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[piranha]

sick with weird abdominal pain, which, as far as i can figure, isn't appendicitis, gallstones, kidneystones, or anything else obvious; i don't have a fever, i am not nauseated, i am passing gas normally and had a bowel movement ... umm. yesterday? i think. i shall have to pay better attention. this is day 3 of this weirdness; it got worse for a while, but today it's at the same level as the first day.

anyway; this is here because my MT installation is fuxx0red to the point where i can't make entries anymore, and i can't be bothered to fix it right now. tried to repair tables, which it did, but that didn't get me any further. i do so not want to crawl inside a mysql database. hell, i've wanted to switch to wordpress anyway, so i'll be doing that as soon as i can sit behind the computer again without crunching my body in weird ways so it doesn't hurt too badly.

order from powell's that i made while in CA came in, and the paramour picked it up for me (*praise*). nice, big haul of esoteric stuff, which makes me happy. chowed through bradley denton's lunatics already tonight, which was definitely odd for a work of fantasy; it felt more like a mainstream novel with the addition of a goddess who drops in once a month. i liked the dialogue, but i didn't really care for most of the people; it was very much like "the big chill"; i wanted to slap the people for not communicating. but the goddess was cool, and gave me ideas to spin off her.

now i'll crawl back to bed and try to settle so the pain isn't too sharp, and will start on gwyneth jones' white queen which iain banks says is "a triumph of the depiction of otherness", and he should damn well know. :)

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[crazed-lynn.livejournal.com]

Sharp pain? In one place or is it moving around. Ulcer?

Wordpress looks interesting. One of my housemates is looking for a blog that will fit his needs and hasn't had a lot of luck. From what I know of his wants, this looks good. I like the fact that it is standards compliant (although that doesn't mean the html/css stuff will work in all browsers. :)

I wish they had added postgresql, but I'll live. I might look at the code and see if that can be fixed. But, for simple uses, mysql is fine.

I've had to learn more and more php lately. The newer releases seem quite nice. I'm hooked on tcl, though. :) Still, php seems to be fast with it's templates.

Love. Hope you feel better quickly and that it is nothing but a momentary upset

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[pir-anha.livejournal.com]

pretty localized. don't think it'an ulcer. don't actually feel it's anything serious, and i tend to trust my feelings about that sort of stuff.

it actually feels like how muscles feel after a serious cramp. which makes no sense to me because cramps wake me up (oh, do they ever), and i've never had a cramp in my abdominal muscles. maybe one of my amazingly vivid dreams featured a muscle cramp and my muscles are reacting to it? that would be extremely weird, but i have, at times, had really mild physical symptoms after experiencing something in a dream.

wordpress is my choice for a number of reasons, including that they're aware of wikis and some of the "one big soup" issues of interconnecting all the various communications software.

thanks for the good wishes!

[daev.livejournal.com]

chowed through bradley denton's lunatics already tonight, which was definitely odd for a work of fantasy; it felt more like a mainstream novel with the addition of a goddess who drops in once a month. i liked the dialogue, but i didn't really care for most of the people; it was very much like "the big chill"; i wanted to slap the people for not communicating. but the goddess was cool, and gave me ideas to spin off her.

I always feel like I ought to like Brad Denton a lot more than I do. Buddy Holly Is Alive And Well On Ganymede felt like it wanted to be a romp through the weirder parts of Southern culture, but ended up with a plot that just made no sense. Lunatics had a neat Austin setting and the whole amusing Macguffin of the moon goddess who only descends when you get nekkid, but it spent all its time inside the heads of those all-too-familiar aging self-centered Baby Boomers, and their whiny pettiness couldn't carry any story I cared about. The one really memorable thing I carried away from the book was that great description of the desirability of a mature woman, someone with "the lines on her face to show that she knew a few things" (as opposed to the skinny little adolescents that the character was surrounded by as a University professor) -- a nifty bit of table-turning that steered clear of the typical "middle-aged affair" subplot I was dreading.

[eub.livejournal.com]

Ow. Hope your abdomen improves soon.

Hey, over here I can post "eeeeeee textures (http://www.livejournal.com/users/piranha_gooroos/221792.html)!".

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[pir-anha.livejournal.com]

*grin*. glad you like them!

[lcohen]

i'm behind but peeked ahead to see that you are feeling better. for which i am glad. may it continue so.