Western Front

This place has been pretty quiet, on both sides. I did get one astute question from my last post, which I will get to at some later date. Today I'll just give some quick updates. I'm on break for the winter. Don't know what's gonna happen, except a trip to Vegas for a weekend. In "recent" events, I had a doctor's appointment for a checkup, and it went well, except I'm suppose to exercise more (HA!), and I passed out as they were taking my blood, and I have to return later for glaucoma tests.

I've never passed out like that before. One moment I was tensing up at having a needle stuck in me. The next, everything was darkness about it and a nurse was telling me to open my eyes while slapping my face. Half of me didn't want to listen to her, considering how much more comfortable it would have been to just close my eyes. The other half was instinctually deciding there was something wrong with that conclusion. Apparently I had totally broken out in a cold sweat and my face was entirely white. But some cold towels, juice, crackers, and lying down restored the circulation.

As for the glaucoma test, that's really just a precautionary measure. The hole for my optic nerve of my is indented a little more than usually. I've always thought that eye a little different. In order to look at my eye, the nurse gave me a dialating solution, so for the rest of the day, I looked like an anime character.

That's about it. And I will take my leave with the cryptic phrase: "Millions of peaches, peaches for me."

Open Mic

In the interests of engaging my readers, I'm now opening the floor to questions. This will also, hopefully, simplify topics of discussion for a little while. Any questions will be accepted, not all will be answered.

A Qpi-centric World

Christmas is coming up, so if you wanna buy me something, and I don't actually recommend it. I want:

1) Powerbook 12" or 15": the battle between the two have revived cause the 15" looks too cool.
2) iPod: actually if you'll do my freeipds thing, it won't even cost that much. Leave a comment, and I'll get back to ya if you're interested in helping.
3) Digital camera: complete with manual controls and good picture quality and a good number of megapixels.
4) Comfortable, cool sunglasses: UVA-UVB protection required, otherwise it'll do more damage than good.
5) Video card: well I've kinda accepted I can't play new games, so this is not important.

However, I will still accept non-physical gifts. Specifically,

1) Flying lessons: cause flying is good.
2) Driving a stick lessons: stick cars are more fuel efficient.
3) Miscellaneous: other things I can't think of now.

With any luck, no one actually have the resources to pull any of this off, and then I won't feel bad when I don't get them anything.