Allergies, bad dreams and Vista

posted by Jeff | Monday, August 27, 2007, 12:24 AM | comments: 3

Something around Diana's house really kicked my ass this weekend in terms of allergies. I thought I was getting off easy this year, because I didn't have any problem at all in late May/early June, when I normally do. At first I thought maybe it was something in her house, like cat litter or perfume or fabric softener or whatever, but I also realized that when my allergies are bothering me, everything with a scent makes me sneeze. It really sucked, and I was miserable. Mind you, that's hard to to even bring up because she's allergic to her own cats!

Then I had a series of really horrible dreams pretty much all night long. Each one tapped into my biggest fears or issues. I had one involving pretty much all of my past relationships calling me out as a failure. One was about failing at work (not my current job, just in the general sense). Of course there was one where in a coaching situation I couldn't influence the kids. Even though they were just dreams, they really set my mood for the rest of the day, and that was not a good mood.

I'm not sure what brought that up, because God knows I've had some really good times lately, especially in terms of my social/romantic life. I think it's the part of me that just expects things to come crashing down when they're at their best. I don't know why we're wired to think that way. Of course, it could've been the large quantity of alcohol I had the night before too.

We went to play a little poker (no actual money) the night before at Diana's brother's house. I ended up in 4th place out of six, which I was content with because of the shitty cards I had and poor judgment after many beers.

While Diana admitted that the one thing that could break her general congeniality was road rage, she discovered that for me it was my intolerance for computers behaving badly. In this case, it was her Windows Vista laptop being a piece of shit about displaying photos, of all things. Can you believe it can't natively display raw format photos from my Canon 10D? This annoyed me and frustrated me to no end. Fortunately, things all worked pretty well getting tunes on to her new iPod Nano, because that's Apple software. :)

Lots of strange ups and downs this weekend, that's for sure!


Comments

Gonch

August 27, 2007, 7:07 PM #

You know, this came to mind when you mentioned it after the podcast last night, but it didn't really click until I read it.

I wonder if it has something to do with the fact that the 10D uses an older RAW spec. I remember having to update Photoshop to handle the newer RAW files in the XT.

I think the changeover happened with the XT/20D generation.

Jeff

August 27, 2007, 9:20 PM #

That certainly might be the case, but I wasn't expecting Microsoft to tell the future, just be compatible with all that was already out there.

CPLady

August 28, 2007, 11:47 PM #

Ian and Gordon have been suffering from allergies that didn't hit them like they normally do in May and June.

I suspect all the rain had something to do with it and maybe it wasn't anything at Diana's that did it. It could have been timing.


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