Random Rants 94 I rant at the thread title and shake my fist menacingly.

[Takhisis]

Tuesday evening I bought my first lisence for any MS product

Now this is a Rant.

 

[GenMarshall]

In many places it's just AltGr + E.

It turns out that there is a specific keyboard setting called ‘English-US with Euro on 5’ which actually makes AltGr+5 be the key for the Euro symbol.

Reject € , embrace ¥

 

[Broken_Erika]

Reject € , embrace ¥

Pffffffffffffffffft! Reject Currency! Embrace Barterism! All trade in Farm Animals!

 

[Takhisis]

I could become a Yen Buddhist, I suppose. For tax purposes.

What's this Baterism thing?

 

[Broken_Erika]

What's this Baterism thing?

My Keyboad pobably not woking popely at time of post.
Seriously though, i probably will need a new keyboard soon and the model i have isn't available anywhere.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

My hand hurts. A lot.

I accidentally banged my right little finger into a door jamb yesterday. It's not broken, but hurts quite a bit. I did manage to get my NaNo words done last night, and hoped it wouldn't hurt as much today.

It still does, and typing's not easy. I'm still going to try, though, because it would take a lot longer to do 1700 words/day by hand than by typing.

 

[sophie]

Injection went like HORSEHOCKY today.

Went once, felt totally wrong, had to bail and change needles, second one still hurt

 

[JohannaK]

Oh **** I do need to inject today. Thanks for the reminder.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

Water shutoffs two days in a row. The plumbing in this building is so far beyond aggravating.

This is why I never use my dishwasher that's built-in. I don't want to be the reason they have to do a shutoff AGAIN (happens every time something leaks).

It's also why I keep bottled water around.

 

[PhroX]

I'm getting increasing irate about how hard it is to find proper grapefruit juice these days. Most places only sell the pink version which, though nice, doesn't have the mouth-puckering sharpness that is the entire point of grapefruit....

 

[The_J]

I have a tongue infection o_O, which is pretty annoying.

2 days ago I dreamed I heard my alarm, and woke up from that in the middle of the night .

 

[Synobun]

I got diagnosed with obstructive sleep apnea earlier this week. The doctor was nonchalant about the whole thing and didn't have much to suggest in way of treatment besides shelling out thousands for a CPAP.

While that would be annoying by itself, what is mostly bothering me is that the results actually suggest central hypopnea more than obstructive apnea. I don't stop breathing and I don't snore. My vitals (heart rate and blood oxygen %) remain steady even throughout episodes. My breathing becomes shallow and it triggers me to wake up, but seemingly I'm still getting the proper amount of air despite that. The doctor wasn't interested in investigating why this happens either, so I'm left to my own devices in trying to figure things out. That's nothing new for someone medically complex, but c'mon.

Anyway, I would not be surprised if the cause is diaphragm/core weakness or inflammation of some sort. I wake up completely ~15 times a night and have ~15 episodes of shallow breathing for more than 10 seconds every hour when I'm on my side, and ~35 episodes while on my back. Weakness would explain why it's worse on my back since it's more difficult to complete a breathing cycle that way, whereas it's easier to breathe when you're on your side and stomach. That's a total guess though, since the sleep clinic just gave me a prescription for a CPAP and waved me out the door. It's also not overly actionable if that is the cause, since I'm already doing as much physical rehab as I can and could not accelerate or focus on this problem more than I already do.

All in all, not pleased with that journey. However, it did allow me an opportunity to test my limitations after the past three years of medical turmoil and dedicating everything possible to recovery. At no point during the rest of my 20s could I have commuted to the university hospital once, let alone four times. I did crash a little afterward but not enough to set me back in my progress. Only enough to stagnate me, which is acceptable. Going to the clinic for the follow-up appointment, as well, went alright despite my hips being a wreck and the commute being particularly hellish that day.

