Good morning, good evening, good afternoon, whatever the case may be.
This is Mike and you're listening to Mike Dell's World number
3 87. What is it? Uh,
October 21st, 2023, I think.
World.
Ah, there it is. And there we go.
Boy, haven't heard that in a while, have we? Sorry about that. And, uh,
this is kind of my normal, uh, every once in a while,
podcast episode and blog post
over@mikedell.com. So, yeah, it's been a,
uh,
busy summer and fall so far.
Uh, fall is still continuing.
The leaves aren't really changing that much around right around the house here.
Uh, we're, the maples are starting to, but, uh,
it's been kind of a lame color season as far as
as right, right around the house.
Now you get a little ways out of town and away from the water. Yeah,
it's pretty nice. So, what have I been up to? I guess the,
uh, biggest thing is, uh, doing the flight training.
So I've been, uh, training on the, uh,
vans. RV 12 is, which is a, uh, little, uh,
sport aircraft, low wing. Looks like a little fighter jet.
I'll throw a picture in the show notes,
but I've been doing the training this summer and it's been a lot of fun. But,
uh, the flying had to come to a screeching halt. Not really screeching.
I stopped last week and, uh, we'll, we will resume probably mid-winter,
early spring , but, uh,
I have to have shoulder surgery. I, uh,
injured my shoulder in an unknown way, but it, uh,
manifested itself when I was trying to start the lawnmower this summer and
pulling on the cord and, uh, something ripped. And, and I saw,
I saw the M r I and, uh, indeed I have a nice rip,
uh, in the, uh,
muscle slash tendon area in my shoulder, my right shoulder,
which is a little unfortunate. That's my, uh, mouse hand.
But it's so bad. Now, uh, when I drive my truck, uh,
I can put it in gear with my right hand,
but when I go to put it back up in park,
I gotta reach over with my left hand and pull it up. It's, you know,
column shift, full size Chevy, so, oh, well,
and you know, doc says he can fix me right up,
but it's gonna be a couple of months, uh,
at least before anything gets anywhere close to back to normal, uh,
six weeks in a sling. And then after that, uh,
physical therapy. So that won't be any fun. Uh,
but I do have a, uh, track pad for my mouse that I can put, uh,
so I can still run the, uh, run the mouse around the screen, uh,
when I'm in the sling. And apparently the doc said the sling will,
uh, move enough to where I should be able to get on a keyboard.
So take a little adaptations here and should be good.
I had to modify my recliner with a, uh,
a rope on it so that I can, uh, initiate the, uh,
recline and then I can put it down with my feet.
That's the one in my office here. I don't know if you guys knew that I,
I built a office chair out of a,
out of a actual lazy boy recliner.
So I'm sitting here in comfort right here in the office. Uh, but,
uh, I can't run the handle with my right hand when it's in a sling.
So, but yeah, that surgery happens Thursday,
the 26th of October. And, you know, probably be, uh,
kind of out of it for the weekend anyway. But, uh,
come November 1st, I'm going to do Na Pod Pomo again,
national Podcast Posting Month. And, you know, during, during my hiatus here,
I've been doing, you know,
coming up with a lot of little subjects I wanna talk about on my podcast or the
blog, both. And be sure to check out the blog@mikedell.com.
'cause I am gonna have some blog only posts at some point, too.
Of course. I, I say that all the time and then never do it. But, uh, we'll see.
We'll see. But, uh, you know, now with the,
the AI and voice, uh,
ai, you know, you can help you write and voice to text,
uh, which I have now set up on here.
So I can just do voice to text and it works pretty
good. And then just go in and tweak things as we go.
And, you know, been playing with the AI stuff at work. We've been, you know,
we are working on doing some AI stuff at Blueberry,
so that should, uh, be interesting. It's,
it's really handy for show prep and, uh, doing images. Uh,
you'll see the image over@mikedoll.com,
and it also should be the episodic image, uh, that,
uh, I had generated from chat G B T, uh,
what do they call it? Dolly three. Anyway,
it makes some pretty neat artwork. I, uh, also did the artwork.
I changed the artwork for the overall show, which you might have noticed,
you might not have. Uh, so that will, uh, that,
that was also done with a dolly three.
Gotta get used to how that all works and you know what to tell it,
to make it do what you want it to do. And during November,
I will probably have a whole episode about my opinion on ai.
So we got an ambulance driving through, if you can hear that,
or firetruck or something. Well, it's kind of normal here.
The weather's not so great. Uh, it's, you know, medium cloudy and,
uh, it's up to 47, but not good flying weather. And,
uh, not necessarily, uh, nice. But it's not raining, it's not snowing.
I don't have to shovel it. So we're good. Anyway,
I'm just gonna make this short. Uh, be sure to, uh,
check out Mike dell.com and also check out nap pod
pomo.org for all the other shows doing, uh,
national Podcast Posting Month,
which is a challenge to do one episode a day for the month of
November. So, we've done it once.
We've attempted it several times. We're gonna do it this time, uh, no problem.
'cause I'm gonna be not doing a whole lot of other stuff other than recovering
from surgery. So, , why not hit the, uh,
hit the record button and, uh, opine.
So anyway, uh, we'll see you on November 1st.
Everybody have a good, uh, I guess about a week,
and we'll catch you later.