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I’ve Been Taking Vitamins Wrong
You read that right, I’ve been taking my vitamins incorrectly. TLDR: preferably with a meal. For years now I’ve been waking up first thing in the morning and taking a multivitamin, an omeprazole, and a cup of coffee. I made that a routine so I wouldn’t forget. Years. I’ve been doing this many years. Well,…
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Quitting Omeprazole Day 3
Today is day 3 of tapering off omeprazole. I’ve cut my dose in half and am at 20mg. And so far, I have not detected any rebound acid. Apparently when you quit a PPI, your stomach begins to make double plus extra acid. My doc prescribed me an H2 blocker to treat the rebound acid.…
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The Healing Starts Today
I’ve been on 40mg of omeprazole for six years now. I did not realize this is considered a high dose. And there is strong evidence that long term use of strong doses are a risk factor with calcium absorption. And I’ve just been diagnosed with osteoporosis. And the more I think about this, the madder…
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Checking My Smart Watch Sleep Stats After Quitting Coffee
So here we are, on my second day of no coffee. I worked my consumption downward slowly over the course of six weeks. And I just had a thought: hey I wonder if anything interesting can be seen on my smart watch? Here’s the last three months of sleep plotted by weekly average: At first…
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Flow Tray Day 1
Today, I obtained a flow tray, or a flood tray. This is just a giant tub which you pour in nutrient solution and the water absorbs into the soil from the bottom. I got this from my fellow Rotarian who is working on a project to help save monarch butterflies. All the plants you see…
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Last Coffee Again
This is it. I have been tapering off my coffee consumption over the last six weeks and today is my last cup of coffee. Again. I mean, I’ve done this before. I’ve quit before. A couple of times. Ok… a whole bunch of times. Why do I keep coming back to this? I dunno, other…
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Is Omeprazole Causing My Osteoporosis?
I had a DEXA scan last week and turned out to have a T-score of -3.2, which puts me in the osteoporosis category. This is a complete surprise to me. Over the last week I’ve been debugging my own pathology with my good friend Dr. Google. I have no other reason I can think of…
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New Goal: Marathon
I was just diagonised with osteoporosis. How am I handling that? I’m shocked. I’m scared. I’m anxious. I saw a doctor for back pain and had an x-ray done. There must have been something about that x-ray to indicate I should get a DEXA bone density scan. Welp. Yea. I saw the results and a…
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Where Did My Disk Go?
Reclaiming Space Ubuntu Hid From Me I put a 240GB drive in my always-on NAS box, ran a stock Ubuntu 24.04 Server install, clicked through the disk step like a reasonable person, and then a few weeks later ran df -h and saw a root filesystem of 98GB. If you’ve done a default Ubuntu Server…
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Installing Claude Code on Ubuntu
These are my notes to help me remember the steps I took to install Claude Code on Ubuntu for use in the Terminal. Node.js and NPM are required: If you get an error that looks like: Install Claude Code $ npm install -g @anthropic-ai/claude-code Possible Error If you get:npm ERR! code EACCESnpm ERR! syscall mkdirnpm…