December 29, 2003
I Need A Smoke
I came to work this morning with a few cigarettes which I stole from Amanda. I've been out since 10am and wonder how I'm going to make it to 6pm. I wish I knew what made me smoke so much at work. Hell, I spent the past four days hardly smoking at all while I was on Christmas holiday. I had the same pack of smokes for over 4 days.
Maybe it's the stress of the job or something?
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December 27, 2003
Barenaked In America
Okay, I've now had a chance to listen to my new Barenaked Ladies CD's, and I think I have a favorite song off of the Everything to Everyone album: Maybe Katie.
I really don't know why I like it, to be honest with you. I'm kind of thinking that this song sorta kinda hits on what some of their earlier music was like. My favorite album of BNL has been and may always be Gordon, so I tend to look for music that tends to be along the same kind of line that Gordon was ... sending a message without being too serious about it. The real difference with this album is that they're still sending messages, but definately being more serious about those messages.
On a different note, I've noticed something kind of odd about my CD ... the flag is blank. The cover on the Amazon.com album has "barenaked ladies Everything to everyone" on it. Mine has nothing. I know that it's supposed to be a tongue-in-cheek "white flag", but I'm just lost as to why some of the promotion material would have the flag one way and the actual album be something different. I know I'm missing something here.
Guess it's time to google for an answer ...
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December 26, 2003
I'm Damn Bored
Amanda has gone to her dad's for the weekend. That leaves me here by myself till Sunday. I have cats to keep me company.
How fun.
I've been trying to figure out what I'm going to do with myself to keep from boredom. I've debated watching LOTR non-stop all weekend, but before I do that I need to exchange the two DVDs that I got for Christmas and get the extended Two Towers DVD. I've also been debating on purchasing a DVD player for the PC since they've gotten so cheap and copying the DVDs to the computer and editing them together to have one long running movie.
Yes, I'm THAT bored.
The real problem here is that everyone I know here in Louisville is either out of town for Christmas or they have a family to consider ... or both. I'm the only person that I'm aware of that is going to be by him/herself this weekend. I'm sure that I'll be able to make the time, but I just really have a feeling that it's going to be a long weekend.
To give you another example of how bored I am, I'm working on installing Gentoo Linux. In case if you've never heard of it before, it's one of the most difficult Linux distributions to install ... but also one of the most rewarding, or so I hear. My primary machine is currently churning away on the "emerge system" command, and it's been doing it for over an hour already. I'm curious as to how long the total thing will take, as the "emerge system" command isn't the final step. Hopefully in the long run it'll make me a better Linux user.
In addition to installing Gentoo, I'm also debating having another go at the 2.6 kernel. My prior installation attempts have been rather lacking in the success department, but I figure since I really have nothing better planned for the weekend I'd give it another go.
It's really interesting ... as a child I used to get bored VERY easily. I would walk around the house and just get so damn frustrated at absolutely nothing because I was so bored. I found myself doing that exact thing this evening. I walked around the apartment looking for something to do, and there really isn't anything to do. I found myself getting frustrated, so I decided to sit down and write out my frustrations on this blog. I don't think that it's really helped.
One thing that I do have to admit tho, the blog is a great way to let out what you're feeling. I talked with mom earlier and she said that she'd rather have something that was private instead of something that everyone could read. I told her that was kind of the point ... you want people to read your blog. It doesn't matter what you post on it. If you're not comfortable putting up something, you don't have to. I really think that the real job of a blog is to let other people know what's going on in your world ... but you have total control over what they see and hear.
Oh well ... time to go and see how far along Gentoo is.
Posted by ed at 10:43 PM | Comments (0)
I Don't Do Sick Well
I've been sick since the last week of November. Here's the current rundown:
Vertigo - 2 weeks
Beginning to recover - 1 week
Flu - 1 week
Cough - 1 week
Cough with ear ache - 1 week
My latest problem has been with my ears. While I don't mind the cough ... and it's almost gone ... my ears are annoying the hell out of me. My left ear stays clogged up. I can feel the pressure in my ear, and I can hardly hear anything out of it.
Now, on Christmas night, my other ear starts to hurt. It's being progressive ... starting to hurt a little more as each hour passes. I've taken some medicine for the pain, but my real worry is that my right ear will clog too. I can barely hear as it is, I can't even imagine what I'm going to do if both ears are clogged up and I can't hear shit.
