Blind by the light bulb. Blood to the bank.

That was a productive doctor's visit! It appears that if you see the non-useless non-fuckhead, stuff gets done. redcountess may not in fact have lupus, but a weird-arse combination of rheumatoid arthritis and thyroid oddness. The non-useless doctor says she will be LARTing the lupus clinic over the six-month wait for a followup appointment, we went to Whipps Cross to get the thyroid blood test redone and Liz will see the non-useless doctor again just after Christmas. And the stick has proven most efficaceous in on-road tests.

I am feeling less worse. Still ill and exhausted after this morning. We shall be having a quiet afternoon.

I have successfully beaten the FreeBSD port of abcde with cdparanoia into behaving (of course even the port doesn't just work - you have to take out all the nice statements, since the FreeBSD 4.x nice is not the GNU one) and am merrily ripping and reripping CDs. Wish I could find Northern Light, dammit.