Just a quick interlude into the life of someone with IPF.
I woke up about 20 minutes ago and started coughing. I’m never quite sure if I started coughing and it woke me or I just happened to start after waking up. This isn’t any ordinary coughing. Imagine coughing where it seems to come from deep in your lungs and you feel it all the way up to your neck. And you just cough hard, again and again, enough that you almost can’t breath. It feels like you might be trying to cough up some phlegm, but usually there is none. It’s hard to tell what makes it stop. I usually end up on the couch, not moving much, sipping water. I take a bit of Robitussin-DM and that always seems to help out some. After about 15-20 minutes it seems to calm down and I can go crawl back into bed. One of my actual thoughts is that I’ve coughed so much I don’t have the energy to cough more.

In some ways the cough is the worst part of this for me. From what I understand, people with IPF seem to be go the whole range on this issue. Some are heavy coughers like me, while some don’t seem to have quite as much an issue with it. In some ways, I think the second of the two would be worse. It was the coughing that let me to the Doctor’s office to have it investigated. If it wasn’t for that I would have just thought I was really out of shape.

I seem to be calmed now for the most part, so I’m going to head back to sleep.

So lately I’ve taken to just have a copy of my web server’s log file streaming in a window in the corner of my screen. Usually there just isn’t much happening there. But every once in a while I get a spurt of traffic and I wonder just who might be looking at my site. Like today I saw someone hit my dj page and download just about every set, or at least attempt to. It’s kinda weird. So often I forget that anyone but me ever looks at my web site.

I added a little mood indicator thing to my page. I’m not sure if I’ll keep it. I’m not quite sure what I think of it. But for now it’ll stay.

LOTD: People Cards
Who said that only celebs and sports starts can be on trading cards. These cards have everyday ordinary people on them. You can even apply to be on one of them yourself!

Just a quick plug to promote myself here. For those of you in the Boston area, I’m spinning at the Phoenix Landing next Wed night (the 18th). It should be a fun night. The Phoenix Landing has been a big goal of mine since I started DJing. So this is a very symbolic event for me (and I’m trying not to put too much pressure on myself because of it).

LOTD: Launchcast
This site’s here because it was done for a while, and I’d almost assumed for good, but has been back now for some length of time I guess. I dig this site because I have my own ‘radio station’ and they are actually quite good at playing just what I like. There’s a link to the left to listen to my station specificly. (Now, if they’d just have more good electronic music it would have the full range of stuff I like).

So I saw the Final Fantasy movie last night.
While I wasn’t sure what I thought of it at first, after a bit of thought I’ve decided that I really did like it. I thought the movie definitely rocked for the kind of movie it was. The animation was stunning. I definitely knew I was watching something animated the whole time. I don’t think we’re at the point yet where we can have animated actors take the roles of real people, but it was still amazing. The level of detail in the animation was stunning, I can’t even imagine how long it took them to do all that work. The one area I felt it was lacking is something I’m not sure if I can describe well. I felt that the voice actors and the animation didn’t always quite fit with each other. It was like the levels of expression weren’t quite the same.

Anyways, I definitely recommend this movie. (Though I have a feeling it’s the kind of movie that won’t necessarily have a wide appeal to people.)

There are too many things in my life that beep, chirp, whatever. This morning in the space of about 5 minutes, the on-call pager went off, I got a page on my phone, and my alarm clock went off, followed by another page on the pager. I almost threw it out the window. I hate the sounds these things make. I think I’m going to put as many things on vibrate as I can.

LOTD: newsblogger
For those folks who are want to keep updated on the news, or who want to have a way to send news posts to their blog (works specificly with blogger). It’s pretty slick I must say.

On the nethack note. Literally 15 minutes after posting the message this morning I died. I’m sure my posting about it caused it. I had one of those great nethack deaths though. I stepped on a square, got polymorphed into a paper golem, grabbed by an eel, was dragged underwater, and drowned in the space of about 3 turns. Bah.

POCK!
Well, I haven’t died stupidly (yet) in my lastest game of nethack. But I’m quite psyched because I think it is so far the best game of nethack I’ve played in the FOURTEEN years I’ve played this game. I’m already up to 22nd level and have completed the first quest. (god I’m such a geek).

LOTD for today: Headline Haikus
A little bit of silly for your Tuesday (It is Tuesday isn’t it?)

No real news today. I’m all groggy for some reason. I think I need a serious vacation. I’m considering taking a week off at the end of the month to just get out of MA and RELAX. A roadtrip around the northeast is sounding about my speed. Hopefully I’ll get to stop in and visit friends I haven’t seen in ages.

So I’m working on making my blog show 7 days worth of posts. I’d thought it was set to that and discovered that it was actually set to only show the last 5 posts. I may end up tweaking it a bit. I have a feeling that seven days may be a bit two long and that five days may end up being much better.

I finished the first part of my redesign of the help desk system I’m writing. I’m about to put it into beta at work. So far it at least looks much nicer then the old one.