Category: work
12/31/07 02:35 - 33ºF - ID#42695
Ulcer Me This
Then I sit here babysitting the new application while everyone else is gone until I have to go to a dinner party at my mothers followed by a party at our house. I hope it was the kind of party where someone brings me valium, please serenity now.
So "they" decided to launch the new version of the system I was working on today. A live system that lots of people are using, with high priorty, and serious security risk if it fails and. We switched in the middle of the day , while people were using it, just before a holiday. It is about a 60% re-write based on new technology and data sources we have available. I am going to go out on a limb and say it seems FUCKING RETARDED to launch something like this right before a holiday. We even have some sort of policy against it I think.
Normally, we don't do this but apparently someone higher up was promised it would be ready for the New Year and here we are launching it today. The person that promised them was supposed to test it and barely did, which left me doing all the development and testing - most of the testing I can't even do because I don't know enough about the data in the application to know if it is right or not. I don't even have any test cases to work with.
Now if there is a problem it will be super compounded by the time I get back. Hopefully, we can bank on my skills and it will just work.
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Category: stuff
12/31/07 12:51 - 31ºF - ID#42688
The Party And The Server
I worked on the new version of estrip a lot today. The flv video uploads now make thumbnails and I wrote a much better video player that lets you forward to any point in the video without having to play the video sequentially.
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: computers
12/29/07 01:17 - 36ºF - ID#42673
The new OLPC
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: food
12/29/07 01:17 - 36ºF - ID#42672
Food and the drain
At least I can eat fish. This is a new kind of fish for me called monchong It came from the coop. It tastes kind of like lobster a tiny bit.
Last night after work I had a family party. I have yet another family party today. This whole week has sucked. Between being sick and working ridiculous hours on this last minute projet at work and then family events with Holiday food - I kind of feel on the brink of death.
I feel like this pumkin on our porch.
Thursday night I came home from a 12 hour work day and wanted to take a shower but the tub had apparently not drained from earlier that morning. No one else ever fixes that which makes me fucking crazy considering it is a long hair and dirt from potted plants thing that I pretty much have nothing to do with.
Once I got the hairball out by prying it out with a coat hanger, I used a plunger to dredge up the dirt. I couldn't believe how much black dirt there was.
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Category: web
12/27/07 10:21 - 34ºF - ID#42661
Gold rises after Bhutto death
Gold rises after Bhutto death, platinum hits record
LONDON (Reuters) - Gold hit a one-month high on Thursday as buying picked up after news that Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto was killed in an attack.
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Category: health
12/26/07 11:15 - 32ºF - ID#42650
Asacol - Will it kill me?
But no one told me what to expect. The serious side effects that should force you to stop taking th emedicine are some of the very symptoms I am supposed to take the medicine for which iis just screaming too dangerous for me.
I found this site where people talk about the effectiveness versus side effects of the medicine's for colitis and it seriously has a 3 out of 6 stars for 127 ratings. I wouldn't normally buy something with that kind of rating. I mean if that was a test I would say it was failing.
Check out the reviews I just refuse to take it until after I have spoken to a GI doctor or at least the Colon doctor I already have.
THE GI doctor had an opening before my Feb 6th appointment. They called me this morning. I was all excited because I thought it was maybe today but instead it is on Jan 22, the day of my birthday, freakin' yeah.
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: housing
12/26/07 10:17 - 28ºF - ID#42649
Fixing A Light On Christmas
I think what happened is that boy tenant tried to play toolman. When he got confused because of the old wiring, they had to shut down the electricity for the whole apartment. They tried to call me, no answer, so they got ahold of my Dad who insisted on helping and called me at (e:matthew)'s phone. He came to pick me up and we ended replacing the light from 10:45 to 11:45PM on Chirstmas Day. I was so mad, seriously, I wanted to kill them.
This is what it looked like when we got there. There is no way it fell off the wall, lol. It was clearly and totally taken apart.
My Dad is so nice, he insisted we put the new light in. I just wanted to cap it off and deal with it on Friday. It was really nice to ave his help. I know how to do the electrical part, but I think if it was just me and the tenants, someone would have died.
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: holidays
12/25/07 11:25 - 30ºF - ID#42642
Chirstmas Eve 2007
I miss (e:terry) - I can't wait for him to come home.
