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I was rather tired today, but with enough coffee, it was overcome. I had my MRI this morning. While at the radiology lab, they observed that I had an appointment for a CT scan at 2:15 in the afternoon. They had me wait just 15 minutes after my MRI and then they ran me in for my CT scan.
I thought that was nice of them. In both cases, the techs found a vein on their first try so I only got stuck once per test. The fellow doing the MRI was really good. I barely felt it when he inserted the needle. In retrospect, I should have had them put one of those them reusable taps into my arm. Then they would have only had to stick me once.
After the radiological procedures, I stopped by the tanning salon for a 7-minute bake. Upon returning home, I observed that the sun was shinning, the temperature was in the 50’s, last weekend’s snow was completely gone and the Crocuses in the back yard were blooming. I played hooky for about 20 minutes while I took advantage of the situation. One result of my photographic interlude is attached. I’ll post more later.
After lunch, I headed into the office. A couple of days ago I updated my Symantec antivirus software and it required a reboot. My station stopped during the reboot process.
I bought this station a little over 18 months ago. When I purchased it, I had them install a RAID 1 array instead of a single hard drive. For those who are not the total computer geek, a RAID 1 array is two identical disks. The system keeps your complete system on both disks. This is also calling disk mirroring.
On of the disks in my RAID 1 array appears to have failed. But since both disks automatically kept each other updated, when it paused, I read the error message and told the system to continue on. My station still works just as before. The only difference is I don’t have that backup, should the second hard drive fail.
I contacted the place where I bought it. I am scheduled to go back to my Forward Operating Base (FOB) in North Jersey again next week. While I am gone, they will come out and replace the defective drive. The system should automatically rebuild the information on the new disk, and I’ll be back where I was before. I am very pleased I decided to make that purchase, when I did.
As I said, my client wants my body back in North Jersey again next week. We have agreed that I will drive up late Monday afternoon and stay at least Tuesday and Wednesday. I am going to reserve three nights at the hotel in case it goes to three days. I must be back in town on Friday as I am scheduled to get another Aranesp shot to boost my hemoglobin count.
Posted by The Vorlon at February 17, 2006 9:01 PM