Update on health, Vegas 2022 and more
Hello, everybody, this is Shane R. Monroe. You’re in the passenger seat with me. It’s passenger seat radio. It is Thursday, January 5 2023. Good Lord, did you think we would ever get to 2023? I did not. Because let’s be honest. 2022 kind of sucked. You know, we we look back in time. And we say to ourselves, boy, that year really sucked. Right? Like 1991. Right? The World Trade Center. But that was a pretty, pretty crappy year. I mean, afterwards, I guess. Right. So that was September. So the rest of the year didn’t go well. But that’s all you remember from from that year, right? Was the was the World Trade Center incident, but there have been a lot of years have just been like, Well, damn, that frickin sucks. The the SI A, the si o si, O CO. We’ve talked about this right? How you pronounce that. Anyway, welcome first chat of the first show of the new year. So Happy New Year to you as well. So if you if you hear a difference in my voice, it’s because I’ve still got the remnants of a rather nasty, cold or flu. And I’m going to tell you about that when I go to our Vegas story. But, yes, excuse me. So the last couple of months, we’ve haven’t had a show, I know, my generous Patreon members are probably looking to pull their large donations out of the coffers, I get it. But to be honest with you, the last couple of months have not been great. You guys know that I’ve been chasing a heart related issue. Atrial fibrillation, for those of you who have not been keeping score with the show, I’m on medication for it. So it’s no big deal. It’s under control. But along with that, I’ve had this other problem for several months. That, quite frankly, you know, has been not more problematic, but certainly longer lasting and potentially more long term dangerous from from my overall health, which is sort of a lightheaded. I think going on, it’s the best way I can describe it. I think I’ve done it on the show. Previously, I’ve talked about it. But essentially, my eyes have felt like they were like so dry, you couldn’t even see straight almost right. And along with that there was like this weird pressure behind my eye. And it felt like maybe I had something back there behind my eyeball. And it was causing me to have like some light disorientation, blah, blah, blah, everything. It wasn’t good. It just it wasn’t good. This started somewhere around May of 2022 in one faction or another. And quite frankly, it was pretty debilitating, right, you don’t want to get up, you don’t want to get up on the Arc Trainer, if you’re worried about you know, a dizzy spell or some sort of lightheadedness. And eventually you become more, you know, infirmed by it right? So you become more sedentary because instead of being on the art trainer three times a day or twice a day, you’re on the art trainer know, times a day or a couple of times a week or whatever. And yeah, my wife’s pinging me just a second. So yeah, so it’s been, it’s been a problem and and I’ve been to every I’ve been everywhere I’ve been to my PCP, I’ve been to the en ti I’ve had an MRI, listen to them all. I’ve been to the urgent care multiple times. And time and time and time and time and time again, they basically say there’s nothing wrong with you, man. And so you sort of start getting to the point to where you feel sick, or you don’t feel well, or you don’t feel yourself or normal for a long period of time. And eventually that starts messing with you mentally, you know what I’m saying? So, at some point, you know, the doctors or even yourself started thinking, hey, maybe maybe I’m suffering from depression, right? I have been working from home for you know, since 2020. Right? When everything hit and, you know, maybe, I don’t know, maybe it’s just one of those things where it’s a combination of so many things, and you got to just start knocking them out one at a time. Well, when you go to the doctor and there’s nothing to knock out what do you do with that? Right There’s nothing wrong with you get some exercise, you’ll feel better. It’s like that I can’t I don’t feel good enough to exercise. And what’s more, as you may or may not remember, with the afib, my cardiologist said no more testosterone. Plus, my testosterone treatment plan was getting a little bit out of control. For those of you who are my dogs are probably going to bark I’m sorry. I’m not in the hot tub. And you’ll know why in a minute. But so my cardiologist said, you know, testosterone can cause afib. And then you read all these articles from WebMD, and stuff that says testosterone is good for treating