Here's an example of a substantially complete mind map. Whereby the main event here would be the website
and its' function. What does it do or provide? What's the action mechanism? Who does it serve? Where at you may ask it just depends. When? Presently. How doe this site serve and who does it serve? The X-Plane community at large. Virtual Pilots using the X-Plane platform by Laminar Research. Here's a snapshot of it:
The most Uber cool thing about X-Plane is developers don't need to be concerned with copyright issues because you can use X-Plane however you wish to including making money off the X-Plane brand. A Laminar Research brand to be precise. Gleim Aviation does it with their X-Plane specific books on flying different airplanes or something like that. Try that with Microsoft. There's all sorts of licensing snafus with their simulator. X-Plane 12 is just out of Beta I believe or close to it and runs about $70.00 or so at numerous digital outlets including Austin's e-commerce site at www.x-plane.com. Swap .org with .com and you'll be transported to where you can find almost all things X-Plane including downloadable aircraft, scenery and a forum. Make sure to enter the string forums.x-plane.org in your URL box or you'll never find a link to it. Of course you can always consult The Google searchers asking them to find X-Plane forums for you that should work too. So there, we're steadily making headway though there's a lot of road in front of us to travel yet so pacing oneself is highly thought of and wise. Translation? Please bear with the writer as sometimes he wanders off in abstractions; frequently derailing conversations. Me being the he. So far we've checked out X-Plane.com and X-Plane.org. It seems highly unlikely that any other so oriented sites exist. .biz no .edu no .us nope .nothing I don't think there is. The .com side of things, in review, then, is mainly a portal to purchase the X-Plane software from. Digital keys are utilized or you can order DVD's I believe but I'm a razor thin line away from saying you can still get a box set. I'll double check on that later. If I remember.
Another box on the mental mapping sheet encloses www.planecommander.com so here is the
I also jotted down in another box the cost of the ware. $27.00 one time tariff. Visa, MC, AMEX, Discover and PayPal. That gets you the Professional version and is well worth it. I already covered this so I'm repeating myself in review. I don't work from notes as these are my only notes and journaling. I edit like I said, in real time and don't go back and proof read most of what I write if at all. In the interest of full disclaimer and in good faith I just write whatever comes to mind and keep it coherent enough so folks don't get too bored that they don't return and follow along. Today I had 22 visitors. Average has been about 2 per day. Organic leads from Facebook in nearly every measure. Again, this blog or vblog or eblog is just a journal. Thought this was the most convenient method of writing them. Eventually, my Facebook page will be mostly a mirror image of this timeline and the method to that madness goes down like this: first you gotta select the desired post. Then share that. Don't try to share it from the main line up front because you'll end up with a result failing to match what you envisioned. Then it's like a cross referenced set of timelines. If you look at it that way. That Blogger and other blogs are written on a sort of reverse timeline. Try explaining that to a five year old. Or an octogenarian lol.
On a more personal note, I'm not too enthused about weighing myself tomorrow morning the way I ate and drank fully loaded pop yesterday. I did exercise a record amount since arriving post 300 lbs. BMI 41.8! High all time was 310 and lowest I've seen is 295.8 two days ago after a 36 hour bread and water fast. Yesterday morning saw 300 even. Hasn't been above 302 though so I'm down 8 grand total since my peak weight over the winter. I don't think my kidneys are very good after all those serious overdoses of Ibuprofen. Oh I'd be happy to discuss that issue later when I'm in a suitable mood and place to. How the hell I'm still alive is a veritable miracle. 3 of them one could say.
My lower legs, ankles and feet swell up pretty badly especially after sitting at my desk for long periods of time. Eating a bunch of food laced with sodium chloride overloads is a likely culprit as well. And the blood pressure medication shit now I've forgotten the name of it. Yikes. Talk about memory loss. Ouch. Not Alpurinol or Alpropofol oh Amlodipine. It's my working memory deficit that's the most annoying. Forgetting names of acquaintances and people I know well. Morbidly, I must let it be known by all that with my Bipolarity condition and my general health like severe sleep apnea my life expectancy is reduced by 10 to 20 years. That's 56. The age I turn in 17 days on the 20th of June. But I lived a hard ass life a lot of it on lethal ass streets in and out of homelessness nearly half my life. On and off drugs. Quit alcohol over 20 years but I'za going through a half a liter of 16 ounces of hard liquor a day chased with beer. Day in and day out. For years. Anyway, I'm sure my liver is about shot as are my kidneys but that was all self-inflicted. These days I'm stable and secure. Life's been steadily improving quality wise and I look forward to exploring a new hobby, painting, writing, blogging, gardening, photogging and X-Planing stuff. So I keep moving even though it's excruciatingly painful I power through it and do what I can. Better than it was before the ablations that's for sure. My goal is to walk at least a mile 5 days a week. Ok, that's enough of my bellyaching. Man an ice cold coca cola would be fucking perfect right now. Oh, I forgot to mention 2 other ways to score a pop nearby, one until 10:30pm and the other all the time because it's outside. 12 oz. cans for a buck. Sometimes that machine spits out a twelve pack mysteriously and you gotta figure out how to carry all of them home with you. Lol. Of course the ethical thing to do would be to leave them there or alert the owner but fuck it they kept $1,500 in deposits in one year I stayed there so there you have that. Meh!
Time for a scheduled bong hit for Jesus. Then I'm gonna go rest and put my legs up above my A-Fibbing heart.
Man, I've certainly abused my body and brain over the course of my 56 year old life that's for damn sure. Man, what a ride it's been too. I've never actually counted the number of near death experiences I've had but I know I've been one damn lucky hombre. No doubt about that. Most of them were during my stint as the methyest head around. There are many possible causes of my cognitive decline and one of them is smoking weed. Or taking Risperidone for two years, or taking Diphenhydramine Hydrochloride aka Benadryl. Or severe sleep apnea. Or all the meth I used over the years. Alcohol, head injuries, concussions, and the list goes on.
I'm tired.
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