Audioplosion

Posted: 14 October 2004 at 18:24:53

Working late for the third night of four nights this week. Thought I’d take a short break to post a short blog.

Final presidential debate

I listened to the debate via streaming MP3 audio last night while I was working. I thought the president did very well. Kerry did well too, of course. He’s such a good debator. He’s the master debator. Hee hee.

Ear explosions

Starting about a week ago, I had a swelling in my neck and around my ear. I thought it was related to a head cold I’d been dealing with last week... so I went to WebMD to read about swolen glands in the neck. The advice from WebMD was to use warm washcloths to encourage blood flow to the area and drink lots of fluids.

After this had gone on for four or five days without any real improvement, I called the doctor on Monday and went in to have it checked out. The doctor said I had an ear infection and gave me a prescription of antibiotics.

So, I’ve been taking these antibiotics for 2 or 3 days now. This morning, I woke up to find something in my ear had burst and fluid was draining out. I guess this is a good thing, right? Things are on the mend, right? Well, I could hear find up until this morning. I’d say I’ve got a 10-15 decibel loss in my right ear now. I hope it clears itself up over the next day or so.

Workin late

I’ve been working late (e.g. to 8 or 9 p.m.) most nights this week. We’ve got some courseware to get out by the end of the week.

Fortunately, Iodynamics is slow this week, so it hasn’t been too painful for me to put in the extra hours at Guru Labs.

It’s been really interesting working with Stuart and Evan here at Guru Labs. No, it’s been fun! It’s been great. I don’t get to work with geeks in person when I’m working at home. And when I do go out, it’s usually to do some work at a clients’ office and they don’t know anything about technology or computers... that’s why they’ve hired me!

So, yeah, it’s been fun. It gets ridiculous at times when we all brainstorm on evil things we could do to people’s Linux systems and cackle and grin. Well, see, we’re working on a troubleshooting thing this week and we’ve had to write a bunch of scripts that break a Linux system and then the students taking the class have to figure out what’s happened and fix the broken stuff. Anyway- we sit around and talk about what would be "really evil" to do to a system. Heh. It’s fun and totally geeky.