I am home from the hospital! I had a heart attack on 31 October, so I spent my Halloween early evening in the ER in Davis before getting moved to Sacramento for observation and treatment. By the sixth they had confirmed evidence of a significant heart attack and determined that I had an almost complete blockage of one of the arteries that feeds the heart muscle. One scan later and they'd confirmed that a stent was not possible, but that they must graft on a new piece of vascular tissue to feed the heart itself. For this to happen, the surgeon must open the chest, stop my heart and graft on a piece of artery harvested from elsewhere (in my case the mammary artery ). Scheduled for the surgery, I was prepped by shaving pretty much all my chest, belly and leg hair. Thus denuded, cold and starved I was led to the tender mercies of the anaesthetist, who gave me a couple of pills to relax me, finally filling me with an awesome concoction that put me to sleep. This was very

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I've been running Linux as my only computer OS for probably ten years, and have been very happy overall with the tech and how to use it. Dealing with the community is sometimes a litttle challenging; many people find there are many gatekeepers, many opinions and yes, still many holy wars. One is the title reference, that "it's not 'Linux', it's GNU-Linux!" Frankly I see this as off-putting to many, potentially a barrier to adoption; yes, there can be some toxicity within the communities.

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Given the British reputation both on and off line as a nation where guns are incredibly tightly controlled, I'm genuinely surprised nobody has noded this in the 25 years this place has been active. And yes, I've checked under shotgun certificate and firearms certificate and similar as well. In fact it is one of the few nations in the entire world where the police are not routinely armed, which made the attendees of the George Floyd protests in London in 2020 chanting "hands up don't shoot"

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