Jun 8-10 24
My brain eating amoeba continues to eat tiny portions of my brain. Luckily he is so small that he won’t make much of a difference. Nonetheless my head is killing me and I’m working through a long period of absolute uselessness. I don’t know why I’ve been sick for so long, but my respiratory illness has shifted to a horrid headache and a sensation of my head being full of putrid liquid. I think I may have actually given myself a sinus infection, which was exactly what I was worried about. I’ve been doing some meager writing, but nothing like what I had hoped for after returning from Europe. It’s been 10 days back and what do I have to show for my time. Summer is zipping by, and I’ve spent most of it wallowing. Hate this. My house is a mess, I’m exhausted. Mainly my head is just killing me. I need this brain eating amoeba out of my head soon.
I’ve been less prone to update the diary because I’ve been working on the website version of it- I’ve gotten it to scrape images and audio files and some formatting in a way that I like, but I think video files will be much more challenging1. I am putting a lot of effort into something with minimal returns, but thats life I guess. I might procrastinating finishing some writing by doing this coding stuff. For whatever reason I can beat my head against the wall trying to fix nextjs problems but won’t write a couple pages of this play. I already feel behind from my goals for the summer because of my brain eating amoeba. Don’t want to let myself get discouraged. Today and tomorrow I will put effort towards getting back on the saddle.
They are stored in blob storage and served dynamically, so I can’t just scrape html from Substack. I might even have to just load any videos separately onto my website and load them from that. It all depends on how committed I am to making the diary multimedia. It might be better to just focus on text anyway. Sound is a little bit silly to include, but maybe text and images any hyperlinks would be enough. I need to also finish migrating automatically substack’s formatting like block quotes and lists and so on.