Why is it that when I watch a YouTube clip in LiveJournal, every later different clip appears to be that same earlier clip?

These people will tell you everything about this phone except what variety of microSD card it can handle. I mean, can it handle SDHC cards, or do I stick with the cards maxing out at 2 gb?

I'm exploring Dreamwidth again. It's developing, but not nearly as quickly as I had expected, and certainly not in any of the directions I would have liked. Still, it's safe, and nice to have a place other than LiveJournal where I can fall to in case LJ decides to go Dark Empire on us all and demand total and unrelenting subservience. I can see it happening.

I am attempting to draw the cats again. Mind you, this is sheer stupidity on my part because once they see you looking at them, they know in their Evil Little Hearts what you are doing, and then they move. So I am getting a lot of half- or quarter-formed sketches of cat faces and cat bodies. And switching back and forth between them as a given cat moves between poses.

The Strattera continues to be interesting. Minor dizziness I am not sure wasn't in force before it came along, blown sleep schedule I am continuing to have trouble taming, and panic attacks if I do not take enough water with the pills. Yeah, Sweetie cannot imagine it is the pills that are giving me the panic attacks, but I just know what I experience. Dry swallowing these things is the worst idea imaginable.

Restless nights, too, meaning I am either up easily until 2:30am, or I awaken at or just before midnight and spend the next three hours lying in the darkness trying to think of something to do which does not involve light or motion.

As a result of this early morning wakefulness, writing has taken off like there's no tomorrow (reflected in the late-night wakefulness as it refuses to shut down at a reasonable hour and let me sleep) and drawing is actually happening.

This brings us full circle to the insane matter of drawing cats. I certainly have enough photos of the furry little suckers, so what I really ought to be doing is clearing out some space in front of my computer for sketching on and then bringing up photos and doing my best with something that is not going to decide on its own to change position again.

So when it turns out I've stayed up too late, what do I do?

( Let the near-endless rambling begin! )

Well, bottom line, I guess I have to make the calls and write the notes that let people know I'm not going into town tomorrow.

Changing the time I take my medication from evening before bed to morning turns out to be non-trivial. First I feel like I'm going to have a heart attack in another second, then I feel panicky over the slightest things, and now I'm waiting to see what happens next. Sweetie is the only thing in this entire house keeping me from freaking out completely.

Some weird thing keeps happening with Firefox: the mouse pointer vanishes, and only appears when the pointer is in motion. As soon as the pointer stops, it vanishes again. Rebooting seemed to help for a little while, but then it started disappearing again. Dunno.

Outside of Firefox, the pointer is always visible, even when motionless. Utterly weird.

Waiting to stop panicking.

I've discovered a really great J-Pop band called Plus-Tech Squeeze Box. No, really.

They do the tune at the end of the show Pucca, and they have two albums out. The trouble is, Japan apparently isn't willing to share them with the world at this time. Their first album isn't yet available through Amazon, and their second album has been discontinued as an imported album.

WTF?

Their music is all over YouTube. It's very fast, and would make great heart attack quality dance music, if I read that scene correctly. :)

Through careful searching, I've discovered three torrents, of which the first two are stopped at a very low level with absolutely nobody (as yet) having the entire set of files. I'll leave it going for a week to see if I get it. Maybe I can get one of those torrents going again.

The third includes one of their albums (the latest one) as part of a compilation.

Does anyone out there know of this band or where their music can be gleaned? Admittedly, as proven elsewhere, my Google-Fu is not strong.

Would someone (probably almost anyone) who can pick out lyrics better than I can please listen to the song at the end of this video and tell me what the lyrics are?

hesperide, this is entitled Hooray For Bollywood. I get some of the jokes but I think you'll get a lot more of them than I.



(Edit - Stupid YouTube wasn't linking properly)

In the list of side effects insomnia is listed, but this is the other way around.

Sure, okay, I have a feeling of energy all the time when I'm awake. It's very easy to not realize I've been up for twenty hours without sleep because I don't particularly feel tired.

When I do lie down to sleep, I can certainly do so. What was happening before was I'd sleep between four to six hours and then wake up energetic. Naps were mainly happening because of boredom or cold, and not because I actually felt tired.

