thursday comes too soon.

[rootofnewt]

I'm on the precipice of a major crash and in the throes of a worse flare than usual. I seem to be pulling away from the brink of the crash, though, the pain of the flare isn't subsiding. It never does. I was able to drive yesterday for a short period and I was able to get to and from the coffeeshop today. Still can't make it to the grocery store--WF is just too far away. We have plenty of food, though.

I think some of the candy I bought for Hallowe'en has hidden gluten in it. My scalp is on fire and hideous and nasty. I'm rashy elsewhere, too, but it's my scalp that drives me mad. Oh, well, my teeth and stomach don't need the candy, anyhow. Now that I'm sure it's the candy, I definitely won't eat anymore--it's not worth the risk. I'll make boy take more to wanderyng1's D&D campaign next week.

Saw ez_mo and the kids yesterday, eilonwy last night. Jenna drove to the stitch & bitch, so we had knitting chat and such. It was a nice evening--I just wished I'd been able to remember Ali's number when I tried to call (major brain fog).

I hate Daylight Savings switchovers. We don't have DST in the part of Indiana where I grew up. As such, the seasonal changes were gradual--no sudden jumps of daylight in one direction or another. I didn't know anyone with SAD, either, but that might've just been a chance occurence during my idyllic childhood. Now, all of a sudden, it's dark at suppertime. I like night, but I dislike sudden changes. I wish the country would pick one time system or another and stick with it. Plus, I keep underestimating sunset, so I can't make it to the dogpark on time. I need to pay more attention to the sky during the day.

Without the laptop, I've been reading a lot. That's good, especially since I haven't been able to move much from the couch. Apple is replacing it, but they can't provide a complete backup of the old one. We're going to try to boot it up as an external drive if we can find a friend with enough HD space to move a large chunk at once. Moving bits and pieces is fine, except we never know when the connection will up and die. We have some pretty sensitive info on the machine and need to get it off before we ship it back to Apple.

Time to go rest again and read a bit. I'll try to pull together some food in a bit. My latté will keep me going for awhile, but solid food would be good, too.

Comments

[datagoddess.livejournal.com]

We don't have DST in the part of Indiana where I grew up.

You need the past tense there, now. We start observing DST with the next switch.

[krasota.livejournal.com]

I heard that was coming. Idiots.

However, it's not in effect right now--the US is back on standard time, in line with Indiana.

Idiots.

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

AUGH, there go all my trivia test answers! I'll have to learn new things! I'll never cope!

[marnanel.livejournal.com]

We're going to try to boot it up as an external drive if we can find a friend with enough HD space to move a large chunk at once. Moving bits and pieces is fine, except we never know when the connection will up and die. We have some pretty sensitive info on the machine and need to get it off before we ship it back to Apple.

How much space are we talking about? I have 17 gig free on the laptop, and I could leave it plugged in overnight. Pinkstuff has 20 gig free, and a much faster connection.

[krasota.livejournal.com]

I don't think we have a firewire cable long enough. ;) The issue with the laptop is a logic board/display failure, so remote connections won't really help--I need another monitor in front of me and a very direct connection.

I appreciate the offer, but I'll have to go harangue some local friends. :)

[onceupon.livejournal.com]

*hug*

Take care, hon. I know you always do, but....

[wanderyng1.livejournal.com]

I know nothing about Mac hardware, is it a standard IDE interface? I just upgraded to a 300 GB hard drive, so I've got oodles of room to use to hold data. My windows partition may not be able to do it, but I think my Linux partition should handle Mac data just fine.

[laverick.livejournal.com]

I feel you. Take especially good care of yourself. (((hugs)))

[dahliablue.livejournal.com]

The more I experience, study and research SAD, the more I'm convinced that a lot less people would feel it so severely if we stopped with the time changes.