First time back at the gym today. It wasn't too bad. I had a little bit of asthma, which was just as much due to the fact that my asthma prescription ran out over the holidays and it didn't seem worth the effort to refill it. No blood vessel explody, although I laid off the pushups because I could feel pressure ( Read more... )

I would make such a shitty vampire. It's only been a week, and I'm already sick of everything smelling and tasting like blood.

Got the splints out this morning. Very much a Total Recall moment, although not nearly as painful as that sounds. I took the last of my painkillers in anticipation of it being far more unpleasant than it turned out to be, so now I'm here at work feeling slightly loopy for no good reason.

I feel great! And that's not just the painkillers talking ( Read more... )

Weathered the surgery, sitting at home trying to eat some soup before I get some rest. Hard to swallow with the nose packing. A little discomfort, but the pain meds are keeping up with it ( Read more... )

I go in tomorrow. Freaking out a little bit. Not much, but as I get older I get better at realizing when I'm really worrying about something, even if I don't actually look or act worried. I think I've spent my whole life worrying more about things than I ever let on to myself, or to anyone else ( Read more... )

The nasal polyps are getting evicted Wednesday. Woot! Apparently, at the doctor's discretion, he may rummage around while he's in there and possibly open things up. I hope that's not needed, but it's possible ( Read more... )

If the electricity is generated in a typical coal plant, with typical efficiency and transmission costs, running a 100 watt computer for a year requires about 1000 pounds of coal ( Read more... )

Haven't written anything here in like 2 months, I guess it's time to crawl out of my hole again.
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Holy crap, it's like long-pants-wearing weather out there today.

A Sign Of Things To Come.

Chilly things.

As repeatedly prompted, A Post. The 35th State Of The Flanagan Address ( Read more... )