Sorry, folks.

UPDATE 20110610: Man, this has been a miserable time. Tuesday evening I was sitting down to dinner, and suddenly started getting the spins. It got worse and worse, and after about 20 minutes I staggered into the bedroom. Must be some kind of inner ear thing, I would think, but ever since then my eyes have been spinning and twisting.

It's slowly getting better, and I'm to the point now where I can use the computer for a few minutes at a time.

But I'm still staggering like a zombie when I move around.

The new hard drive for Deneb got delivered Wednesday, and since I was out of commission anyway, it seemed a good time to bring everything down and tell Deneb to dismount its 1TB drive. That took about 5 hours, because it had to move everything on that drive off of it. Once it was complete, Deneb only showed about 300 GB of free space. Physically replacing the drive was harder than it should have been considering how much trouble I was having seeing, but Acer's disk caddies don't use any screws. If I'd been normal, the physical swap would have taken about 2 minutes. As it was, it was more like 5.

New drive installed, Deneb powered up, and then I told it to format, and staggered back into the bedroom. Now Deneb says it has 2.2 TB of free space, which is a lot more comfortable.

It just occurred to me that Rio - Rainbow Gate should have started appearing on BD rips. I checked Amazon JP, and the first two BDs are already out. The third one comes out on June 24. So I looked on TokyoTosho and NyaaTorrents, and I can't find any trace of them. I wanna know if they decensored some of the scenes!

I'm to the point now where I can use the computer for maybe 20 minutes before motion sickness compels me again to the bed, and I just reached my limit. Bye now.

Posted by: Steven Den Beste in Daily Life at 03:46 PM | Comments (18) | Add Comment
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1 Well we're sorry that you're sick.
Get well soon!

Posted by: The Brickmuppet at June 08, 2011 11:34 PM (EJaOX)

2 Ditto.

Posted by: Dave Young at June 09, 2011 08:25 AM (CCzAi)

3 Take care.

Posted by: Old Grouch at June 09, 2011 10:14 AM (PjeI0)

4 Take it easy. I'll keep everybody distracted with baka jokes until you feel better.

Posted by: ubu at June 09, 2011 05:57 PM (GfCSm)

5 It's not like you have to apologize to us for not posting, though we all appreciate the post I'm sure.  But really, why do you feel the need to lie to us that you're sick.  We all know you're up on the mothership helping to solve an engineering problem with the soon to be deployed army of nekomimi ninja maid robots.  So please, take your time.  However long it takes to get it right.  We can wait.

Posted by: David at June 09, 2011 07:52 PM (Kn54v)

6 Meganeko nekomimi ninja maid robots.  These things are importatnt.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at June 10, 2011 07:16 AM (PiXy!)

7 You guys laugh, but I get a bit concerned every time this happens.

Posted by: Pete Zaitcev at June 10, 2011 11:14 AM (9KseV)

8 I know you're an atheist, but you're the kind that won't mind if I pray for your good health.

Get well soon.

Posted by: atomic_fungus at June 10, 2011 01:57 PM (n4AaW)

9 Are you sure that it's not the imminent release of Rio on BD that is causing your head to spin?  Poor Wonderduck has never fully recovered form his review of the series...

Seriously, take care of your self and get well soon!

Posted by: Siergen at June 10, 2011 02:56 PM (SWF66)

10 I really must be sick, because I'm seriously considering ordering the first two from Amazon JP.

Posted by: Steven Den Beste at June 10, 2011 03:20 PM (+rSRq)

11 Steven, I'm not going to try to play doctor, and I hope I don't set off a slew of such posts, but this sounds suspiciously similar to something I went through nearly ten years ago, what with the sudden onset and eyes not tracking.  I puzzled doctors for weeks, while they tried to figure it out.

It took one of the top specialists in Houston to correctly diagnose my problem, even though the treatment was ridiculously simple.  If it doesn't go away after a few days, consider dropping me a line on gmail,and I'll discuss it with you.

Posted by: ubu at June 10, 2011 03:47 PM (GfCSm)

12 I'm already a lot better.

Posted by: Steven Den Beste at June 10, 2011 05:20 PM (+rSRq)

13 And I really hope this doesn't set off a lot of attempts to remotely diagnose and/or treat me.

Posted by: Steven Den Beste at June 10, 2011 05:26 PM (+rSRq)

14 I prescribe catgirls.

Get well soon, Steven.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at June 10, 2011 05:48 PM (PiXy!)

15 I don't know if catgirls would help, but I'd certainly like to find out.

Posted by: Steven Den Beste at June 10, 2011 06:15 PM (+rSRq)

16 So I looked on TokyoTosho and NyaaTorrents, and I can't find any trace of them. I wanna know if they decensored some of the scenes!

I've given up on ever seeing the BD for Rio Rainbow Gate!, I'm afraid.  This makes me sad. 

Posted by: Wonderduck at June 10, 2011 06:56 PM (n0k6M)

17 Amazon JP has it.

Posted by: Steven Den Beste at June 10, 2011 07:00 PM (+rSRq)

18 Yes, at roughly $60/disc, two episodes per... and I don't have a BD player, high-def TV, or a computer that can stand in for one.  I'm doomed.

Posted by: Wonderduck at June 10, 2011 09:37 PM (n0k6M)

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