I treated myself to a new domain name on Monday. With the week-and-a-half from Hell behind me, plus the money I’d saved from going without Pepsi Max and caffeine, I registered www.tokyoskyscraper.com, named after the super-awesome Scandal song.
At the moment, I’ve no idea what to do with it, but am thinking something along the lines as the entry to all my websites and social network accounts- here, VacantEngaged, Tumblr, Twitter and Facebook. Maybe a v-card, maybe not. I’m still thinking it over.
Anyway, I’ve thrown together a splash page and you should check it out. If you have 200k bandwidth to spare.
Apple has recently announced the new version of OS X, titled Mountain Lion. And being a Mac user, I had to look. Then be disappointed. Lion wasn’t much more than Snow Leopard, except with the need to do some ridiculous hand gestures on the trackpad to perform a function, and iPhone/iPad-style scrolling. The first thing I did with Lion was stop that. It works on a handheld device, but not a computer.
Now Mountain Lion has more iOS features which are of no use to me. Reminders? I tried it to see if it reminded me to buy milk after I departed work. I got home before it buzzed. Pass.
Notes? Here and there I use it, but that’s because it’s on my phone. It’s portable, so I can take it shopping and use it to remember to buy a can of Milo before I hit the checkout. So it’s good for small things, but not much more. If I want to remember something while I’m computing, I’ll put a Post-It note somewhere I can see. But on the Mac? Err, no. Can’t go to Woolworths with a laptop without looking like a douchebag. Pass.
Game Centre? I don’t use it on iPhone, I won’t use it on Mountain Lion. Messages to replace iChat? Maybe. But my $59 cap says I can send $500-odd of SMS, and I don’t go anywhere close to that. Pass.
Twitter-integration? I use Twitter, but the current app is too small. I’d prefer if it were full screen. I use Tweetbot on my phone, and the Twitter website anyway. I don’t think I need to right-click on a photo or document and select Tweet This! Pass.
Notifications? I have Growl and that works fine. Sure, it doesn’t tell me that a friend commented on my Facebook photo, but I’m on Facebook all day anyway, so it will just get in the way. Pass.
Airplay Mirroring? You do this via Apple TV. I sold my Apple TV as I got tired of spending 45 minutes converting videos to a format it supports. Instead, I have an LG media player which plays in Full HD, plays a variety of formats – MOV, MP4, AVI, MKV… just by plugging my external drive into it. Pass.
iCloud? I use it at the moment, because it’s there. I don’t need to, though. Sometimes I’ll clear out some unwanted bookmarks, but after my phone syncs during the night, they’re back. I should probably stop using iCloud. Might pass.
Gatekeeper? No idea what it is or what it does. And it has Windows Defender’s logo. Pass.
Features for China? Pass. I’m not in China and I can’t read or speak Mandarin or Cantonese. Pass.
So with that, I don’t think I’ll be upgrading to Mountain Lion. There’s supposedly another 90-odd features not yet announced, probably Stocks and Newsstand, which you won’t be able to remove, just like iOS.
Taken from Tumblr as it was easier than rewriting it.
I’m kinda feeling normal today. But on Tuesday morning it was a whole different story. It started again at 1:30am with the usual toilet break, and ended in hell. Calm down, relax, think happy thoughts, they all did nothing. All I could think of was the panic attack I was having, trying to get rid of it, and panicking more. By 4am I’d had enough. My heart was racing, I was shaking, my mind cloudy… time for hospital.
I don’t like hospitals. But this time I was okay with it. Sort of. Words like “I really need to do a wee” came with a response of “Soon, we have to do an ECG” and then a bit later “Okay, you can go now, and please fill this cup.”
I had another blood test, this time with that funky thing they put on my hand, see image:
The doctors @ Nambour were very calm, very reassuring and somewhat relaxing. I almost fell asleep, except for the contant beeping of the heart monitor and other people talking.
Ended up coming home about 10:30 and headed straight for my GP to plead for medication to calm me down. I was a wreck. Four hours of sleep over 3 days does that to you, and it’s worse when you brain plays funny buggers on you the moment you put your head on the pillow. I walked out with some Valium, popped two and fell asleep for a few hours.