AFib nobody fucking knows anything, right? We’ve been over this a million times. Doctors specialists. Yeah, they know stuff. But it’s amazing. What we don’t know. We don’t know. They don’t know. They’re guessing, in a lot of these cases, so it’s absolutely batshit crazy. So anyway. So now I have like, no test. And listen, my testosterone wasn’t going up anyway, my treatments were, I was still at like, 270. Right, and you shouldn’t be having like me, and that’s like, that’s the bottom, that’s the bottom of the testosterone scale. And I was slathering up twice a day. And with the testosterone gel, and my hematocrit, the, the sort of viscosity of the blood was going up, and the tea was going down. So it’s safe to say the treatment was more or less no longer working anyway. So well, my T numbers definitely didn’t seem to be getting under control by the testosterone gel. It was certainly keeping me energized or giving me something it was giving something back to me, which is now gone. Okay, so let’s, let’s summarize here. Right? So no more testosterone. afib. This weird, disorienting eye thing, right? All of this stuff gathered together in one place. And, you know, the AFib we were able to get under control of medication. I went through a cardio angiogram, if you remember, that’s not terrifying or anything. But yeah, I mean, listen, and this all takes a toll on somebody mental health wise at least. So I went to my doctor, my PCP, and I said, Listen to you guys, tell me there’s nothing wrong. Right? So maybe it’s me. Maybe there’s a, you know, and listen, back when I was in my early 30s. I had a similar sort of thing. And honestly, it was the same sort of pattern, right? I went to the doctors, I went to the specialist and they said, they’re not neurology, maybe chronic fatigue syndrome may be something like that. And it’s like, okay, so what do you do? And it’s like, nothing. Great, right? So there’s something wrong with you. But there’s nothing we can do about it. So suck it up, buttercup, but you have no energy, you have no life, you have no ambition. Life just sucks, right? So anyway, so I’ve gotten on Effexor, you may those of you who are longtime listeners of the show, remember my bout with Effexor. And what’s funny is, after the effects are during the effects of treatment, I definitely improved, right. So something was awry, and the effects are fixed it well, that’s great. And I was on effects for what, five years, six years, something like that was a long time. That’s back when it was still namebrand you couldn’t get generic effects, or fortunately, I had good insurance. But anyway, so the effects or the treatment with effects, there wasn’t the problem. It was Effexor as a drug, meaning the effects are that I was taking was not extended release. So you would take a pill first thing in the morning. And if you didn’t, right, like this is back when No, I was still in the office, and I was working five days a week in the office. And yeah, so I would take the effects are like 6am, before I drove to work, and I was good for the day, if you miss the pill. If you miss the initial effects or pill, you started having what they called Brain zaps, where you basically start tweaking by about 2pm. Right, so the half life fall off, or whatever the hell it is, from a pharmaceutical standpoint was really, really bad. And so I started having an extra pill at work, or I had an extra pill in the car or I had an extra pill somewhere. So that time so that if I missed one or I forgot one, because listen, there was a couple of times I had to go to my boss and say, and I didn’t like my boss at all, and he didn’t like me. So it wasn’t, it wasn’t like my boss now or I could tell my boss hey, I need to go home and get an Effexor. It was it was just an unpleasant thing. And I had to go to him and basically tell him I was on this thing and tell him that I had to go home. I was tweaking and I needed to get home. I didn’t know what was going to happen if I didn’t get that pill. And of course, you know the effects was really controlled and they would never give you more than the pills you were prescribed and if you know if you only had like, if you had more than three days left, I wouldn’t refill your prescription. huge pain in the ass. And then even worse, I’m so sorry, this is this. This drainage is getting to me a little bit. It’s not bad now, but we’ll get to that. But it’s still impacting me a bit. Sorry about that. So the so getting off the effects, right? So now I’ve been, you know, I’m six years in, I’d like to start weaning down. Right, I was super fat