So my friends girlfriend has been having neurological problems for a couple years, and was just diagnosed as having Lyme's disease. A friend at work was having a wierd visual problem that she thought was related to her recent Lasik eye surgery, but it turns out that she had pressure on her optic nerve due to intracranial pressure. She had an MRI done that afternoon which ruled out things like tumors and bleeding, which is good. She now has to have a spinal tap to measure the fluid pressure in her central nervous system or something.

I'm so scared of getting some serious disease or something that just sort of all of a sudden comes up. Maybe that's how all diseases are, I guess. But I've heard stories of people who just sort of one day start not feeling well, and it turns out they have cancer of the (whatever) and have 6 months to live. That idea is so scary to me. I'm turning into a total hypochondriac.

Well, maybe not unreasonably so, but it's still something I think about every so often.

This weekend went by quickly. Diana and I put up some curtains. They look better on the floor than on the wall, I think, but they might just need to be gotten used to. I worked more on the rain gutter, and got it much more stable. The problem is that the roof is sloped one way, and I want the water to flow the other way. So even though I sloped it slightly downhill, because the roof is sloped even more the other way, the water partially flows the wrong way and collects at the non-drain end. It's frusterating.

Diana and I worked on a "skin" for my Grand Theft Auto III character, which was a lot of fun. The game makers provide a file that is used to paint the model in the game. There are samples provided, and we took some digital pictures of me in my comfy clothes, and with a little effort, we were able to make some not-too-bad skins. It's so funny now that in the game I'm wearing scrubs pants and my mexican pancho sweatshirt thing. We tried to do my Spongebob shirt, but the graphics on the front doesn't fit very well.

My dad and I also worked on the fish project. It turns out we had the Christmas edition of the Billy Bass, which didn't fit into the schematic that we had for the normal Billy Bass, so it was a lot of tracing and learning, which was fun. We decided that we actually need a Billy Bass proper, but once we get one, we should have a good head start on exactly what we need to do.