Today was just...
Dec. 7th, 2007 10:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elfsToday was a beast. I had physical therapy at 7:30 this morning, and Ashley was just cruel. Extra weights on the ankles, a new exercise for my hips, the whole kit and caboodle of viciousness. My knee, however, is doing well and if I maintain my regimen over the next four weeks I should be able to go back to using stairclimbers and other advanced training materials.
After that, I had my annual eye exam. Now, you have to understand that to me, my eyes have been getting bad for some time. So I went in today and he checked my eyes against the prescription, did the glaucoma test, all that fun stuff. And when it was all over he told me that my eyes were 20/20R, 20/20(-1)L, which is apparently normal. The problem being, I used to have 20/10 vision and I miss it. So he wrote out a prescription for progressives that will give me back the vision I want. And when I showed him my ebook reader, the Palm V on the standard font size. He said, "You're quite lucky. By your age, most people can't read that at all."
For the rest of the day, my eyes itched. I couldn't really even see until about 1:00pm. I did get more testing done with WATIR, although my boss urged me to find a solution that used Python instead. The closed I came was something called DogTail. It only works on Epiphany, not Firefox or Internet Explorer; the Epiphany example says at the top of the demo file "This does not work"; it's not portable to Windows.
And the rest of my team is already Ruby-savvy and digging WATIR.
Kusanagi would boot, then freeze. Then boot, then freeze. I field stripped Kusanagi down to the motherboard, replacing the keyboard, blowing as much dust off the motherboard as I could, and replacing everything that could be replaced with spare parts![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
fallenpegasus had given me: RAM chips, ethernet card, modem, DVD player. None of it helped. I eventually put the hard drive back into Lain. It's not great-- I can use Thunderbird, or I can use Firefox, but not both, and they can't be left running-- but it does mean that I'm not totally out of the loop. If I put one of Kusanagi's RAM into Lain, the BIOS says "256MB chip, yum!" and then refuses to boot. So I'm stuck at 128MB.
Kouryou-chan has a friend from school doing a sleepover tonight. They watched Disney's Fantasia and ate Omaha's delicious coconut batter fried shrimp dinner, and all three girls are right now getting ready for bed. There's a lot of giggling going on. I should go check on them.
After that, I had my annual eye exam. Now, you have to understand that to me, my eyes have been getting bad for some time. So I went in today and he checked my eyes against the prescription, did the glaucoma test, all that fun stuff. And when it was all over he told me that my eyes were 20/20R, 20/20(-1)L, which is apparently normal. The problem being, I used to have 20/10 vision and I miss it. So he wrote out a prescription for progressives that will give me back the vision I want. And when I showed him my ebook reader, the Palm V on the standard font size. He said, "You're quite lucky. By your age, most people can't read that at all."
For the rest of the day, my eyes itched. I couldn't really even see until about 1:00pm. I did get more testing done with WATIR, although my boss urged me to find a solution that used Python instead. The closed I came was something called DogTail. It only works on Epiphany, not Firefox or Internet Explorer; the Epiphany example says at the top of the demo file "This does not work"; it's not portable to Windows.
And the rest of my team is already Ruby-savvy and digging WATIR.
Kusanagi would boot, then freeze. Then boot, then freeze. I field stripped Kusanagi down to the motherboard, replacing the keyboard, blowing as much dust off the motherboard as I could, and replacing everything that could be replaced with spare parts
fallenpegasus had given me: RAM chips, ethernet card, modem, DVD player. None of it helped. I eventually put the hard drive back into Lain. It's not great-- I can use Thunderbird, or I can use Firefox, but not both, and they can't be left running-- but it does mean that I'm not totally out of the loop. If I put one of Kusanagi's RAM into Lain, the BIOS says "256MB chip, yum!" and then refuses to boot. So I'm stuck at 128MB.Kouryou-chan has a friend from school doing a sleepover tonight. They watched Disney's Fantasia and ate Omaha's delicious coconut batter fried shrimp dinner, and all three girls are right now getting ready for bed. There's a lot of giggling going on. I should go check on them.
