Kelly glad you and Paul made some headway...
You mean you don't take any kind of log short of this thread on what you did and what you dealt with on the bike...
Sometimes I will document things well, other times not so much. Went for Ride after lunch time, didn't sleep last night. I had the car apart and the T55 torx socket was no where to be found, So, I geared up, AGATT in air mesh riding pants and jacket with my riding boots leather gauntlet armored gloves and took ride into town , I'm 20 minutes roughly from most any restaurant or stores other than the Speedway gas/convenient stores and we have a bar and general store, Family Dollar of course, evil things they are, and a ACE hardware store and a couple small food places. I'm out in the Sonoran desert NW of Tucson outside Saguaro National Park - West. At least for a bit longer. Moving before October across town. I'm in a double wide trailer on 2 acres of a little landscaped with natural desert native stuff. Palo Verde, Mesquite and a couple Ironwood trees but mostly Prickly Pear cacti, Cholla cacti, some Nopi cacti, not sure what the purple prickly pear like variant cacti are called (they are in the landscaped section of the driveway loop), about 6-8 Saguaro Cacti (the big cacti with the arms), a cacti I cannot remember the name...all the landscaped stuff in the driveway loop.
I had started getting a migraine after working for a couple hours on the Mini, ran into the need for the T55 and then a friend called me while I was trying to get ready. I got ready and terminated our call and then took the hard bags out to the stainless steel table I have outside the screened porch as a work table , it is beneath a big Mesquite tree. I had taken a short nap to see if the migraine headache that kicked off before I ran into the tool issue and not finding the socket after tearing apart and cleaning up from.my tornado search and throwing some papers away. The headache eased and I doubled up on my sunglasses it was high 90s about 95 F but bike reported it as 101f in the sun. Well the 40 minute trip to a place I left my water bottle near the Apple store was fruitless as the mgmt office is closed on weekends. So, a 15 min ride back and I stopped a Chick-fil-A as it was nearly 3 and my breakfast was spe t and I made the Bentley sedan from Michigan use his motor if he wanted to pass me on Sunrise as he stayed in the lane that was ending. I knew the guy would so I made me do 65 to get in front of me after a red light...I was on my '19 VStrom 650 XT Touring (DL650XA). I am a very big guy so, it is plenty quick most of the time for me...except when I'm dealing with a headwind and need to do 80 to stay with traffic flow on I10 outside Tucson limits ... It does 75 with my bulk no problems and does 80-85 ok but I don't wanna go a lot faster than 85, that's plenty fast most of the time.
The 100F heat made my migraine return with a vengeance and it is vaso-dialation as the heat would help vaso construction headaches I get resolve or ease off. So, I finished the drink of the 40 oz tea and lemonade I had in my 40oz ThermoFlask insulated aluminum thermos bottle and had a 28 oz ice water. Then To filled my Thermo flask I had been drinking from with ice water and then had them give me a 2nd ThermoFlask with just ice for later. I took the large ice water and saturated my Sedici cooling vest the best ai could, it dries super quick, nearly 15 minutes as I hit Harbor Freight for a cheap set of Torx sockets for $13.03 with tax...$11.99 before tax.
Talked to a fellow who mentioned he just started riding and just bought a $1500 Kawasaki 250 the day prior. I told him to be cautious and get good gear and definitely take the rider safety course for good training and strong foundation. Recommended he find a riding club to get some experience and tips from other riders. Hopefully he will stay safe and his experience will be safe and he won't end up being a statistic in Tucson. It is a dangerous city to ride in. I try to minimize my riding in the city and I use a Halo helmet 3M reflective elastic silver band over my full face helmet and I use a yellow mesh reflective vest from Home Depot or Lowe's over my jacket. It has 3M reflective silver white stripes, construction safety vest.
Mounting some Hella 550 Amber Fog lights on the crash bars. Would like to extend the crash bars to protect them but I'm not a tubing welder and not sure how the SW Motech bars would respond to the addition. Trying some LED Amber H3 bulbs I bought to see if the pattern is acceptable. If not the stock H3 goes back in...