Amanda and I spent Christmas day cleaning up the apartment. Damn did it need it, but boy does it look good now. Amanda put out some of her Christmas candles (they were parts of her gifts from family this year) and I hung up the pictures that mom gave me of the family. The pictures are the only thing that I really requested for Christmas this year, as I have NEVER had any family photos to hang up. Mom definately came through on that one.
While a vast majority of the pictures are scanned and printed, some are originals ... which is nice. Don't get me wrong, I don't mind the scanned copies, they look pretty nice, but there's just something about having an original copy of a picture. My favorite ones are of Prissy. I tend to forget how she looked from time to time, and I need a reminder. Now I have two really good pictures of her ... one hanging on my wall and the other in a frame on my desk.
I think the only remaining picture that I need to get is some of Amanda and myself. We only have ONE professionally done picture of ourselves together, and that was taken at a Christmas party 4 years ago. Taken after we just met ... when we were both much thinner than we are today, lol. I'd love to have a picture of us that's really recent. Maybe that can be a birthday present or something.
Speaking of presents, I am really diggin three of my Christmas presents (besides the pictures of course). My DVD/MP3 player is just too damn cool. I hooked it up to the TV earlier today and we watched half of Scary Movie 2 before we started cleaning. The other two presents that I'm diggin are my two new BNL CD's. Amanda got me the "Their Greatest Hits" and "Everything to Everyone". I ripped them to my computer first thing this morning and then burned all of my BNL MP3's to a CD. When we started cleaning, I put the CD in the DVD/MP3 player and started cleaning while listening to BNL.
I got some damn cool Christmas presents this year.
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December 25, 2003
Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas 2003!
Okay, here's the rundown of the gifts I received:
Amanda:
2 BNL CD's (Way Too Sweet)
A sweater**
Mom and Mike:
Portable DVD/MP3 player (Way Too Sweet)
Framed Family Pictures (Way Too Sweet)
Rockport Shoes (Sweet Too)
Button up shirt**
Pants**
The Fellowship of the Ring*
The Two Towers*
A fleece throw with Penguins on it (I like Linux, what can I say?)
Michael and Danna
$25 Gift Cert to Wal-Mart/Sam's Club
Aunt Carolyn and Pete:
A nice sweater**
Bill and Darrell:
A set of candles
Amanda's Family:
$100 from Ester
Zip up fleece jacket
Embroidered hankerchiefs
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Some notes on my gifts this year:
* - This was supposed to be The Two Towers extended DVD. Somehow mom got that confused and got me both movies, which I already had. No big deal though, as I'm planning on keeping the regular The Fellowship of the Ring and taking back the other The Two Towers DVD and using the gift card Michael gave me to get the extended DVD.
** - Every piece of clothing (shoes don't count as clothing, mind you) was a dark green color. They're all very nice, but I'm trying to figure out if people are telling me that dark green is a good color for me. Maybe it is, I don't know. :)
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December 24, 2003
Christmas Eve And All Is Well
It's unfortunate that people have to work on Christmas Eve. I think that they should make both Christmas AND Christmas Eve holidays. There are some good reasons behind this thought too.
Reason Number One:
Alot of people celebrate many different Christmas's. As a result, many of them won't fit in on Christmas Day, so these people use Christmas Eve as a time to get together with either friends or other family members. I personally do the latter of the two ... and I'm going to be heading to Frankfort immediately after work today, which brings me to number two.
Reason Number Two:
People have to travel to get where they're going to go for Christmas. Leaving Christmas Day just isn't a real alternative, as some trips take a hell of a long time. Imagine if I was going to Minnesota for Christmas ... that's a 14 hour drive from home. Am I going to make that trip on Christmas day? Hell no, I'm not. So, people are forced to take a vacation or sick day in order to make it to their Christmas destinations ... which I find quite sad.
But anyhow, I'm at work and not really doing much of anything on Christmas Eve. As a matter of fact, it's just really really quiet today. So quiet, in fact, that I'm thinking of maybe heading out early today so I can get to Frankfort before 6pm. I'll need to give Kyle a buzz before I make that decision, however, to make sure that he's around just in case something happens.
Speaking of Christmas, I often wonder if I'm becoming a scrooge. I don't see Christmas in the ways that I used to when I was a child. Once upon a time, the most important thing to me was the presents and being able to aquire new things. These days, I just appreciate the family aspect of the whole thing ... and would rather buy gifts for the kids and let the family spend the money on a huge feast rather than one another. I don't know tho ... maybe it's just me but this is the way that I'd like to do Christmas. I guess whenever Amanda and I have a family of our own, we can do it the way that we want to do it.
