Month: August 2005

Last night Wolf and her daughter stopped by and dropped of some wonderful home-made cream of chicken soup for yours truly, which did wonders for making me feel better.

We spent a couple of hours catching up for the last few months and wolf showed me the almost invisible spot where they went in and added an inch to her neck. It’s interesting that they used dermabond (non-carcinogenic superglue) and just glued her shut… Very little scarring from that as there’s no stitches.

She’s doing fine by the way and gets to go back to work today, which makes her happy.

Today I head back to work; which given the options of sick or work I’ll take work.

Wink, our landlord, was here yesterday and laid out his plan for buying the place. I have to go over that today during lunch and weigh it against my lack of desire to keep driving two hours a day and the possibility consuming one entire paycheck each month in mortgage. Right now I don’t think ‘home ownership’ is all it’s cracked up to be and would rather have a nice apartment ten minutes from work…

So I suppose things are returning to normal around here.

Until next time, stay safe out there…

Another quick update.

Zeze went into the hospital for surgery Saturday morning to remove a hemangioma (A hemangioma is a benign tumor consisting of dilated blood vessels. When a hemangioma occurs in the liver it is called a hepatic hemangioma. Hemangiomas may cause problems because of location or hemorrhage) from the vicinity of the liver.

So far the recovery isn’t going well. Zeze has been slipping in and out of consciousness and is suffering an elevated heart rate. The doctors have run several tests to try and figure out what is going on, but no ideas so far.

Right now I’m playing a waiting game by the phone and hoping everything will be ok.

Just a quick update from work:

Google has released their new Instant Messenger client called “Google Talk” which has the potential to be light-years better than the competition.

Simply go to talk.google.com and download the small 800K application. The caveat is that you need a gmail account to use it, so if you are lacking in gmail goodness, drop me a line and I’ll hook you up.

I guess from this point forward if I’m on an IM-thing, it’ll be this simply because it doesn’t market at me or take over my web browser and add little links all over my hard drives. (Yes, I’m looking at –you- AIM and YIM)

I’ll post more after work, as it’s possible I’ll be getting out of here at a decent time tonight! 🙂

Jae and I started playing ‘Neverwinter Nights’ over the weekend as a change of pace from the MMORPG scene… One can only handle so much ‘World of Warcraft’ and Jae and I have about 3 months of it, so it’s time for a change of pace for a week or two.

‘Neverwinter’ is a game based on the AD&D 3.5 rules and as such is a pretty faithful computer-based reproduction of a tabletop RPG, which is nice. I’d still like to find a real RPG game to attend somewhere, but it’s tricky with my work schedule.

We spent most of the weekend just playing around with all of the character classes, but as of last night things have settled on me playing what I’m calling a ‘battle bard’ which is a combat oriented bard and is going mostly for the prestige class of ‘red dragon disciple’… So far it’s working well. Jae seems to have settled on a rogue and I’m not sure if he’s going into a prestige class or not.

We both made level seven over the weekend.