Thursday, December 8, 2005 12:37 pm  <|>
<238> Running Run Down: I'm feeling a little off today... like I might be getting something, which isn't good. Actually I've felt a little tired since Tuesday and of course this time of year I'm automatically on higher guard where health stuff is concerned. It kind of sucks too because my clinic checkup is next Friday and up until these last few days I've been feeling great with a fair amount of energy and such. Now, right when I need to go and get my blood test, I'm starting to feel run down all of a sudden. It's probably the cold weather, but I can't tell if it's just that or maybe a bug of some kind. Man, I really hope not. I don't want to go through all that again - last year was so bad. I feel like I'm taking what precautions I can but I know that everything I do still probably won't be enough to prevent getting sick a couple times this winter. Winter is cruel to weakened immune system people. That's just a fact.

I think I'll wait to get my blood test until Monday, maybe I'll be feeling a little different by then. This is one of the longest times I've gone without a blood test/check up (2 months) since my transplant. Normally they'd be a lot more spaced out by then, but since the complications I've needed closer monitoring all along. Oh well, I will just have to hope for the best.

I am working on the final bit of my webcam surveillance project for grad this week. It's due on the 15th. I'm just putting the website together now. I decided to use flash because I want to have some animation in the scene and such since I'm sort of setting up a mock scene of the way the actual installation might look. Of course it's not quite the same, but I'm hoping it'll get the point across better than just doing some simple site layout to show my thumbnails and video clips. I still have to compress a lot of the video and pick out clips to show as examples, but I'm hoping that won't be too hard.

I ordered my holiday cards, so at least they are on their way. Once I get those together I think I'll be feeling better about the giving situation. Like I said, I still have a couple presents to order, but I think I can use my credit card for that and go from there. I seem to have my money situation for tuition temporarily figured out. I just feel I'm cutting it close since I have to transfer money into my regular checking account and then into my new account that I'm going to be using to make the transfer. I know the transfer itself takes a couple of days to clear but I think I'll be fine as long as I let them know I put it through by the 15th.

This day is going too slow. We aren't meeting for HiNgE tonight because we have a big planning meeting on Saturday. By the way, it seems like this Saturday is the day for things to be going on EVERYWHERE, so I wish we had planned out this meeting date better, but I guess it doesn't really matter as I would probably stay home and work on my project most of the day anyway. But everytime I turn around it seems like someone else is telling me about something going on this Saturday. Guess everyone wants to be inside and active and busy when it gets to be this time of year.

I have some orange juice in the fridge at work that I had forgotten about from a week or two ago. I always assume forgetting about something that long means it's no good when you come back to it, but it says it's good until December 30th. Should I trust it? I really feel like drinking some but it seems wasteful to go down and buy more if I have some already. I guess if I start to drink it and it tastes bad I will know pretty quickly. I'm one of those people who insists on throwing out the milk the day it says on the carton even though I have several friends who would tell me that's silly. I have enough problems, food poisoning and spoiled drinks don't need to add themselves to the list.

I really want to start promoting Sticky Art again. I really feel like I'm missing out on some opportunities with it as time moves on. I definitely get interest in it when people find out about it, so if I did that a little more widespread I feel like I'd be set. I think part of what holds me back is I'm afraid if it does pick up that I'll have trouble keeping up with it... but maybe that would be a better problem than not doing anything at all like right now? I also need to move forward with Metatative. I'm still a little worried about the accounting issue... I still should find someone for the end of the year. I had consulted with a bigger firm, but when they quoted something like $800 to do everything including setup and taxes for next year I got a little overwhelmed. I hope it was the right decision going ahead and registering my company. I just need someone who understands these things to sit down and explain it to me a little better. Dan's friend graduated with a degree in accounting, so I'd like to ask him but Dan doesn't see him much and I've barely ever talked to the guy. I'm sure I have a couple more resources. I had posted awhile back on Craigslist and have a few responses from single people willing to help for a fairly low fee per hour, so maybe I'll call upon one of them. It's hard to judge who will be better for the job, but I guess I'm just going to have to find out by doing in this case.

So with that, I think I'll get back to work now. It's a pretty slow day, but maybe I'll have some time to brainstorm what my next moves should be with everything. Until later... by the way, notice all the posts recently? Oh you are excited. I can tell.