That…. needs to never happen again.
Around 3:40 pm, I was hanging with the fuzzies and watching YouTube stuff – like I do – when I suddenly started feeling really, really bad.
And really, really HOT. I was burning up and feeling very ill. I had a serious head rush going on and it kind of felt like I was under a lot of pressure.
And not the like, this is a lot of work and the deadline is coming up kind of pressure.
I’m talking the kind of pressure you need a hyperbaric chamber to recover from.
I was seriously considering calling (out for) Julian or even calling 911. It came on so fast and was so scary!
But as I flailed about for a solution, I drank what was left of my water, and that immediately cooled things down.
Made me think of pouring water on an overheated engine.
So I decided to risk getting some water from the sink in my ensuite. Drank all 1.2 liters of it in around five minutes.
That’s happening a lot lately. My body’s demand for water seems to get stronger every day. It’s getting ridiculous.
Drinking an entire 1.2 L in five minutes is a daily thing for me now. And sometimes it has to happen several times before my thirst is sated.
And there must be a metabolic component because it keeps kicking into high gear some time in the hour leading up to lunch at 4:05 pm.
That’s why the first thing I tried was eating. But that didn’t really help. I was very hungry, but the overheating was the pressing issue.
I feel okay now. But this shit is getting out of hand. I’m going to have to start eating my lunch at 2 pm, like a sane person would, and I am going to have to be VERY assiduous in my thoroughly hydrating myself.
And if this keeps happening, or even getting worse, then I am getting my butt to the ER.
But not until after Denny’s.
In unrelated drama, my mouse is really acting up now. I think I have found a position it works in more often than not, but I am very glad that I have ordered a new mouse on Amazon and it will arrived some time tomorrow.
Until then, I am stuck trying to use my mouse without moving the attached wire much.
Ain’t that fun.
And ordering the damned mouse turned into a whole drama in and of itself. At first, Amazon.ca wouldn’t let me enter my latest credit card, so I had no way to pay for the mouse I need so bad.
Turns out Chrome, my web browser, was the problem. It was blocking the little popup window in which I would enter my latest credit card’s info.
I had to switch to using Edge to get around it.
Not cool, Chrome. Not. Cool.
Oh, and I thought that I’d come up with a workaround for the mouse problem when I remembered that Windows 10 has “Mouse Keys” as an accessibility option which lets you control the mouse with your numeric keypad.
Or rather, it should let me do that. But it doesn’t. Turned it on and it did jack shit. My mouse pointer remained stubbornly immobile.
In a word, ARGH.
Oh well. I only have to make it through the next day or so and then I will have a brand new mouse which will, in theory, behave.
The most important thing for me to remember right now is that, even though I was beset by problems today, I overcame them all.
Because I’m fucking awesome.
More after the break.
..calling to me… nothing but…
Joined a new-ish social network called Blue Sky today.
Basically, it’s Twitter, but it :
- Is not owned by or affiliated with Elon Musk
- Is not yet the crapfest of negativity and hate that Twitter became, and
- is not called something stupid like X
And so far, so good. I don’t actually know anyone on there yet, so the only person I am “following” is Weird Al.
Making it more of an antisocial network, I suppose.
But it has an excellent “discover” page which shows me… um, not tweets…. posts it thinks I might like based on the interests I selected while setting up my account.
So my feed is mostly filled with science fiction, comedy, and cats!
Now to write a sci fi comedy about cats…. hmmm….
My plan is to make myself known on Blue Sky by doing what comes naturally to me : leaving tons of comments and replies!
I’m a guy with a lot to say, and now I have a place to say it.
Meaning I will also post my own thoughts as well. I often have thoughts during the day that don’t really belong in a blog post but that I feel like sharing anyhow, and Blue Sky looks to be the place to do that.
Before now, my only social network type thing has been YouTube, where I also leave lots of comments and replies.
But that’s not really a social network at all. Nobody is going to subscribe to my YouTube channel just because they think my comments are hilarious.
That’s not how YouTube works.
But something like Blue Sky is all about the short bits of text, and hey-o, text is kind of what I do.
I just keep stringing the words together, day after day, 1K words at a time.
So who knows, maybe Blue Sky will be the platform where I finally network socially and expand my itty bitty social circle that way.
But if not, there are plenty of other platforms out there which might suit me better. Sooner or later, I will find a way to break through into the zeitgeist and get people’s attention so I can share my deep insights and hilarious observations with the world.
And thereby achieve my biggest dream of all : having people actually listen to me.
I will talk to you nice people again tomorrow.