Yesterday was day +41.
We had a lovely day yesterday other than both waking up with migraines from the Chinook.
We met our friends for a leisurely brunch at Bolero's and had a great time together with great conversation.
That was followed up by a bunch of running around and more chores at home. The evening was nice and relaxing, but we both found it a bit difficult to sleep.
Showing posts with label Migraine. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Migraine. Show all posts
2012-01-23
2012-01-17
Work Effectiveness
Yesterday was day +35.
This was the first really cold day of the year. At the same time, my sweetie got a weather induced migraine, so I decided to work from home. Other than a few startup issues because I hadn't enabled the Java plugin for Safari, it was so smooth.
I always find it fascinating how much more productive I am when I do this. My availability is the same as when I am at work as I get email, IM, and phone calls. The difference, of course, is no hallway conversations and no drop-ins. Because of this, emails and tasks fall like flies.
Migraines. This has been the worst season ever for them in Calgary. One or the other of us is affected by one practically every week now. Some times they are just bad, sometimes they are debilitating. This is really going to influence our decision about what we do / where we go at the end of this year.
This was the first really cold day of the year. At the same time, my sweetie got a weather induced migraine, so I decided to work from home. Other than a few startup issues because I hadn't enabled the Java plugin for Safari, it was so smooth.
I always find it fascinating how much more productive I am when I do this. My availability is the same as when I am at work as I get email, IM, and phone calls. The difference, of course, is no hallway conversations and no drop-ins. Because of this, emails and tasks fall like flies.
Migraines. This has been the worst season ever for them in Calgary. One or the other of us is affected by one practically every week now. Some times they are just bad, sometimes they are debilitating. This is really going to influence our decision about what we do / where we go at the end of this year.
2012-01-08
Wasted Days
Day +27.
After two very late nights in a row, there wasn't a lot of vim and vigour in the day today. Being in your fifties may mean you need less sleep than in your twenties, but I think it means you actually need more regular sleep.
I did manage to get one main thing accomplished today — a rebuild of the 15" MacBook Pro.
I initially made an OSX Lion bootable USB drive, as per these instructions or these. That worked fine, up to a point. Since it is a laptop, when I re-formatted the drive after booting off the USB, I decided to make it encrypted. Unfortunately, the OSX Lion install doesn't work on that. Then, when I re-formatted and tried again with a non-encrypted format, it still didn't work. I'm not exactly sure why — nothing really showed up in the logs and the error message was the rather useless "An error occurred - please try again" variety. Sigh.
So, I ended up reinstalling from my Snow Leopard DVD and then upgrading. Simple, and a bit time consuming, but at least now I have a working Lion Laptop.
It's been practically all weekend without programming and I miss it. Not fun.
A final note — we continue to be plagued by the &^%$*))(*%$% chinook winds. My head feels like a balloon and the migraine this AM was not fun.
After two very late nights in a row, there wasn't a lot of vim and vigour in the day today. Being in your fifties may mean you need less sleep than in your twenties, but I think it means you actually need more regular sleep.
I did manage to get one main thing accomplished today — a rebuild of the 15" MacBook Pro.
I initially made an OSX Lion bootable USB drive, as per these instructions or these. That worked fine, up to a point. Since it is a laptop, when I re-formatted the drive after booting off the USB, I decided to make it encrypted. Unfortunately, the OSX Lion install doesn't work on that. Then, when I re-formatted and tried again with a non-encrypted format, it still didn't work. I'm not exactly sure why — nothing really showed up in the logs and the error message was the rather useless "An error occurred - please try again" variety. Sigh.
So, I ended up reinstalling from my Snow Leopard DVD and then upgrading. Simple, and a bit time consuming, but at least now I have a working Lion Laptop.
It's been practically all weekend without programming and I miss it. Not fun.
A final note — we continue to be plagued by the &^%$*))(*%$% chinook winds. My head feels like a balloon and the migraine this AM was not fun.
2011-12-21
Chinook Migraine
Day +9.
Chinook caused a migraine all day. Coffee made it (barely) tolerable.
Again, Ow!
Chinook caused a migraine all day. Coffee made it (barely) tolerable.
Again, Ow!
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