maybe 10 years ago my mother in law suffered from Alzheimers plus getting breast cancer treatments. along with some other health issues she was a real mess health wise, but would not go to a nursing home.  having had family in nursing homes in the past i can actually agree with that.

upshot was since she had a good chunk or money squirreled away she could afford private nurses and housekeeping so we set that up. that can burn though money pretty fast but it was her money (well we would of used our own if needed), so we also bought a bunch of stuff to make it safer.. power lift recliners, new lower bed with rails, grab bars, replace the kitchen/living room floors (possible trip hazard.. very minor but still take no chances), rebuilt the front door stairs and rails, well as disconnecting the stove. fire extinguishers in every room. i also installed several IP cams so that at any time we could see where she was in the house with very few exceptions. we also bought a "help ive fallen and cant get up" thing.. which she decided works best when the the pendent the button is on sits on the kitchen table where she cant reach it if shes fallen. i suggested if she was not going to wear it, she should at least keep it on the floor so at least she can crawl over to it if needed.

so yeah my wife and i planned our whole life around twice daily visits to her (more usually but minimum two.. its amazing how much mischief one can get into in a few hours). we could never go more than a half hour away. we did have others who could fill in in a pinch but she extremely set on us to do it.

i figure with the amount of stuff she did to raise, educate, and guide my wife through her childhood years the least we can do is provide is companionship, the best care medically as well as a home that is in good repair and safe, easy to monitor and the  while some of her wishes were pretty out there we did our best. she deserved it.

EDIT: is it just me or does it seem to others also that respect for the elderly has gone down the tubes lately

my sincere condolences for your loss. its never easy to bury a friend.

looking out for them from now on (to whatever extent you decide) and putting them in your will shows volumes as to your integrity.

cancer is truly nasty thats for sure. some cases can be controlled into remission but its never guaranteed.

my greatest fear is brain deterioration (alzheimers, dementia, things like that) and currently there is no way to prevent, slow down, or cure those.

i can lose large pieces of my body to whatever and as long as my brain is functioning at more or less normal level (for me) im good with missing parts. i can adapt as long as my brain is doing its job in its usual sloppy fashion.

you can replace a lot of organ systems but obviously the brain is not on that list.

i have seen too many people who suffer one or the other of those and how truly miserable that can be to the patient as well as family.

i have a plan to prevent that long spiral downward if my brains craps out. i plan build an extremely complicated puzzle device that takes, say, one hour of undivided attention and and a reasonable amount of logic and such to solve, thereby resetting the counter. it would need to be solved every (say) two weeks, and wrong answers are ignored with no penalty. it would have something like a several month grace period, even with wrong answers. to take into the account other, temporary mental issues. so, basically a dead mans switch that would somehow cause me to expire (with no danger to others) while still having a small shred of dignity and freewill. this would take much careful vetting of course, as well as a way to expire myself (suicide is for cowards, but i figure dying because you could not solve a logic problem is ok... well i think so anyway).

so.. if my brain is going to betray me.. well if i cant trust my own brain at that point, i need to set something up before my brain has a chance to cause a huge amount of suffering and inconvenience for caregivers.

this is the wall observer for btc/usd but a wall is a wall, and jjg has very impressive "wall of text" skills. more than most anyway (for humans that is.. not ready to conclude jjg is an ai learning btc from this thread).

perhaps he is/was a writer in some capacity?

i guess no one will ever mistake me for you. because im allergic to "well dressed" my standard attire is the same as it has been for a very long time.. jeans and tshirt. if thats good enough for church, its good enough for all but black tie.

a minor point is our skin color differs. and if the skin does it job right it can pick any color it wants for whatever reason it wants. after all its the largest organ system.

i care about skin color about as much as i care about the color of my gall bladder. if it works its fine.

didnt mean to bring skin color into it really, aside from it helping to tell Bob and myself apart if needed.

TIL

now running tests to see if it will meet my exhausting testing methodology. my wife no longer comes near me. however there are wilderbeasts that wander through my property on occasion. ill capture a few to get a wider sample for the study. naturally i will release them after.

science is fun!

i guess no one will ever mistake me for you. because im allergic to well dressed, my standard attire is the same as it has been for a very long time.. jeans and tshirt. if thats good enough for church, its good enough for all but black tie.

of course a minor point is our skin color happens to differ. and if the skin does it job right it can pick any color it wants for whatever reason it wants. after all its the largest organ system and is the main protection between the world and our body.

i care about skin color about as much as i care about the color of my gall bladder. if it works its fine.

didnt mean to bring skin color into it really, aside from it helping to tell Bob and myself apart if needed.

verlakkerij = fuckery iirc

darmklachten = - unsure but its probably another word worth learning.

hey, dont we need a "fuck you JSRAW" tuesday?

therefore... fuck you JSRAW    <--- see im already in  

occasionally my browser gets out of sync with bct or something and my watchlist doesnt have the correct last post i read. so an easy way to go back 24 hours instead of guessing how many forum pages to go back is nice.

very useful, esp the 24 hr and 7 day ones (for me). its tough to keep up with this thread.

thank you

oooooh a new club!

i want in too

the whites are uppers
the paper is LSD
the reds are downers

the best combo is
seven whites ones and four hits
four red and all set

yes, deliberately making cold storage coins (somewhat? very?) hard to get is a help. youll only access them if its really, really worth it, and it will take days anyway. such a cold storage strategy
 is fairly good protection against sudden idiot moves, said idiot being me.


that too, but also ive tried to keep keys or seeds for every wallet and address (whether paper/hardware/software/whatever format) ive ever used. mainly to show i still control them and can prove it if needed. that ive had and still have direct control of addresses many of my coins lineage contains may come in handy when i cash them out if a bank or etc want proof i mined them, need the cost basis, etc.

some may have pre fork btc sitting around. so by default, it doesnt really matter as one has all versions since anyway.

HODL has many advantages for the lazy.

make proof of drama the new proof of work and nothing will touch it for millions of years..

wait.. that photo.. were there hands UNDER the table too??

i like this.

but how "baked in" to the protocol is locktime? ie it will forever be compatible with whatever official client is in use in 15 or 20 years time? a tx created with locktime today will always work in the future?

sorry for noob question i just know btc slowly mutates as needed, and 15-20 years is a long time. as long as the locktime behavior is set in stone..

@Robot1982 i like that unix timestamp bit more than using block height, thanks.

the fuel tender that youll need for this is an optional extra.

this Soma?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carisoprodol

yeah that would work fine for bcash_lol hodlers. knock yourself out and forget your troubles.

source: used soma for years.