{"id":3173,"date":"2022-06-25T09:58:46","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T12:58:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/?p=3173"},"modified":"2022-06-25T09:58:46","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T12:58:46","slug":"stability-for-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/2022\/06\/25\/stability-for-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Stability (for now)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In case you’re wondering, I’m still here and \u2014 after 4 years of balancing acts \u2014 now consider my situation stable. Here’s a brief update on my previous post<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The eye needed a second triamcinolone injection<\/a> but can now, several months after that, be considered stable. I’ve worked out a regime of eyedrops that seems to keep the macular edema<\/a> mostly at bay and holds dryness etc. to tolerable levels. My eyesight has stabilized at 20\/50 and I can drive cautiously.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The development hiatus can now be labeled retirement, unfortunately. I can’t see (hehe) going back to writing Mac apps and the pace in Swift(UI) development is still such that I’m adopting a wait-and-see approach to iOS\/iPadOS development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The health reports are good, my weight is almost down to my optimum level of 72-73kg and my level of exercise keeps improving; not up to pre-pandemic levels yet, but good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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On the table tennis front: while I brought no medals back from the national tournament I mentioned in my last post, I played well at the year’s first state tournament a few weeks ago. There was only one other contender in my age group (70+), so we had to play against the younger (60+) veterans. I had a good chance for gold but lost on tactical mistakes to the eventual champion\u2026 training hard for the next opportunity in August.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Silver medal, MG state championships, June 2022<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Hopefully I’ll have time to write more about table tennis soon. It’s a fascinating subject.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In case you’re wondering, I’m still here and \u2014 after 4 years of balancing acts \u2014 now consider my situation stable. Here’s a brief update on my previous post. The eye needed a second triamcinolone injection but can now, several months after that, be considered stable. I’ve worked out a regime of eyedrops that seems […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,10,49,8],"tags":[50,48],"class_list":["post-3173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dev","category-meta","category-table-tennis","category-travel","tag-exercise","tag-hiatus"],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Rainer Brockerhoff","author_link":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/author\/rbrockerhoff\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1q3Zc-Pb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}