That success is meaningless to a healthy person (commuting somewhere for 50 minutes is a daily thing, and then y'all do a million other tasks afterward, and this cycle repeats every day), but for someone in my position, it's significant. I'm only three years removed from being trapped in a bed 21 hours a day. For me, a day of physical exertion is usually a short 10- to 15-minute walk, and often that comes at the cost of sacrificing another task. Being out and about for hours at a time and it not going terribly in the short and long term is nice. It's different. I didn't expect to be capable of that again.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

Did you ever get confirmation that you had covid? I remember you saying you thought you did, based on the symptoms.

It might be worth looking into, in case there's some research thing going on (with all the different health consequences stemming from having covid, this could be yet one more).

 

[Synobun]

Did you ever get confirmation that you had covid? I remember you saying you thought you did, based on the symptoms.

It might be worth looking into, in case there's some research thing going on (with all the different health consequences stemming from having covid, this could be yet one more).

Yeah, I had COVID November 2020, less than a month after being discharged from the hospital. It was brutal during, but the aftereffects were surprisingly positive for my overall condition. I'm sure it did some lasting damage, somewhere, to some capacity, given how severe I was at the time.

 

[Samson]

I do not understand how people get to senior positions in government without understanding basic principles of looking at data. I think we should have exams for politicians. They may not need to pass them, but the results should be public knowledge. This is the article that made me rant, this is the particular line:

In his testimony, Vallance said that during the pandemic, then-prime minister Boris Johnson struggled to understand data shown in graphs. This problem was not unique to the UK government, Vallance said. He recalled a conversation in which a group of other European science advisers discussed how to explain exponential curves to ministers. “The entire phone call broke into laughter,” Vallance said.​

 

[Birdjaguar]

I do not understand how people get to senior positions in government without understanding basic principles of looking at data. I think we should have exams for politicians. They may not need to pass them, but the results should be public knowledge. This is the article that made me rant, this is the particular line:

In his testimony, Vallance said that during the pandemic, then-prime minister Boris Johnson struggled to understand data shown in graphs. This problem was not unique to the UK government, Vallance said. He recalled a conversation in which a group of other European science advisers discussed how to explain exponential curves to ministers. “The entire phone call broke into laughter,” Vallance said.​

That would discriminate against people who have nothing to offer society other than talk: politicians.

 

[EgonSpengler]

#firstworldproblems: I have to sit through a demo of some new software with some other folks. Oh, for Heaven's sake. Just send me the manual and I'll learn it myself. The salesman says it'll only be 20 minutes. If it goes 25, I'm sure I'll be clawing my own eyes out. I'm actually glad they scheduled it for right before lunch. That'll at least discourage too much chit-chat and asking of dumb questions. (I suppose scheduling it for right before lunch could've been deliberate, for just that reason, in which case to whoever set the time.)

 

[sophie]

I do not understand how people get to senior positions in government without understanding basic principles of looking at data. I think we should have exams for politicians. They may not need to pass them, but the results should be public knowledge. This is the article that made me rant, this is the particular line:

In his testimony, Vallance said that during the pandemic, then-prime minister Boris Johnson struggled to understand data shown in graphs. This problem was not unique to the UK government, Vallance said. He recalled a conversation in which a group of other European science advisers discussed how to explain exponential curves to ministers. “The entire phone call broke into laughter,” Vallance said.​

 

[Takhisis]

The salesman says it'll only be

You should've known it was a trap by then.

 

[Birdjaguar]

#firstworldproblems: I have to sit through a demo of some new software with some other folks. Oh, for Heaven's sake. Just send me the manual and I'll learn it myself. The salesman says it'll only be 20 minutes. If it goes 25, I'm sure I'll be clawing my own eyes out. I'm actually glad they scheduled it for right before lunch. That'll at least discourage too much chit-chat and asking of dumb questions. (I suppose scheduling it for right before lunch could've been deliberate, for just that reason, in which case to whoever set the time.)

If it is not too late, read the manual online ahead of time and then prepare some deep dive questions to interrupt his pitch. after 20 minutes, thank him and leave for lunch.