I want…
This game for the PS2: Devil May Cry

Frustration
I wasn’t sure if I was going to post about this, but decided to because I think I need to let it out instead of keeping it bottled up inside. I got a call for a lung last night. Once again, I didn’t go in, but this one was kind of an odd situation.

The call came right around midnight (how come they always call late at night?). The doctor said they had a potential lung for me, but there were some details they had to let me know about. My understanding of it all is that the doner was a heavy drug user. Due to this, they pay extra attention to results for things like HIV. While they didn’t say if the doner was a needle user, the implication was there. In cases like this, they are required to let the patient know. The doctor indicated that while the tests came up negative, there was always a chance of something not showing up. The decision was mine and I decided to wait this one out. If I am going to be getting a lung I want it to be one with the smallest amount of risk.

Once again though, it felt like being thrown into an ice cold pond. I’m still a bit numb from the whole thing. I don’t feel scared like I did last time. More apprehensive. At least this time I can sleep.

Yay!
So I thought I’d missed the alum stuff for my high school at the head of the charles. It ends up they set up their booth this morning. So I got to go down for a bit and meet up with some folks. It’s kind of cool. I wish I got out to more NMH-Boston events.

On the other hand, I overdid it a bit so spent a good half hour coughing afterwards. I need to be careful about that.

Grumpy
Augh. I just realized that I missed the Head of the Charles today. I know it goes on tomorrow also, but today was the day my high school usually has an alum tent set up.

Animated Goodness
I just downloaded the first few episodes of Angelic Layer. So far I have to say it’s quite cool. Kinda cute, but note overly cute. And just enough hints of an interesting story. Of course, now I’ll have to track down the rest of the first 16 or so episodes.

Now I’m off to watch a few episodes of NieA_7.

Applescript XML-RPC thoughts
I’ve been thinking about blogscript, and how it’s so amazingly simple and useful. And of course, then I start thinking about other things I’d love a blogger client to do. I use Live Journal just a little bit. Mostly to keep up with my friends. One thing that is quite strong about LJ is that they have clients for many different operating systems. Some of them have some amazing features. For instance, there’s one that will query winamp to find out what song you have playing at the moment.

Now, my knowledge of applescript is still fairly immature, but I believe you could do much of the same thing in a client for blogger. Imagine having a small app where you could choose a template for how you want your post to appear. This would be different from the standard Blogger template. This would more control things in a normal post that Blogger doesn’t handle. Maybe you want to include what music you are playing. In my case I’ve started giving posts titles. Wouldn’t it be handy if you could define things that were in the actual post a bit more at the client side?

Apple is coming out with something called Applescript Studio that sounds quite interesting. It will enable you to make applescript apps that have the look and feel of OS X apps. I think once that comes out I may start looking into doing a nice little application like that. Of course that means I need to learn about XML-RPC a bit more. I wonder if that would mean I also have to learn more about XML?

Sometimes…
I wonders if my neighbors can hear me coughing. If so they must think I’m just about dying or something. It sounds worse then it feels much of the time.

Brownies Help
To make me feel better. Behold, the power of chocolate.

Bah
I so can’t wait for my next vacation. Today was a really hard day. I’m not really sure why at the moment. I was really depressed most of the day. I felt like I was right on the edge of crying almost all day. It was hellish.

I’m not used to feeling like that. I felt so out of control and I don’t like feeling out of control (at least when it isn’t buy choice). I don’t think I’m overtired at this point. I may just need a good nights sleep where I don’t have to wake up first thing.

Sorry for being a bit whiney today folks. I think I just need to get it out of my system. Tomorrow I hope to be back to my regular happy, bouncy self.

I hate phones
I have a user I support who lives in the seattle area and has a cable modem. She’s been having some issues with it and asked if we could call them since we understand the technical stuff more then she does. So I call the number she gives me at first and it seems to be a general information number for AT&T at home. When I call I get a recording that basicly says ‘Hello there. Currently AT&T at home is not available in your area. If you go to our web site you can sign up to be notified by email when it is available. Thank you. Goodbye’ and the phone hangs up. This has got to be one of the most obnoxious things I have ever experienced on the phone. Luckily, I was able to call the user and get a more direct number for customer support.