Friday 25 March 2005

Pic of the day: Another frequent flier picture from my favorite game, City of Heroes. Not that I'm forgetting who's the real hero of the season, but surely you are not coming to me to learn about that? Don't I wish.

Good Friday

No matter what you think about Good Friday and Easter in general (I personally think Jesus was crucified on Wednesday as he foretold), this was a "good Friday" for me. I think this was the first day in almost two weeks that I did not have any of the deep, scary nausea that makes my whole body shiver and shake, including and not least my intestines. It feels almost too good to be true, and I will not so easily believe that the nightmare is over. I'm still only drinking, although my idea of "drinking" includes some yogurt. And I still do so in moderation. Even so, not going through that wringer today is in itself enough to mark the day on my calendar.

In the evening, I almost completely lost my voice. I was training the speech recognition program on the new machine. With the noice reduction enabled on the sound card, the reported sound quality was excellent. But as always, training a new user was a small nightmare. There are training texts you read through to familiarize the program with your voice. But often it doesn't let you progress because it doesn't believe you have said the words that it has printed. What I did then was skip to the next page whenever it had refused a part three times. I did a lot of skipping. It just brings up new texts when you reach the end too early. I think I went through nearly three such texts. Then I let it run the analyzer. The next time I read the texts, it understood quite a bit more. So I did it again. Then ran the analyzer again. The third time, it understood most of what I said, but by then I ran out of voice.

It feels like a laryngitis, but part of it may be the driness. I stopped eating more than a week ago, but I try to drink so I don't get dehydrated. I have probably not completely managed this. I notice that my mouth is dry as paper after even a nap, not to mention in the morning. My kidneys don't secrete much water either, so probably I need to drink more. I'm starting without undue delay!

But I got two entries done before the voice and hand were both spent, so all in all it was a good Friday! ^_^