Intermittence

...One robot at a time.

The first is a horribly ugly little creature who hasn’t yet been named. He’s cobbled together from Lego bricks (from a Mindstorms set that I bought years ago and never used), a couple of battery packs, a bunch of rubber bands, and various electronic bits.

This week, I hope to give him an eye (a Sharp infrared ranger unit, actually), and figure out how to make him use it to avoid striking objects while navigating the house. I suspect it’ll be a little tricky.

Pictures soon.

By now, I should be less allergic to, well, almost everything than I once was.

Last Thursday marked the first big increase in my allergen serum concentration, and I weathered it with no major side effects (my arms itched for a few hours afterwards, but there were no welts at all—hooray!). I’m still struggling with being stabbed in the back of the arms once a week, but I’m not as lightheaded when I feel the stick as I used to be.

Furthermore, thanks to my almost total inability to remember to take my Zyrtec, I feel confident that the immunotherapy is having a positive effect. My eyes don’t itch, my nose doesn’t run, and I sleep more soundly now than I have in recent years. If there’s more improvement coming, and I’m assured there is, then I am definitely on board.