Wednesday March 14, 2007 
Wednesday March 14, 2007 We found out March 5th C needed surgery to remove her thymus gland. Almost a year of throwing darts at what could be wrong with her, the medical speaking folks seem to think this will fix her ongoing and mysterious health problems. Deja vu all over again: I started a new contract on 3/5. My previous job was accepted on the day I originally admitted C to the E.R. for these problems.
Surgery went down without a hitch on March 8th. She spent a couple of painful days in ICU hooked up to a generous supply of morphine. We were all surprised to find out the benign growth on her thymus was as big as a medium sized orange. This discovery certainly explains a lot in hind site. She is up and moving around quite well for a girl who just had her chest broken open and things messed with around her heart and lungs...five days ago. Her spirits are great: she's had lots of visitors and love and for the first time ages her smile is real and symmetrical.
Hopefully, going forward, my wife's health is back to normal again. It's so wonderful to be able to hold her hand without the constant shake her body has produced the past year. I know, more than anything, she'll be glad to have regained her independence. I'll return to work on the 19th, essentially starting all over at a new job for the second time in 2 weeks, but with a new and much more positive outlook for a change.
I'm starting to look forward to the rest of 2007. Some of the major failings and struggles that caused 2006 to be so difficult now seem to be turning around. It would be naive at this point to think of it as a trend, but cautious optimism reigns right now =)
Posted by dig4fire ( Mar 14 2007, 02:36:46 AM CDT ) Permalink
Tuesday February 13, 2007
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Seriously! global warming? what the fck? Perhaps it's time to start calling this what it is: Pissed off Planet . |
Saturday February 03, 2007 Rationality surrenders to a "post 9/11 world"
This week the city of Boston was shutdown over a cartoon advertising campaign. Aqua Teen Hunger Force, a silly cartoon about a milkshake, fries and a meatball, airs on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim. The terrorists responsible for this overreaction were placing battery powered advertising signs all over the city, they'd been doing it for three weeks in major cities across the country. Why the rest of the country didn't freak out like children that just saw shoot-me-up-Elmo gunned down in a Cookie Monster drive by shooting, we can only speculate. Perhaps they hate America?
Now the city of Boston wants to be reimbursed for the overreaction. They want Turner Broadcasting to pay them $2,000,000.00 to compensate for them getting their panties all in a bunch. I'm no expert on how city government pays it's responders (police, fireman, swat teams, etc), but I'm pretty sure these guys would have been paid whether they were sitting on their asses doing nothing or responding to a gigantic overreaction to a cartoon show advertising campaign. These are not pay-for-performance based jobs, unless of course it relates to how many speeding tickets a cop can dish out in a 30 day period.
Maybe the city of Boston could have better represented itself by trying to be positive, rather than bitching and moaning about the whole thing, arresting the guys involved on trumped up charges and demanding compensation? Certainly some public relations monkey could cut a statement to the effect that the city is very happy the incident was not a true terror event, but look how well the response was carried out. System works, everyone wins? No that would be too easy. It has to be someone else's fault, it always has to be.
How the hell did we get here? It would seem any one of us, citizen or not, could just leave random shit around on the streets of the cities we live in; sit back, pour yourself a preferred beverage and watch the chaos ensue live on TV. This could totally replace scavenger hunting and paint ball as weekend warrior type activities. Hell, it's so easy you could do it Monday through Friday and not miss work (if you don't get arrested for someone else's overreaction of course).
I'm starting to get the impression that anyone that uses the term "in a post 9/11 world" in reference to their own overreaction to something pretty much validates that the terrorists already won.
Posted by dig4fire ( Feb 03 2007, 09:32:31 AM CST ) Permalink
Wednesday January 24, 2007
Leon says they're full of easter bunny sperm... but i don't care. Cadbury Cream Eggs are one of the greatest things ever. They're so wonderful that their creamy innards and chocolate shell almost make up for 2000 years of lies, oppression, war, ignorance and endless faith based fairy tales. The caramel variety is pretty delicious but not quite up to snuff with the old classic CCE. I find myself looking forward to Easter, certainly an out of character thing for this author. When you stop and think about it there are few things in this messed up world that bring so much tasty pleasure for a mere 50 cents. So thank jesus, thank you for bringing the world Cadbury Cream Eggs.
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Posted by dig4fire ( Jan 24 2007, 11:38:37 PM CST ) Permalink
Wednesday January 17, 2007 A minor storm left us without power from Friday to Tuesday night. One of the first outages and one of the last restored. I'm seriously starting to dislike the idea of a publicly traded utility monopoly. This was the third major multi-day outage the St. Louis area has had in the last six months. Unfortunately we can't just go out and choose a more competent power company. Third world living at a first world price.
Thanks to M&L for letting us crash at their place, Dad for stashing the turtles as the temp in the house approached 40F and Rob for driving by there a few times a day to see if we had power or not.
Hopefully our adventures in third world utility service are over for the time being.
Time to acquire a generator…
Monday December 25, 2006
R.I.P Funky Man
December 25th...no longer the day of christ's birth, but the day The Funk died.
Rest in peace Godfather.
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Posted by dig4fire ( Dec 25 2006, 10:09:56 AM CST ) Permalink
Friday December 22, 2006
Digging for Snow
It really sucks to be our friends in Denver...
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Tuesday December 19, 2006
Opel, you were a good turtle
Topping off a long week of ridiculous events: Our very old female Diamondback Terrapin, Opel, died Saturday in her sleep. She was a very casual, laid back old lady and will be missed.
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Posted by dig4fire ( Dec 19 2006, 10:39:40 AM CST ) Permalink
Wednesday December 13, 2006 32 was a crummy age to be, it's really been a bad year all the way around...not much good came from any of it.
here‘s to 33, may you suck so much less than 32!
