Things that go on in my life that cannot be catagorized somewhere else, sort of a catch-all
For all those interested, I don’t think I’ll be leaving Golden until Sunday morning. It just seems so abrupt to leave tomorrow morning.
Heck, I haven’t even started packing yet.
Pushing back my leave date will allow some more time to clean and pack and have some hangout time with friends before I leave.
When we last left our hero, he was recovering from what was purported to be a case of pertussis followed by an ear infection. If you thought story ended here, you would be wrong.
The Health Center wanted me to come back in today or tomorrow so that they could make sure my lungs were clearing up and that my ear infections were on their way to recovery.
We ended up getting out of class a bit early today, so I went over to the Health Center to get checked out. Well, my lungs ended up sounding worse, the nurse practitioner even left me listen to them.
It was time for a chest X-ray.
I was sent over the ImmediaCare Urgent Care Clinic where they listened to me breath some more and then took pictures of my chest. Another doctor (well, he was actually an EMT) came in and also listened to my breathing. There was some chatter in the hallway and then they determined through some sort of scientific means that I had Pneumonia.
They put me on a nebulizer for about twenty minutes and then discharged me with three (!) short-term (i.e. 10 day) prescriptions. So I’ll be enjoying Avelox, Prednisone, and ProAir HFA.
So, with a confirmed diagnosis, I really should be getting better now.
Also, next time I get sick, I’ll be taking bets on what the final diagnosis is.
Image source: MedVarsity: Chest X Ray AP&lateral views showing pneumonic consolidation in Rt Lower lobe. So no, not the actual picture of my lungs.
I went on a hike/run today with Corinne, Ben, Michael, Kendra, and Kevin. It was about a 10km hike up Mount Falcon on the Turkey Trot, Castle Trail, and Walker’s Dream Trail.
Yellow: Route we went on once
Red: Route we went on twice
It was fun to get out and we left early enough that it wasn’t too hot outside. I was also felt pretty in shape, especially since I haven’t been as active as I’ve wanted to be. Hopefully this will be the first of many hikes this summer.
Kevin took some pictures and I’ll update this post after I get copies.
See also: Mount Falcon Park page at Jefferson County Open Space
I’ll be leaving Colorado at the end of the week. Thus, if you’d like to see me or need something from me before I return in August, now would be the time.
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I went back into the health center today because I was vomiting again (I basically cough so much/hard that I end up throwing up). They think that I might have had Pertussis, which the aforementioned regimen of Azithromycin would’ve taken care of.
New symptom now though! Clogging of the ears and sometimes a ringing in the left ear. Conclusion? Ear infection! Oh man, how lucky am I?
Another round of antibiotics, Amoxicillin this time. It should also help clear the rest of my lungs out – since they’re still sounding a bit weezy. In any event, I should starting feel significantly better within 48 hours.
I’ve been sick with a nasty flu/cold/congestion for the last couple weeks or so. I’ve been into the health center four times in the last three weeks now. They decided it was finally time to put me on antibiotics. So I’m on a five day course of Azithromycin. If my lungs don’t clear up my Wednesday, they want me to come back in. And if I’m not feeling significantly better by next Monday, I should also come back in.
Here’s hoping to success.
So it seems like WordPress 2.5 ended up breaking some things in the previous version. So I did some work over the weekend and brought everything back up to speed. Here’s a list of what’s been updated:
I think the best news is that you don’t need to modify files anymore to get the plugin to work, you can just drop it in and go. WordPress also has implemented a new error handling framework (WP_Error) which is pretty spiffy.
On a side note, I did take a gander at the MU version of the plugin and it appears to be working properly…at least for now.
Read more or download it!
1 LnF: Look and Feel
Amazing dancing and I love the sampled soundtrack they used.
I’m watching it again. It’s amazing.
via Scoble’s Link Feed via GigaOm
The release of Countdown Timer v2.2 is just around the corner (May 15th at 18:00 GMT). In preparation, I released the PO files for translation last night and sent out an email to all the wonderful participants who’ve translated in the past. Here’s the basic jist of what’s going on:
I’ve updated the PO files and uploaded them to my website. All you should need to do is find the language that’d you like to translate and click on the link below. The page will load with the existing data filled in that has not changed. The blank fields represent data that has changed and needs to be updated.
Also, there are a couple of special fields you should be aware of: “translator_name” is for your name as you’d like it to appear in the credits within the plugin (if you want it displayed). “translator_url” is for the URL link that will be associated with you name (again, if you would like it included).
There are a handful of fields that go something like: %d years,
The %d is a place holder for an integer (such as 5 days,) and can be moved around if needed depending on the localization requirements.
Similarly, there is a %s ago and in %s. Where %s represents a string (in this case, the countdown). This allows the translation of “in” and “ago” to be put in its proper place depending on the localization.
I really hope all that makes sense. If it doesn’t, I’d be more then happy to answer any questions you have. If you’re unsure of the context of certain strings, you can also download the trunk version version at http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/countdown-timer.zip
Languages already (mostly) completed:
As always, if you’d like to add a new translation, you can start here: http://fergcorp.com/project/phPo/phPo.php?poFileName=afdn_countdownTimer.po
And stay tuned for the pending release on Thursday!
I blame the lack of updates on A) being sick; B) being done with Spring semester; C) being lazy in general.
However, I promise that I’ll have more interesting things to talk about shortly here. Field session has started, which should provide me with quite a bit of fodder.
Until then, carry on as per normal.