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Wednesday, July 30, 2003
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HAPPY 11th BIRTHDAY CLEMENTINE!
Tonight, we celebrated Clem's 11th birthday at Clemmie's favorite home in the whole world: at Bob Manley's, Peg Mentele's, and Rowdy's abode. Clem feels that Peg is the only person in the world who truly understands the depth of Bouvier needs - such as unlimited clams in white wine sauce.
9:47:55 PM 
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Yesterday, on NPR's Fresh Air, Terry Gross interviewed Laura Hillenbrand, the author of Seabiscuit and a Chronic Fatigue Syndrome sufferer. The interview was quite good - the first half focused on Seabiscuitity stuff. The second half covered Hillenbrand's experience with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. Click here to listen to the interview.
It was quite interesting to hear Hillenbrand verbalize what it was like to write Seabiscuit while basically incapacitated by CFS. In particular, her vertigo symptoms were and still are, off the scale.
They also discussed Hillenbrand's recent New Yorker CFS article. Terry wondered if the meteor and the deer were fever induced hallucinations - as I also wondered. Hillenbrand is not sure - but they have become "metaphoric to her."
Hillenbrand stated that she wrote the article to give one patient's perspective and also to document what the disorder does to you. She told Terry that she could not get compentent medical care and could not get doctors to take her seriously. That is almost a universal experience among CFS sufferers. One has to look very hard to find good medical care when CFS becomes a part of one's life.
6:40:58 PM
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 A pile of street signs next to my office building. Denali Street is undergoing major surgery, which leads to highly entertaining work access and parking.
6:24:58 PM
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Hewey is back!!!!!
I sent Hewey, my HP Pavillion zu1175 laptop, back to the Mothership last Thursday for repairs. His fan was dying a very loud and painful death. HP replaced the fan. I think they also replaced my keyboard. It feels brand new! Which is quite nice.
I actually have a theory as to why the fan went kablooie - this is the 2nd time I've had the fan replaced. Radio, my weblogging tool, spins up (checks) every 10 seconds for material to be upstreamed or RSS posts to be downstreamed. As a result, Hewey's disk gets hit quite a bit which drives the fan into overload. I also think the fan design on this machine is probably a tad flawed. So those two factors conspire to cause fan burnout.
I think I'm going to turn Radio off unless I am actually blogging. That should help the situation.
6:15:42 PM
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