NYCARE Health & Wellness

Health & Wellness. Investing. Family: @EarlaRiopel @Albert_Riopel @NYCARE_Wellness @ERGardenerChef @BLSBC #ANRtechs

[Nikita Bier @nikitabier]

I was on the operating table for an endoscopy this afternoon.

Anesthesiologist came in and ran through the safety questions:

“No heart issues right?”
“No chipped or broken teeth?”

Drugs start flowing. I’m getting drowsy.

And the moment before I pass out:

“Are you the Nikita who worked at X?”

[Brennan Schlagbaum, CPA @Budgetdog_]

Nothing earns my respect more than someone working hard to provide for their family.

I don’t care what you do for a living.

I don’t care how much money you make.

If you’re showing up every day, giving it everything you’ve got, and doing your best to give your family a better life, I’m cheering for you.

Massive respect.

[ClickHouse @ClickHouseDB]

Google Axion made all 43 ClickBench queries 30–55% faster.

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Load time fell by roughly half, while a 38-service production cohort used about 15% fewer compute credits per query.

[NYCARE Health & Wellness @ERwellnessPosts]

Caught the flu before visiting the flu shot centres like, Shoppers Drug Mart, Safeway Pharmacy, London Drugs, Pharmasave and other health centers nearby.

Flu shots are usually free sort of, as long as you have your provincial medical card or your extended health insurance from work covers it.

So far, I haven't seen my doctor yet. Usually, I just take Tylenol for fever, and flu & cold medication over the counter like, 'Life Cold & Flu at Shoppers Drug Mart'.

Since I started taking these medications, they seem working. My fever temperature seems decreasing since the fever started few days ago.

My stomach hurts every time I coughed, though. So, it would be for a few days of resting, and being away from everyone for possible spreading this contagious flu.

Sadly, because of my catching of this flu, our family's Thanksgiving celebration is postponed for next week; when I'm not contagious to be around anymore.

Glad that my husband, @albert_riopel goes to work during the day, and spends time at the gym, pool, whirlpool & sauna every evening, after work, likely he won't catch the flu. His immune system seems pretty good. He hardly gets flu.

Now, as for my 78 years old mom, with multiple medical issues, I'm very careful around her, especially, I'm the ones who prepares her meals, medication and other caregiver duties.

Anyway, I took a few photo 📸 of my mom at our balcony. The weather seems warm enough here at our New Westminster condominium. She even wants her dinner already. Please note my mom has been diagnosed of Alzheimer, diabetes, arthritis and high blood pressure. Thus, it's not easy for all of us. But we're managing our daily tasks.

By the way, I took a screenshot of what flu symptoms. Take care of your health everyone. ^ER ✍️ (@EarlaRiopel)

[NYCARE Health & Wellness @ERwellnessPosts]

We're back from a five days visit at our Lantzville 🇨🇦 property. We're in our New Westminster 🇨🇦 place now.

We cameback Saturday, with the 8:15 pm, BC Ferries ⛴️ schedule sailing due to @albert_riopel's representing @CAN_ICOM #ICOMcanada #ICOM #AmateurRadio #HamRadio Event at Delta #ComFest #SwapMeet, yesterday. I (@EarlaRiopel) was there too, helping him out.

Anyway, with those 4 full days in Lantzville 🇨🇦, we accomplished a lot of work. I spent at least 8 to 10 hours a day working in the yard. Whereas, Albert spent 4 to 6 hours building our new workshop.

Furthermore our yard is seeing quite a bit of progress. Even my husband, @Albert_Riopel commented, "The backyard field is looking like a park!".

Glad to hear his comment, since even now, my body still feeling the soreness and pain from all the digging with a ground that one-third of its contents were stones and rocks. Some of them were so big that I needed to use a crowbar to dig them out!

The digging part wasn't so bad, since we needed all the rocks we can use to build our driveway. So in a way, I'm accomplishing two things, first, growing my plants and helping Albert with the driveway development.