My cousin Christina now had a fourth child named Nathan. He is really cute. That is Santa Claus in the back with my Aunt, their Grandmother. I wonder how my cousin does it - it must be so hectic having four little kids. She always seems so put together as do the kids. Her husband had nine brothers and sisters so I guess it is doable. I guess my grandparents both had a large amount of brothers and sisters too but they both kind of lived the farm life with lots of work to do and lots of space to do it on - which is a little different
I didn't get (e:mike) the name you own star thing because everyone thinks it is a scam and I agree. One astronomer said, "Its like selling name your own air particle." No one really owns it. Then I thought why not start a site to sell other things you can't really buy and give people fancy certificates. I am kind of thinking it might be worth it. What about a piece of elmwoodstrip in a test tube like they did with the Berlin wall. Just fill it up with some street rubble from elmwood? I think I have a winner!
Paul
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Category: food
12/23/07 07:07 - 33ºF - ID#42627
Elmwood Winter Farmer's Marke
I am happy to announce that many of the vendors from the Elmwood-Bidwell Farmers Market, along with a few others, will kick off the opening of the Wintermarket on Elmwood on January 13th. Located inside the Presbyterian Church at the corner of Lafayette and Elmwood, it will be open on Sundays from 1 - 4PM until the Elmwood-Bidwell Market re-opens in May.
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Category: holidays
12/23/07 04:28 - 43ºF - ID#42624
Christmas in Japan
As you'd expect in a country where less than 1% of the population is Christian (the rest is primarily Shinto or Buddhist), Christmas is a purely secular occasion, with shops and businesses remaining open for the day ... The elimination of the religious aspects of Christmas and its hyper-commercialization have led to some unique (and, to us, bizarre) ways of celebrating it ... What we do find unusual is a custom of young couples exchanging presents of expensive jewelry, heading out to high-priced hotels, and being directed by scantily-clad female elves to rooms complete with Christmas trees, where the lovebirds spend their Christmas Eve in romantic bliss. The co-optation of familiar Christmas figures - both secular and religious - in the service of mass merchandising has produced some rather curious blendings: Colonel Sanders dressed in a Santa suit (as KFC tried strenuously to promote fried chicken as the "traditional" Christmas meal) ... Santa in a graveyard accompanied by the Virgin Mary on broomstick, elves plastered on sake, and a Christmas revue featuring "stripping nuns and three lecherous Wise Men."
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Finally, Christmas day after working a midnight while unable to hold even water down, I went to the ER again. They did a CT scan which showed "a small bile duct stone" which they deemed able to stay in until my doctors office opened 2 days later. Gave me a prescription--pharmacy was closed. :) FINALLY called my surgeon that had performed my gastric bypass years earlier from the empty parking lot of Rite Aid, bawling my eyes out. He told me to go to Sister's Hospital. (which is where I had the surgery performed)
Went to Sister's a couple hours later. The Triage nurse took one look at me and told me I was being admitted. I had jaundice. (apparently yellow skin and eyes was not enough indication that I needed help for St. Mary's Hosp.) I had bright orange urine, which was fun. :)
A small partially-sedated procedure 2 days later and i was perfect...except for the itchy jaundicy skin which lasted for 2 mos. YUCK.
I have NO idea if this will help you in any way, but you need to DEMAND some kind of a scan, first off. CT, sonogram...SOMETHING. An x-ray will not show most of what could be wrong w/ you (IE: your guts). I was told after I had my blown ACL ligament x-rayed that that is does not show soft tissue. (have no idea if this is true)
You need to KEEP CALLING THE DOCTOR. Keep on their asses. There is NO REASON why you should still be sitting there in pain with no relief after all this time!!!!!!
You need to DEMAND BLOOD WORK. This should have been one of their first priorities. It can show them so much and help with diagnosis.
You need to pretend you're an IRATE ITALIAN like me to light a fire under their asses. ;)
--I give lessons--cheap! :)
I truly hope you feel better soon, I just think it's totally moronic that they have not taken care of the basic, bottom line procedures before moving on to a colonoscopy. I think I missed what happened before..the last post of yours i read you were drinking that phospho soda crap. Did that procedure show nothing? Grr.
I hope your doctor gets his head out of his ass soon. You're in my thoughts.
~Dana