Derek is sick of those “Anti-Drug” Commercials. The one that annoyed me the most was the one where the teenage girl got pregnant while she was high. Um, okay. Why just target pot. It’s okay to drink kids, you won’t end up doing something you regret then.

I watched the buena vista video chinese version of Spirited Away. It totally has a red tint. I tried playing with the color white point/coolness settings between 9300 and 5000, etc. Not much help. I really hope the U.S. version doesn’t have the tint. I’m also glad I didn’t pre-order the Japanese version.

I love this movie. It was great seeing it again. It does feel kinda disjointed to me even though it makes sense overall. Not the smoothest flowing narrative, but one I enjoy. I am still undecided between Spirited Away and Kiki’s Delivery Service as my favorite Studio Ghibli/Miyazaki film.

I do indeed gravitate towards these coming of age type stories.

As usual with things like this, words fail. I’m hunting around to see if this is a photoshop job or real.

This is just a quick post to check the LJ mirroring.

I’ve changed blogging systems again. This time I’ve made the jump to Movable Type. I still like Radio, but it just isn’t quite the right fit for me.

The big issue for me is that Radio is powerful. Much more powerful than I was needing. It was also much more complex. In order for me to do anything I really had to go in and start mucking about in the code. And I never really felt comfortable with that. It also has felt like it is on a slightly slower development cycle than Movable Type.

So, I’ll still have it on my system. I still have to bring over all my category posts. The old comments are all gone unfortunately. MT doesn’t seem to have a good way to bring them over. I was a little annoyed with that, though I think I understand it. The pages beyond this one haven’t been converted over to the new look and feel, but I’m going to work on that more later today.

Here we go again!

I’ve been feeling pretty run down the last few days. Mostly from a cold. But today around early afternoon I just wasn’t feeling right. I felt like I was trying really hard to catch my breath and it just wasn’t happening. I put on my oxygen and had it going for a good half hour and it just wasn’t getting better. It was kind of weird because I could feel my heart pounding. I finally decide that I needed to go to the hospital around 4:30 and quickly found a friend of mine who was online (thanks Hank!) and who could come bring me.

About 40 minutes later I got to Brigham and Womens Hospital. There are ones closer to me, but this is where I’ve been going for all my lung stuff. I shuffled up to the desk in the emergency room and croaked out that I was having trouble breathing and was quickly wisked away to have my vitals taken. 5 minutes after that they had me in a bed all hooked up to EKGs and more oxygen. It seems my heart was racing at over 200 bpm. Not good. They gave me a shot of something (I honestly can’t remember what it was, they told me, but I was kinda lightheaded right around then). The stuff basicly slowed down my heart a bit to let it relax a moment, and after it took effect my heart was beating at a fairly normal rate again.

I guess this is something that can happen to people who have pulmonary problems. I’ve just been lucky enough to not have it happen at all before. They ran some blood tests, talked with my pulmonologist, and let me come home.

Right now I’m exhausted, but kinda wired. It feels good to not be gasping for breath and feeling like it isn’t doing anything. Not something I want to go through again anytime soon. I have to say though that the staff at BWH rocked. They had me right in there and were working on me so fast my head was spinning (even more than it was already). I’m glad I chose to go there.

So I’m okay now, tired, cranky, eating a burger and thinking about turning in a little early.

Because everyone keeps asking. Yes, I’m still sick. This cold is kicking my ass in so many ways it isn’t funny. But, the good side is I’m trying to sleep lots and get over it. Insert generic whining here.

Just a few days ago we’re in the middle of a massive snowstorm, now it’s 46 degrees out. This is crazy. Time to hope that spring gets here soon.

It seems that LiveJournal has been under a DDOS attack since early this morning. This is part of the reason I like hosting my own blog, I don’t like having to rely on other people.

I’m feeling a little better, but still in the midst of a cold. I’ve slept tons since yesterday at around 2pm. I’m gonna grab a bite of breakfast type stuff and then sleep again I think. My head is so stuffed up everything is in a haze.