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gizaI'll start this LJ off by elaborating on the doctor visit that I previously mentioned. Last Thursday, I started having chest pains in the left side of my chest. Now I'm a 28 year old guy sliding downhill towards 30. Chest pains are about the last thing I want to think of at this age. :-) Fortunately, they weren't very strong, and exercise didn't make them any worse. In fact, I only felt them whenever I would take in a deep a breath. This ruled out a heart attack, but a little Googling pointed out that there could be a lot of other things responsible for such pains. Among them are: lung infections, broken ribs, and "warning signs of a heart attack". Not fun.
So I visited Dr. K on Saturday morning, and he did his usual thing which involved asking a questions, then prodding different parts of my chest. It turned out that I have an inflamed tendon on my left pectoral muscle. In something that sounds like it's straight out of an episode of Beavis and Butthead, I "pulled one of my pecs". Dr. K further explained that the reason it doesn't hurt at the gym is because the muscle is being stretched. But after it had a few days to contract, that's when the pain set in. Very interesting. Treatment is resting the muscle, which means I need to avoid the pectoral fly at the gym, which works that muscle exclusively. I can still do other upper body exercises, however.
Regarding my Powerbook, as I mentioned in the comments of my previous post, the problem went away after I wiped the PRAM. I also fired up TechTool Deluxe and did a complete surface scan of my hard drive, as well as random seek tests and that sort of thing. No problems were found. I'm just going to keep doing backups of my data regularly, and be happy that I still have 2.5 years of AppleCare warranty protection left. :-)
I've also been giving my hard drive a good test by downloading Slackware CDs via BitTorrent. :-) My old desktop machine (a P3-450) is rather slow under RedHat 9.0, whereas it was much faster when running RedHat 6.2 I'm going to try putting Slackware on that machine and see how it helps with the speed. I also like the fact that their packaging system is really simple, just tarfiles. :-)
Since this was my first weekend that had me "free" of any sort of work concerns (or concerns on my website) for some months, I decided to well, do nothing productive. To that end, I went and bought Metal Gear Solid 3 and spent a good chunk of time playing that. MGS3 has the most amazing game engine I've seen to date, and a great story. I like stories that are based on real events. It makes them seem much more interesting.
[Edit: Oh yeah, I also bought Groundhog Day this weekend and watched it for the first time. What a funny movie. And it's really deep, too. I need to watch it over and over a few times.]
So I visited Dr. K on Saturday morning, and he did his usual thing which involved asking a questions, then prodding different parts of my chest. It turned out that I have an inflamed tendon on my left pectoral muscle. In something that sounds like it's straight out of an episode of Beavis and Butthead, I "pulled one of my pecs". Dr. K further explained that the reason it doesn't hurt at the gym is because the muscle is being stretched. But after it had a few days to contract, that's when the pain set in. Very interesting. Treatment is resting the muscle, which means I need to avoid the pectoral fly at the gym, which works that muscle exclusively. I can still do other upper body exercises, however.
Regarding my Powerbook, as I mentioned in the comments of my previous post, the problem went away after I wiped the PRAM. I also fired up TechTool Deluxe and did a complete surface scan of my hard drive, as well as random seek tests and that sort of thing. No problems were found. I'm just going to keep doing backups of my data regularly, and be happy that I still have 2.5 years of AppleCare warranty protection left. :-)
I've also been giving my hard drive a good test by downloading Slackware CDs via BitTorrent. :-) My old desktop machine (a P3-450) is rather slow under RedHat 9.0, whereas it was much faster when running RedHat 6.2 I'm going to try putting Slackware on that machine and see how it helps with the speed. I also like the fact that their packaging system is really simple, just tarfiles. :-)
Since this was my first weekend that had me "free" of any sort of work concerns (or concerns on my website) for some months, I decided to well, do nothing productive. To that end, I went and bought Metal Gear Solid 3 and spent a good chunk of time playing that. MGS3 has the most amazing game engine I've seen to date, and a great story. I like stories that are based on real events. It makes them seem much more interesting.
[Edit: Oh yeah, I also bought Groundhog Day this weekend and watched it for the first time. What a funny movie. And it's really deep, too. I need to watch it over and over a few times.]