ddickinson: Yay! I'm so glad it all went okay.
I bet the doctors were surprised, seeing you standing there holding some 19 year old's arteries. :-)
Don't worry, we didn't spoil your lawn too much while you were away. ;-)
EndreWhiteMane: Good thing, I'd of thrown these arteries at ya. ;)
Then you'd have to evict the arteries from your lawn. Damn young arteries, with their newfangled techno music and boomboxes and their break dancing.
Glad to know you have youthful arteries, that'll only make the procedure simpler.
Stints, I'm very fortunate that I've nver broken a bone, (hell I haven't even been stung by a bee), but just imagining the unscratchable itches, makes me shudder in terror.
Have you already said what it is that you'll be undergoing? If you don't mind me asking of course. Do they have to cut you open, or will they be using a scope?
I don't know the correct technical term, but I hope my meaning is clear.
FearfulSymmetry: This! I keep being amazed at what my computer is able to run. For instance, I can run Dragon Age Inquisition with my Intel HD 4000 graphics card, despite the fact that the game actually requires an AMD Radeon HD 4870 or Nvidia Geforce 8800 GT card. Sure, the settings are all on low, but it plays! Some stubbornness can take you far. :P
I remember the not-so-good old DOS days when people had a couple of autoexec.bak files which they used to squeeze the most out of their machines. Loading a different hi-mem or unloading some basic programs.
Those 120 KB extra of free RAM were sometimes the difference between the game loading or not.
Nowadays the minimum RAM reqs really don't matter, more so, because if you actually run out of RAM, the OS starts using the HD. Sure, your system performance will plummet like Zimbabwean dollars, but the program will still run. Back then, it didn't. If you were lucky at most you got a message informing you that there wasn't sufficient memory and couldn't start.