In the good news, I got caught in the middle of a medical communications collapse and apparently I am scheduled to have surgery to remove the tumor after all, but now in July. The bad news is that I'm in crazy pain and am pretty much physically exhausted from it by noon (even now, and it's early, I'm having a lot of trouble staying focused). That said, it just snowed again, which is nice, and probably indicates why I've been particularly sore. Sorry it's making me even slower than usual on posts and replies and so on.
The poorly drawn stencil that's a clickthrough on the picture is 100 DPI and sized exactly for Toronto signs. If you don't feel like making a stencil, you can print it on clear sticker paper.
Anyway. I'm crazy dizzy. I think I'm going to go for a walk and get some fresh air.
So I got some messed up medical news (and that's the end of that story because I'm tired of this being complain-o-blog) so I smashed into a bunch of stuff with my truck, which was a lot of fun. I also made a new stencil. This is just a mockup photo. Feel free to knock it off if you like it (to get the size right for the signs in your area, just go up to a sign with a ruler and take a bunch of pictures of you holding the ruler up against it so you can get your stencil scaled correctly). Please send me a picure if you do it.
I mean really, what's worse — parking or ghosts?
Edit: In hindsight, I think it would make more sense if it said “cherries” or “pacman” or something that's dangerous to ghosts… But you could make a ghost one that fit over the parking “allowed” signs too…
Other than that, I ordered some cool gear from Phidgets today, and Jon and I are making good progress on some experimental servers for new features on BME… Anyway, I think I'm going to go make some supper (ack, it's late!) and prep tomorrow's edition of ModBlog's education column now.
I took that picture next to Phil's house…
I made a three part stencil today while I was waiting for one of our new projects to build its data files… It's a picture of Håvve. I haven't made stencil in, oh, fifteen years and I think this turned out alright for a first attempt. Anyway, a giant update is uploading right now (for both the main site and the video site) that I'll uncompress in an hour or two, and ModBlog appears to be back online.
The ModBlog move is happening today, so the way it's going to work is that in about an hour I'm going to turn off the comment system, swap the DNS, and then when you see comments return (and new posts), you'll know you're on the new system. There shouldn't be any inaccessible downtime.
…and if you don't know what “
Eu.” means (photo: jusn)…
I wrote a couple entries but they don't make any sense. I'm in way too much pain to be very coherent right now. I need to find friends that get up really, really early, because I hate always canceling supper plans because I know I'm just going to be in a bad mood because I'm spending all my energy managing the discomfort (so I really appreciated it when I saw some old friends for brunch yesterday).
Anyway, sorry about the brief downtime here; some RAM failed in the image fileserver. I'm gonna go lie down now. If anyone wants to test the theory that sex doubles pain detection threshholds and tolerances, I'll be in the bathtub. Oh wait, only Phil is here right now… Better cancel that idea or Kelly will get mad. Maybe I'll track someone down in dreamtime.
