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[Typeminer]

They've gotten real stingy about pain management.

My maternal grandmother had both legs amputated because of complications from adult-onset diabetes. That was about 50 years ago, and she was in her late 70s. Treatment is a lot better now, and I hope your dad will take it seriously.

[Alkarii]

Dad's still dropping weight, but I think he's gotten it into his head to lay off the sweets. I don't know if he'll manage to stop this rapid weight loss, but if he doesn't then I think that he won't make it to Christmas at this rate.

I was really hoping that life wouldn't try to yank the rug out from under me at this point, but I guess the only way I'd be able to get away from constantly struggling in one way or another is to just win the lottery.

[Sgt. Howard]

James Patrick Harris, my stepson, has had a mishap with a pistol on the 11th of this Month. He did not survive. This was not a suicide, but a bit of poor judgement. His Mother and I have been attempting to tie up some loose ends and his fanfiction here falls under that category. I will give notification regarding the Memorial Service (not that I would expect any here to come- it is a bit far).

Gregory Francis (the Old Sgt.) Howard

[Alkarii]

My dad wound up in the ER at the veterans' hospital on Saturday. His blood sugar was at 300, even without eating anything, and the doctor said he was pretty much just peeing sugar.

So far, all I know is that he's going to be there a couple of days, he's going to be dependent on insulin now, and they gotta test to see if he has any tumors in his colon. My mom said something about telling my dad to ask about his pancreas, but I don't know if he will.

[Typeminer]

Sarge: All my condolences. Hope you and his mother are holding up.

Alkarii: Pretty sure the hospital will tell your dad more about his pancreas than he wants to hear. Hope he takes it to heart. Hang in there.

[Alkarii]

Third weekend in a row that my dad wound up at the ER, and the second visit that was due to what turned out to be gastroparesis, brought on by his blood sugar issues.

I have a feeling he's never going to be able to work again, and I doubt my mom is going to get a full-time job that pays enough to handle everything, so it's quite likely that I will never be able to move out.

[lake_wrangler]

I was reading an article on PC Mag, about coming up with a strong master password for your password manager. The second suggestion on the page was about making it a passphrase. I was pleasantly surprised to see them reference the XKCD comic on that subject (correct horse battery staple). It then suggested, for those whose imagination was lacking, a passphrase generator web site (aptly named CorrectHorseBatteryStaple.net ).

Out of curiosity, I went to the website, to see it in action. Just going to the website already generates a passphrase... This is what was waiting for me:

Then-Modest-Urge-Shirt-8

What do you think first popped in my mind, when I read that, do you think?



Another interesting link at the end of the article:
https://www.grc.com/haystack.htm

It calculates the amount of time it would take to brute force through a password, based on its length. Interesting read.

[Dave]

Out of curiosity, I went to the website, to see it in action. Just going to the website already generates a passphrase... This is what was waiting for me:

Then-Modest-Urge-Shirt-8

What do you think first popped in my mind, when I read that, do you think?

Heh. Six letters, and I don't think I'm going to need to buy even a single vowel.

[FreeFlier]

I was reading an article on PC Mag, about coming up with a strong master password for your password manager. The second suggestion on the page was about making it a passphrase. I was pleasantly surprised to see them reference the XKCD comic on that subject (correct horse battery staple). It then suggested, for those whose imagination was lacking, a passphrase generator web site (aptly named CorrectHorseBatteryStaple.net ).

Out of curiosity, I went to the website, to see it in action. Just going to the website already generates a passphrase... This is what was waiting for me:

Then-Modest-Urge-Shirt-8

What do you think first popped in my mind, when I read that, do you think?



Another interesting link at the end of the article:
https://www.grc.com/haystack.htm

It calculates the amount of time it would take to brute force through a password, based on its length. Interesting read.

I used to write my passwords in Archaic Middle Elvish . . .

--FreeFlier

[Dave]

I used to write my passwords in Archaic Middle Elvish . . .

--FreeFlier

A guy I went to college with, many years ago, had mail-ordered a set of tickets for one of the very first Star Trek fan conventions. He enclosed a self-addressed stamped envelope as required. On it, he added a note "Convention tickets" written in Fëanorian script.

When the SASE arrived in the mail, he found that someone had added the annotation "Frodo gave his finger for you."