Done day before yesterday (20100510 Mo)

[mdlbear]

0510 Mo
  * up 6:30; W=198.4; drugs, nose, teeth
    % weight changes mainly due to salt level?  Had chips last night.
  * call YD in sick.  
  @  Lena Horne dies (from filkertom) 
  * Pull onto barnard
  * 8:45 YD - opthalmology (486 in Kaiser Homestead)?
    9:45 MRI turned out to be PM.  Grumpf.
  @ www.rememberthemilk.com/
  : "iceweasel already running" even after removing lock files.  Mostly
    switched over to chrome now.
  * 1:30pm YD - neurology -- leave about 12:45
    idiopathic intracranial hypertension (tentative)
  @ Cloud Computing: How big is big data
  @ Why Facebook’s Community Pages Could Give Brands a Headache
  * BILLS through Friday 0514
  * 9:45PM YD - MRI (Dept 120) leave 8:45-9 -> moved up to 9:10
  " (10:27:51 PM) me: I'm not sure what it says about me that I found my MRI
    to be a highly enjoyable sort of adventure."  (The YD hated it.)
  * bed 11; snuggle

I spent most of Monday taking the YD to various doctor's appointments, and working from home in between. I'm not sure what it says about me that I found an MRI to be a highly enjoyable sort of adventure. The YD hated it, as did Colleen last year. Odd -- I thought I was the neophobe. Maybe the technophilia cancels it out. Knowing that they're using microwaves and magnets to perform quantum-mechanical operations on the atomic nuclei in my head counts for a lot.

Lena Horne died. So did iceweasel, on my home machine. Somewhere there's a lock file I haven't found. I'm missing Lena Horne more; chrome lacks a couple of add-ons, but is basically everything I want in a browser.

The usual collection of good links under the cut.

Comments

[aerowolf.livejournal.com]

I dislike MRIs only because they make you remove *EVERYTHING* with metal (and at the time I had mine, I also had nipple piercings). They even ask you to get out of your pants if you have a metal snap or zipper.

as for iceweasel causing a lock-file problem... strace?

[mdlbear]

I've looked for the documented lock files and didn't find them; I suspect that some database in the profile is corrupted.

[acelightning.livejournal.com]

I've never had an MRI, but I've been given to understand that the main problems are usually claustrophobia, noise, and the discomfort of having to remain motionless. I think that, like you, I'd be too intrigued by the gee-whiz scientific aspects of it to worry much about the other factors. (Besides, exposure to RF gets me somewhat high, although the effect is far stronger at very low frequencies.)

[rowanf.livejournal.com]

I loved my MRI, it was a totally meditative experience. This was back when you were totally encased. Yes, despite the noise... or maybe because of it. Also, it was at a time when my back was in constant pain and for the time of the MRI it wasn't. I came out really rested.

[mdlbear]

I found it highly enjoyable as a musical experience. (At least if you consider John Cage's work to be music!)