I went to H.F. and got the tool and it was after 5 pm by that time as I ate dinner/lunch around 4 after drinking about 36 ounces of ice water while at Chick-fil-A. The heat and sun was brutal as the sun was too low in the sky and I was riding a lot with one hand playing like a visor a lot. A stop in the National Park taking some photos, hydrating and taking a bunch of pics and getting my mirrored polarized sunglasses out of one of the saddlebags/panniers. It did not help much. Fed dog and gave him fresh water after several gallon was dumped as I forgot to put them inside while I was gone. It was 101f when I got home around 5:30. I took a cool shower and responded to or message and fell asleep before sending. Odds are against me to be able to ride to church since I am volunteering to help in an area to connect people with our groups or to classes or if they wish to volunteer. So if it takes me 20 minutes to get into my riding gear it would be around 1pm which is forecasted to be 1pm 100f and at 2pm 101F.
since it is a 50 minute to 1 hour and 10 min ride for the 35 miles or more ride depending upon traffic...it would be 101f at 2pm and won't get out until 12:30 at earliest. 3pm at home it is forecasted to be 102F. Which means 2 or 3 stops to cool off and the migraine is still with me.
Slept from around 8:30pm-11:30pm to help headache. Was OK until I started using the screen device. The nap was helpful.
I cannot beg off so I need to go, so time to go finish my maintenance and get car ready to use in morning...
Will work tomorrow evening after dark but just going to fix this problem I was working on and go to bed and have car ready to roll in morning at 8am. Having AC will be better than a ride in the heat considering at temps above 90f you actually heat up about 5 degrees above ambient. And thus the migraine headaches would be guaranteed to return...
The joys of migraines and their care.
So it is midnight and 75f which is really nice...if it weren't for the mosquitoes.
Zika and West Nile are bad in Phoenix last year and we had a few cases of West Nile here. A guy in Tucson at the NW Tucson gas station is the youngest West Nile case in Pima County history at 38 years old. They didn't figure it out immediately and he uses a cane sometimes from the after affects of the encephalitis infection of his brain.
He has some significant migraine issues and after waiting 5 months to see a migraine specialist the day before his visit this past September or October 2021. The day before his visit they called to tell him sorry ALL the neurologist quit yesterday at where ever he was going to go...
Dr office mgmt sometimes create hostile or bad workplaces and things like that happen...
Super frustrating for this fellow.
I would like to stay home and hide from the sun but I cannot, so time to spay the DEET laced Deep Woods Off over my exposed skin and my clothes and then go spend an hour or 2 finishing my simple task that turned into a real pita job because of a tool and a migraine headache.
Been fighting my doctor to get a neurologist referral for an appointment for a Neurologist migraine specialist since February and still don't have do Not get me started on that nightmare. My doctor and health coach whom is suppose to be advocating for me are getting grievances filed against them with my insurance and I am filing a grievance with Medicare too over the lack of care...
It probably will do nothing. But, I will document it carefully and I have evidence to back it up...cell phone text message records...
They can be requested by Medicare and the request will be granted. Same is true for my records and the Iora Primary Care records as well. So, they have hung themselves if they want to play rough I know how, 15 years as a quality auditor, quality engineer, quality manager I know how to build a very strong case against someone the few times I had to use quality audit reports as a club instead of a tool to help you improve things so you could work faster with less issues and fewer problems. Yeah I approached quality improveme t as not about individuals actions but issues in a process or procedure or lack of tools or training or work load and a myriad of other caused. Some quality auditors and quality managers and quality people power trip and try to exert the damage and power the position has to cause discomfort and subvert the reason for quality.
To build better product remove the hinderence that stand in the way, that was my approach. Innocent until proven otherwise.
Only had to target a defiant process ignoring individual who blatantly ignored the process two or three times in 15 years!
It is 73F now @ 12:30am MST in Arizona.
I would rather return to sleep...