After all, Christmas isn't about gifts anyhow. It's the celebration of the life of Jesus Christ. I can't think of any better way to celebrate Jesus than being with your loved ones and pigging out on good grub.
Posted by ed at 12:14 PM | Comments (0)
December 18, 2003
Oh ... I Almost Forgot ...
The 2.6 Linux kernel has been officially released as of Wednesday, December 17th, 2003. Go forth and download it.
Posted by ed at 07:26 PM | Comments (0)
I Hate Hard Days
Today was what you'd call a "challenging day". You know what I mean ... you work your ass off and look back on the day and wonder what you have to show for it. You wonder if anyone even really cares about what you did to help make their lives better ... and come to the conclusion that they obviously don't.
Thankfully not all days are like this one.
Despite the bad day, there were a few silver linings to the dark cloud. I found out today that people respect me as a worker and a human being. I also learned that everyone watches everything that happens, even when you think that they're not. Best of all, I learned that there are people in this world that will stick their necks out for you when someone has done you wrong.
I would like to note for the record that despite my bad day, I kicked butt and took names on a few projects that I've been wanting to get done for a while.
I'm hungry. Time to go find something to put in my belleh.
Posted by ed at 07:23 PM | Comments (0)
December 14, 2003
Saddam is captured...
Does this mean that we can once again concentrate 100% on Bin Laden?
Now, don't get me wrong. I've wanted this man out of power since the original Gulf War back in the early 90's. While I like to hear the news I woke up to this morning, my concern since Sept 11th 2001 has been and will continue to be Bin Laden. I don't see how any American is able to rest a good nights rest while this SOB is at large.
Personally, once we do catch him ... I think there should be a contest ... a nation wide lottery. The winner would have his/her choice of execution style and be able to push the button or pull the trigger. Now that would make me happy.
Posted by ed at 12:26 PM | Comments (0)
December 13, 2003
Level Up in FFXI
Kyle told me a few weeks ago that it was very possible to level up at least 3 times in a given day, provided that you had a party that kicked ass. Today, I was in such a party.
I've been playing FFXI since about 3pm this afternoon. Can't really do much of anything else due to being sick ... but sitting in the chair and playing the game tends to be a bit relaxing for me.
Anyhoo ... this great party finds me almost immediately. I was a bit cautious at first as I had partied with some of the people in this particular group before and ended up arguing with them on how to play as a RDM. But after about 30 mins of playing I realized that we really had something good going on. Turns out one of the members, who happened to be a THF/WAR, was a damn good player. Since he was such a great player, I was able to be a great spotter, casting healing and enfeebling spells as required. Hell, at one point we even had two white mages in the party, allowing me to concentrate on enfeebling and the group to exp chain.
Each time someone had to leave, this THF/WAR and I would manage to pull other people in that were either on the same level of playing skill or above. I don't think that we slowed down the entire night. On average, we were pulling in mobs with exp from 100-200 ... and sometimes even higher. So, to sum it up, I managed to go from a lvl 16 to a lvl 19 RDM in a matter of 8 hours. Now THAT is some damn good playing time. Had I been playing before 3pm, I honestly believe I might have made it to lvl 20.
I somehow doubt that I will EVER find a party this good again. Man was it ever so much fun.
Oh, and I just did the math ... I was getting 1500 exp per hour. That's 25 exp per min and 0.42 exp per second I was playing. DAMN.
Posted by ed at 11:34 PM | Comments (0)
Sickness is as sickness does
Okay. I'm getting pissed.
At what? Well, I'm just now getting over my Vertigo, and sure enough I come down with the flu.
At least I think it's the flu. It's some kind of nasty bug if it isn't he flu.
I don't have a fever, and my nose is staying stuffed up. I do have a nasty cough, however, with phlem. Mom always told me growing up to "get that stuff up", which is exactly what I've been doing. My nose is also running like a damn faucet, and I have to give it a good blow every few minutes. The reason why I think it might be the flu is due to what happened last night. I was sitting at the computer and sneezed really hard. It literally hurt my entire body ... I thought my arms were going to fall off. I got up and started walking around, and started shaking all over ... even my teeth were knocking together. I went to the kitchen, took all the medicine I had to take and went immediately to bed.
I absolutely HATE being sick. It's fucked up my plans for today completely. I was supposed to go xmas shopping with Amanda and we were supposed to go to the company xmas party this evening. Guess what... I'm not doing either now. No, instead I will be coughing up a lung all night long waiting to either get better or to die.
