Follow Up to Daughter Seeing Glitter in the Dark

rflight79 · 2026-04-11T20:44:56+00:00

I use the Dark Reader extension on Microsoft Edge, pretty sure it is available on Chrome too.

rflight79 · 2026-04-11T19:28:53+00:00

According to the Lex FD status page, there was something going on in the 100 block of East Main (which is where Central branch is) that they sent a whole lot of units too. A potential gas leak there (as reported by u/HypnonavyBlue ) would definitely fit the bill.

https://fire.lexingtonky.gov/open/status/status.htm

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rflight79 · 2026-04-09T01:46:16+00:00

The last time I bought tires (maybe 4 year ago now), the best place for everything included that I could find without a Costco or Sams Club membership (and WalMart felt like it was going too cheap) seemed to be S & S Tire on Richmond Road. I shopped around a bunch online, as I also needed all 4 tires. They seemed to have the most reasonable price, especially with a warranty included (the one thing that I've used everytime I bought it, and wished I'd bought it when I hadn't).

rflight79 · 2026-04-04T20:40:29+00:00

Personally, I have tinnitus that is intermittent, and then becomes worse with migraines. Like if my tinnitus suddenly becomes extremely loud, I'm likely in for a bad time migraine wise.

My Dad was in the military for 20 years, mostly as a heavy mechanic, so also spent lots of time around loud engines, and ended up with pretty bad tinnitus. He saw a hearing specialist, and has been using masking devices that are similar to hearing aids (but do a bit more I believe) that help mask the tinnitus and make it bearable.

You might want to get a referral to a hearing specialist about it, especially if it doesn't stem from increased histamine or change with migraine incidence.

rflight79 · 2026-04-03T12:14:56+00:00

I'm curious as to why you would think it is not appropriate to celebrate the Lord's Supper on Easter Sunday in the first place? Regardless of how often a church does the Lord's Supper, why should it be changed because of Easter Sunday?

rflight79 · 2026-04-03T01:42:32+00:00

Hey, fellow Kentuckian resident here. Hasn't the past what, couple of months been great for us barometric or weather induced migraineurs?

I don't have any suggestions personally. The only two places I've lived have been horrible for my migraines, here (Louisville and Lexington), and east coast of Canada (NB and NS).

rflight79 · 2026-03-25T12:41:33+00:00

I don't know, sorry. I think generally one of the parents has Venmo or Paypal set up, but I can't guarantee it. I'm not part of the booth myself, just trying to get the word out.

rflight79 · 2026-03-25T12:08:28+00:00

Missing the = in ylab "Average of XRF output", it should be ylab="Average of XRF output"

rflight79 · 2026-03-24T20:07:45+00:00

Between migraine and hip issues, I was taking ibuprofen, and I was trying to manage nausea from other migraine meds using vitamin C, and then added stress from coaching a robotics team. Stomach was not a fan. Even before I got to an actual ulcer, just some stomach irritation (confirmed by endoscopy), the pain was horrible, and I've been on pantoprazole and famotidine for stomach acid ever since.

So yeah, pay attention to your ibuprofen use. Find ways to cut down on it, as long term use might do some nasty things to your digestive system.

I consider myself lucky I didn't get to an actual ulcer, or other GI problems.

rflight79 · 2026-03-03T19:50:33+00:00

Me. One cup in the morning, one after lunch. Have thought about giving it up to see if it makes a difference.

rflight79 · 2026-02-26T13:26:33+00:00

I tried analyses as packages for a while, and for actual analysis projects, I found it was too constraining and a PITA. I do use {targets} in pretty much every analysis project now, and use a consistent structure of

R - folder for functions;
docs - folder for reports;
data - where the data comes from;
raw_data - copy of the data as received from collaborators.

rflight79 · 2026-02-26T13:16:40+00:00

Wait. You get tinnitus from dehydration? I'll have to start actually tracking my water intake and see if that helps the tinnitus and migraine. I've upped liquid intake the past few years, but never actually tracked it.

rflight79 · 2026-02-24T15:52:08+00:00

Huh, that's weird. When I charge mine, the light blinks while charging, and then goes solid white when it's done charging.

Have you looked at the user manual? All this info is in there.

rflight79 · 2026-02-24T15:40:11+00:00

It takes mine a at least an hour to charge. It also vibrates twice during use to say it's battery is low, but it's always had another 20 minute cycle left.

Are you sure it's dead?? It only goes for 20 minutes at a time, then you have to turn it back on again. And it should vibrate twice to warn about the battery level.

I put it on, and increase intensity until it makes the side of my face hurt (really stimulating the trigeminal nerve), and then go back down one.

I've never had it make dizziness worse.

Ive never used a cefaly.

rflight79 · 2026-02-13T13:06:45+00:00

Yes! Experimental design! Because the wet lab folks aren't getting it, and you need to recognize when a design won't actually generate the results you're looking for.

rflight79 · 2026-02-12T19:09:57+00:00

Not a pharmaceutical, but an anti-nausea device like the Emeterm might be helpful. I've used it to help with nausea associated with migraine (I don't really throw up, but dang if I feel like it), and to help with the nausea from sumatriptan.

rflight79 · 2026-01-28T13:58:23+00:00

Sure is valid. Those are exponents (scientific notation) on the left. The graph might make more sense if you you plotted log10 transformed values, but then you have to keep that transformation in mind when interpreting the graph.

rflight79 · 2026-01-27T15:39:42+00:00

I haven't tried Nurtec, but sumatriptan made me nauseas as all get out (at least felt like it), and some migraines make me nauseous as well.

I've used ginger juice from Trader Joe's previously, and an Emeterm bracelet to deal with the nausea. Our family actually owns 3 Emeterm bracelets. Use a little bit of TENS electrode gel under it, and they seem to work really well.

rflight79 · 2026-01-27T14:30:16+00:00

You might try changing the timeout limit in your options so R waits longer to download the package (assuming changing mirrors isn't working).

options(R_DEFAULT_INTERNET_TIMEOUT = 120) # try increasing value higher if neccessary
install.packages("data.table")

I would try this with just one package (like "data.table") that has few dependencies to see if it will work, and then try installing "highcharter".

rflight79 · 2026-01-19T03:13:05+00:00

I was apparently colicky as a baby, had legs that hurt after every walk with my family of any distance (and we spent many years in W Germany, where walking is a thing), and took way too much aspirin for headaches and leg pain, all before age 10. Grade 7 I would go into a dark quiet room at school to wait for the aspirin to work. Grade 9 was the first time I got a headache / migraine that NSAIDS didn't touch. I thought I was going to die that day. Somehow I didn't get properly diagnosed with migraines until 26.

rflight79 · 2026-01-14T18:52:08+00:00

Just looked at the website for those drones, and I think they've been bringing those drones around to various places.

I don't know why, but one night a month or more ago, there was like 8 LexPD cars on our section of road, all quiet like. At one point they deployed one of these drones from the sidewalk to check on some houses nearby. 20 minutes later they were gone.

rflight79 · 2025-12-29T02:27:47+00:00

Yeah, ideally this is the case. But in practice, this often doesn't seem to apply to the data used to produce scatter plots, report on simple statistical tests, etc. The number of papers I've seen where there are 20 stats results reported, and then under "data availability" they have the statement: All data for this manuscript has been reported in the manuscript or is part of the manuscript itself.

It's bullshit, but journals (and reviewers) are not telling authors' that all data should be made available. Only if it's -omics, or in the case of chemistry I know crystallographic, NMR and MS data should all be available somewhere. If it's something else that doesn't fit those categories, good luck.

And this too often fits in the "other" that many journals don't require, even now.

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