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27-Mar-2024 :: ATS Gallery Update / General News
I have updated my gallery of Screenshots for Americam Truck Simulator. It is located at http://rexx.us/jitar/games_solo_ATS.html

The Transportation issues continue. I made it to dialysis last Monday, and I have RTC Access tickets for next Monday. RTC sent me a voucher for Uber, but I still need to setup an Uber account on my phone.

Because we know I won't be in for dialysis all week, they have been taking a lot more liquid out of my blood. Which has been leaving me feeling ill. Monday they took over 4 liters. In one day (this past Monday) I lost about 9 lbs just from the liquid they took out. My pants have become very loose.
19-Mar-2024 :: Transportation Issues Again and Work on Rexx
So I switched to United health several months ago with the understanding that on the Dual-Elegible special needs program that Nevada's Medicaid was supposed to provide proansportation to and from medical programs. As it turns out United Healthplan only book transportation through Medicare (which I also have) and only 48 times per year. As I go for dialysis three times per week I have already burned through all 48 rides. (2 per day, three times a week.) So transport has once again become a serious problem. In the past couple of weeks I have been refered from one office to another. Often times going in circles. UHP tells me to call DWSS, who tels me to call the main Medicare office, who tells me to call DWSS, who tells me to call the LTSS office of Medicare who tells me to call United Health. And on and on that goes. The social worker at the dialysis clinic is trying to find some sort of transportation for me. I figure I have 8 to 10 days before I land in the hospital.

A couple of weeks back I finally got sick and tired of all the spammers and hackers attacking the mail servers here on Rexx. So I wrote a whole new mail server from scratch. It had a few rough spots and bugs starting up but I seem to have made enough tweaks and patches to it that it is now working well, And is managing very nicely to tell the spammers to f*** off. It can actually be quite rude and obscene to the spammers. I have more spammers and hackers trying to get in than actual customers. In the 1990's and early 2000's Rexx was doing pretty well, but of late there isn't much call for large unix systems. So I really don't have many customers left. (Most have died over the past 30 years.) I mostly just run the servers so the last couple of customers do not have to switch e-mail addresses. So it is breaking even with the costs, more or less. If just 1% of the spammers would pay for an account, I would be doing a lot better. But I havent actually gotten any new paying customers for several years.
08-Mar-2024 :: Feeling Good
I did not vote in the Nevada primary election. I have been a life-long Republican, but feel that the party has lost it's path. So I re-registered as "no party affiliation" last year. The Trump Cult frankly scares me it is so far off path of what the Republican Party is supposed to be about. As far as the main election in November, I will not be voting for either Trump (who did not file in NV to be on the ballot) nor Biden. I feel both are too old to hold office. I don't think there will be many good choices come November.

Health wise, I am ac tually feeling pretty good for the first time in a long time. United Health Plan has been taking pretty good care of me. The almost $140 alllowance I have for OTC medications and extra food has been exceptionally helpful. For the past months I have been taking vitimins, and generally eating a lot better along the guidelines of our nutritionist at the dialysis clinic.
28-Feb-2024 :: Still Alive
Yes. I am still very much alive. I just got very busy over the past couple of weeks.

About 5 months ago, the spammers going after my mail servers here on Rexx started getting massively out of control. They have been using what is called a dictionary attack to try to find usernames to spam. Sometimes thousands of addresses per day.

Two weeks ago I got fed up with it and started to write my own mail server system that could block them out much faster than scanning the sendmail program logs could. It actually works pretty well, but has taken a lot of of my time.

If only 1% of these spammers had considered paying for an account, Rexx would be a lot better off.

Beyond that, have been playing space engineers and american truck simulator. Stop in and watch. Link on the home page to watch my live stream broadcast. (Click the little house icon on the left sidebar.)
05-Feb-2024 :: Yiff show Return
This past weekend I did my first show back at the Yiff Club in Second Life. The first 30 minutes did not go exactly as planned. I couldn't connect to the club streaming server. That turned out to simply be an extra character in the server name. The crowd was a bit different than I remembered so it took me a few mins to "read" the crowd and start playing music they enjoyed.

It all worked out in the end though. You can listen to a recording of the show in my Show Archive in the radio section of this website.

