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"I am a Statistician. One false move and you are a Statistic"

"This is a job for the Super Tipper! Light up the Cow Signal!"

"That's why they invented Tomorrow."
-Sunshine

I found a doctor in Whitehall (Dr. Walkotten) who finally gave me a definitive diagnosis of Chronic Fatigue Immune Dysfunction Syndrome (CFIDS) more commonly known as Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS). It's not curable, it might not even be treatable, but just having a diagnosis helps... At least I know what to plan for.

So, 4 months of waiting, long drives both ways and an over-nighter for nothing. The enodcrinologists at U of M have no idea what's wrong with me but to say they're pretty sure it's not endocrine-related. No suggestions, no list of tests, not even a recommendation of who to see next. *sigh* Now I have to start from scratch.

So, I'm in Ann Arbor now. Hardly slept last night, so today should be interesting. They estimate up to 3 hours on the first visit, and then we have a 2.5+ hour drive home. Good thing Mom can navigate most of that, since I'm pretty sure I'll be passing out at that point. I'll try to post later today with some results.

In the spirit of Halloween, here's a short C program to create Zombies on your Linux box! Just compile with gcc and run.



#include <stdlib.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <stdio.h>

/*******************************************************
*  This program creates 5 zombie processes and         *
*  gives the user 5 minutes to test them or kill them  *
*  or whatever you want to do. This is mainly for      *
*  demonstration purposes.                             *
********************************************************/

int main()
{
  pid_t pid;
  int counter=5;  // Set this to the number of zombies you want

  pid = fork();

  while (pid && counter > 1) {
    pid = fork();
    counter--;
  }

  switch (pid)
  {
    case -1:
      exit(1);
    case 0:
      break;
    default:
      printf("Sleeping for a while.\n");
      sleep(300);  // 300 seconds = 5 minutes. Feel free to adjust
      break;
  }

}

Finally going to U of M this Friday! It's been such a long wait. Now I just hope they actually do something for me...

A student put this as an answer for a question in homework:
"i don't know in detail what happens cause im a noob."

So, this year, I'm going as a patient. Actually, I'll be in Ann Arbor, going to the U of M Endocrinology department as a patient. My insurance finally went through and I got my referral. Yay-ish.

Classes started this week. I only had them on Tuesday and Wednesday (next week I'll have Monday, too). I spent all day today sleeping. I would wake up, look at the clock, blink, and discover it was an hour later. And I'm still tired. I wonder what I'll be like after *three* days of classes.

Anyhow, time for bed.

WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!!!

If you're going to play Guild Wars: Nightfall, do NOT be an Elementalist that specializes in Earth magic. EVERYTHING is immune to it. :P

Ordered my Grandma a new computer through the Dell small business section. So much cheaper for the same stuff... Irritating parts, though: It comes with Vista, and, despite the fact that I purposely left the box unchecked 10 times throughout the order process, it's still coming with some free Microsoft "live" something-or-other. Opting out means DON'T SEND IT TO ME. *sigh*

So, I have XP installed on a SATA II drive... Works just fine. Well, other than the typical windows stuff. For school, I installed Vista onto an IDE drive. Rebooted a couple times just fine, then I installed the windows updates. Now, BIOS recognized the IDE drive, but XP does not, and it will not boot to Vista. Can't even reinstall Vista, because the installation program won't list that drive on the available partitions list. [grrrr]

*breatheeee*HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/08/06/paris-hilton-gets-even-with-mccain-releases-ad-of-her-own/

http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/64ad536a6d

When people type "walaa" instead of "voila".

So, yeah, still tired. Switched a med, couldn't eat for a few weeks, switched back. I feel mostly better from that now. Waiting for insurance to change on the 20th and then will be getting a referral to U of M so they can figure out what's wrong with me. Meanwhile, got a summer class to teach. It's ... interesting. About 5 or 6 brain damaged students in it, which is pretty unusual for summer classes. It tries my patience, which I don't have a lot of right now. Other than that, spending lots of time sleeping and not doing much else. *sigh*

Switched back to my original meds. Was just getting too depressed and anxious. It's probably going to be a while before these are at full benefit, though.