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Wednesday, June 19th, 2013 04:18 pm
we need to talk. My shrink suggested you to try and control the horrific nightmares I've been dealing with my whole life long. We started out with the smallest dosage recommended for treating nightmares - 0,5mg at night. You even had a small but slightly noticeable effect on my dreams.

BUT. And here's the BUT... you've turned me into a zombie. I feel drunk and hungover in the mornings. I am exhausted all day long. I require 5 hour naps around 3 pm. I fall asleep while commuting. My vision is permanently doubled. I don't remember what day it is. I forget what I was doing or saying within seconds. This is SO NOT OKAY.

Thankfully, my shrink agrees; his comment was "it's plausible but rare that someone reacts so strongly to such a small dose without it starting to wear off over time", and I'm to switch to the fluid form and halve the dosage to see if we can manage the side effects whilst still getting some of the boni of the actual medication.

You're on probation, buddy.

No love,
[personal profile] mathsnerd


Dear Lasix,

I hope you do a decent job getting this backed up water out of my body. It hurts having it all in my tissues. Please don't cause any unnecessary side effects or problems. I have enough trouble with Rivotril right now.

Hopefully yours,
[personal profile] mathsnerd


Dear Buprenorphine,

I love you to pieces. Never leave me.

Hugs and kisses,
[personal profile] mathsnerd

Mods: can we get generic: buprenorphine, name: lasix, generic: furosemide, and name: rivotril added please?
Tuesday, June 18th, 2013 05:08 pm
Title: Ice Breaker
Rating: G
Pairing: Sora/Roxas
Word Count: 6876
Additional: N/A
Summary: Wherein Sora is separated from his friends and thrown into a frozen world essentially barren of life. He hates being alone. It's a good thing he isn't. Post-KH3D.

Also available on AO3 here!

( Sora had never been alone for so long. By high noon on the third day, he'd realized exactly how much he hated it. )
Tuesday, June 18th, 2013 02:45 pm
Hi all,

As part of our new hardware project, I'm going to be failing us over to our new load balancers. This will involve a brief downtime for the site while everything fails over, but it should be less than 60 seconds.

Thanks for your patience, and sorry for the interruption!
Tuesday, June 18th, 2013 12:04 pm
Dear Seroquel/quetiapine:

You suck. You're supposed to make me less anxious and sleepy, not ramp my anxiety up into high gear and leave me tossing and turning and so anxious I can barely breathe. Maybe that wasn't you last night, maybe that was just the panic attack, but you certainly did nothing to stop it. You've really been falling down on the job of helping manage my anxiety, so I think we need to go our separate ways. I remember taking you years ago and sleeping for fourteen hours a day...what happened?

no love,
becc

Dear lorazepam:

I don't want to take you, I'm going to make that clear. I worked to get off benzodiazepenes a couple years back and I've been doing okay without them, until recently when the anxiety and panic attacks started creeping back in. You were really helpful in the ER a couple weeks ago, though, so I'm hopeful that you can help me get through the next couple months without losing my mind. I'm still surprised my psychiatrist was willing to prescribe you given how much he wanted me off the alprazolam, but I guess I worried him enough when I mentioned I'd been in the ER for anxiety. (That sucked, but you made it a lot easier.) So work with me here, okay? Help me sleep at night and fight the panic attacks and we'll be copacetic.

cautiously,
becc
Monday, June 17th, 2013 10:59 am
The payment system is back online. It was my fault; I was moving it to our new hardware, but I didn't realize there is a code change that I have to make. (For the details curious, the underlying SSL module we use was upgraded, and it now requires you to add some more options when you use it.)

I have cleared out the pending queue of payments, so that we shouldn't have charged for anything in the past 24 hours, and that should mean there are no doubled (or more) payments. Please, of course, let us know if that's the case though, and we'll take care of it!

Sorry for the trouble!
Monday, June 17th, 2013 07:36 am
The backend system that runs payments is temporarily unavailable, and will be fixed as soon as possible. If you've tried to make a payment at any time between last night & now and gotten an endless wait, your payment is almost certainly in the queue to be processed as soon as the backend is back up & running -- you don't need to submit it again.

If you wind up getting multiple charges when it comes back up (for instance, if you re-submitted the form, thinking that your internet connection was to blame) you can open a support request (in the Account Payments category) after the payment is processed and I'll issue a refund to your card for the extra charges.

We're really sorry about the downtime!
Sunday, June 16th, 2013 08:32 pm
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[community profile] paoputree is a new Kingdom Hearts dressing room opening today! Open to Kingdom Hearts characters and related series like Final Fantasy, The World Ends With You, and Disney canons, the game is a set in the worlds of Kingdom Hearts. There's no apps, no AC, and no set genre. Play out any kind of thread you want, toss up memes, or just post looking for more KH characters to play with.

We're opening with a catch-all open post set on Destiny Islands. Perfect place for your character to wonder what they're doing there and why they might see doubles. Come jump in!
Friday, June 14th, 2013 12:33 am
Kingdom Hearts x 120
Uta no Prince-sama x 80

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Wednesday, June 12th, 2013 11:36 pm
So of course I had to make some from the new trailer.

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Tuesday, June 11th, 2013 05:23 pm
Hello, Dreamwidth! Last week, we attended YAPC, the annual conference put on by the Perl Foundation. We brought a group of our developers so they could both attend the conference and learn things, and also so they could represent Dreamwidth to the wider world. (Which they did! Awesomely!)

The conference itself was full of a number of interesting and varied talks, given by a bunch of incredibly smart people, and we learned a bunch (and found out about all kinds of useful things we can apply to Dreamwidth in the future). Aside from that, though, we had a great week, full of things like midnight hackathons, trips to see the actual servers that run Dreamwidth in person, people being voluntold to do things (that's a combination of "volunteer" and "told" that involves me pointing at someone and telling them "that's a great idea, why don't you do that"), and a whole host of teambuilding and other productive things. We've learned things, taught things, broke things, fixed things, and discovered just how many people you can pack into a hotel room and not want to kill each other later.

We'd like to say "thank you" to everybody who's paid for their accounts lately, since it's your support that allowed us to do this, and it's already paying off in bugfixes, new features, usability improvements, and loads of people who heard about Dreamwidth-the-open-source-project from us and are interested in coming to hack with us. So, let's go over some of the neat stuff we did!

(I also want to apologize in advance for any typos or weirdness in this news post, since I switched recently to dictating instead of typing, since my RSI problems just keep getting worse. Let me tell you, it may be easier than I thought it would be to make the transition, but that does not mean it's easy.)

Behind the cut:

* Conference Report
* Development
* Icon Renaming
* Pretty URLs
* Tales from the Conference #1
* New Entry & Comment Pages
* Spam Prevention
* HTML Cleaner Changes
* Tales from the Conference #2
* Volunteering with Dreamwidth

and now the news )