At least I have FFXI to play till I get better. :)
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December 11, 2003
I need a hobby ...
I am really thinking about starting a Web comic. I already have an idea in mind. I wonder how difficult it would be to do...
Posted by ed at 09:59 PM | Comments (0)
The Week That Wasn't
Have you ever felt like you're in a fog? Left feeling that you've been somewhere, but when you look back you can't quite make out what's behind you?
That's what my week has been like.
This has been my first week back since Vertigo kicked me in the ass. It hasn't been an easy week either. On Monday, my anti-dizzy pills (as I call 'em) ran out, leaving me with one last dose that morning. The effect wore off sometime in the afternoon, and took me by complete surprise. I thought I was going to throw up on several different occations. Kyle ended up taking me home from work.
Tuesday came, and Amanda took me to work since I left my car the night before. I honestly felt much better all that day, until I got behind the wheel of the car. You don't realize how much you truely concentrate when you're in your car. Well, I was doing double duty, as any sudden movements would make me a bit dizzy. Thankfully, Kyle followed me home and I made it with no problem.
Wednesday comes and goes with Kyle going home early from what appears to be nausia and an upset stomach to me getting really dizzy while I was trying to run some cable. I guess I still can't look up and try to do work above my head without me feeling like I'm going to fall down. It took me a few hours to get over it, but once the spell was done with, I was pretty good to go.
Today came even more good news ... Bill left for work almost immediately after I arrived due to flu-like symptoms. Kyle called in before Bill left with flu-like symptoms. Jerry came into the office later that afternoon complaining of flu-like symptoms.
I'm doomed to catch the flu. I already have a cough.
So, on my way home, I stopped by CVS and bought two backs of cough drops, a bag of vitamin C candies, antacids (the smooth dissovle kind), and some flu medicine ... just in case. Amanda picked me up a bottle of vitamin C pills, which I'm taking 2000mg of. I'm going to take a bag of cough drops to work with me tomorrow to help with this annoying hack I've developed, in addition to the vitamin C pills.
I don't want to get sick again. I HATE being sick.
So, here I am. I'm just starting to get over my Vertigo, but am showing signs of catching some kind of bug. There's a probability that I might get the flu as everyone else in the office seems to have gotten a little something.
Should be an interesting week next week.
Posted by ed at 07:50 PM | Comments (0)
December 08, 2003
I'm tired ...
I couldn't sleep last night. I was woken by a phone call from work this morning at 5:30am. I got about 3 hours of sleep total. Worst of all, I took the last bit of the medicine I was taking to help with my dizziness. It wore off sometime this afternoon. Getting through the rest of the day was a real challenge.
Here's to hoping for a better nights sleep and a better tomorrow.
Posted by ed at 07:49 PM | Comments (0)
December 07, 2003
Angels in America ...
Is the screwiest damn thing I've ever seen...
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The battle known as suse 9.0
Okay, so I've heard great things about the SuSE Linux distro over the past few months. After hearing that SuSE had been purchased by Novell, my interest grew even more. After all, the last time I tried SuSE Linux was back in 2000 and it had to make some leaps and bounds since that time.
Last night I decided it was time to give SuSE a try. I installed a spare 15GB HD in my machine and downloaded SuSE 9.0 from a mirror site. The download was about 7.1GB total and took about 15 hours to download from one of those .edu sites. I created a boot disk using the boot.iso and proceeded to install SuSE on my machine.
Man, I wish that I hadn't.
Maybe it's just me, but I really don't like YaST. Yes, I'm sure there are many SuSE and YaST enthusiasts out there that would tell me that YaST is the best thing since sliced bread. But my problem is that I've become very attached to the simplicity of APT and Synaptic. Not only that, I've also grown to love GNOME over the past couple of years. I personally won't use KDE. I don't like the layout, the bright colors, and all of the eye candy. It's almost too much sensory overload.
But, being the Linux enthusiast that I am, I thought to myself "OK ... I'm going to install APT on here and make my way through SuSE to see what it can do". Now, granted that the APT4RPM project is for both Fedora and SuSE, I found it *MUCH* easier to install on Fedora than I did on SuSE.
Keep in mind that neither distro comes with APT and Synaptic. All I have to do on Fedora is download APT from FreshRPMS and do an update, followed by an install of Synaptic. In SuSE, which is by default an RPM based distro, I have to download a huge number of files, work through all kinds of dependancies, and I can't even use APT to install Synaptic. Worst of all, I couldn't even get Synaptic to load, even though I had all of the GTK libraries loaded.
