OK. So. Thursday (17 Nov) I leave my conference early, fevers chills headache. Friday, headache diminishes some, fevers/chills are gone, but i have a scratchy throat and a cough. Saturday, coughing a lot, generally feeling lousy. Sunday, ditto Monday, ditto. hit the doc’s for strep test. fast strep inconclusive, never heard back about culture Tuesday, [...]
welp. we went to atlanta tuesday afternoon. left from here at about 2 and stopped in NC at the red roof inn maybe 6ish. mind, i was completely tossed with only 4 hours of driving. Why? BECAUSE I WAS STILL SICK. yeah. felt lousy when we left, and it really didn’t get better driving :o [...]
i think what i have has degenerated into strep. of course, my doctor’s not in her office monday, or even tuesday morning. i can’t see her until tuesday afternoon. every now and then it occurs to me that the setup SUCKS. Because, you see, we’re supposed to be driving to atlanta tuesday afternoon. and i [...]
so. slept a couple hours yesterday before going to my sewing class, yeah. got home, ate dinner,went to bed at 9:30 or 10. got up this morning about 8:30. took k over to camp, came home, watched two eps of law and order, slept for another 2 hours. watched another ep, slept for an hour. [...]
i appear to be coming down with something. a sinus headache that threatens to split my skull wide open, and my throat is sore. spent the morning in session freezing my ass off, shivering, and by afternoon i was cold, yet burning up. i left at 3 during hte afternoon break, rather than waiting for [...]
OK. So. In late june we put in the order for our kitchen. paid 33% of the price in advance. no problem. Mid/late august they take out our old kitchen finally. OK there was some broken cabinets, fine, yeah. It was late september/early october before we got the new counters. another week or two to [...]
stayed up way late (2am) last night trying to set up my systems for the conference today. ended up with just the one really working system (emachines: bad drive; HP: slow as heck, and may be having drive problems, linux install kept kvetching) got up at 6 or 6:30, got my stuff together , ran [...]
going to a SANS (http://www.sans.org/) conference this week. Hacking, intrusions, and general attacking of systems. Or the detection thereof. basically “here’s how they’re gonna try to get in. learn it, love it, live it. now stop it” so, we need a win and a RH boot. i figure i’ll gather some boxes and take in [...]
Stepped CivIV back to 2nd level difficulty after spending over a week getting smashed on 3rd. Played last night, and I’m cleaning up. Taken over half of france without a war, and some of china :o I’ve got 50% more points than anyone, and I haven’t been able to trade tech with anyone since I [...]
monday i went to the surgeon for consultation (prescrip was before then after this) he looks at my ass, asks if i’m sure i had a cyst (no, you dumb fuck, i’m making this shit up b/c i like quacks poking at my ass) b/c he can’t see it. after carefully explaining tha that’s probably [...]