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In last night's dream, I was working on a software module for an electronic toy. At some point, I added some new code and the program terminated unexpectedly, leaving the status of the code block in doubt. I was sure if the backup copies had been corrupted or not. I was at a loss regarding what to do. I'd been working on the module for over five months and I'd never had a system crash or any loss of data.

I was in a room with a bunch of senior developers. One of them asked me if I was having problems. I said that I was and showed him the screen messages. There was something about a parameter a not being defined and that was causing a break in the code.

He quickly entered a few commands that showed the contents of key buffers and the state of some system flags. He said that I had used an uninitialized parameter in a calculation and that the result had broken the code. I was puzzled. I had been using the system for over 5 months and I had never encountered an error condition like this before. I verified with him that I'd have to initialize the parameter if I wanted to keep the code clean. It was still not certain if I would be able to resurrect the code from the backups. The crash was severe enough to have damaged the files. I would only know, for sure, after I tried to reload the backup copies. I awoke at this point.
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Started taking the medication, Sinemet, last night. Wanted to take the initial dose at 11PM and had to wait several hours because of Daylight Saving Time. Setting the clocks back made 11PM delayed by an hour.

Happy to report that I didn't seem to have any odd reactions to the drug. Slept well and relatively soundly. I thought that the bedtime shakes and tremors were reduced some. Awoke around 4AM because I had to use the toilet. Even though I had gone to sleep only a few hours, I felt awake, but pulled the covers up and went back to sleep.

Awoke around 7AM and took another dose. Slept in until around 10AM. Shaking and tremors seemed present and steady until I arose, did a little Qigong and took my vitamins. Went out to breakfast with L. Shaking/tremors persisted through the morning and up through 3PM (now) when I took a third dose.

We sat in the sun during the early afternoon and the warmth felt good. Back in my room now with its coolness/dampness. Hands and fingers are cold. Will have to crank up the space heater. Will go out for a short drive just to see if there are any anomalies or interactions between the Sinemet and my driving. Will only make a short run.

Feeling somewhat spacey today. Probably a combination of the time changes (like now it's already starting to get dark--sun is low in the sky) and my body/system absorbing the medications. No clear indication so far that medication does or does not affect the symptoms. Probably will require several days before it shows up one way or the other (either stops symptoms or does not).

Time for a bit of driving... no diving, striving, hiving--just the plain old driving...