I'm starting dialysis tomorrow morning, first thing. As it's being handled on an emergency basis to start, I"m going to get the line in the artery for the short term. Once the fistula operation's healed, the line comes out and I switch to standard hemodialysis.

I'm really looking forward to doing this at this point. There's this constant feeling of "heaviness" in my limbs these days, I'm frequently nauseous, and have to fight to keep food down. Hopefully these things will start to become history as they put me through dialysis regularly.

Once I'm stable and on regular dialysis, I'll be on the list for transplant. As I've got the universal recipient blood type, I'm in a good position to get a kidney. Time will tell how long that takes. For now, I'm just going to focus on the next month or so.

In case no one else has noticed it, at some point in the last few days, the wiki's Recent Changes page has started throwing errors instead of displaying changes. I've submitted a Phabricator ticket for it, and if the one thing posted in it so far is any indication, it seems to be a side effect, somehow, of the page deletion problem from earlier in the week.

Canada's health system works well, when it's properly staffed and funded. The COVID-19 pandemic has shown that it isn't currently properly staffed and funded.

Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario calls in the Red Cross to fill positions

It fits, so I sits.


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Since it came up at this week's writers' chat, here's the start of a style guide for this project.

In no particular order:

• American spellings in multiple-writer stories
  
• Third-person viewpoint in multiple-writer stories
  

Released tomorrow, I've been playing through the Open Beta of this this last week and having a blast. You, and three friends (Or randomers from the internet) against a vast swarm of 'zombies', a little like Left 4 Dead but with fire, explosions, two-handed chainswords and fully-automatic rocket-prepelled grenade launches. 4 classes - from a Military Veteran, a Psyker, a Zealot preacher and a big friendly Ogryn - with some customiseability along the way.

Probably the best thing about it are the environments - from the ship you're based on, to the detailed realisations of the Hive City (of about 70-90 billion people constructed over 10-millenia plus as a layer cake of city upon city ) where your missions are based, it gives the 41st Millenium a depth of weight and feeling that's been missing. Take a moment to look around and realise how vast spaces are - and that that is a spaceship several kilometres long parked in the distance - or that you're still Technically Indoors, with a ceiling kilometres above. Or that you're having a full blown way in the cty's depths while far above, life carries on as normal....

The second best thing are the weapons - which range from the effective (The humble lasgun is no mere flashlight but makes mincemeat of anything unarmoured) to the outright brutal. Boltguns especially have an impact befiting the fluff - blasting hordes apart, or cutting people in half with a two-handed eviscerator chainsword.

There're the usual microtransactions for fancy outfits and the like, but I haven't had to dabble in them yet.

So far - I've been playing a Zealot Preacher with a crazy scottish accent. And 'Tiny' - the largest Ogryn possible in the game.

In a few free minutes between preparing to head to my mother-in-law's house, let me just wish forum members in the United States a Happy Thanksgiving!

This contains potential spoilers for One Piece Film: Red.
(Edit: Found a version, uploaded by Crunchyroll, of the Japanese version of the song with baked in subtitles so they all show up, unlike the one on Ado's channel. I put the CR version in the middle, after Ado's upload.)







I'm including the Amalee cover, as I consider it to be semi-official, as she was the English VA for Uta (the character singing the song in the movie, though the songs were not dubbed), and she is using the official sub lyrics in her cover. 

Note that some of the lyrics are in Elder Futhark.

English lyrics

ᚷᚨᚺ ᛉᚨᚾ ᛏᚨᚲ ᚷᚨᚺ ᛉᚨᚾ ᛏᚨᛏ ᛏᚨᛏ ᛒᚱᚨᚲ
Wand'ring heart, clouds above
Rain begins to fall down
My bitter tears flowing out, they never dry up
I let the words of a curse be my deliverance

ᛗᛁᛖ ᚾᛖᚷ ᛟᚾ ᚷᛁᛖᚲ ᚷᛁᛖᚲ
ᚾᚨᚺ ᛈᚺᚨᛋ ᛏᛖᛉᛉᛖ ᛚᚨᚺ
These ancients words like a hymn of reclamation
Not even death will escape them

How to center these troubled thoughts? I pray
Can the future bring calm to the sea? I beg

It's time for salvation to finally come
I feel this rage, and I'm feelin' it strong
This weeping and wailing has gone far too long
Nothing left but to yell! Yeah! Yeah!
I know you feel it, too, so keep on singin' this song
Even when they abuse us we'll keep singin' along
We'll start another Big Bang when we all sing as one
United, we're fightin', bring 'em down with our song of ruin

ᛗᛁᛖ ᚾᛖᚷ ᛟᚾ ᚷᛁᛖᚲ ᚷᛁᛖᚲ
ᚾᚨᚺ ᛈᚺᚨᛋ ᛏᛖᛉᛉᛖ ᛚᚨᚺ
We will rejoice when we get the freedom promised
The freedom so many die for

When there's nowhere to run we must, find hope
Left forgotten within the light, there it glows

Keep making this music 'til you breath your last
We dream but never lose sight of the past
Illuminate hope and forget all the rest
Nothing left but to yell! Yeah! Yeah!

It's time for salvation to finally come
I feel this rage, and I'm feelin' it strong
This weeping and wailing has gone far too long
Nothing left but to yell! Yeah! Yeah!
I know you feel it, too, so keep on singin' this song
Even when they abuse us we'll keep singin' along
We'll start another Big Bang when we all sing as one
United, we're fightin', bring 'em down with our song of ruin

ᚷᚨᚺ ᛉᚨᚾ ᛏᚨᚲ ᚷᚨᚺ ᛉᚨᚾ ᛏᚨᛏ ᛏᚨᛏ ᛒᚱᚨᚲ

I'm including the Amalee cover, as I consider it to be semi-official, as she was the English VA for Uta (the character singing the song in the movie, though the songs were not dubbed), and she is using the official sub lyrics in her cover.

English lyrics

We can choose the way of our future
Try a brand path, if I change the world, if I change the world…

Say goodbye to everyone who stands against us
No one has the power to stop a change that comes through music
No, you can’t stop magic

Close your eyes and you can see the future before you
Every note I sing is bringin’ you closer to your purpose
Once your there don’t let go

You wanna play a real game, unfurl the chain
Melody strung out like we’re walkin’ on a tight rope,
Don’t wanna cry, don’t wanna try, wanna forget
Just let me live inside a dreamland, Wanna be free!
And let a brand new era dawn, I know that we can
Create a New World!

We can choose the way of our future
Try a brand path, if I change the world, if I change the world
This boundless music brings transformation, messages in song reach even further
This dream will come true, “I believe in you”

Say goodbye to everything that’s weighing you down
Transcend beyond reality to colorful worlds of music
We need to keep on rising

Close your eyes and take my hand we’re runnin’ together
We don’t have to live like this, I know we can all do better
I sing for liberation

You wanna play a real game, unfurl the chain
Melody lighting up the path to new horizon
Don’t wanna try, don’t wanna cry, wanna forget
Just let me live inside a dreamland, wanna be free!
And let a brand new era dawn, I know that we can
Create a New World!

We can choose the way of our future
Try a brand path, if I change the world, if I change the world
This boundless music brings transformation, messages in song
Reach even further, reach even further. A New Genesis

A New Genesis