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Had some more blood tests yesterday, and got lightly mangled by a trainee again. There are a lot of trainee phlebotomists at UCH and I mostly don't mind them training on me because my veins are obvious and easy and they could do with some obvious and easy people, but they do tend to make it hurt more than it needs to.
The results look encouraging. The top end of the normal value range for this liver function enzyme thing is 35, and the highest I've been measured at so far was about 200 two weeks ago. This measurement was down to 54. Not normal yet but going the right way. The doctor thinks I might have some amount of the post-viral fatigue, though. The problems I've got now do seem to match the descriptions I can find online, although they're only mild versions. My plan is to keep trying to do stuff to keep on moving as upwards as possible.
To that end I'm going for a walk in a bit so at least I've left the house today, but the other thing I've been trying to work out today is music storage again. My plan has settled down to be making nice secure-copied FLAC versions of all my CDs (and I'm being amused by which of my CDs are in the accuraterip database - every single King Missile album, including the one from 1988?) and then converting these to mp3s for now and whatever future media version may seem sensible in the future. This relies, though, on being able to find software that will do the conversion properly. So far I can find something that will do the conversion from flac to mp3 but can't preserve the directory structure so the mp3s end up in a random heap (LameXP), something that can do the conversion and keep the directory structure but only using an antiquated version of LAME that can't be updated (CDex, and I've tried the various methods posted for making it use a more modern version of LAME and I can't make any of them work), something that can do the conversion and keep the structure but only in a very long-winded, multistep way that involves converting them to wavs first (frontah) and something that several posters are smugly confident about their successes with but that costs money (dBpoweramp, and I can't see any reason to believe those posts over all the others that are talking shit). I'm told that Winamp can also do this but given how flaky I find Winamp to be generally, I'd rather find anything else, and there seems to be another mainly-player called foobar2000 that does it but installing another player to fight with winamp sounds like a stupid idea. Given the vast number of free encoders that are out there, wouldn't it be nice if one of them could do the not-unreasonable job I want it to do?
The results look encouraging. The top end of the normal value range for this liver function enzyme thing is 35, and the highest I've been measured at so far was about 200 two weeks ago. This measurement was down to 54. Not normal yet but going the right way. The doctor thinks I might have some amount of the post-viral fatigue, though. The problems I've got now do seem to match the descriptions I can find online, although they're only mild versions. My plan is to keep trying to do stuff to keep on moving as upwards as possible.
To that end I'm going for a walk in a bit so at least I've left the house today, but the other thing I've been trying to work out today is music storage again. My plan has settled down to be making nice secure-copied FLAC versions of all my CDs (and I'm being amused by which of my CDs are in the accuraterip database - every single King Missile album, including the one from 1988?) and then converting these to mp3s for now and whatever future media version may seem sensible in the future. This relies, though, on being able to find software that will do the conversion properly. So far I can find something that will do the conversion from flac to mp3 but can't preserve the directory structure so the mp3s end up in a random heap (LameXP), something that can do the conversion and keep the directory structure but only using an antiquated version of LAME that can't be updated (CDex, and I've tried the various methods posted for making it use a more modern version of LAME and I can't make any of them work), something that can do the conversion and keep the structure but only in a very long-winded, multistep way that involves converting them to wavs first (frontah) and something that several posters are smugly confident about their successes with but that costs money (dBpoweramp, and I can't see any reason to believe those posts over all the others that are talking shit). I'm told that Winamp can also do this but given how flaky I find Winamp to be generally, I'd rather find anything else, and there seems to be another mainly-player called foobar2000 that does it but installing another player to fight with winamp sounds like a stupid idea. Given the vast number of free encoders that are out there, wouldn't it be nice if one of them could do the not-unreasonable job I want it to do?