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1st-Jul-2007 01:32 am - A slight recovery and another shopping bug

Well after Tuesday's little breakdown I'm glad to report for those of you that care that things are a lot better on all fronts.

I'm getting less headaches than I used to and the Co-codamol intake is down to 2-4 a day (sometimes 6 if it's really bad) from the 10-12 that it used to be. The pain is really a lot more manageable and only rare its ugly head in the evenings. I'm also taking only Paracetamol some of the time which is even better. I went to see Dr. Miller on Wednesday and he was happy with my progress, I'm to continue on the 30mg Amitriptyline a night and see him again on 24 July. The only downside is that I'm feeling the neuralgia in the toes a lot more now, probably as a side effect of the relative 'immunity' from pain that I had when I was on the high painkiller dosage before. I'm hoping to address this issue at some point once the Codeine is fully out of my system and I have a true idea of how bad the problem is after having lived with it for the last ten years.

I have finally started to take steps to prepare my room for the new bed. It's nothing big, mainly involving removing everything from under the current wreck of a single ready for it to be moved soon only for the new one to take its place.

One upshot of the medical issue was that it got me thinking about people, and this whole theory about mental will power and whether or not it's effective at all. I was reading a story which featured the Shaman of northern Scandinavia and their traditional ways of curing illness and disease, and it got me thinking about whether any of these techniques existed and could work in real life, and the relationship between them and more scientific rationalisations for their effects. I've started to write an article about it which I think could be quite interesting. Hopefully this project won't fall by the wayside and end up as an incomplete text file, a fate that has befallen many of my other literary attempts.

I was talking to Andre last night at some ungodly hour, and the topic got onto the Freecom Toughdrive external hard drive which I, and later he had bought some time ago. I found that Freecom now have a 250GB version of the drive, which I will shortly get to replace, or maybe accompany, my 160GB drive that I have at the moment. Anyway we were also talking about music and other file collections which have grown over the years and it made me decide to re-organise my music, which hasn't seen any such organisation since early 2005. It's sitting in various folders across multiple systems, drives and some even online, and hence I don't even know the full extent of it. It'll also help to make a backup of it in case the worst happens. I'll start on that later today.

I've also been thinking again about networking, and notably about getting myself a NAS. After doing some considerable searching online, I've decided to go for the Infrant ReadyNAS NV+, as it seems to be the one with the best user reviews, as well as being a versatile and robust unit with lots of options. I found one with 2TB worth of drives for just under which is a bargain seeing as the diskless version is This way I could have all my music, movies and software accessible from one place without having to leave one or more computers running 24 hours a day, or worse having to interrupt mum on her system whenever I want music from there, which is often the case at the moment.

Also of drool worthy note is my wish to buy the Nokia N95, which I've decided I'll do in time to start my Orange contract at the start of August. It's the cheapest option over taking out an extension with O2 (which I wouldn't do anyway due to their terrible service) or buying a contract outright with the phone bundled with it. I also want to get myself the Yamaha PSR-1500, which I've mentioned several times on this blog over the last two years, now that the price has come down to just over from its previous daunting And last and finally of course is a new laptop, now that Acer have announced their new Santa Rosa range. However, they're not due out in the UK until August at least, so I have a bit of time to consider my options there.

OK, that's about it for now, fingers are tired and DC++ is hiccoughing again. It keeps disconnecting and reconnecting to the hubs for no apparent reason, even though my broadband connection is solid as a rock.

Tags:co-codamol, contract, health, keyboard, laptop, nas, neuralgia, nokia, shopping, solpadol, technology
Mood:bouncy
Music:Squeeze - Tempted

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