detox report

Friday night I slept and slept and slept, ten or eleven hours, and I woke up Saturday without a headache. It was marvelous. Along about two in the afternoon I crashed hard on the couch, in a completely unscheduled nap of complete unconsciousness. Didn't turn off the lights, didn't turn off the TV, in fact I barely moved.

Saturday night I slept and slept and slept, about nine hours, and I woke up Sunday without a headache. Ditto. :-) A completely lazy day, and in the evening I dug out a box of Celestial Seasonings' peppermint tea that's been hanging around for ages, and I'm sure it was a CS teabag, on account of there was no string and no tag, but I am not convinced it was caffeine-free herbal tea in there, because see below. Do Celestial Seasonings make regular, you know, tea teas? Or, if not, who else has tag-free teabags? (Twinings, for one, but this was definitely something with peppermint in it and not Twinings Assam tea, which I have also moved to a further-distant shelf rather than let it take up valuable kitchen real estate.)

Sunday night I woke up at 2am and lay awake for close to three hours, and I wanted to cry. Worked from home on Monday, and I did get work done (as well as laundry) but thank god I could do it here is all I'm saying. I banished the suspect tea. Got some other caffeine-free teas and am confident as to their provenance. :-) And I've slept okay since then, so that's all right.

But every afternoon this week I've developed a killer headache at about 3pm. Urgh. Advil doesn't seem to kill it. In fact nothing does except eventually going to sleep. I'm hoping this will pass.

Today I had apple cinnamon herbal tea in my afternoon meeting, and it tasted like nothing for about 3/4 of the cup, but got a little fruity toward the end. Sigh.

technical difficulties

Any of the Mac users out there (or PC users, for all I know) organizing your photographs with Picasa? I've been sorting things over there for ages, and when I first fired it up it found every .jpg file on my computer, which, fine; and now I've got them all in one "pictures" folder, also fine, and several sub-folders, also fine; but each of the sub-folders has sub-sub-folders, and on one of these they don't show up. That is, folder A has sub-folders and some loose files in it; and folder B ditto; and folder C ditto; and folder D has sub-folders and no loose files, as it happens. And folders B, C, and D, I can see all the sub-folders; and folders B and C, if I select them, it shows me the loose files in the display window and the sub-folders over in the list window on the left, and folder D, if I select that, it doesn't know what to show me in the display window, but it shows me the sub-folders on the left no problem. But folder A, if I select it, it shows me the loose files, but I can't get it to show me the sub-folders. There's not even a little toggley triangle where I can have it flip down and show me the levels contained in the folder or anything. It's as if it thinks A is a terminal node and has no sub-folders, which is completely not true.

I've tried closing and opening the program, and I've tried moving the sub-folders out into the world, to be sisters with folder A instead of daughters of it, but nothing can make them appear. There's nothing goofy about their security settings. I'm stumped! (I guess restarting my computer is the next option. Maybe I'll try that.)

[ETA: Turns out changing the name of one file in the folder and then changing it back again makes the folder magically appear. Who knew?]