I found it funny that what several people said they missed was my meow on-air. I have to admit, it is unique.
01-Feb-2024 :: Kids
I guess most Boomers as parents have problems with their children, and I am no exception. I won't re-open the why and wherefore. I was thinking about her so I started poking around. She has a gofundme to fix her teeth which are in really bad condition. So far she has raised almost $9,000, of the $15,000 estimated amount needed.

Okay, Yes. This *is* totally my fault. I have never taken care of my teeth as it just seemed to be too much of a hassle, so I don't have any anymore. And I assumed that while I was working to put food on the table and pay rent to keep a roof over our heads (which I did a lousy job at) or trying to FIND a job, that my late wife was taking care of the kid. How stupid was I?

I guess that is the one major fault with us boomers. We were taught to be good, kind, decent and honest and to do what was required of us. And we tend to assume that everyone else is too, and that the will do as they are supposed to and be decent people. Well, MOST of us boomers were taught to be that way. This is probbably why so many of us boomers are falling prey to scammers and "quiet" thieves. We tend to be too trusting.

I believe is was Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci that said: "I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have." ... and thus it is aprenetly so with parenting our children.
28-Jan-2024 :: Yiff Show
I spoke last night with the DJ manager at the Yiff club, and I will be resuming my Club shows starting next week. (On the 3rd of Feb) I will be on at the same schedule as before, 8pm to 10pm Pacific / 11pm to Sunday 1am. The shows will again me simulcast on WOGR our Generation Radio

I had taken a pause on my Club shows due to health concerns ... but I am back!
27-Jan-2024 :: Medicare Advantage
I know there are a lot of Youtube videos that say never get a Medicare Advantage plan. But I am finding it to be the best thing I have ever done for my health. A lot of people have mentioned that I look well now, and I do feel better than I have in a long time.

To Stay alive, I need to get to and from dialysis treatments three times a week. But almost a year ago we lost our main medical transportation here in Reno due them loosing most of their sponsorships and funding. Which only left RTC Access (Which is the paratransit division of our county bus transit system.) But that costs $3 for each use. (Every time you get on the bus, so $6 per day for me.) It may not seem like a lot but it is for me. Although I own Rexx, it dosen't make much money anymore. Very little call for Unix based ISP service anymore. There are more spammers and scammers trying to hack in to it than actual users now. So I am dependant on Social Security for my income.

In October I signed up for an Advantage plan through United Health. This works well for me as I am on both Federal Medicare and Nevada Medicaid which my UHP plan handles both. They not only pay 100% of my Doctor and Dialysis costs but are handling my transportation. I also get a $138 pwe month allowance to buy OTC medications and some food items from Walmart. (From a very specific list.) Which has been super helpful. I have been taking vitimins, and drinking ensure nutrution shakes after dialysis. I have also been eating those tuna salad snack kits a lot, as well as having canned roast beef several times a month. For the first time my bloodwork shows a normal protien level which the clinic nutritionist is happy with.

I still have one radio show a week on Sunday at Noon Eastern time. I plan to continue that for the forseeable future. You can listen to my LIVE shows at Out Generation Radio and you can also listen to my older shows in my show archive on this website. I also plan to return to doing club shows at the Yiff in second life whrn they have a schedule slot available again.
16-Jan-2024 :: Election
So Trator Trump won the Iowa Caucus. So how come we aren't hearing how it was rigged and stolen etc? Because The Chump won. If he had lost we would be hearing about it from Mr Rump. I can not understand why so many people are supporting him. We really don't need a senile Fachist criminal in government. Well at least he will not be on the ballot here in Nevada. Idiot never registered to be onto be on the ballot here. I am sure we will be hearing about how he was prevented from being on the ballot when it was totally his fault.

Someone should string him up. The traditional punishment for treason is death by hanging. He deserves it.
07-Jan-2024 :: No Show Today
I am not able to log my broadcast computer into the building wifi. I cant find the rent reciept with the wifi code written on it. Bah.
06-Jan-2024 :: No Club Shows
I was looking at the Yiff club DJ schedule, and everything is booked. So I will not be doing live club shows for the time being. I of course have my regular Sunday classic rock radio show on Our Generation Radio every Sunday from Noon to 2pm eastern time

You can also listen to the show recordimg archive here.
01-Jan-2024 :: Happy New Year!
Here we begin 2024. I have made some changes to the news page sctipt so that it is no longer trying to copy the compressed archives into the older pages so they should be readable again.