2004-05-28-0103Z


There's still something wrong with the charging circuit in the battery; the computer shows a solid green LED which normally indicates full charge, but the tray icon, when clicked, shows it at 0% and charging. All the time. And if I unplug the AC power, it gives me a "critical battery" warning immediately. Voltmeter shows 12.12VDC at no load, and 11.83 when attempting to run the laptop off battery power. Well, if the computer can no longer recharge the battery, I hope the solar charger will.

I'm starting to worry about the numbness in my hands and fingers. The feeling should have returned to normal by now but it hasn't. Maybe I did permanent damage to the nerves while supporting most of my weight gripping the handgrips; or perhaps that insect bite I got a week or so ago is affecting my system, despite my getting most of the poison out. But since the bite was in my neck, if that is what is affecting my fingers, it ought to also numb my toes, and that isn't happening. Or is that faulty logic? Probably. I just hope I'm not dying. That would really suck. Especially when I'm just starting to find some freedom in this fucked-up world.

Had my espresso brownie this afternoon, here at Starbucks on Speedway in Tucson, near the University and up the street from the 24-hour Kinko's. Nice, but kind of anticlimactic after yesterday's carb binge. Let's just say I didn't get an orgasm from it.

Found one of the bugs in my IPN script; wasn't converting CONTENT_LENGTH to an int. Blame it on Perl for making me lazy; it's hard going from a language which does a lot of the magic for you to one which expects you to do your own homework. Guess I'll head on over to Kinko's as soon as I finish my coffee, and see if that makes the damned thing work any better.

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