2012-08-01

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2012-08-01 01:47 am

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Had a small breakdown today, the first in a long time. I'm a rather emotional person and it doesn't usually take much to unhinge me so the fact that I've been somewhat even keel (outside of what might possibly be minor anxiety attacks) for a while is a bit refreshing.

Anyway, I was trying to set up remote viewing for a security system and I just couldn't figure it. I still can't figure it out. It involves forwarding ports and no matter what I tried to do, they just would not forward. It was extremely frustrating. I went more than a little crazy. Part of the reason probably had to do with the three hours of sleep I got last night since I spent a good part of what should have been my sleeping time watching the Olympics (specifically the synchronized diving and gymnastic events). I had planned on a very long nap in the middle of the day to make up for it but I got stuck trying to figure out the remote viewing thing which took HOURS and HOURS (and in the end, I still couldn't figure it out) so I lost the time I meant to catch up on sleep. And there was the fact that I hadn't eaten anything that whole day and the whole ordeal with the remote viewing got me so stressed that I couldn't even think about eating or wanting to eat...

So I was weak with hunger, crabby from the lack of sleep, frustrated beyond measure from the task, and I was sporting a massive tension headache which was probably from both the lack of sleep and the hunger. I was not a happy person today. Needless to say, I was a massive wreck. If I didn't know better, I would say I was PMS'ing (which is pretty horrific for me generally), except that's shouldn't hit for another week or so. And now that I think about it, I generally have my bouts of emotional upheavals due to PMS so for it not to be the cause of one is a little weird.

Anyway, after about six hours of that, I gave up. I went and bought myself pizza and proceeded to try and raise my happiness levels with lots of fatty food. And then I passed out. But then I woke up only an hour later. I feel somewhat better, but I still feel like crap because of the sleep thing so I'm going to try and pass out for a good amount of time. As much as I considering I have work tomorrow.

And even though I know better, I still want to wake up for the men's 3m diving final tomorrow. And the men's all around in gymnastics. I could catch it on primetime on NBC but that wouldn't be live and I wouldn't be able to see everything and everyone competing... Japan also has a soccer match against Honduras and I've watched the two other matches so I kinda feel like I should watch that one as well... :\ I guess we'll see. I'll set my alarm and if I can't bring myself to wake up, I guess I have my answer. Okay, I'm off to bed. This is the earliest I've slept in a good long while but I definitely need to be not awake as soon as possible.
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2012-08-01 09:22 pm
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I don't know why it's taken me this long to connect the British national anthem God Save the Queen with My Country Tis of Thee but it has. Man, it's a mind trip! Now everytime I hear it, I think it's a song for children rather than that awfully familiar tune that I can't quite place...

 

Whose idea was it to set a children's song, a patriotic one for Americans no less, to the tune of another country's national anthem anyway? I mean, geez, it's like a love song to America... Was this an intentional dig at England? I can't imgine it wouldn't be... But that's so disrespectful... :\

 

I think I would have preferred to not have connect the two songs... Damn you, Wikipedia...

 

Anyway, feeling better today. I contacted the manufacturers of the security system and they've concluded that I did everything right in trying to forward the ports. And that the problem must either be the router or the ISP. Next step is to have them forward it for me so hopefully they can do that easily and everything will finally work as it's supposed to.

 

I ended up with about six hours of sleep since I woke up for diving. But I skipped the men's gymnastics all around finals. I'm watch NBC's primetime cover of day four right now so I imagine it'll be covered somewhat tonight. If anything major happens (like Uchimura Kohei's fall/dismount during the team competition), I can always replay it online later...

 

But with a little bit more sleep than the last couple days, two cups of coffee, and validation that I wasn't fucking up the setup for remote access, I feel good. I'm still tired but it's gotten a bit familiar now. And Ryan Murphy finally released the Box scene from Glee. My God, that along would have lifted me from the lowest of doldrums... I may not be as obsessed as I was with either Glee or Klaine (part of me just died using that portmanteau), but it still was pretty awesome. Definitely worth some major squeeage.

 

All in all, not a bad day. But anything would have been better than yesterday...