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Chronicle of flu (for future reference)

Sunday, January 2nd, 2011 at 11:15 pm

Wow, I’m such a nerd. I wanted to chronicle the symptoms on my sickness….for future reference.

I had written it all down (after I was sick as I had absolutely no energy to do it during) but it’s wasn’t very easy to read that way.
….Not that this chart is easier :/

I wanted to note that
1. I got chills 3 times as my temperature increased. For the second and third chills, I remember my body cooling off, sweating for no reason other than to kool off from its set point of 39.2 C.
2. I did not have any sore throat throughout this entire sickness, which is really weird.
3. I was really sick for a good 3 full days, where the first 1.5 days were pretty much entirely spent in bed, 36/37 hours….sleeping with socks, and a sweater, and 2 heavy blankets.

This flu hit at the best, and worst possible time:
Best because: work wasn’t really affected. Nothing was really affected. I had planned on playing Zelda: Ocarina of Time or studying for these days and the fact that I couldn’t isn’t a big loss.
Worst because: it was during the best time for relaxing…also, I had to stay home during New Year’s Eve. Also, I left my PS3 at work so it meant: no PS3 gaming, no watching any DVDs, no watching any Blu-Rays, not being able to watch anything on the big TV (and lay on the couch, vegetable like…). I basically just lay in bed for most of these 3 days as my thoughts ran away with me.

Being sick sucks

Wednesday, December 29th, 2010 at 2:02 pm

I’m trying to remember the last time I was sick….I think it was early March…or was it April? When our department was working so hard for a really big launch.

I don’t remember how sick I was then but that’s gotta be nothing to how I felt these last 2 days….i was literally in bed for 23/24 hours yesterday. Delirious with weird faulty dream logic…my mouth dry and dehydrated, everything tasting really funny.

Anyways, I’m feeling better today but not perfect. Yesterday I was aching and sore and had absolutely no energy. I had chills and a fever….it was brutal. Today I’m feeling better but I’m still a bit sore, my temperature is still high but lower than yesterday. I think my body got rid of the virus…it’s just recovering for now…

I think I should go back to bed. I didn’t think it was possible to sleep as much as I’d been sleeping….like, that my body could…sleep so much. Ah well, live and learn.

It’s been a long time since I played Hide and Seek

Monday, December 27th, 2010 at 1:09 am

Hung out with my nephew and niece today, it was really fun. They’re 3 and 4? Infinite energy.
Played hide and seek with them.

When they would hide, I’d yell out “Are you in the basement?”
and they would yell out “No!”

:) It wasn’t much of a challenge.

When I had to hide, I would go in some closet and they wouldn’t find me for like, 5 minutes :) They’d eventually start to panic, calling my name out as if I left….it was pretty cute :)

Going to Woodbine mall with them tomorrow to play with them :) That mall is the best! :D Slides and games….I used to have so much fun there.

Anyways, off to bed, have to meet them for breakfast tomorrow at 10:15 meaning I should sleep…now.

Where my head’s been at…

Thursday, December 23rd, 2010 at 2:32 am

I feel like I haven’t blogged in days…but it hasn’t been THAT long.

The next blog posts on my list are
– Dark Angel Novel review
– The Social Network & Facebook
– Kotobukiya: Emma Frost & Batgirl galleries

I was supposed to write the Dark Angel post yesterday…and then today, but I was so tired! I slept from 7pm to about 11pm today….good nap but not productive.

I also haven’t blogged much lately because my mind is focused on an upcoming post set for early Jan (the 7th). The 1-year anniversary of quitting WoW. The day I just exited the game and said “that’s enough”. The day my passion (for WoW) died and the day that my life started again. Maybe I’m being a little dramatic…though to be honest, what I said feels exactly right.

I’ve been thinking about everything I’ve done in the last year since that day as well as what I really hope to accomplish in the next year.

I’ve generally never been one for resolutions, I find that they are made only to be broken. That said, I’ve been attempting monthly “resolutions” the last two months and have noticed an urge to fulfill them. While I may not accomplish everything I set out to do, it does provide myself with a guideline of what I want to accomplish next.

I know I definitely wouldn’t have read these 2 novels if not for my accomplishments post. This month is coming to an end and I really didn’t do as much as I did last month. I feel that Christmas and New Years is definitely is getting the way of my productivity (and that’s okay). But my hope is that next month I accomplish more than this month. I’m planning to spend the days off next week either:
1. Reading my CSS book
2. Playing Zelda: Ocarina of Time….since both my PS3 and GT5 wheel will be at work. It seems like a rare opportunity to have a lot of time free…

Anyways…that’s where my head has been lately. I always tend to blog less if there’s a post I’ve really been thinking a lot about. Well, I have been writing a lot but they’re all just drafts. I have soooo many drafts. It was always my intention to save those “for a rainy day” but I always seem to have something to write about, despite such an average life of mediocrity :S

/off to bed <3 No more hamsters squeaking during the night, waking me up I hope. Last night they woke me up at least 4 times within 5-6 hours >_<

I don’t know why I go to the manga section at the bookstore…

Monday, December 20th, 2010 at 9:20 pm

…until today! Dun dun dun….

I went to Indigo today and I decided to do my usual routine:

Check out the graphic novel (read: comic book trade paperback) section and see if there were any hardcover books that I like that have made it to the cheaper paperback format. Then, for the ones that have, I rationalize that I could probably either DL it for free or that the story probably isn’t/won’t be as good as I think. And I don’t buy anything.

Then, before leaving, I check out the manga section. I glance at all the titles and, like always, realize:
1. All the titles that I would want to buy right now, I’m waiting for the box set/collector’s edition
2. Any new titles I might want to start, I should probably read online first to see if I like it. No way am I buying one manga (no pun intended) because I will, as usual, go buy the rest of the set. But if I’m going to buy the rest of the set, I might as well wait for a box set/collector’s edition.
(BTW, damn you Scott Pilgrim for coming out with a Box Set. Difference between my 6 volumes and the box set 6 volumes: 1 box and 1 poster. In no way worth spending $56. Alas, it’s a box set I’ll never own…Q_Q)

Anyways, so I’m in the manga section thinking: Again I visit this place, never finding anything worth pur—
And seriously just as I was thinking that, I saw this!

I was like “WTF IS THIS…Ohhh, I’ve heard of this, they make references to it in the Death Note Box Set”…I dunno, I was super surprised but I guess that’s my fault as I failed to do research on stuff. That always happens.

Anyways, I just posted this because I thought it was funny that I was just thinking
1. “I’m never gonna find anything worth pur–” and then I saw it
2. I’m planning to finish my (final) Dark Angel novel today and that means I’ll have this to read after :D

And then I may (or may not) read some Wicked novels and then I’m calling it quits for novel reading until I really find something I want to read. Reading novels can be fun but once I start a novel, I really focus a lot of time until I finish it. Like, I start a book and suddenly everything else becomes priority two. I don’t like that. It’s all about balance!

Anyways, off to read…60-70 pages left :) I’m a reading machine suddenly

/warrenbot points at novel words and then starts pew pew pew pew pew pew pew pew. bzzt. READ ERROR. I/O FAILURE. ACCESS DENIED. SHUTDOWN.   ….  *