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"text": "There's something very poetic about this error message. \n\n\"Current date is no longer available, please select a date in the future.\"",
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"text": "Okay, so, I\u2019ve been having a lot more frustrating issues as of late:\nWhatever my connective tissue issue is, it\u2019s getting way worse\nMy kneecaps love to dislocate while I walk, and after 1.5 miles or so my knees start to give out under me\nMy toes also love to either dislocate or weirdly cramp at random, which is quite painful, and getting them back in place is challenging\nMy other joints (wrists, shoulders, TMJ, and sometimes elbows and ankles) are also in pain a lot of the time, and are possibly getting inflamed\nI\u2019ve been having frequent bouts of vertigo (which are especially troubling when I\u2019m driving)\nMy tinnitus has gotten a lot worse recently\nAlso my GERD is back, and my usual dietary measures to keep it at bay aren\u2019t working\nI\u2019m also getting occasional unexplained itchy rashes that flare up and subside after a few days\nAnd I am fatigued all. the damn. time.\nYesterday I had a doctor appointment to try to figure stuff out, and while the appointment itself was pretty unproductive due to the usual crap with modern healthcare practices, the doctor did at least run a lot of labwork for me, including checking autoimmune and inflammation factors and the most common connective tissue disorder markers. It all came back negative.\n\nShe did at least refer me to a rheumatologist, but I suspect the rheumatologist is just going to look at the labwork and say there\u2019s nothing they can do for me. Most likely the answer is going to be the usual \u201cdiet and exercise,\u201d when my diet is already pretty decent and I have difficulty doing exercise because of the very problems I\u2019m complaning about.\n\nThe only thing that was even slightly out of the ordinary on the bloodwork was a borderline c-reactive protein, which indicates either systemic inflammation or coronary artery disease, and given that I\u2019m a bit overweight I can guess which of the two the doctors are going to assume it is (especially without any other markers indicating underlying causes for inflammatory disease).\n\nThere\u2019s got to be something causing all this but the state of the medical industry means that it\u2019s unlikely that anyone I talk to in the medical field is going to come up with ideas on their own, they\u2019re just going to tell me \u201cdiet and exercise\u201d and to do BPPV exercises. During the Epley maneuver the vertigo does get way worse, but completing the maneuver doesn\u2019t resolve it.\n\nAnd of course none of this even comes close to addressing my joints not moving the way they\u2019re supposed to. I love walking but I sure don\u2019t like the feeling of my knee bending backwards when I do so. Nowadays I need knee braces and a cane whenever I go out, if I want to have any chance of making it home without being in agony. And never mind playing DDR.\n\nIt\u2019s just, gosh. I wish someone out there also has these problems but also knows what the cause is so that I can find some hope of understanding what I can do to make things better. There is so much more I\u2019d rather be doing than what I\u2019m currently capable of.",
"html": "<p>Okay, so, I\u2019ve been having a lot more frustrating issues as of late:</p>\n<ul><li>Whatever my connective tissue issue is, it\u2019s getting way worse</li>\n<li>My kneecaps love to dislocate while I walk, and after 1.5 miles or so my knees start to give out under me</li>\n<li>My toes also love to either dislocate or weirdly cramp at random, which is quite painful, and getting them back in place is challenging</li>\n<li>My other joints (wrists, shoulders, TMJ, and sometimes elbows and ankles) are also in pain a lot of the time, and are possibly getting inflamed</li>\n<li>I\u2019ve been having frequent bouts of vertigo (which are especially troubling when I\u2019m driving)</li>\n<li>My tinnitus has gotten a lot worse recently</li>\n<li>Also my GERD is back, and my usual dietary measures to keep it at bay aren\u2019t working</li>\n<li>I\u2019m also getting occasional unexplained itchy rashes that flare up and subside after a few days</li>\n<li>And I am fatigued all. the damn. time.</li>\n</ul><p>Yesterday I had a doctor appointment to try to figure stuff out, and while the appointment itself was pretty unproductive due to the usual crap with modern healthcare practices, the doctor did at least run a lot of labwork for me, including checking autoimmune and inflammation factors and the most common connective tissue disorder markers. It all came back negative.</p><p>She did at least refer me to a rheumatologist, but I suspect the rheumatologist is just going to look at the labwork and say there\u2019s nothing they can do for me. Most likely the answer is going to be the usual \u201cdiet and exercise,\u201d when my diet is already pretty decent and I have difficulty doing exercise <em>because of the very problems I\u2019m complaning about</em>.</p><p>The only thing that was even slightly out of the ordinary on the bloodwork was a borderline c-reactive protein, which indicates either systemic inflammation or coronary artery disease, and given that I\u2019m a bit overweight I can guess which of the two the doctors are going to assume it is (especially without any other markers indicating underlying causes for inflammatory disease).</p><p>There\u2019s got to be <em>something</em> causing all this but the state of the medical industry means that it\u2019s unlikely that anyone I talk to in the medical field is going to come up with ideas on their own, they\u2019re just going to tell me \u201cdiet and exercise\u201d and to do BPPV exercises. During the Epley maneuver the vertigo does get way worse, but completing the maneuver doesn\u2019t resolve it.</p><p>And of course none of this even comes close to addressing my joints not moving the way they\u2019re supposed to. I love walking but I sure don\u2019t like the feeling of my knee <em>bending backwards when I do so</em>. Nowadays I need knee braces and a cane whenever I go out, if I want to have any chance of making it home without being in agony. And never mind playing DDR.</p><p>It\u2019s just, gosh. I wish someone out there also has these problems but also knows what the cause is so that I can find some hope of understanding what I can do to make things better. There is so much more I\u2019d rather be doing than what I\u2019m currently capable of.</p>"
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I'm starting to think the 5/2 weekday schedule isn't working for me, and I need to try 10/4 instead. It takes a few days to ramp back up to work brain, and by Friday I finally feel like I'm on a roll, only to lose all context again over the weekend.
