Migraines

Friday With Friends

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Friday I still felt like crap. I am getting these mild head aches. I say mild because I take the medication since I am afraid they will become full fledge migraines, and then the medication work and I just feel lousy for the rest of the day. I almost turned down plans to goto Amanda & Rich’s for dinner. Glad I didn’t. As always I had a good time. We ordered pizza and watched movies. Nice and low key. We saw 8 crazy nights and some other stuff. They are off next week to portland so they wanted to hang out.

I took a furiset at like 4:30, but didn’t really feel better until I drank a bottle of water around 7. Amanda gives great advise, even though she doesn’t listen to some herself sometimes. Amanda, if you are reading this chill about your friend. She is a freak, ignore her! Not worth your effort to worry.

Don’t know how they can drive 5+ hours to portland but they do.

I actually got out of work at 5ish also. I stopped by Gus and told him I was taking off early and he was like, yeah so am i. And we left.

Allot of people are out next week due to the holiday. I am in, but it should be a low key week since everyone else is out. Or so I keep telling myself that.

This entry was written while listening to Breakfast At Tiffanys by Deep Blue Something

The Company Holiday Party

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Yesterday was my companies holiday party. I unfortunately didn’t go. I wasn’t feeling well yesterday and migraines don’t care that a party is planned. That was 2 days in row for migraines for me. not good.

It was suggested that I need to be at the party, but I just couldn’t make it. I ended up leaving work at 4PM. I figured I was up for one of the company awards they do at these events. I was up for one last year, but didn’t win. I figured if Gus was telling me it was a good idea to show up, that I was going to win something. I won the award for most savings to the company. To us that is a big thing. it is one of 3 or 4 awards. I got some Champaign. Supposed to be really good champaign, but I don’t drink the bubbly. My sister already offered to take it off my hands. I will save it for a special occasion.

I await the video to see how everyone acted crazy at the party. The didn’t allow hard booze this party since one we had in June had allot of people getting really drunk off of many shots.

From what I hear many people bailed on the party this year. Keith had to pack and didn’t go. Glenn our CEO was a no show because he threw his back out earlier in the day.

In any event it was supposed to be a load of fun. We do know how to have a good time when work stops…

This entry was written while listening to American Girl by Everclear

Still Not Feeling A 100%

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I still don’t feel 100% better. I got a MIGRAINE yesterday. I took 2 butabitol’s and I felt better for a while but ended up leaving a little early (5:30PM) and didn’t do much when I got home.

This morning I still don’t feel my normal self. I am tired. I am having trouble sleeping. I think it is stress and weaning off the Tylenol PM.

I am going to try and take it easy today, but that never happens when I am at work. I wanted to be in Kingston today. My company is having its quarterly board meeting up there today. I wanted to make sure everything was perfect. As luck would have it I have an important meeting today at 11AM with our phone system integrator, and the maker of the software we use. We are going to discuss the issues we are having. Thankfully we have no “show stopper” problems but certain things could be better.

I am kind of glad I didn’t have to go today. Like I said I am still not feeling a 100%.

A Wasted Day

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I was totally incapacitated today. I woke up around noon and had a migraine from the beginning. I tried to fight it. I try on the weekends because I really hate the drugs, and if I am home I can at least try to sleep it off. It became apparent right away that I wasn’t going to make it, so I took to furiset (aka, Butabital). Let me tell you they knocked me down, but didn’t kill the migraine. I felt the headache but didn’t care anymore. It was weird because during the blackout I took some because the heat was causing a migraine and I didn’t feel the side affects, but I didn’t feel the migraine either. Not sure why it affected me differently today. I finally woke up a little while ago and am trying to do the laundry. I have no clothes left so hopefully I finish.

I am aiming for some golf with guys (and girl) from work tomorrow so I want to be well rested and head ache free tomorrow.

Golf Outing

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So I went golfing yesterday. it was fun. I am not good at all, but from what people say they think I would be decent if I took some lessons and practiced. So Dan, Alyssa, Gus, Ravi, Nelson, John, Miguel, and I ended up going. It was fun. My foursome was Dan and me, and alyssa and Gus. Dan is the only good golfer among us. I learned a bunch, but still need to get allot of help. We had fun, so that is all that matters. I only lost 1 ball the entire day. I guess that is what happens when you cannot hit the ball very far!

Nelson was took some pictures of everyone. They are located on my photo site.

Dan had his best game ever, and I was his witness. I told him he needed to be nice or I would say that he lied about the score:)

Dan, John, Nelson & I ended up back by dan’s place in manhattan and ate dinner at some Russian diner. It was nice. The view (aka women walking by our window) was nice.

I didn’t get home till after 10pm due to limited LIRR train’s during the weekend.

Unfortunately I ended up taking 2 bextra’s due to the heat. I was getting a head ache that could have turned into a Migraine so I took the pill’s twice. The alternative was not to be thought about.

Work, softball, and head ache’s

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Today we have another company softball game. It is supposed to be 97 degrees today. I think that I will pass on going to this game. I don’t need to kill myself in the heat when we have not one a game yet. Well, we did win 2 games by forfeit when the other team didn’t show up, but that does not count in my book.

Also today is tons of interviews. I never know what to ask people. This lot looks good though. We will see what happens after today and tomorrow.

I woke up with a small head ache, but it seems ok right now. I forgot to take my Nadolol. I am supposed to take it daily to prevent migraines. Missing it one day here and there doesn’t usually cause a problem, but I don’t like forgetting to take it.