Yesterday wasn’t too bad, still a bit weird, but also comforting with the knowledge I had some meds to help me through. I used them sparingly all yesterday, felt somewhat good, then last night about 8pm had two. I woke at 1am and couldn’t sleep again, but not because of feeling panicky, just, I dunno. I went for a walk, come home about 2am, stuck on a Simpsons DVD and before the first episode finished I was out.
I woke again maybe 5am, the Simpsons DVD was back at the menu, so I started it up again. I think I was out of it before the couch gag, and woke about 8:30am.
At the moment, I feel 99.99999% normal, really good. I still have to see the specialist to rule out epilepsy, and also have to visit a psychologist, but other than that, fingers crossed, I’m all good.
PS – I’ve been caffeine-free for 4 days now.
Today was one of those days I’d rather forget. Ignoring the fact I agreed to do the night shift tonight, I got home from work at 7:30am and went straight to bed, as you do. About 11am I woke for a toilet break and there is that familiar feeling, last experienced in 2008 – MIGRAINE ATTACK! The weird, painless migraine, the kind that feels like 1,000 Slurpee brain-freezes, minus the raging “AARRGHHH” and forehead thumping. And with that, it was straight to the chemist. But they couldn’t help. As far as they knew, I was this random loon after some medication and they couldn’t help, but they did point me in the direction of the doctor.
Arrive at the doctor and they let me straight in. And it’s the usual – had it before? Personal and family medical history? Do you use illicit drugs? It looks like a panic attack, have you had a panic attack before? Anxiety problems? Ok, I’ll call my colleague… I didn’t get much of the conversation except for “I thought it was a panic attack, but they last only 10 minutes, this has been going for 45…”
Meanwhile, I was in tears. It was that bad.
So after all that, it’s blood test time and a referral to get my head X-Ray’d. I hate blood. Giving it, anyway. Today, nup, it didn’t bother me. JUST POKE ME DAMMIT! I didn’t say that, but it was something I thought about. Middle of the blood test, it’s “We do have strict doctor-patient confidentiality, and won’t pass details to the police. Do you use ilicit drugs? NO!
And then it’s time to get the head check. Do I drive? Hell no! Taxi? I ain’t spending $15 on a 3 minute trip. So walk I did. Detoured to another chemist along the way, bought and popped two Nurofens and continued along, all dizzy, confused, going insane.
The X-Ray machine was pretty interesting; whirring and all these funky sounds for what seemed to be forever, but it was probably only 2 minutes. Anyway, with that done, home time.
Get home, feeling a little normal, head for the shower, lie down, close my eyes and relax. Just lying there worked a treat, but it got boring after a while so I got out and put on Futurama. Feeling even more normal, with just a hint of lunacy knocking at the door, I decide it was best to return to the shower for another horizontal soaking… with bonus spew. Which kinda tasted like the iced tea I’d had earlier. Yeah, you know you came here to read about spew.
So once again, time to get out. I crash on my bed, but I can’t sleep. Feeling a treat, but still two hours to kill before I see the doctor again for results. I can’t really remember how I passed the time, but it flew, and I returned for my results, which all come back sweet. That’s heaps reassuring, but still, it doesn’t explain the cause of this weird sensation I’ve now experienced three times. While I don’t get a prescription for Mersyndol Forte, or anything hardcore, I am told regular Mersyndol should be fine. It’ll help me sleep too, and with chronic insomnia, that’s a bonus.
So now I have Nurofen and generic-brand Mersyndol to keep me, fingers crossed, feeling normal. Thinking back to last time, I don’t know why I let it persist for 4 days before being checked out. Today, it hung around for 3 hours. That’s more than enough to last me a lifetime. Oh, and I scored tonight off work too.
Just a quickie because I have to go to work soon. Well, I’ve restarted my blog on Tumblr which is more about reblogging awesome photos and less about original content. Isn’t that what Tumblr is about? Exactly.
Anyway, see PIDV on Tumblr here.
