Nothing like having to wait on old medical records to be pulled up out of storage. Until the docs office gets the records from my ER visit as a result of the first go around with the Campath, they will not approve the next treatment. Here is hoping that they get the records soon. If this drags on much longer, I will not be able to get the treatment due to travel plans…
Was at the Doc’s office today for the monthly check-in on the Campath trial. They have asked me to take a third go round of the Campath treatment. A little torn on this one. The Campath has made a HUGE difference for my day to day quality of life with the MS. It has also stopped my progression. But at this time, we now have our little toddler in day care. Even with my full immune system, the little carrier monkey gets me sick about once a month. Kind of scary to think about what that could be like with my immune system knocked out by the Campath. Gonna do some thinking and talk some more to the doc, but since the Campath has helped so much, I think I will doing the treatment.
Been a while since I posted an update. But using Firefox at work on my MacBook Air for the last three months has just been hammering the solid state drive. The extensions and the cache just have been doing TONS of disk I/O. When I started to really look at it, it motivated me to finally write up a Python script to dynamically manage a RamDisk setup for the Firefox profile / cache. This is meant to be run once with Firefox closed to do the initial setup of the RamDisk, profile detection, moving and symlink creation. Once that is complete, you just need to make the script a cron job. I set mine to run every 20 minutes. It does a check to see if Firefox is running and if it is, it performs an rsync of the RamDisk profile to the one stored on disk. The script will work on Mac with no prereq’s and any Linux distro that has /dev/shm enabled. No arguments to give it. It performs all detection of OS and profile settings dynamically. Here is the code, fframdisk.py [editted] Firefox no longer puts the cache on a Mac in the standard Profile. I have modified the script to locate the cache. The script then deletes the disk cache and creates a symlink to point the Cache to the RamDisk. Also have this performed for Google Chrome’s Cache.
So loving the mac. Gives me the best of all worlds. I get my *nix geekiness as well as direct access to mainstream software. Have hit upon the one big black eye, applescript. So in the process of writing my autologin handler for devices for work in python, I have come upon the need to be able to spawn new tabs in a the terminal window that was executing the original script. Now you would think, hey, this will be cake! In linux, not to bad, I just use a shell script to id the active window, and then spawn the tabs calling back to the python application to launch the correct sessions in the new tabs. But on the mac you have to use applescript to have Terminal.app spawn the new tabs according to all the research I have done so far. I have gotten the script to correctly read in the arguments and spawn a tab for each of these. But then ran into a roadblock. If you are using vanilla terminal, you can use the argument of frontmost window, but since the addon Visor provides so much that terminal needs, I have it installed. For some reason, this disables the use of the frontmost property. So I am struggling for a way to id the window that the original script was executed in so that I may spawn the tabs in that window… Currently tinkering with the script as follows: Trying to correlate the window # to….
The antibiotics have cleaned out the bad bacteria. So feeling tons better. Go back to the opthamalogist on Tuesday to make sure that it is all healed up.
Been a long second half of the week. Thought I might have had a reaction to the Provigil. But it turns out that I had an obstructed tear duct in my right. This particular duct allows the your tears to drain to your nose. The good news is it is slowly getting better now. On some antibiotics for the infection that started in the eye as well. Will follow up with the Opthamalogists tomorrow.
It is working great. I am able to make it throughout work and other daily activities without the absolute sense of exhaustion the MS fatigue would create. The other interesting note is the medication makes me sleep heavier as well. So it seems I get double the bang from up. Able to do more and enjoy things again as well as sleep better too!
We made the trip up to Maggie’s folks yesterday. We had the three grandkids there and did a fun easter egg hunt. A lot of the eggs had confetti in them. Lots of fun was had breaking the eggs and getting the confetti everywhere. (Especially down Maggie’s shirt!) Charlie made BBQ chicken on his smoker. It was sooooooo good! I am getting old and senile… Forgot to take the camera. Will try to get some pictures from the people who were there and remembered to bring them!
I am back to the Perl is the DEVIL!!! The language continues to drive me nutz after every turn. You get a piece to work, then you spend the next 4 hours watching other things break. It just forces so much manual intervention to everything. The current headache is Net::Appliance::Session. Apparently (this is not in the documentation) you cannot successfully login to a Pix or ASA firewall without using the $session->do_paging(0); call. If you do not use this, the logon fails at attempting to enter privileged mode. You would think that kind of detail would something in the documentation but nope, stumble blindly til you flip the right switch…. That is just one of many gotchas that are driving my nutty. At this point, I having a hard time not going back to Python and just making things work without all the WTF moments Perl seems to create…