NOT a good week, modulo a couple of things. It started at bedtime last Sunday: I asked Colleen whether she was ready to go to sleep and she had trouble answering. I tried a couple of times and a few more questions, and after five or ten minutes decided to call 911. Good call.
Apparently mental confusion can be a side effect of a ( Read more... )

So here we are, in the middle of National Invisible Chronic Illness Awareness Week. I first became aware of this two years ago, and kept putting off posting. I'm not, after all, disabled -- you wouldn't know to look at me that I have multiple ( Read more... )

There was a power outage yesterday evening at the Starport; no harm done, but it triggered some thoughts. Here's the raw data:

: UPS battery life on nova is under 15min. That's miserable ( Read more... )

( raw notes )

Over the course of the last couple of mornings I've finally finished fixing my toolchain software, and in particular the rather misnamed album.make, to handle multiple named sessions (concerts, for example) in a single directory. There are, needless to say, a few bugs left, but I should have split copies of cflute's and tibicina's concerts at ( Read more... )

This post by madfilkentist led me a merry chase, past this web page and this article, to the idea of chronotypes.

Normal people have a circadian clock set pretty close to a 24 hour cycle, and don't have much trouble shifting ( Read more... )

I've been pretty productive this week -- I think my strategy of staying the heck off IM may have something to do with it. My coworker finagler and I managed to slam together a demo -- for possible use on Friday -- in two days. Perl on my end, Python on his, plus a lot of stuff that we were already working on or thinking about. Fun!

No, ( Read more... )

(cross-posted to mdlbear and healthy_fen)

My weight this morning was down to 182. It hasn't been that low ( Read more... )

No walkies today: grumble.

I should definitely have watered my nose sometime around lunchtime. I was in a hurry and didn't. Was very congested by the tine I finally did it, sometime around 7:30. Slight headache.

I do appear to still have my voice, and my throat isn't deteriorating; only very slight post-nasal drip.

Here, courtesy of cpap.com's mailing list, is the TSA's official web page on Travelers with Disabilities and Medical Conditions.

[...] TSA has established a program for screening of persons with ( Read more... )