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Author: Kris

  • Still Sick

    My stomach continues to defy medical analysis. My duodenitis (aka ulcer) flared up two weeks ago, but after one bad day it seemed to settle down. It didn’t go away completely, but it was manageable and I was able to keep exercising. My doctor’s tests didn’t show any underlying infection so I chalked it up to the stress of starting the new job. Then, yesterday, it came back with a vengeance. I don’t know what set it off, but by 4:00 I was in agony. I rang the doctor and left work early. I honestly don’t know how I managed to get home without puking. It was that bad. My regular doc was booked out so I had to see somebody new, which meant he had to get the whole two-year-long saga of the diagnosis. Yes, I have been tested for h.pylori. No, multiple tests for it have been negative. Yes, I know that’s really weird, because I have every symptom of a classic ulcer EXCEPT for the bacteria. I was nearly in tears telling him about it. It’s just so frustrating, because there doesn’t seem to be anything I can *do*. If I tested positive for the h.pylori then they could treat me for it, but without that, all I can do is take more Nexium (which doesn’t seem to help much).

    So the upshot of all of it is, he wants me to have another endoscopy and another round of blood tests. Oh, and no more caffeine and alcohol. Joy.

  • Sit Down, Shut Up

    “Arrested” alumni reunite for Fox pilot. I’d give any show that Mitch Hurwitz is involved with a try, but with Bateman, Arnett, and Winkler involved? I’d like to pre-order the DVD, please. (That said, the Snook and I can’t figure out what the hell the “Australian” show is that it’s supposed to be based on. We’ve never seen it.)

  • Anatomically Correct Brain Cake

    How to Make an Anatomically-Correct Brain Cake. Very nice, but I think I’ll be sticking with my brain panna cotta this year.

  • UrbanMAX

    Ooooh, this UrbanMAX scavenger hunt thing sounds awesome! I’m going to try to talk the Snook into doing it. It’s probably as close to being on The Amazing Race as we’re ever going to get… (Thanks to Emily for the tip.)

  • Foosball

    Yowch. My partner Karen and I just played our first game of the foosball competition here at work… and we got SPANKED 10-0. Of course, we were playing against the top seeds. We’ll get better.

  • RunningBlog

    I had a great long run today. I set the iPod workout to 100 minutes and headed off towards Centennial Park. I was doing 4 minutes running / 1 minute walking, and that seemed to work pretty well. I managed two full laps around the park before heading home, which ended up being nearly 14km in total. (Hey, that’s 2/3 of the distance of the half-marathon! I’m nearly there.) The real improvement was in my hydration level. I started drinking water the night before and kept it up throughout the morning today, and on the run I hit every water fountain in the park. It was GREAT! I really only felt dry and thirsty in the last twenty minutes (when I was farthest from a fountain). My legs felt pretty good while I was running – no injuries to report – but by the end, I could tell I’d be sore and hurting afterwards. I’ll take a day or two to rest and recover…

  • Female G-G

    Wow, we’re getting a female governor-general! Pretty sweet. That Kevin is on a tear these days, I tell you.

  • Noro Kureyon Sock

    I spent a couple hours back at the shop today putting some new yarns up on the website. We finally got the long-awaited Noro Kureyon Sock yarn! And according to the discussion on Ravelry, the price is pretty competitive…

  • TWoP

    Oh man. When did Television Without Pity change layouts again? It’s AWFUL. There are crazy huge images in your face everywhere, and you can’t see what reviews are new without scrolling down. They seem to have done away with the drop-down nav menus too, which means you can’t go straight to a show or forum anymore (artifially inflating pageviews). It sucks.

    Oh, wait! I just discovered that you can go straight to shows and forums; they’re just hidden in a stupid huge javascript rollover menu. What was wrong with the old version? The rotting yet beloved corpse of Dawson’s Wrap must be spinning in its grave…

    Five minutes later: Ahhhh. The founders left the site last month. That explains it. I went to Sars’s site to see if there was any word from her. Nothing but a link to a forum post that’s already since been erased. Wow, I’ve been reading that site for more than ten years and suddenly it’s just… gone. That sucks.

  • Wait Wait

    Oh! I forgot to tell you about my other new podcast obsession: Wait Wait, Don’t Tell Me (the NPR news quiz). At first I was a little annoyed by the smug liberal intellectualness of it (I’m a self-loathing smug liberal intellectual), but I was won over by the fact that it’s the FUNNIEST THING EVER. Tonight I made the Snook listen to an episode from February when one of the “fake” news stories was about women in Fort Wayne, Indiana who had an irrational fear that dingoes would eat their babies. Good stuff.