@variablepulserate I checked my archive of macOS versions right back to Tiger, 10.4. One was missing: 10.13 High Sierra. As my M1 Mac Mini is too new to install that version, I have used my 2017 4k iMac to perform the download and used AirDrop to transfer it to the Mac Mini.
I had to do the latest Ventura update on the iMac anyway.
@variablepulserate Yes, it’s quite rare. The man has a full time job and balances an active family life as well as being a travelling barber when he can spare the time.
Availed myself of a very rare service today. A travelling barber visited me and gave me a long necessary trim. Did a good job, didn’t take long and I just may have joined his long list of clientele.
@variablepulserate Its rated load limit on flat ground is 185 kg, my place in on flat land.
I can’t allow dirty dishes to accumulate as my damaged lower back protests if I have to lean over the sink for more than a couple of minutes at a time. So it’s wash after each meal.
Another action I was worried about was changing the fitted lower sheet on the single bed mattress but that proved fairly easy earlier today.
I’ve also worked out that I can position a chair in the laundry in such a position that I can reach into my front-loading clothes washer and transfer washed items to the tumble dryer with my left hand.
I’m sort of coping with the slow recovery from septic arthritis in my left knee, I can put a little weight on it if absolutely necessary as I learned today. I had a box of recycling to take out to the wheelie bin, so I balanced it precariously on the rollator walker. It got away from me while negotiating the short ramp at the front door. I was left standing on the doorstep with a box of rubbish on the ramp and the walker two metres away lying on its side on the footpath. I shuffled sideways down the ramp until I could grasp the grab handle on the porch post with both hands. Next I stepped down (sideways again) and managed to grab one of the rear wheels of the walker and set it upright again. There is one other activity I just can’t do yet: move a heavy rubbish bin 50 metres out to the road. Lighter loads are workable, I can carefully hoist the bin onto a rack on the back of the mobility scooter and transport it that way.
@variablepulserate For the last three weeks in hospital I wasn't exactly inactive. Two 40-minute physiotherapy gym sessions each weekday and one such session daily on weekends. For various reasons, usually pain-related I missed/skipped 5 of these 36 sessions. For the first two weeks the gym was 80 metres away from the bed. On the last day in that room, I waled (with my rollator walker) the full 80m for the trip back. Granted, it did take about 20 minutes and needed 5 stops on the way, but I did it.
For the last week, I was in a different ward and attended a smaller gym that was just 25m from the bed.
While it's nice to be home, the assistive services to which I have been referred to ease my recovery at home are yet to be done as the assessment people haven't yet appeared. I do have a list of 28 exercises which I'm expected to perform at least once daily (pain permitting) plus an hourly deep breathing routine.
Making about 4 litres of real soup, using lamb shanks, black turtle beans, various lentils, white beans, split yellow and green peas, pearled barley and a premixed and chopped 500 gram bag of mixed vegetables and garnishes. This will be a very fine concoction.