While I may not like it, YaST is a good program for new users trying to navigate hardware and software in Linux. YaST is well layed out and makes sense when using it. The part that I don't like is the configuration pages within YaST, which seem to be inconsistant and don't offer a large variety of options.
My other gripe with SuSE is that it didn't have drivers for my monitor (which is over 4 years old) and didn't have the proper drivers for my USB wireless Logitec mouse. I'm not the only person that was having issues with their mouse drivers either. A friend of mine had installed SuSE today as well and ran into a problem where his mouse wasn't even detected. The worst part about this? It was a generic two button PS/2 mouse. It had no bells, no whistles, just a regular run of the mill mouse. SuSE couldn't detect it. He also had problems getting his network card to get an address from DHCP.
Granted that some or all of his problems might have been due to a faulty install, but that brings me to my last gripe about SuSE: the install. I have NEVER in my LIFE seen a more complicated GUI Linux distribution installer. I guess I've been spoiled by Red Hat's Anaconda installer, but the YaST installer for SuSE really needs some WoRK. It just doesn't make much sense to me how it's all layed out. Maybe SuSE should just remove YaST from the install portion of their Linux distribution and use something a little simpler like Anaconda.
Yeah, I think Linux is ready for the desktop. Do I think that all Linux distributions are ready for the desktop? Nope. This just goes to prove it. Now, when Novell gets their hands on SuSE and puts Ximian to work with the SuSE developers, I think that you'll start seeing some really interesting things come out of SuSE and GNOME. In the mean time, I think I'll try downloading and installing Lycoris Linux to see what's changed on it since I've used it last. I've heard that it has some great groundwork for Linux on the desktop.
Posted by ed at 07:35 PM | Comments (0)
December 06, 2003
My Adventures With The 2.6 Test Kernel
Okay, so I've heard all of these great things about the 2.6 kernel that should be coming out sometime by either the end of this year or the very early part of next year. Last night, I decided to download it and see if I can make it work.
For those that aren't aware, I use Fedora, which used to be Red Hat Linux. There is a test kernel RPM located on the Red Hat Web site designed for Red Hat 9 and Fedora, so I thought I would download and install it to see what the new kernel was like.
Upon boot, I really didn't notice anything different until it got to the point where it normally detects my USB devices. It came back with an error. Next up was the configuration for my network card and printer. I told it to remove the existing configuration for both and to add a new configuration for the network card. I guess since the new kernel didn't detect any USB devices, the printer wasn't going to be re-detected.
So, I get into the command prompt and login as root and edited the XF86Config file so that it used the generic Nvidia driver since I didn't feel like re-installing the driver for the new kernel. I started X and sure enough, my mouse wouldn't work. I couldn't even get it to connect to the base station (it's wireless) when I hit the connect button at the bottom of the mouse. Usually a green "connect" light appears, but it didn't happen in this case.
Okay, so the USB part was bad ... no problem. I'm a keyboard power user, so I thought that I would open up a terminal and get Firebird loaded to find out what the USB problem was. I get Firebird loaded properly, but it doesn't see a network connection.
Starting to get frustrated, I start the redhat-config-network program to see what the problem was. Interestingly enough, it appears that my machine thought it had two NICs, and neither was activated. I activated ETH0 and did a few pings to Yahoo to make sure that I was on the Internet ... which I received return pings.
So, I opened Firebird back up and tried to hit yahoo.com to see if the rest of the network settings were working properly. No dice. Seems that nothing could get in or out on port 80, so I decided to look and see if there was a firewall on somewhere that I wasn't aware of. Sure enough, a firewall was on ... so I turned it off. Still no dice.
Since 1) I didn't have USB and 2) I couldn't get out on the Internet, I decided to give up on the 2.6 test kernel. I'm sure that I could download it from kernel.org and set it up myself ... but my biggest problem with that right now is that the 2.6 kernel configuration is WAY different than what I've used in the past. It almost seems harder than what it used to be. What's even worse, none of the Kernel How-To's are up to date and some are not even online. I guess those are the ones that are being updated to the 2.6 kernel way of thinking.
I guess I'm just going to have to wait for Fedora Core 2 to come out so I can enjoy the new features of 2.6.
