So... I should make some updates...
I managed to fuck up my back sometime on Saturday, spent Sunday with excruciating pain anytime I tried turn, even if it was just rolling over in bed.
It was bad enough that I took my once yearly aspirin (for those who don't know: any pain medication basically works once per year, but it works really well that one time).
Just as that was settling down this morning (it still hurts like hell, but I can now stand for a few seconds before it becomes agony...), my vertigo came back! ... I really can't win can I?
Primarily used my powerchair to even get around my apartment the past couple of days, and that's pretty extreme given how tiny the place is.
For broader strokes, mixed with a little recap: Still looking for work, though the market is crap. I can't do physical labor, I can't do sales, and I don't have much in the way of credentials for anything. Plus this is one of the worst times of year to be looking, though it should be picking back up in January.
Thanks to the move to Washington, losing employment didn't mean also losing healthcare. While they haven't been able to do much about it other than calm my nerves, I've been able to see doctors as shit goes haywire in my body. (I've got some medication, the motion sickness pills help with how much the vertigo amplifies my car sickness, but otherwise not much but wait and rest)
My physical pain has not been handling the weather well even before all of this. I'm very very grateful I ordered that powerchair when I did, because it's the one thing keeping me at all functional.
I didn't realize it when I picked this place, but turns out the landlord of this apartment tower is actually a non-profit partially kicked off by the city of Seattle to provide low-income housing. One of the perks of this is that I got contacted by a resident advisor who's job is to help me get things sorted out.
Right away she got me set up to have my power bill slashed in half (unfortunately only applies to the next bill, but still that's a big help). She also got me set up on the low income bus pass, literally slashing the price to a third.
Tomorrow I've got an appointment with her to help me actually make an appointment with a primary care provider (always a struggle for me between executive dysfunction and mild phone anxiety).
I've still got to go do an interview for food stamps, but barring health blocking me further I plan to do that this week.
Oh, and slowly making friends. There's hope on the horizon for a social life.
Somebody Told Me (The User Provider Should Use An Adaptor To Proxy The Query Factory Builder)
You ever found yourself trying to do something really simple, like show a username on a web page, but you can't because there's too much "architecture"? This...YouTube
Geez, I've been so out of it I missed the server being down for multiple days...
So, heads up, I've been laid off from my job so I'm not in the best of shape. So long as I have a home and internet I can keep the server because it's not a rented box, but unfortunately even that's at risk right now...
Wish me luck on finding new work... And especially wish me luck on unemployment because it looks like I'm going to still have to go through Texas for that... and because of their bullshit name change stuff they might just refuse me and claim I don't exist...
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Je n'ai jamais vu quelqu'un qui aimât la vertu autant que le sexe.
Cette citation déformée vient du chapitre 15 de "Les Entretiens" attribués à Confucius par Lao-Tseu (partie 12):
已矣乎、吾未見好德如好色者也。
Que l'on peut traduire par:
«Hélas! je n'ai jamais vu personne qui aime la vertu autant qu'il aime la beauté corporelle.»
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Il n'y a pas de mauvais temps, juste des mauvais vêtements.
Cette maxime est difficile à retracer, car elle peut s'exprimer de multiples façons. La première correspondance connue apparaît dans une lettre de 1874 du poète et romancier allemand Berthold Auerbach, qui attribua cette maxime à l'homme politique allemand Heinrich Simon.
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Extrait de cette lettre:
«Il n'y a pas de mauvais temps, il n'y a que de bons vêtements», disait le grand esprit Heinrich Simon, noyé dans le lac Wallensee, dans son proverbe, et cela s'applique aussi à moi.
L'homme qui regarde l'horizon ne voit pas la prairie devant lui.
La première occurrence trouvée pour ce "proverbe" date de 2011. A l'époque, il était décrit comme un proverbe chinois. Cependant, il est inconnu en Chine. Il ne s'agit pas non plus d'un proverbe amérindien. Il s'agit d'une citation anonyme.
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