a new toy

For years now the missus and I have talked about it. Talked about how to fit it into our lives, how to fit it into our space (a one-bedroom apartment), how it would change so many things in terms of how we function both inside and outside the apartment. And finally, over the course of [...]

small places

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Those aren’t my boots!, originally uploaded by martha mosquito.

In my senior year of college I went through a time of stress or depression or likely both – I can’t remember that clearly right now [...]

Time

When my surgeon told me I had to take 6 weeks off of work after the surgery for recovery I was surprised. I figured I’d be out for two, maybe three weeks and then working from home after that for however my longer it took. 6 weeks, a month and a half… 42 days?! Unbelieveable. [...]

Surgery and first recovery – in brief

Surgery went very well last Monday except for long-lasting grogginess and nausea from either the anesthesia or the morphine – they put me under at around 9 on Monday morning and everything in my memory is hazy until Tuesday night. I slept, a lot. I dozed, a lot. I was lucid, a little. I ate [...]

Postponed, briefly

My surgery was postponed from Friday until Monday. This gave me one extra day at work to wrap things up as completely as I wanted to – a good thing because being out of work for 6 weeks, handing off all my various projects is a difficult thing. The postponement also gave me the opportunity [...]

Gratitude overflows

It’s been a really long couple of weeks. Mostly because I found out almost a month ago that a tumor I had removed last June (mostly benign but locally very aggressive) is back. We explored other options with an oncologist but this kind of tumor doesn’t respond well to chemotherapy so I’ll be having surgery [...]