Monthly Archives: September 2005

A Long Lonely Duel

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Sigh… These past two days, I have been fighting a lonely duel with my illness. Slowly I seem to be getting the upper hand. Saturday I had a “category five” headache throughout the day. Apparently my sinuses were mostly empty for the first time since this unfortunate calamity. So when I bend my head down, I could feel their presence. Unpleasant. Anyways we all went for a hike at Mt. Nemo that day. The walk which was supposed to be fun, was painful as my sinus kept of jarring my poor neurons. The worst parts occurred when climbing up or down the slope to the forested plateau above. I basically tried to be in good humour. However by the time I got home again, I was feeling very, very miserable. Yesterday the same misery continued, but without the headache. At first I thought it was a good sign, but then when one of my sinus became empty, the pain again cometh. So in summary these past few days I feel well… blah.

Can hardly wait for university to start up again. I really do miss it. Doing mental exercises will be a nice change, and meeting up with people again. I paid a good chunk of my courses on Friday. I kept just enough to buy books… and maybe archery equipment (if I am extremely lucky). I will need OSAP (a provincially sponsored student loan) and any scholarships I can get. I have decided against the PEY (co-op for 12-16 months) and I am going to take that statistics course. This means I will probably be out of university after next year. I just hope I can find a job after, but that is a risk I am going to have to take. Right now I have to prepare for the next semester. Set up my schedule, fish up some transportation, and look into my courses. Oh and finally get ready to work on the math website.

Anyways… since this the early morning I will see if I can get another blog entry later in the evening. Now off to take my medication (natural health supplements since the pharmaceutical stuff only caused me misery in my previous life), and try to get my wireless card working again.

Another Day of Wandering

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OK. These sinuses are bugging the hell out of me. Its going away, imperceptibly slowly. The work at home is also seems that it is not going away. Washing dishes, picking up things, and worst of all cleaning the tarps that Dad used on the roof. Blobs of black tar that leave green smudges and that can only be cleaned using paint thinner. Oh and did I mention it was ragweed season and that I am sick at the same time. 🙁

In the morning I managed to finally spiffy up my computer. Yup, updated and running a new 2.6.11 kernel. It boots with a splashscreen that I made myself. Yeah! Go me go! I wish that I had more time to work on my hobby projects. Maybe tomorrow.

Drifting in a Netherworld

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Fall. Well not officially but still… everyone can feel it. Summer’s warm embrace is loosening and slowly turning into the cool of autumn. And haven’t enjoyed it a bit… not much time off. And now the sickness. Apparently my latest illness which seemed to be fading, has struck my sinuses. Now I have had to deal with this quite painful secondary infection… So much for time off. To top it off my knee-jerk coughing spree kept me up till 4:00 AM yesterday night. The only thing enjoyable was a reading a VERY depressing Japanese (Yeah for English translation) animated novel. Well maybe not enjoyable but at least I least I felt better about my own situation after it.

Fortunately I have been feeling better with each passing day. Mostly thanks to intensive pill-popping. Of course, to make the experience more exciting, my condition always seems to worsen in the evening. Lovely. So I decided to get some work done. I have updated my Linux box recently, with a newer version of udev, a new kernel (which I soon found to be broken with a new implementation of the Alps touchpad driver…) and few other things. I cleaned out a few old things, like useless libraries, a few games including Quake 3 Demo (sorry it was just too bloody) and UT2004 Demo (love the fast action, but I don’t have time to play), and best of all Mozilla. That’s right! Now I have only Firefox and Thunderbird… without all the additional bloat. I also
threw out the Gentooized version of Eclipse, and got a newer copy for my own personal use off the Eclipse.org site. A few minutes later (and DSL reconnects), I had everything I needed. Sort of. My update kept on crashing with the configuration of wings (awesome 3D modelling program), but that bug report I sent in yesterday paid off. I am currently in the process of
reemerging a few kernel dependent programs, and my update.

I have given up on my old laptop. The not-so-hot release of FreeDOS now lives on it. What a change I might add… I really do prefer a Unix system… but at least I can play my old DOS games again. Weee… OLD SCHOOL!!!

As for back-to-school (university) preparations, I am debating on whether to take PEY or not… and whether to pursue a degree in bioinformatics (I suck at Bio and Chem labs and their reports :() or take that one icky statistics course and take the AI courses. I would really love to hack robots (especially space probes/drones/rovers) as a job^H^H^Hcareer.