Category Archives: Health

Wellness, fitness, and taking care of yourself.

Lazy Night

Health, Linux

Interesting day, woke up early (for me) to head to Fry’s and pick up some computer parts, then headed straight to HPUG. Once I got to HAL-PC by luck Cheryl (leader of the Web-Tech SIG) was giving away a 1.4GHz Athlon box and I nabbed that; there’s something wrong but I suspect it’s just the power supply. It has a really nice motherboard with RAID too so this will be perfect for my Linux file-server box.

Later tonight I took Joe his new Athlon XP box I built for him, and it’s running really great. When the sound card comes in he’s going to have a very nice setup. It’s surprisingly fast and it reminded me that I really need to upgrade my processor on my desktop, more so now that I’m doing .NET development stuff on it. (More on that later.)

Tonight after some testing I finally upgraded the server to PHP 4.3 and MySQL 4.0.10, and things are running beautifully.

What I’ve been avoiding writing about (and thinking about) is the part of today that wasn’t technology related. Helsa had to be taken to the Vet Hospital because she started throwing up several times and also apparently sometime between last night and this morning her skin got this yellow tint. The doctor said that she isn’t in any pain, but because she lost weight so fast her liver is probably overloaded with fat. They don’t know why she stopped eating in the first place, and we have no clue. They did blood tests, an ultrasound, and x-rays, and hopefully we’ll have some better data to know what’s going on. The doctor was very optimistic, so I’m feeling better about things, but it was still painful to se Helsa like that. They’re going to get some fluids and food in her through IV so that should help as far as the liver is concerned. It sounds like if they can get her body some nutrients so it stops trying to process the fat, that will help the liver. The only problem is that “fatty liver” is generally symptomatic of something else, and we haven’t determined the deeper cause.

Record Streak Broken

Economics, Health

My sinuses do not get along with the rest of my body.

I seem to have contracted what I can only hope is a common cold, with all the symptoms to be expected with such a malady. Now beyond the normal yuckiness, this is espescially a bummer (technical term) because I haven’t gotten sick in a while. Not a while like my Dad, who is remarkably healthy, but long in Matt-time, about 3-4 months. This might not seem significant but if you’ve known me for a while you know that sometimes I’m liable to get sick a lot for extended periods of time. I credit my run of healthiness at least in part to my health-nut former economics teacher, who showed me the wisdom in good living. Overall I’m not too worried about this; I can judge these things pretty well by now and I should be able to get this out of the way pretty soon. Or at least I better–I’m too busy not to! Maybe that’s why I haven’t gotten sick lately, I just haven’t had time.

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Gallery, Health

In summary, the day was wonderful. The company was pleasant, the boat was spacious, the pictures came out great, and I even caught a fish. With all that, the highlight of the day was definitely the jet skis, which I probably spent about 2 hours or more on. The Yamaha WaveRunner I was on had a speedometer, and I’ve decided there is nothing quite like speeding across a glass–still lake at 52 miles per hour with the wind cooling the healthy sun shining down on you. I am so tired I can hardly type, so it’s going to be an early night for me.