back then. And I was on blood pressure. I was on blood pressure. I was on statins or something I don’t remember. Anyway, I was on a lot of pills. And I was like, listen, I start tapering down a little bit. Maybe, you know, I think I’m in a good place mentally. Let’s see if we can get off the effects or because I don’t like being chained to it as I am. Because if I don’t have that Effexor, you know, it’s like, it’s like heroin, man, if you don’t have that heroin hit, you start tweaking. So anyway, so I talked to the doctor. And, you know, he suggested that we taper down. We didn’t want me off of it anyway. And I said, Well, let’s give it a try. I kind of pushed the issue. And he said, Okay, well, let’s taper you down. So I was at the end of my monthly prescription, I didn’t have any refills. And so the idea is, you can I don’t remember what the the tampering was the tamped down schedule was, but it was you know, it wasn’t overly aggressive, but it’s what we had. So by the end of the bottle of pills, with no refills remaining Chicot bad. And those of you who were longtime listeners of the show, probably remember me talking about it. Let’s just say it was so bad that I was I needed to hit of effects are so bad. I was literally licking the dust out of the inside of old effects or prescription models. That’s right, that’s that’s how bad effects are was for me trying to get off of it. So I basically my my, my credo, if you will, has been never affects her ever again. But listen, desperate times require desperate measures. And so, you know, we tried some Lexapro we tried some other stuff that the doctor prescribed because I told him, I said, let’s, let’s, let’s get on an antidepressant. It’s gonna hurt me. Let’s, let’s, let’s see if we can get one thing fixed. And then we’ll work on the next thing, you know. And so the Lexapro didn’t do well with me. And I finally you know, long story short, I told him, I said, let’s let’s try the Effexor again, shit. Listen, we’ve had, we had a period of time where it worked. Let’s go back to it. Well, now they have Effexor XR, so it’s sustained release, it doesn’t have that weird effect. And I’m like, Okay, I’m willing to give it a go. So he put me on a low dose of that. And I’ve had that for, I don’t know, two and a half weeks, three weeks, and not really any time for it to actually have the effect that we’re looking for. But we’re trying. So now that you have sort of an update there, let me roll back because all of these stories sort of fall into place. I do have to go to work in 18 minutes. So I do have, I do have a limited time to do the show. So yeah, so let’s talk about the Vegas trip. Now you guys know I go to Vegas two or three times a year, usually it’s a it’s usually Christmas, spring break and summer. So we like to go three times a year. And traditionally we stay in the Plaza Hotel, which is Okay, listen, it’s a it’s a it’s a two star hotel, and sometimes the second star might be able to extra. But listen, you’re not if you’re not spending a ton of time in your room. And listen, all you’re doing is sleeping in there. What do you need a suite for? You know what I’m saying? It’s cheap, it’s clean. It’s convenient. It’s right across from Fremont. You know, they shot the stand there. Listen, there’s all sorts of great reasons to stay at the Plaza. And I mentioned it was cheap. You know, because you have to add $30 or $35 every night is a resort fee for 99% of the properties in, in Vegas, right? So you get that great room rate of $69 a night. It’s really $100 A night, but you know, stupid advertising. It’s like, gigabyte space on a hard drive. It’s bullshit. But anyway, so as you know, we stayed at the Circa this last year. And my wife and I completely fell in love with the place. And we decided that if we ever had our choice, if we could financially afford the uptake, that we would stay at the circuit. So for our December trip, I booked well in advance and I got us place at the circuit got us a room at the circuit for the I believe let me see what the dates were on that just so that we have a complete record. Oh, my. So we checked in on the 27th which was a Tuesday and we checked out on the 30th which by the way, any time around there was like triple room rates, right? It’s like a hotel on Boardwalk and Park Place instead of two hours, right. So plus we didn’t want to be in Vegas for New Year’s where I trust me. Even the locals leave Vegas like the people live in Vegas, hate New Year’s, and they leave the frickin city when New Year’s happens because it’s that chaotic and that that nonsense. So