{"id":254,"date":"2018-08-30T19:13:24","date_gmt":"2018-08-30T23:13:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesmokinglounge.net\/?p=254"},"modified":"2018-08-30T19:13:24","modified_gmt":"2018-08-30T23:13:24","slug":"got-bored","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesmokinglounge.net\/?p=254","title":{"rendered":"Got bored&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, It is that time of year again and Dragon Con is here, Sadly I am still unable to participate to the full extent that I want to so to try to distract myself I decided to fix all the annoying issues on personal website.<\/p>\n<p>For those who come here regularly&#8230; \/snicker&#8230; You will notice I now have a &#8220;valid&#8221; cert for my website. It is free, but I have to update it every 30 days which isn&#8217;t too bad. Currently using\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/letsencrypt.org\">https:\/\/letsencrypt.org<\/a>\u00a0for this. Was very painless and I am not too worried about my stuff being decrypted by &#8220;state&#8221; actors.<\/p>\n<p>Also finally got around to fixing my web based mail server&#8230; Sadly it was due to me locking down dovecot and apache just a &#8220;little&#8221; bit too much. Once I loosened the security a little bit it is now up and running again. Even better since I stripped out all the broken plug-in cruft that hasn&#8217;t be kept up to date.<\/p>\n<p>Going back to why I am do this, It seems stuff that can go wrong goes wrong.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Step off a 2ft wall and break my heal w\/ the achilles tendon pulling a chuck out of the bone.<\/li>\n<li>This led to surgery to fix that &#8220;unusual&#8221; break\/tear\/rupture.<\/li>\n<li>The surgery then led to me getting an infection during the healing so it slowed down the healing and me missing the GA Ren Fest.<\/li>\n<li>Ended up w\/ a blot clot in my calf due to all the inactivity required w\/ the bum foot.<\/li>\n<li>Ended up w\/ the infection coming back&#8230; Again&#8230; Or maybe it just wasn&#8217;t gone the first time. This time they put a PICC line in me so I could get IV based antibiotics at home. This pretty much killed my desire to try to go to my cousins summer party. I pretty much live for this week off every year to see friends and family I only get to see once a year.<\/li>\n<li>Still not healing even w\/ the infection down. Seems there was also some sutures in used in my tendon to hold it together while it healed where &#8220;annoying&#8221; my skin. This was keeping a wound about 1.5cm by 1.5cm from healing. Once it was removed&#8230; It started to heal, but sadly not in time for me to be back to walking and going to Dragon Con, my second favorite event of the year.<\/li>\n<li>And to kick this all off&#8230; The small wound we thought was healing finally turns out it may also be an issue w\/ a suture and they may have to go digging around for it since it is smaller if it doesn&#8217;t heal. UGHHHHH&#8230;. Such a tease. Looks all good and scabby and then bam, back to not so good.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So yeah, Just one simple step has caused all this. I know there are lots of people in the world a lot worse off than me, but for me this just sucks and I am tired of it. I mean, I was fine w\/ the 2-3 month full recovery time before. But here I am 5 months later and still in the &#8220;healing&#8221; phase, not even to recovery&#8230; But I fixed all the issues w\/ my person site though at least.<\/p>\n<p>I am thankful for all the time and effort my wonderful girlfriend and mother have put into trying to make this better for me. W\/o them caring for me when I couldn&#8217;t even get out of bed other than to go to the bathroom&#8230; which was scary, driving me to my doctors appointments all over the place. Right now I have 3 doctors along w\/ a nurse for the PICC line. That is 2-4 appointments a week.<\/p>\n<p>Will see how much more bored I get, Maybe I will use this time to try out one of the photo gallery plug-in&#8217;s to post all the wonderful pictures of this process I have collected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, It is that time of year again and Dragon Con is here, Sadly I am still unable to participate to the full extent that I want to so to try to distract myself I decided to fix all the annoying issues on personal website. 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