Now when I sleep, the only things that wake me are my bladder or outside influences like Sweetie. I've slept 12 hours in a session and then done it again the very next day, without feeling groggy or drained on waking the way I used to before taking the pills.

Anyway, I'm still going to be taking these pills at this dosage for another 12 days. Then I see the psychiatrist and we decide what happens next.

So far, the primary thing I've seen happen because of this drug at 80mg is it has a certain effect that changes after about a week, and then you get another effect. No effect remains (beyond general alertness) beyond the roughly one week period. I fear this might continue to be true if I went to another dosage.

So far the most positive effects I got were at 40mg, which is not considered a therapeutically effective dose.

It feels like 100% guesswork figuring out what will work and what won't.

Statistics of the world, compared over time.

Cheap 3D Printing media - Now all I have to do is get a 3D printer and make a place for it in our cat-filled home.

More news on the Electric Vehicle front:
The TED talk explaining it.
The company behind it.

Okay, I've been having an interesting adventure today.

( Recap: )

Off to play some World of Warcraft, to see what I can get accomplished before going to bed.

Balldroppings - a musical toy.
Turn up your speakers and try to catch the balls with the drawn line.

ssatva fed me vegetarian gumbo today. The highlight was when I found the "bone", which turned out to be a piece of the wooden spoon he was using to make the gumbo.

Somehow it seems appropriate that vegetarian gumbo would contain a wooden "bone". :)

Went to sleep at 8pm and awoke at 12:30am. I guess that's my baseline. If I go to bed at 8pm again tonight, theoretically I'll sleep an hour or two longer, and that progression can just continue until I'm sleeping 8 hours again.

My uvula is almost normal-sized again, so no more choking or gagging problems today.

I played WoW again last night after a month-and-a-half absence. I had to go back to Saurfang again because Silvermoon was so laggy...and then Saurfang got laggy, so I don't know what's going on anymore. I'm not really drawn to the game at this point. I may have to look for something else to explore for a while. Many of the games that sound even vaguely interesting are either games you have to buy at a store (Warhammer Online), or that aren't available to play yet (the names are escaping me at the moment). This is apparently the between times, when there really isn't anything available for people like me who don't love First Person Shooters or something like them (such as WoW). I think I'm ready for another look at A Tale In The Desert again, although there's a set of games by a company named Aeria which look pretty enough to explore (and they're free to boot). I'm looking at a game called Twelve Sky.

Writing is kinda sluggish. The initial writing was lively, but the plot hinged on details I have no personal experience with, and so it fell apart. I frankly wish the plot had fallen apart more quickly so I wouldn't have had time to put as much energy into it as I did, but that's water under the bridge now. I haven't quite given up on the other ideas inherent in the plot, but without the core of inspiration the writing is slow. It'll remain a minor disappointment until I can get new inspiration.

I took a cue from the cats and tried sleeping on my forehead. That position seemed to place the uvula where I wasn't either choking or gagging on it.

When I woke up, I found my uvula had shrunk a little, so I'm now attempting to eat something spicy.

It's still pendulous enough that it flips forward and gets caught at the back of my throat, not going back to its usual position until swallowed, but I can cope with that. As long as it doesn't get any bigger. :)

The little dangly at the back of my throat is very large right now. It awakened me from a sound sleep because I was choking on it. Right now I'm somewhere between choking on it, getting ready to throw up because of it, and just able to breathe around it.

I can really imagine dying of asphyxiation because of this. Ick.

So, great, I can't sleep now. How do I shrink this thing?

Edit: This makes day three I'm short on sleep because of one thing or another. Of course, since the dangly is the early warning system or something, this means I'm almost certain to get sick unless I do something fast, but I really fear I will choke if I try to consume vitamin tablets.

NOT fun.

It's sometimes interesting when you see a song title and think you're going to get one song, and then you get another.

( The song is called Invincible. )

It's actually a pretty fun song. Sarcastic, but fun. :)

Awake at 2:32pm.

5 hours of sleep. Sigh.

I'm going to try to go to sleep now.

I pray to His Noodley Greatness I can actually sleep and not just lie there on the bed like an idiot.