we wanted to be clear there and we wanted to spend Christmas with the family here in town. So it was a perfect time. And so yeah, so we ended up booking for the circuit. Now I like to bring cash with me to Vegas, because, one, I don’t really want to travel to any banks. I don’t want to use ATMs because, you know, in tourist locations, ATMs always have like an inflated fee. You got to pay a fee to the ATM machine, you pay a fee to the bank. So in Listen, Vegas is a cache is a cache location, right? Yes, you can. You can spend credit, you can use a credit card, you can use a debit card, you can use your phone, tap to pay whatever, for most things. But it’s a service gratuity based town. Valet parking everything, everything nickels and dimes out of your pocket. So having cash is a good thing to have when you go to Vegas. So I make a bank trip and make a trip to Wells Fargo. Every single time I go to Vegas, we pull cash out for the trip and we allocate a certain amount per day. So yeah, so listen, it’s a simple thing. But, you know, with my luck these days, anything is possible. So let’s talk about my trip to Wells Fargo. So normally I like to go the day before or maybe a couple of days before, but it just didn’t work out that way. My wife again, I don’t want her to have to call and interrupt the show was Oh yeah. So so in this case, I went the morning that we were leaving, right. So normally speaking, when we go to Vegas, we go on a Friday after work. My wife’s exhausted, I’m exhausted, we just finished, my wife just finished like the worst work week ever. Blah, blah, blah, I’m sorry, if I don’t if I don’t respond to my wife’s texts, then she’ll call and we don’t want that. So anyway, this time, which is really nice. We actually could leave at 10 in the morning, 1011 in the morning, check in at three or four o’clock at the circuits. It’s about a four and a half to five hour drive, depending on traffic time of day day of the week, blah, blah, blah. So I go to well, so let’s I’m saying to myself, the the bank opens at 9am. Wells Fargo opens at 9am. Must be nice. But so and I know that it’s right after a federal holiday. So Monday, the bank was closed in observance of New Year’s which was actually on I’m sorry, Christmas, which was actually on Sunday. Ridiculous, right? I got the day off. So why am I complaining but you know, banks honor federal holidays. I wasn’t, wasn’t completely clear on that. But anyway, so they took the day after Christmas off. So the bank was closed on Monday. I know I actually went down there, figuring it was open, I was dumb of me to just make that assumption, right. So I go on Tuesday. And I’m there at 9am Because I know the bank is going to be busy quickly. Because the day before nobody could do any transactions. So they were all going to be lining up on Tuesday excuse me my throat so I’m gonna get a drink here real quick, and see if I can head this throat off at the passer. Boy, she’s chatty today. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And she supposed to be at schoolwork. So anyway, so I’m there at 9am 900 on the dot, I pull into my parking spot, it flips over to 901 as I walk through the door, so I’m looking at my phone as I go in, right. And crap, I walk through the door and there’s five fucking people in line. I’m like, What the hell? It’s nine o’clock on the dot. I mean, okay. 901 but there was nobody at the door. When I went in, is what the hell Okay, so whatever. Alright, fine, fine. We’ll get through this. I’ll be home in time to get my ass out the door by 10 Get on the road. So I go in, and there’s four people in line in front of me plus a fifth person that’s at the one open cellar window. Okay, so it’s the day after a holiday. It’s a Tuesday where Monday was a federal holiday. You know, the bank’s going to be busy the next day. How many tellers do you have on staff one? So I get my phone out. I’m chatting with my buddies on Discord. I’m looking at news, whatever, I’m just blowing through my time. And 234 minutes go by and that guy still The window, it’s like, okay, this guy must be having a complex transaction. So I look up at the window at the guy again, and he’s still there. And now not only is there a teller at the window, but a manager at the window now now you know things are not going well. The problem is I couldn’t really hear what was going on. Right? Because one I’m not nosy and two, they were talking too quiet for me to hear, which is the honest answer to that question. Now I’m really curious. I mean, we’re five minutes in right to the to me standing in line. Hey, Jeremy, what’s