Author: Quinn

Gonna Wash That Grey Right Outta My Head 1

Gonna Wash That Grey Right Outta My Head

No. Not really. It ain’t going anywhere, is it? It’s part of me. To “cure” myself would be to kill my self, and I don’t want that now, do I? MAOI is done. See the log up top for the final entry. Next up is “Viibryd.” As noted there, WTF? That’s one hell of a random-number-generated space-name. Sounds like something my character would be smuggling in my Star Wars campaign. I haven’t bothered to look it up. What’s the point?...

Everybody Hurts 1

Everybody Hurts

I pick the girls up on Friday around 7PM and bring them back at 2PM Saturday.  Friday usually goes awesome.  We get something to eat, bring it home, and watch some movie or two. Saturday, not always so well.  It starts good, but as the leaving time draws nearer, the Elder will start to get grumpy, and sometimes go into a full-on tantrum.  Every parent knows what this means.  They’re hungry.  They didn’t get enough sleep.  Something is wrong and...

From Parnate to Nardil 5

From Parnate to Nardil

Last week my doctor switched me from Parnate (tranylcypromine) to Nardil (phenelzine).   At least it’s easier to spell. Yesterday at work my friends kept asking if I was high.  I was very tired, maybe slightly euphoric in that tired kind of way.  Not a particularly pleasant high, unless all I had to do was sit in the sun.  Not if I had to correct the code of others in the middle of a deploy. After work, I had a...

Suddenly 4

Suddenly

I feel that this has given me the most incredible and wonderful thing that I have ever been given, and also, the worst. […] I’ve had my whole soul undermined by it — on the one hand. On the other hand, in one sense, my experience has been about finding joy. It was Memorial Day weekend. The day before, maybe. End of May. Sunday? She was taking the kids to visit with her parents in Rochester. As they went outside...

MAOI Update and the Syndrome With the Funny Name 4

MAOI Update and the Syndrome With the Funny Name

No new MAOI dosage, no more late-night milk-spilling slapstick, and no better feelings.  To be fair to the meds, the past month has been a stressful one.  The wife thinks I have Asperger Syndrome.  (Henceforth “AS” for brevity and to avoid the “ass-burger” images.) It fits my career, lifestyle, and personality, and I’ve suspected it myself. Unfortunately, if it’s AS and not “just” depression and anxiety, the behavior that causes us so much domestic strife is not so much a...

Stuffing Text Into All Screen Windows 0

Stuffing Text Into All Screen Windows

Various pagers have been giving me question marks in boxes and hexadecimal codes.  This is probably because I didn’t have the right font in the past and inserted various hacks into my ~/.bash tree to get around them, e.g. aliasing a LANG=C before every perldoc command. Well, now I’ve just about got everything right and proper in UTF-8 mode using a uxterm, but those little nigglers still pop up.  Today I did a man less and found the LESSCHARSET environment...

Mounting Windows Shares On Linux 0

Mounting Windows Shares On Linux

There must be a gazillion posts on this, so I’m just going to concentrate on what I did wrong. First I wanted to mount the target share as NFS, but the server doesn’t export to our desktop subnet at work. I saw it was running Samba, and remembered having had it working on Windows XP, so tried that. A friend at work had an /etc/fstab line that almost worked. Turns out smbfs is deprecated and cifs is the new smbfs,...

Gitweb Diffs Between Versions 4

Gitweb Diffs Between Versions

Our company deploys code into production primarily from our version control system.  I suppose all companies do, in some way or another.  We endured a long hell with CVS and a far shorter stint in the purgatory of Subversion before we went into the heavenly light of Git. The way we do it is to tag various branches destined for certain groups of machines, archive a snapshot, then copy those out to where they belong.  This is all partially automated...