Vacation Day 3, Wednesday

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Today Mike and I went and played a round of golf. I have never played and he didn’t want to go by himself. I thought it would be fun so I went. The course was empty since we went late in the day. We had to travel half way across the island for this course. The course turned out to have sucked (according to mike). We had a bad golf card so we had to go get help between the 10th & 11th greens. Mike was pissed that we didnt get anything for free out of that. I had a good time. It was my first golf outing and I did ok. I cant drive for my life but once on the fareway I did a little worse than ok. I probibly will try it again sometime. This course was expencive. It was cheap compaired to the course by the house we rented, but it was still $100 a round. With clubs the one by our house was like $160 and that was a special deal. Golf in barbados is not for the cheap!

My only problem with golf is that I can’t see the green’s from most tee’s and I also have trouble finding the ball. Thanks mike was my lookout.

Unfortunatly I was fighting a head ache the whole game. Thankfully the meds worked for the game, but I started crashing on the ride home. I made it to the house just in time to lie down and sleep from like 7pm to the next morning. I ended up taking 2 Bextra throughout the day. At least this migrane didn’t stop me from having a good day of golf.

Almost a full week of missed post’s

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I havent written in a bit. I have been sick and busy. not a good combination. here is what has been going on since the last post.

A bunch of us ended up going out to drink Wednesday. I got really drunk. It was fun, but I became a very light weight and felt it after 2+ drinksL a bunch of us ended up at no idea. It is the bar we end up going to after work most of the time. Yes we are lame, we need to expand to other places.

Not to get to graphic but because of some drinking Wednesday night and my pre-existing cold from earlier in the week I was a bit sick Wednesday night and Thursday morning. I got really sick (get the picture) and was unable to sleep most of the night. I was so out of it Thursday morning I sort of missed work. Not good. Also my all around my eyes were nice and read from blown capillaries. That was not pretty. I suffered through the day.

Turns out the office was not doing very well either Thursday. I heard that lots of people came in late Thursday morning. Also my department ran a disaster drill. This is when they simulate a failed server or other device. So they ran a fail over of our web site to our local office. Turns out something was not updated during a release and the test failed. Many people (myself included) was not happy about that.

Was able to make it into work Friday. Thankfully things were relatively quiet. I don?t like to say it is quiet. That is a no no word in technology. Usually you say that and something breaks. My stomach still wasn?t 100% all day Friday, but I survived. Thankfully things were fine Friday. Keith was had the day off so I was short handed. Keith is a network engineer I work with and he handles a lot of the end user problems. So it worked out well this week. I took off Thursday and he took off Friday. Thankfully neither of us went crazy short handed.

Some guys went out after work Friday, but since I was still recovering from Wednesday I decided to just go home. I ended up going to price club with my dad to fill up my fridge. I love that place, but I never get that much stuff. Most things I buy I don?t need a huge amount of. I bought garbage bags from that place like 2 years ago, and I am still on the same box. It was also good to spend time with my dad. I have been very busy at work and unable to see my family that much. After shopping we just went home. I was still tired from being sick so I passed on dinner.

Saturday I just hung out and watched crap I had stored on my tivo. I cleared that thing out a lot. Other than that I cleaned my apartment, and did some visio diagram?s for work. For those non tech people visio is used for network maps. You can do floor plans and other stuff with it but I was brushing up on our new offices proposed network layout. Visio is very cool but very time consuming to do a diagram.

Sunday I went to bestbuy with my dad to buy a vcr. Yes, a vcr. He had one that broke, and my mom still uses it a lot so he needs a new one. Like 6 years ago we bought 2 (one I still have and the one he is replacing). They were low end vcr?s and we paid like $185 each. At bestbuy Sunday we got a low end Panasonic vcr for $59.00. crazy how prices have dropped since dvd?s are the big thing. I still have not convinced my parents to buy a tivo. I think I am close to convincing them, but not yet. I also picked up a new computer case. I got the antec lanboy aluminum case. It is a mid tower case. I downgraded from a full tower case. It was too big and I just didn?t want that much wasted space. The new case is awesome. So far it is quiet, and the power supply glows blue. Unfortunately moving my stuff over I broke one of my ultra 160 SCSI hard drives. I just hope it was one of the ones I backed up.

I also ordered a brand new 160 gig hard drive for my new case. This is so I don?t need 4 hard drives in the new smaller case.

Unfortunately after I did all my computer upgrading Sunday I got a really nasty migraine. I took a 2 furicet?s and they worked (sort of). I ended up napping for a few hours and still felt like crap. I ended up being unable to sleep most of the night, and had a slight head ache all morning.

Monday was not that busy (crazy I know). 4 guys from our dev staff are out of the office all week. 3 are in training and one is on vacation. So my theory is that since they are down by 4 guys I will hopefully have less requests this week. This will enable me to get some other work done. Still working on getting a final hardware quote for our new office. I have setup some meetings for later in the week. I was able to make some changes to our windows 2000 active directory network. I removed the roles of one active directory server in preparation of a disaster test later this week. Right now I removed all the roles from our primary AD server. I will completely remove it from active directory tomorrow and run some maintenance on it and then restore it as an active directory box later in the week.

Got home late tonight. Gus was working on one of our Linux box?s at our data center. He setup some intrusion detection software and was configuring it. It is very interesting stuff. I didn?t get home till a little after 8pm.

I took the old power supply out of my old tower case and put it in my server case. This solved a problem I had with loud noise emitting from the old power supply. After that I think everything is ok after my upgrade.

That brings me to sitting down in front of my TV with my powerbook to write about the last 6 days. This is probably a long and rambling blog, but I think it paints a decent picture of what was going on in my life over the past week. Hopefully more entries a lot sooner than 6 days.