up brother? I am feeling better and you’re just in time to hear more about why. So anyway so now that the managers there the discussion is getting a little bit louder, and there’s, you know, the guy but the guy at the window was obviously agitated and he started to talk louder. Now I’m starting to get a little bit of a whiff of what’s going on. He’s complaining that he can’t get money out of the ATM. It keeps spitting his card out. And I can’t hear the manager and the the teller because they’re behind the you know, the bulletproof glass. Not yet anyway, but I can I can, I can pick a few things. I can pick a few things up based on what I’m hearing from the guy and he’s ranting about it all of a sudden once it started to click now that this guy was either crazy, which I think is more likely or he’s special needs not probably is likely based on the way based on the body language you can kind of tell and so he’s you know, he’s frustrated at the teller that he cannot get money out of the ATM. And he assures the teller the ATM wants to give me money it wants to I know it does. This is how you know the guy’s crazy. The ATM wants to give me money, but it won’t it keeps spitting out my card. Well, this guy’s this is this is 10 minutes in, we haven’t moved yet we haven’t got another teller. The only teller is being occupied by this cray cray guy. And therefore have us in line waiting at this point. I think there were two more people behind me I wasn’t keeping track. Because I was too interested in the story and the drama going down at the window. After a few moments, I realize what’s going on the teller holds up a state ID card to the window. So the guy is trying to get money out of the ATM like with a better not even a driver’s license. I’m assuming it was a state ID card not an ATM or debit card. So he’s he’s yelling at the teller that he can’t get the money out of the ATM that the ATM wants to give him. The ATM wants to give him the money. But the ATM can’t because it keeps spitting out his car which by the way, the card knows who he is the bank should be able to give him the money because the ATM wants to give it to him. Guys, this went on for 10 minutes. And the story the him saying what happened in the teller telling him why it’s not working? That takes about 15 to 20 seconds. That’s how many times the back and forth when. Right now we’re all starting to get irritated. Finally about that time a second teller shows up sir When Yes, yes, yes, yes. So of course you know the two people at the beginning of the line, they didn’t have an easy. They didn’t have an easy transaction. So they’re okay, maybe it was just impatient, but it was like, Come on, let’s go. Let’s go. Come on, move it, move it, move it move it got stuff to do. So two people go through the second teller, that guy is still there, with the same argument about the ATM wants to give him money. Now he’s talking about his mom, and his mom gets off at like 1230. And she usually helps him blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Listen, like guys life stories being laid out. There’s a teller and a manager there backing us all up. Finally, the guy, the guy, the conversation finally sinks in after all this amount of time. And the guy the guy finally you know, says thank you, I’ll wait for my mom to get off. And he walks away from the window sees the line of people and realize that he’s being a dick or not realizing it, whatever. And he’s I’m sorry, I’m sorry. I’m sorry. You know, just had a problem with the ATM and now he’s giving us his life story to us. Right? And so we’re like dude, whatever gets you the fuck out the door pal. Listen, you can tell me your life story as long as you’re walking towards the door and we can get another person up to the window. So So he gives us the the ATM wanted to give him money bit and then he immediately turns around this Oh, one more thing and he walks back to the window. I wish I was making this up but you can’t make up stuff like this. It just has to happen to be true. So now, so now he’s back at the window. Talking about some check he wanted to cash or something. Oh, my wife. So chatty today it’s making me mental. And so he’s back in the window. Now, the good news is, I’m next in line. The woman who was in line in front of me is now at teller number two, right? So I’m thinking no matter what happens, I’m next. So this woman will be quick. I’ll take teller number two or crazy guy hits the road, and I’ll take teller number one. And anyway, so So now I’m ready. I’m chomping at the bit. Well, it turns out that the woman in