Besides my yardwork, as previously mentioned, Albert has been doing well with our new workshop! I'll post a few photos in a later time. He took a few recent ones in his📱phone.

As for my photos, I just took a few before it started getting dark and before we left Lantzville 🇨🇦, Saturday evening.

Also, I took a few photos 📸 here in our New Westminster balcony this morning.

Finally, I re-started having a little garden nursery here in our NewWestminster balcony, using pots and containers to do some seedings 🪴🌱🌿, and to be planted permanently in our Lantzville 🇨🇦 property.

So far, the little nursery garden at the balcony is looking good. Even my 78 years old mom with multiple medical issues is enjoying the sight of our balcony's 'little nursery garden'; it makes her extra happy.

Anyway, until next writings! ^ER ✍️ (@EarlaRiopel)

[ClickHouse @ClickHouseDB]

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[ClickHouse @ClickHouseDB]

Open source is not just distribution.

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@ceo_clickhouse joined @HarryStebbings on @20vcFund to talk through one of the hardest questions in open source: what stays community-led, and what becomes part of a managed cloud service customers pay for?

Full episode in the comments.

[ClickHouse @ClickHouseDB]

JWT authentication is now available in ClickHouse Cloud 🔐

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[Nikita Bier @nikitabier]

Hello computer.
Decompile and distill Grand Theft Auto.
Make the game set in my hometown -- use Google Earth to reconstruct it in pixel-perfect detail.
Make the character me and have my spawn point be in the mansion I always look at on Zillow.
Review my chat memory and make every mission about my hopes and dreams.
Make it playable online so my friends can join.
When you're done, sell all my video games on Ebay and use that money to fund tokens for my next game.

[ClickHouse @ClickHouseDB]

Aaron Katz (@ceo_clickhouse) sat down with Bret Taylor (@btaylor) to talk about durable AI products, product experience, and how agents will reshape the software stack.

Watch the full fireside chat in the comments. ⬇️

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[ClickHouse @ClickHouseDB]

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[Earla "Home Gardener Chef"👩‍🌾 👩‍🍳 @ERGardenerChef]

"Cooking Favourite Good Food is One Keys to Better Health & Food Enjoyment"

Though I am still feeling feverish and don't fell like like doing anything, including cooking, but I know, I have to cook some new decent food tonight.

So, I picked a few dishes that were easy to prepare such as the following:

* Baked Chicken Breast
* Fried Fish 🐟
* Fried Prawns 🦐
* Steamed Basmati Rice 🍚
* Steamed Green Beans 🫘 & Peas 🫛
* Mixed Veggies 🍲 with Coconut Milk 🥥

Fun Fact: Some of these Veggies were from our Lantzville 🇨🇦 & Point Roberts 🇺🇸 gardens.

By the way, I'll post a few photos 📸. I'll post the other ingredients and recipes for the above dishes in a later time; this writing is getting too long. ^ ER ✍️ (@EarlaRiopel)

[NYCARE (RiopelFamilyInvests) @NYCARE_Wellness]

So true. It always come down on how much left after necessities are paid; like food, housing, health & wellness, utilities, school fees (if taking PT schooling), special annual occasions, registered investments, and a few other necessities in life.

Keeping track of spendings is the key.

[NYCARE (RiopelFamilyInvests) @NYCARE_Wellness]

"Building Small Spaces for Big Purpose"

This year, my husband, @Albert_Riopel has been building little new cottages or workshops in our Point Roberts 🇺🇸 & Lantzville 🇨🇦 properties.

So far, these properties are looking good. The washrooms just need some work. Both places have septic systems within the premises, but just need to be re-routed, installed, and attached to the cottage/workshop soon.

Anyway, Albert & I (@EarlaRiopel) took a few photos of the recent developments in our Point Roberts 🇺🇸 & Lantzville 🇨🇦 properties.

