Working in my P.J.'s

So, no slight meant to my co-workers but since I have started working from home my productivity has increased. You don't realize how much time all the little interruptions can take out of your day.

WooHoo, I am 74% good, hmmm that also means I am 26% pure evil.

I know, it's blurry, but it's still a good pose and someone at work still doesn't know what beautiful-man-hair is. Julie, this is my brother. 

Hey look, it's FUEL (minus me) and a dinosaur. 

Mmmmmm dual monitor goodness! So I got a new monitor. Half for me and half because I start working at home real soon and using dual monitor for work makes work much better. So the one on the left is the new on, the one in the middle is my old one and the laptop on the right is my work computer. I have a monitor switch so I can switch the middle monitor between my laptop and my desktop. It is sweet, I am in geek heaven. 

More on the Revolution controller.

So the new Nintendo Revolution at first glance seems lame to the max. Now watch the Video. I don't want to admit it but... well... it does seem a little cool. Granted they don't show you anyone actually playing a game with it, more a demo of what they envision playing with it might, possibly, sort of, be like, but still. My interest is slightly piqued.

They pull you back in.

So just when I thought I was done with IBM, they pull me back in! I am getting to work at home again. I hate winter, having to leave the house early, in the dark, to scrape windows, and gaaaaa... it's to horrible to even think about. I will save so much money too, less gas, don't have to pay for parking etc. I like working at home is so much it even makes my job seem more bearable. They've bought themselves a reprieve, we will have to see how it goes.

New Fuel Ad. For those of you who have seen the old one, please delete it from your memory banks, while I maintain that the pencil version looked good, my photoshop skills were not up to the task of digitizing my sketch. 

Doctor Jeffries

So I think I might not live past Wednesday September 28th 4:00 PM. You see, I have this 'condition' called Hypo Active Thyroidism so I am supposed to take a pill called Synthroid everyday. When I run out I have to go to get a blood test. The place where I had the standing order for a blood test is now very far away from my house. I ran out of pills.. mmm.... let's just say it was 'awhile' ago and havn't gotten down to the clinic for the test. Might have something to do with laziness but also I hate needles... especially needles that are taking stuff out of me. Seriously, those things are HUGE, and they always have trouble finding veins so instead of withdrawing and trying again they figure the best thing to do is dig around a little until they hit something. But I digress, the point is, I have not been taking my synthroid for too long and when I called my doctor's office to see what needed to be done to transfer my standing order to some place closer to my house the assistant figured out it must have been some time since I had a test because some process had changed. Long story short she said Dr. Jeffries would want to see me before giving a new order, which means he will find out how long it has been since I have had my Synthroid and why (my being stupid) and out of exasperation he might have me beaten by his doctor assistants and dumped out back. I looked up the symptoms of Hypo Active Thyroidism... man there are way more than my doctor told me about, and I can prolly put a check mark beside too many of them... stupid thyroids. I'm betting these all can't be soley attributed to thryoidism though, I mean 'hair loss'? Oooo, lack of motivation, got that one, see post #1 heh. You know what is weird, I have totally noticed my speech being slower / getting toungue tied more often since being without the Synthroid, weird.


Hypo Active Thryoid Symptoms.

Abdominal pain and distention
Anemia
Aversion to cold (Cold intolerance)

Brain Function problems which include:
Confusion,
Disorientation,
Mental fog,
Memory loss - Brain fog

Carpal tunnel syndrome
Constipation – the more hypo we become, the more severe this becomes

Decreased body temperature
Depression which worse if patient moves into myxedema coma
Dry coarse skin and hair

Edema
Emotional liability unable to control one’s emotions
Enlarged muscle fibers with muscle weakness (Hoffman's syndrome)
Eyebrows stop growing, outer 1/3 of eyebrows stop growing or have limited growth

Fatigue
Feeling of being overwhelmed

Goiter

Headache
Hearing loss, deafness
Heavy menses & cramping
High cholesterol and lipid levels
Hoarse voice

Impaired blood clotting
Impaired digestion
Impaired skeletal growth

Increased capillary fragility (bruising)
Increased creatine phosphokinase (CPK) level
Increased diastolic blood pressure
Increased fertility problems
Increased menstrual cycle

Irregular heart rate (bradycardia)

Joint pain
Lack of motivation
Loss of initiative

Muscle pain
Myxedema (waterlogged appearance of skin) puffy eyes, face, hands, feet

Nails changes, nails split, break, get thickened
Nasal stuffiness, dry throat
Nocturnal paraesthesia (hands or legs falling asleep)
Nutrient deficiencies

Palpitations

Severe hair loss
Severe weight gain even when not eating much
Sinus problems and or infections
Sleep apnea
Sleepiness, lethargy, insomnia, interrupted sleep
Slow speech

Thickened, dry tongue,( dry mouth)

Joey is leaving us tomorrow. I am sad. Joey you had better read my blog every day, and I had better see yours online soon, I want to hear all your England stories. It should be obvious from this picture that Joey doesn't like having her picture taken, this is the best one I could find. 

And they will let you pay extra for an analog stick... 

Oh Nintendo, what are you doing? Above are pictures of the game controllers for the new Nintendo revolution. Nintendo used to be the king but now they are the game console you buy when you already bought everything else and just want to collect them all. Poor old Nintendo. 

So I am trying out a service called Hello from Google in conjunction with Picasa also from Goolge. Man, Google's great. So as a test here is Mad Scientist Titan, I go the distance for halloween. 

Blog-o-rama

Here I am, the most technically savvy of my group of friends and I feel like the last to get a blog. I was planning on doing it for awhile but, being a programmer, felt that if I was going to blog I would create the site myself and host it on my server. Sounds good but I forgot one crucial thing... I'm lazy. I know, your shocked. I've been trying to hide it for years but yes... it's true. I'm lazy. So here is my out of a can blog. I feel kind of dirty for using a blog service, but, well it's a step in the right direction. Who knows what I will put in here, Rico posts a lot of pictures, perhaps I will post drawings and whatnot, we will have to see. Oh, and 5 bonus points for those of you who remember the original Titan's Love Shack.