In the latest twist of the Iraq saga, Army officials have apparently banned the use of any armor other than that issued by the military. That's just stupid.
I appreciate that you don't want someone to feel that they are safe when they are not. I appreciate that something defective may cause some sort of harm. But when you can't provide the armor, you can't tell them that they'll just have to do without.
This morning I dropped another pill. Rather, I didn't drop another pill. So I'm now just taking a single 100mg pill at night. That means one week to go. Assuming no problems along the way. Thus far it's been fine, but I am feeling a bit lightheaded. No idea or explanation at this point. But no headaches either. We'll see what happens.
I woke up about 2:30 this morning and my head was just pounding. I've been trying not to take any other medications since I started on Zonegran, to try and keep things as clear-cut as possible, but at that time of morning, I just wanted it to stop. So I took something. I managed to get back to bed and sleep for another couple of hours.
When I could sleep no more, around 6:00am, I took another 200mg pill, and that carried me through lunch or thereabouts. Unfortunately I had no more easy access to the bottle or I likely would have taken even more - but I didn't, since the bag was overhead in a bin. I took one more 200mg pill before going to bed at about 11pm, for a total of 600mg during the day.
We took a whirlwind trip to Chicago over the weekend, stopping in for a few bites to eat, to take in a show and to visit the two of the three tallest buildings in the city. We made our plans last Wednesday, having planned well in advance to have a spontaneous trip over the weekend. Odd, I know, but we do what we can.
Since we didn't make it out to any shows the night before, we decided to try and find something to do on our last night before heading home, and since we didn't want to stay out too late, we found the 5pm showing of Tony n' Tina's Wedding to be perfect for our needs. We showed up about 4:30pm, as instructed, and settled right in.
The cast of the show started filling the area not long after, with a photographer and videographer making the rounds, as well as various siblings and other wedding party members mingling with the growing crowd. Just before 5pm, we filed into the Chapel of Love for the ceremony itself, and witnessed the tying of the knot - for somewhere around the 3700th time (figuring 6 times per week for 12 years now).
We stayed two nights in this hotel, just a short distance from Chicago's O'Hare airport. The hotel offers a free shuttle service to and from the airport that runs about every 20 minutes, you can take the CTA blue line, which is just a 5-minute walk from the front door of the hotel, or I'm sure you can call a cab too (we didn't use a cab at all).
The rooms of the hotel are nice, if a bit modern. The noise of the airport isn't bad, though there is an airplane headed overhead from time to time that you can hear. For being so close to one of the world's busiest airports, it's surprisingly quiet. Our room had no bathtub in it, which wasn't a big deal, but if for some reason you like a tub, this might be an issue for you. Check to see if they have one.
I didn't sleep too well again last night, but I think it was more because of the excitement of our pending trip than anything. Even though we don't need to leave the house until about 7:30, and I rarely sleep past 7:00am anyway, I just have to make sure I don't oversleep. The good news is that the headache that just won't go away has pretty much gone away. Hopefully it will not return for a while. Have a great weekend!
Scuttle version 0.7.1 has been released. Hopefully the feed problem being parsed at Bloglines is fixed, so I'll be a little more timlely on these things in the future.
Even though the Embassy Suites breakfast was calling me, I didn't sleep very well last night. Still, I'm feeling pretty good today. I think that means that I'm doing well on the lower dosage of Dilantin. I sure hope so.
This morning the Tivo displayed a message telling me that it had some new software, and now sported a Recently Deleted folder. No more confirming deletions, and they were instead moved to this folder, where you could recover them if needed. I like it.
Though I didn't really have need of it, a couple items deleted prior to this software update were found in this folder when the update was applied. Neat.
I also think the main menu changed, putting the Programs to Record selection at #3, below Watch Live TV. I never use that option, so I wish it were at #2 instead, but it's better than being at the bottom of the list.