By the way, we'll be in Point Roberts 🇺🇸 next weekend. ^ ✍️ ER (@EarlaRiopel)

[Earla "Home Gardener Chef"👩‍🌾 👩‍🍳 @ERGardenerChef]

"Few Last Harvests at Our Point Roberts 🇺🇸 & Lantzville 🇨🇦 Gardens"

This is it! The spring green beans 🫘and peas 🫛 are at the end of their growing. But, there are newer ones coming though, likely some can get harvested in at least a couple of months.

In Point Roberts 🇺🇸 garden, we still have a few handfuls of greens like onions, salad 🥗, carrots, potatoes and lots of new peas 🫛 planted.

Also, in Lantzville 🇨🇦, we still have a few of potatoes, green salad 🥗, herbs 🌿, sunflowers 🌻, corn 🌽, peppers 🌶, tomatoes 🍅 and lots of new peas 🫛 planted!

Anyway, I took a few photos for you, during our visit in Lantzville 🇨🇦 (Sept 29th to October 3rd) & Point Roberts 🇺🇸 (Sept 26th to Sept 27th). Finally, a photo of the havest once they are cleaned up place in the fridge or freezer.

We made sure we have fridge /freezer in three locations: Point Roberts 🇺🇸, Lantzville 🇨🇦 and New Westminster 🇨🇦; we might get another fridge / freezer once we spend more time in our Skagit Valley 🇺🇸 agricultural land in Conway, Mount Vernon, WA USA 🇺🇸 (near Milltown Boat Launch).

Anyway, until next writing! ^ER ✍️ (@EarlaRiopel)

[Earla "Home Gardener Chef"👩‍🌾 👩‍🍳 @ERGardenerChef]

I haven't been cooking in this last week. When on the road, either Lantzville 🇨🇦 & Point Roberts 🇺🇸, I usually cooked for the whole week.

But @Albert_Riopel & I (@EarlaRiopel) always make a room for an easy-meal-to-go, such as rotisserie with crossaints, potato salad, and macaroni salad at Costco-Nanaimo, or Safeway-New Westminster /Burnaby or Save-On-Food-New Westminster /Tsawwassen, Delta.

Also, if I can't cook (got the fever, overworked at Lanzville 🇨🇦 last week), Albert usually, make his famous spaghetti 🍝 and chicken vegetables & pasta 🍲 soup.

I managed to take a photo 📸 of the spaghetti he cooked last night. After having some for his dinner and for his lunch today, I managed to keep a little for my lunch today.

Ingredients:
Spaghetti 🍝 noodles
Extra Lean Ground Beef
Pasta Prego Sauce
Powdered Spices & Herbs 🌿
Cubes of block cheddar cheese 🧀
Salt or soya sauce and pepper to taste.

Anyway, I still need to post about our recent and last harvest at Point Roberts 🇺🇸 & Lantzville 🇨🇦 in the next posts. ^ER ✍️ (@EarlaRiopel)

[ClickHouse @ClickHouseDB]

ClickHouse Cloud delivered 752× better end-to-end performance per dollar than Databricks Serverless SQL.

We wanted to test Lakehouse//RT too. Databricks removed our beta access. Three weeks of unanswered follow-ups later, we're publishing what we could test.

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[ClickHouse @ClickHouseDB]

We're heading to @aiDotEngineer NYC, Oct 12-14 🗽

Find us at booth 9, plus:
🛠️ Mon 2:20 PM ET: Hands-on Langfuse workshop: The AI engineering loop end to end
🎤 Wed 2:55 PM ET: Building Deployment Gates for AI Agents in Financial Services

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[Earla Riopel 💻🏡 @EarlaRiopel]

The moment of truth. Finally graduated from #DouglasCollege's BBA-Accounting-15June23! So far, collected 165.5 credits since 2019 (incl.#UBC transfers-18 credits). Next,post-degree programs (Marketing/Personal Finance)!#USCPAexamGrandfatheredStatus or not, I got 150hrs+credits!🥰