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I posted this from BloGTK
I found a great Linux blogging client called BloGTK. Google it. :)
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Final Fantasy XI is a drug
It's every man's fantasy to have a girlfriend, fiancee, wife, and/or mistress who has the same interests that he does. I just happen to be one of those lucky guys. Ya see, I'm a computer geek that likes to play computer games, plain and simple. I'm a computer geek with a fiancee that likes to play computer games. The same computer games that I like to play.
Yup, that's right. Amanda plays computer games. Not all of her game selections are the best, mind you, but she knows what she likes and she's hard core about it. I don't know if I've ever seen any guy gamer that's ever been as dedicated to beating a game once it's been started as Amanda is.
As of tonight, Kyle and I showed her how to play Final Fantasy XI, a game that both he and I have been addicted to since it arrived on the US shores a few months ago. I've been playing constantly, and it seems like he spends almost every waking hour on it. The only time it feels like that we're not on it is when we're at work. And if he's anything like me, he's thinking about it when he's at work too.
But, back to Amanda. Remember how I said that she's a hardcore gamer? Well, as I look at her on the computer in the other room, I begin to wonder how we're going to split up playing time on Final Fantasy. I've even debated on putting Windows back on my Linux machine (bleh, how I hate that thought) just so she and I can play at the same time. After all, I don't want to get any farther behind Kyle as it is (he's currently lvl 21 to my lvl 15). I've been able to catch up to him, as he got his copy of FFXI a month ahead of me, but it's taken some time to do so.
So now I have this problem ... and I'm not too sure what to do. Should I spend the extra money to get two HD cages so I can swap out Linux and Windows so that we can play online together? Should I blow away my Linux installation and just put Windows back on this machine (it's been over a year since I've had it on here) to satisfy both of us playing a game? And most importantly, should I keep the ATI 9800 in her machine and I keep the GeForce 3 in my machine?
Questions questions questions. I guess only time will tell. After all, she deserves to be able to play as much as I. Just gonna be interesting figuring out how we're going to go about doing it.
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December 05, 2003
The First Real Entry
Okay, so I have this blog up, I figured I might as well start to fill it up with something ... so here goes.
I've been sick since th 26th of November. All I know is that one day I really started to get dizzy while I was at work. It took everything in my power to finish the day, and I had a really hard time concentrating on my way home. Thankfully I got to leave early that day thanks to the Thanksgiving holiday.
By the time I got home that evening, I knew something was wrong and asked Amanda to take me to the doctor. There's a doctor's office across the road that specializes in helping sick people when other doctor's offices are closed, so we went there. By this time my head felt very cloudy and it was hard to concentrate on even the simplest of things. I was given a little brochure to read, and I swear that it took everything I had to read it.
When I finally got in to see the doctor, he diagnosed me with Vertigo. I'd never had Vertigo before and I was a bit scared at the diagnosis. What could be causing it? What could possibly be wrong with me? The doctor suggested a few possible reasons for the dizziness, including viral infection, inner ear infection, fluid buildup in the ear canal, among others. He gave me medicine to help with the dizziness and told me to follow up with my PCP.
Now, while I do have insurance, I didn't have a PCP at that time. So, being the procrastinator that I typically am, I just thought that I could hold off and the symptoms would go away in a day or so. Come Saturday, the dizziness just got worse. I couldn't stand to stand. The only real relief I had was when I was laying down in the bed ... and alseep. So, after calling mom to see what she thought I should do, Amanda and I headed over to the ER where they did some blood tests and a cat scan. I'm proud to announce that I'm as healthy as a horse ... a dizzy horse.
So, the doc at the hosptial told me that I need some more medicine and needed to see my PCP. Okay, so I definately needed to get a PCP ... fine ... I'll let Amanda deal with that since it's hard enough to concentrate when I'm sitting watching TV. And Amanda did a fantastic job too ... she found us a doctor that actually took the time to talk to us and explain the problems with Vertigo and what we could and couldn't do to relieve the dizziness.
So, I'm sitting here and it's been 10 days since I first started feeling bad, and I'm just now back to a point to where I feel somewhat human again. Yeah, I'm still dizzy, but it's not nearly as bad as what it was a few days ago. Apparently the medicine I've been taking has been kickin butt and taking names. I'm hoping that it'll be all cleared up by Monday morning and I'll be able to go back to work.
Damn I've been bored.
But I've gotten some quality FFXI time in while I've been sick. Granted that I haven't been able to play much since I've been sleeping so much thanks to some of the medicine I've been given. But, I'm a lvl 15 RDM and have been working on building up a second job as a WHM. Now if I can only figure out what I need to do to use my subjob....
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