line in front of me, by the way, you cannot judge a book by its cover. Either this woman with special needs, maybe the short bus was outside and I missed it, the woman and tell her number two was either special needs or she was ridiculously slow or stupid, because I’m listening to her discussion. And she’s trying to cash a chase. And she’s trying to cash a chase check at Wells Fargo, they want to charge her fee. But she doesn’t want to pay the fee. So they’re tell her to go to chase to cash the check, because they have to honor it with no fee. And she’s like, I don’t have a chase account. And they’re trying to explain to her that you don’t have to have an account at the bank. Yada yada yada. Thanks. So anyway, so finally the guy leaves, the guy leaves, and I get Tiller number one and I say, Dude, I was in a guy. Yeah, I was like, I said, Dude, I’m gonna do my best to make up for that guy. So I got my business done it by this time, listen, it’s like 929 25, I expect you to be in and out of the bank in five minutes. No, now. Now. Now. Now. Fortunately, we were all packed and ready to go to Vegas. So we ended up but we ended up leaving a little bit later. But that’s fine, we still end up getting there at like, three 315, something like that. No big deal. So we’re going to check into circuit and circuit is one of those weird places where you get in the queue for your room. So you check in at the front desk, but they normally don’t have rooms available yet. Or rooms of your caliber available. Yeah, right. So you want a standard room. That’s the most in demand. So when you check in, not all of them are ready yet. And there are people in line in front of you. So you check in and then they text your phone when your room is ready. It’s like Olive Garden, right? They give you a little pager. So you go sit your ass down and wait for little pager to beep. And then you can go have your meal. Same idea, you get your room when they paid you. So we usually just sit in the lobby and dig around on our phones or play on switch or deck or whatever, by the way for our room. So I go to check and I’m ready. I’m ready to get busy. Right? You know, we got plans for the night. So we’re, we want to get checked in we want to get a shower, right, blah, blah, but we have things to do. So it’s like, so I go to checkout. He’s like, No, we don’t have any rooms ready for that yet. Blah, blah, blah. You know, I’ll text your phone. And she goes, what unless you want to upgrade? I do have a suite available on my Oh, sweet. What, what are we talking about price wise and she goes, Well, it’s $100 a night. I’m like, Whoa, hey, well, wait a minute. Tell me about the suite. I swing an extra 100 A night, especially if it gets me in my room faster. And so she gives me the amenities list, blah, blah, blah. It’s like, okay, there’s no hot tub in there, which would have been awesome. whirlpool bath would have been a clinch, but in this case, she showed me the pictures it looks looks beautiful. And she goes you know, I just booked one for $75 extra night but I have to call management you want to wait for a minute but yeah, I’m going to be waiting for a room anyway. Right? So let’s even get me you know, save me 75 bucks for the trip three nights, so we’re staying. And so she calls him she goes yeah, and I’m like, book it. And I didn’t tell my wife we got up to the 51st floor where the sweets are. And we went into the room and she lost her shit so it was kind of worth 75 bucks a night just to get her reaction. Turns out the sweet is fucking awesome. Unbelievable. We may not listen we went from humble beginnings to a standard room at the plaza to now we have to have a suite at circa in order for our trip to Vegas to be complete. Because it is like an apartment in their separate living room a dining room a wet bar, separate bedroom, isolate double bathroom gigantic two three person shower which you know could come in handy. Isolated toilet beautiful vanity. It’s unbelievable. If anybody’s really interested. You can go look it up online, I’m sure but I took video when I got some pictures and stuff if you really want to know what the what the circle looks like. I gotta sign it for work in a minute. Dammit. I better accelerate this story a little bit. So yeah, so the suite was fantastic. Yeah, it it’s gonna be really hard to go back even to a standard room even though the standard rooms are beautiful. This was just unfreaking believable. Beautiful view unbelievable view. 51st floor. Crazy Town. So the trip went well. So, we came back on Friday, right? So we checked out about 11 started