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Can I let you in on a little secret?
A week ago I had a morbid thought. What if I died tomorrow? What if I was too late? What if my heart exploded from the stress and the poor diet choices and all that stuff and that there would be bits and pieces of me left everywhere and the only thing left to identify would be my hand, still clutching my iPad and my MacBook? post-mortem of course. Haha :)
Today I went back to my doctor for a follow up. He gave me good news: my blood pressure was going down. It still wasn't low enough, but it was an improvement. "Don't worry," he said, "We'll get you right in no time. Just keep doing what you're doing. You're on the right track." He even was happy to report that I'd lost almost 3 lbs. since last week.
See? Progress. Sometimes it just takes a little reassurance to know you're doing something good and to carry on.
He prescribed 2 more medications for me to help aid the other medication I was on, which now brought my total daily pills to about 6 including a multi-vitamin. Nevertheless, I was encouraged. I was feeling better. I was improving.
I had another great dinner tonight: poached salmon with a tomato and mozzarella salad and steamed brown rice. Poached salmon is quickly becoming my FAVORITE. Something magical happens when the onions mix with the white wine and the dill and the salmon. I let it sit in the poaching liquid on a gentle simmer for 5 minutes so that it's still underdone when it comes out. The resulting fish is soft and buttery with that delectable fat still left intact, something that unfortunately melts away with oven baking.
Sick of having to wire up pin headers every time I needed to program in-circuit, I made a six-pin to DIP adapter. Huzzah for hot glue.
The backside of growth is, well, growth, and growth can be pretty ugly. I spend a lot of time outside looking for beauty, looking past this kind of thing. Scenes like this are a constant reminder that we're fairly excellent at erasing natural beauty quickly and efficiently. Rant over...
Photos Courtesy of Assistant Chief (ret) Mike Clemens. More: mcfrs.blogspot.com/2016/04/more-progress-at-new-public-sa...
Kerry Noone & Anthony Scarpino - winners of the Spirit of Progress Gold Award at the 2010 Sodexo Management Conference
Not the best photo quality, but realised I haven't posted anything in months! These paintings are in progress for my next solo exhibition, "Relics", in Halifax (Gallery Page and Strange)
XT Progress (Xingtong Progress) oil products/chemical tanker passing Ellesmere Port for Stanlow assisted by M.S.C. Volant and M.S.C. Victory
x12 Cargo Pumps @ 300m3/hr
Name: XT Progress
Flag: Panama
IMO: 9500144
MMSI: 355971000
Call sign: HP8055
AIS transponder class: Class A
Detailed vessel type: Oil Products/Chemical Tanker
Gross Tonnage: 11440t
Deadweight: 17427t
Design Draught: 8.92m
Length Overall x Breadth Extreme: 144.2m x 23m
Year Built: 2020
Registered owner: XINGTONG PROGRESS SHIPPING CO
Ship manager/Commercial manager: XINGTONG SHIPPING CO LTD
ISM & Crew Manager: THOME SHIP MANAGEMENT PTE LTD
Shipyard: Zhoushan Qifan Shipbuilding and Repairing Co. LTD, Zhejiang Province, China
Hull number: XS16500-02
Date of build: 07th Apr 2020
Engine: x1 STX Engine Co. MAN B&W 7S35MC 2 stroke 7 cyls @ 170rpm
Engine Power kW: 5180kW
x1 Fixed Pitch Propeller @ 173rpm
x1 Tunnel Bow Thruster @ 368kW
Speed: 14knots