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Archives for September 2004

Simon update

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Okay, phew! Things seem to be back to normal around here. I hadn’t saved my self-built templates for the left column and right column, but then I remembered I’d mailed them to someone a while back—turned out to be almost 2 years ago, but who’s counting?—and with a little tweaking they seem to be their good old selves. Yay. And everything seems to work fine.

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Simon is fine. Or, to be more exact, Simon is the same little boy as ever: he’s smiley, flirty, and trying out new words all the time. (Still refuses to say “Simon.” Go figure.) We went to see the neurologist on Monday, and he observed Simon, gave him reflex tests, looked at the charts, and said, basically, “Huh. No idea.” Well, okay, not quite no idea: the leading contenders are 1) a seizure of some kind and 2) a reaction to medication, and the only medication we’ve been giving him of late is Amoxicillin for his toe.

He’s taking an EEG test in a few weeks. This consists of making him stay up real late, then making him get up real early in the morning. I have no idea why we’d want to do this, but that’s what they said.

Testing…

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Please let this work. Please let this work. Please let this work.

Update: Okay, this has been Bad Day at Black Rock. I finally went thermonuclear on Movable Type and removed: my MT install, my MT archives, and my MT databases. Things are much, much better—for example, new comments actually post now—but they’re still not perfect. I am sweating this hard.

(No one else’s update seems to have gone so horribly, irretrievably wrong. I don’t know what happened.)

Update 2: I’m having rebuilding problems with the site, but from what I can tell on the MT boards, that’s a real common problem. I have the fix, but when I try to update the file on the site and then rebuild, I get an error message having to do with /xCA. Which I think is an encoding error. Which is undoubtedly something Darin can help with.

Simon is okay

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Thanks to everyone who expressed concern about my little guy! He is fine. He was his old smiley, flirty self yesterday (and Wednesday afternoon, actually). We have an appointment to see a neurologist on Monday. I fully expect to hear, “Huh. We have no idea.”

It wasn’t the Nutella: he ate some more of that yesterday!

And he took a bath last night, with his toe unbandaged and everything. Seemed to work fine, and boy, did that kid need a bath.

If the doctor says anything of interest on Monday, I’ll let you know.