My GSOC (kdm-plasma) status

Well, I have a lot of it done, but still have a lot that I would love to do. Basically to get it into a working state, I have to "port" one (for now) authentication plugin into a plasmoid..which shouldn't be entirely difficult, to be functional that is. Aestheticism and intuitiveness is a different story. I'll have to do all of the above when I can find the time...I have managed to get the shutdown, and unlock dialogs to work nicely. Which involved a little more than one may think..trying to find the best way to have the items laid out to make it look pretty..actually transforming that to qgraphicslayout-ese. I also had to design it so that said dialogs would ask for the root password when needed (obviously the unlock dialog will always have that..but the shutdown one is conditional, depending on the kdm configuration file).

The dialogs kind of..segregate other tasks, from the dialogs themselves. In other words, the "modal dialogs", when shown...will "hide" everything else (technically it switches to a different Plasma::Containment), meaning that you do not get that ugly "dialog z ordered above a dialog/on top of" problem that someone mentioned in a blog that I don't feel like digging up. I like it. It makes the user more focused with the decision at hand.

I would post some (half-baked) screenshots, but I guess I will give them to Lydia so she can post her dot story, when I get an opportunity to do so. So I suppose you could just check dot.kde.org for that, along with updates on the other GSOC'ers

Lately I've been so cramped on time..I've been getting stuff ready for college (before you ask: yes, it was my usual last-minute stuff ;-)

I took and - barely passed my road test. I even did something I have never...ever done before: I set it to Reverse instead of Forwards. So I was actually looking ahead..I only moved a little bit, but still. To be fair to myself though, I'm a very, very nervous person when it comes to..I guess...social events. From a test in school, first day in school/whatever, and many other simple things..or at least, what one would think would be simple. My brain just completely shuts down in these moments. (which is why I generally like the over-the-net approach to talking. My thoughts are more...gathered, this way).

The worst part is, when this happens, I can't eat breakfast at all..if I do I _will_ vomit.. Actually, even if I don't I might. I had that happen yesterday morning, and all that was in my stomach was stomach acids (sorry if you're squeamish).

Then we had a storm (which had a tornado touch down somewhere semi-nearby..although the winds were really strong), which ripped apart our fence and our neighbors' trees (ours were fine surprisingly..mostly branches).

Oh, and the best part?

I've been having horrible headaches for *counts*...I think this is the third week.

Yes. Continuous.

The headaches tend to get *very* bad during the evening hours...and it spikes quite rapidly with no real warning...in fact, the first week I've constantly been tricked into thinking it was gone, as I couldn't feel anything during the first few hours. But then around 13:00 I could tell that it was still semi-there. Then it goes on to being horrible pain right around 18:00.

I've seen two doctors so far, one gave me pain pills (luckily), and the most recent one gave me low blood pressure pills (although my blood pressure is typically low || normal)...the latter pills are supposed to "prevent" the headaches in the first place, since he believes they are tension/cluster headaches, as far as I understand. The doctor doesn't believe that I need an MRI or anything like that. I have noticed that my jaw muscles, neck, and the area on my temple (each side) does hurt. At least it does today...I've had that part only be noticeable one other time during this sequence, though.

Yeah, it's gotten so bad that I haven't been able to bring myself to write code anymore since ... well, just about their onset (which is very significant, considering I always have some urge to do it...in fact, it's usually all I do, nearly all day, too).

Now that college classes have begun, I have to sit through the classes...and receive get homework which I can't bring myself to do...especially math homework. (if I don't want to code why would I want to do math...since thinking with a headache seems to be one of the things that likes to make it worse). Or at the very least, not being able to think clearly.

Wow this entry grew large quite quickly ;-)

I think I'm going to take a nap. In between the drowsy-affects of 3 medications (1 was a today-only pain medication..) and the lack of sleep from school, then the lack of sleep from the anticipation of school...I'm really tired today.