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"text": "I'm starting to think the 5/2 weekday schedule isn't working for me, and I need to try 10/4 instead. It takes a few days to ramp back up to work brain, and by Friday I finally feel like I'm on a roll, only to lose all context again over the weekend."
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"text": "This is my Leap Day post. There are many like it, but\u2014 hah, no I can\u2019t finish that.\n\nI did wonder if I had ever posted on Leap Day. Apparently only a few, back in 2016:\n\nAn indieweb-relevant quote from Amanda Palmer\n\tFinished a re-watch of Battlestar Galactica. Funnily enough, I was recently thinking I should watch that again.\n\tAnd an evergreen post about rebooting Square One Television",
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"text": "Thanks to capjamesg and Jeremy Cherfas in the IndieWeb chat for the nudge to post something on Leap Day because - have I ever made a Leap Day post?",
"html": "<p>Thanks to <a href=\"https://jamesg.blog/\">capjamesg</a> and <a href=\"https://www.jeremycherfas.net/\">Jeremy Cherfas</a> in the <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/discuss\">IndieWeb chat</a> for the nudge to post something on Leap Day because - have I ever made a Leap Day post?</p>"
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"text": "I just used my Flipper Zero to read my cats' microchips \ud83d\ude2e Turns out the vet had them backwards in their file so I'm glad I was able to check!",
"html": "I just used my Flipper Zero to read my cats' microchips <a href=\"https://aaronparecki.com/emoji/%F0%9F%98%AE\">\ud83d\ude2e</a> Turns out the vet had them backwards in their file so I'm glad I was able to check!"
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"html": "<p><img src=\"https://coffeebucks.s3.amazonaws.com/20240224_141837.jpg\" alt=\"Morris Lukowich\" /></p>\n\n<p>Today I was fortunate to have my picture taken with <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_Lukowich\">Morris Lukowich</a> during <a href=\"https://www.houstonpress.com/event/hockey-day-in-houston-17291274\">Hockey Day in Houston</a> at <a href=\"https://www.saintarnold.com/\">Saint Arnold Brewing</a>. The best hockey games I have ever watched in-person were the <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1977%E2%80%9378_Houston_Aeros_season\">1977-78 Houston Aeros</a>. The WHA All-Star game was in Quebec City on January 17, 1978 and for the picture I believe it is Lukowich\u2019s All-Star jersey from that game that I have borrowed.</p>",
"text": "Today I was fortunate to have my picture taken with Morris Lukowich during Hockey Day in Houston at Saint Arnold Brewing. The best hockey games I have ever watched in-person were the 1977-78 Houston Aeros. The WHA All-Star game was in Quebec City on January 17, 1978 and for the picture I believe it is Lukowich\u2019s All-Star jersey from that game that I have borrowed."
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Still blown away at how well my last video did, 54K views in a week, most of my videos have been averaging 2-5K views. Notably, I didn't do anything fancy with the production value either, once again proving that level of effort does not turn in to views.
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Strong relationships are the molecules that make up strong communities and strong communities are free. That should be our guiding light. Interdependence.To lay the soil for collective liberation, we need to build liberating relationships today where we enact and practice the values of the world we are building. The more we depend on each other for survival, the less we depend on the state and the more ungovernable we become. This is the fight. In the process of building life-sustaining relationships, we will dismantle systems, not the other way around.
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"text": "I started reading Community care & relationship building combats burnout in political movements. Oof, it\u2019s hitting hard, in a good way.\n\n\nStrong relationships are the molecules that make up strong communities and strong communities are free. That should be our guiding light. Interdependence. To lay the soil for collective liberation, we need to build liberating relationships today where we enact and practice the values of the world we are building. The more we depend on each other for survival, the less we depend on the state and the more ungovernable we become. This is the fight. In the process of building life-sustaining relationships, we will dismantle systems, not the other way around.",
"html": "<p>I started reading <a href=\"https://wokescientist.substack.com/p/community-care-and-relationship-building\">Community care & relationship building combats burnout in political movements</a>. Oof, it\u2019s hitting hard, in a good way.</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n<p>Strong relationships are the molecules that make up strong communities and strong communities are free. That should be our guiding light. <b>Interdependence.</b> <i>To lay the soil for collective liberation, we need to build liberating relationships today where we enact and practice the values of the world we are building.</i> The more we depend on each other for survival, the less we depend on the state and the more ungovernable we become. This is the fight. <b><i>In the process of building life-sustaining relationships, we will dismantle systems, not the other way around.</i></b></p>\n</blockquote>"
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