taking the car trip back and I am like, I am wiped, right. We’ve had some long nights that’s normal. So we’re always up late when we’re in Vegas. So that’s that’s totally normal to be tired on the way back then I was like, unusually wiped tired. And so my wife drove and I just hunkered down in the seat and kind of slept a little bit. We got back home. My wife said, I feel like shit. And I’m like, oh my god, so to why. And that started our our our four day weekend or four day New Year’s weekend with us having like some sort of a flu. My wife was hard. I mean, listen, my wife doesn’t go down easy. giggity but she was down and I was down. I mean, I’m used to being down these days, but she was down hard. So as I congestion felt like fever. You know, we were we were chugging DayQuil NyQuil just to get through the day, that sort of thing. It was, it was horrible. I had to go back to work on Tuesday. She had to go back to work on Wednesday, so she had an extra day to recover. I crawled my ass out on Tuesday and kind of like it. I’m here, but I’m kind of not here. I’m going to read emails all day and do some admin work. But don’t call me for anything heavy lifting because I feel like hammered dogshit. And of course, half the office is out, right? Because it’s holidays, or days surrounding the holidays. All right, I’m gonna I’m gonna go for more minutes here, and I’m gonna get my ass off and get to work. I’ll make up my five minutes during my lunch hour. So we so that that’s great, right? Whoo. How much fun is that? So Tuesday night, after I’m done with work and my wife gets up, we decided to jump in the hot tub. So I prepped the hot tub earlier in the day. And we’re getting the hot tub. Here’s something interesting. I haven’t been in the hot tub in one and a half weeks, maybe two weeks, right? Just haven’t felt like dragging my ass out there. One thing that I didn’t really notice was, my eyes were clear. I didn’t, my eyes were better, considerably better. In fact, I hadn’t had any real noticeable dizziness. I hadn’t had any noticeable eye pressure, no noticeable dry eyes. Then I got in the hot tub. Within an hour of getting out of the hot tub. All my fucking symptoms were back. The eyes felt like that, that they had sand in him. The pressure behind my right eye. I’m starting to feel a little bit lightheaded here and there. It’s the goddamn hot tub. And it turned and I haven’t proved this out yet. I’m in the discovery phase here. But I changed chemicals from one brand of chlorine to another brand of chlorine. Now it’s possible that I’m not using the chemicals in a manner in which they should be used. Or I have some sort of tragic reaction to this particular chemical base that’s in my hot tub. So yeah, so yesterday, my eyes felt like shit today. They’re better but I still feel it. So I think we got it. I think at least the AI thing might be solved. So I’m staying out of the hot tub. We’re gonna give it another week we’re going to I’m going to track my progress. See how it goes. Yeah, so now I’m down to no testosterone. The heart medication that I’m on which you know, obviously drains you a little bit because it reduces your heart rate and all that good stuff. So what like I said at the beginning of the show one thing at a time. I think I have the eye thing figured out. And if I can actually like keep my eyes open and not feel lightheaded. Maybe I can get back on the art trainer soon. Listen, there’s this this could be the breakthrough that I’ve been looking for that no doctor, no optometrists, no ophthalmologists, no en t no MRI, no PCP. No frickin urgent care doctor could possibly hope to solve for me, which was an environmental problem. So there you go. There’s your update, update on Vegas update on health. I’ve got a ton of other stuff to talk about just updates in tech and what I’ve been up to. Obviously, if you’ve been watching my YouTube, I took a little break from the holidays, but I’m trying to do a lot of you know, hardware reviews. I’m getting ready to put together a nice big drive change out of my Steam deck. We’re going to do drive imaging. We’re gonna do all sorts of cool stuff with that. Got lots to do. Lots to do. So. Space aces do My Space Ace mini cabs. The replicate cab is due in the next couple of months. I’m going to have that to do a review on I’m excited this hello out that I guess that’s about it all right I gotta get to work folks thanks for listening we’ll try to we’ll try not to make it two months before the next show Okay This is Shane Armand rope hazardously radio we’ll see you next time Take care everybody
