@literary Over the years, my right knee has been broken and bones in the arch of my right foot were broken, misdiagnosed as a sprain and healed incorrectly.
Long walks are like playing Russian Roulette. Sometimes, everything's fine. Other times, BANG, something acts up and I am limping around like Igor for weeks.
Thinking back to the long walks. I used to walk from the old family farm to my Mother's house. Roughly 23 miles. Took around eight hours. I wish I could still do that.
@hybotics I used to have a heavy punching bag in my basement to take stress out on before it got to the serious, shut yourself off point. Unfortunately, a right hand that was broken many times and aging have made that untennable.
I'm left to long, quiet walks, now…Until the sciatic nerve goes boom which hasn't happened in several years thank God.
iOS update. Hoping it borks my phone. One less avenue for the weekday annoyances.
Good God I am talking too much.
I need to find a less verbose way to pass time.
@larand The 21st century's version of "the guys what row the boat to the beat of a drum"
// @jmreekes
@hybotics The few times I've had that happen, I've taken the, "Alrighty then", approach. The comments in the code would go thusly..,
// When this fails. And it will. Go see Frank/Joe/whoever told me "This is the way we do things here"
// @matigo
@hybotics He was a close friend and helping him modernize that code is why I wound up in the south to begin with. Heavy pot smoker. His code reflected that. There was a sort of idiot savant genius about the stuff he did.
We lost him a few years back to a massive heart attack. Miss the guy.
// @matigo
@hybotics My worst BASIC experience was a binary tree filing system written in Microsoft Professional Basic by an engineer.
It's a standard sort of thing that sane languages handle with recursion.
To anyone who has coded them before..
Imagine it being done, with ANSI standard BASIC. Line numbers. GOTOs. GOSUBs. And the whole thing being done by someone who was an engineer/physicist by trade.
It made my head throb.
// @matigo
@hybotics Being confined to other people's code is about the closest thing to Hell you can experience.
// @matigo