Documenting food/medical stuff.

So, I tried pork. It seemed to go fine. But the next day, I had an Episode for the first time in 2 weeks, eating foods that normally haven't caused problems (but the meal did have more grams of fat than I usually try to eat in a sitting, which is a theoretical issue, although I have *also* eaten higher fat content ( Read more... )

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1. Strained a muscle in my back yesterday. Now hurts lots whenever I try to bend over at a certain angle. Did I mention I have a baby to pick up and carry around a lot? Or that because of breastfeeding said baby, it's not like I can go whine to my doctor for strong painkillers? Should I try to stretch it or should I try to rest it? I DON"T KNOW ( Read more... )

Full-time work schedule is preventing me from finishing up my Circus of Brass and Bone episode at the last minute, as usual. NOT HAPPY. It's written, it's edited, but the sound recording and techwork won't happen tonight. Very sad. Late episode. No biscuit. Hopefully will be able to get it out tomorrow despite still working full.

This week (and weekend, alas, judging by progress), I'm working from home on a day job project. Yay, right? Except that I still have to bus into downtown to work 1 hour at my regularly scheduled day job. Grr. Ah, well, I'm using the bus time in as research time--reading circus books and soon encyclopedias about daily life in the 1870s. And then I ( Read more... )

ETA: It's back up now, after popping the CD Drive out, it booted up again (?). Who knows if this will last ( Read more... )

I do not like waiting-to-find-out. It may be one of my least favorite things ever.

I have a lot of waiting-to-find-out these days. Personal health stuff, family health stuff, major writing project stuff, minor writing project stuff....

I hates it, Precioussss!

I just found out that my mother most likely has ovarian cancer. She had pain, they did an MRI, there's a mass, they'll be operating. She's young for cancer, in her early 50s, and this is one of the more serious kinds of cancer. She's always been really healthy, eating lots of veggies and biking and hiking and generally enjoying a really wholesome ( Read more... )

Yesterday, Cvalenti* opened up my computer and prepared to install the new power source to make my computer capable of booting up again.

Alas, it turns out that the problem was not the power source, but the CPU fan. So we ordered the part and it should be here by UPS soonish. Unfortunately, then my computer decided to stop staying on or booting up ( Read more... )

Things not needed the night before a long drive in to Chicago and a 3-day weekend with family wedding:

Main sewer line backing up into the basement.

Phil says we'll just bloody well have to fix it when we get back.

Edited to add: That solution was unacceptable to me, so I called out Roto-Rooter and stayed up way too late so that they could fix ( Read more... )