybe even a voltage tripler, with smaller caps and say a 200V limit on the input.

Happy Birthday!

This is interesting. I always thought Atomic Bomb was the album where things started to go creatively sideways for Bonovox, Edge, and the boys. Little they have done since that album has resonated with me. This compilation of cast-offs from the Atomic Bomb sessions shows they had much more creatively interesting stuff in the can that sadly ended up getting shelved. This is a band at their best when they are daring, not playing it safe. I’d listen to this again easily before firing up Atomic Bomb, which, outside of Vertigo, is forgettable.

X2, may the healing be quick and full!

Happy Birthday Nate!

RIP Mr. Harrison. Thank you for you contribution to humanity.

Get well soon, Esmé!

Ric, I'd Keep an eye on that Lifeclock / Palm Crystal if I were you.

Happy Birthday!

Happy birthday, Nate!

Happy birthday!

Happy birthday, fren! (party favour noise)

Happy Birthday Nate!

Cheers Nate! - Happy Birthday --

Happy Birthday, Nate!!! ¡Feliz día!

Happy Birthday Nate!

Happy Birthday, Nate!

Happy birthday, Nate!

I was indeed very happy to hear that you and Claire would be joining us! And simultaneously worried I didn't have enough food. I'm that guy that always overestimates (with the exception of penis size), and thankfully we had enough leftovers to feed 4 more people. Everyone had a go bag. The steaks were Flintstone size.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/03/health/james-harrison-blood-donor-death-scli-intl/index.html RIP to James Harrison, the man who saved 2 million babies. I don't have this, but I'm O-Neg and CMV-Neg (universal for neo-natal emergencies.) I learned about this guy when I found out I had some pretty special blood (7% of pop has O-Neg, and 15% are CMV-neg, so I'm in the 1%). He hasn't been able to give in a bit, but he made a huge impact.