…that’s what just about any sound in my house felt like most of this weekend. Migraines really suck. Hard. Kirby Hard. Twenty-four hours after the worst of it has passed, I still feel terribly hung over (without, sadly, the benefit of consuming copious amounts of alcohol), and generally unmotivated. That said, the weekend was mostly […]

Wednesday. Tomorrow is Thanksgiving. Usually, our household goes non-traditional for the big feast, with reasonably good results (last year’s duck was excellent). This year, I was leaning toward something a little different – lamb or something; but the kids voiced their opinion for tradition. So, for the first time in years, I’m making a turkey. […]

The work I had back in July achieved the desired result. Quite a relief. The wife says I was way too excited after the doctor’s office called this afternoon. Personally, I think throwing ones arms into the air and shouting “YATTA!” Hiro Nakamura style is a perfectly valid reaction to this news. Life rolls on […]

This week’s gone on way too long; it feels good to be Friday. That, and I think I’m finally maybe, a little bit getting over the coughy, phegmy, achy whatever I had going, and my wrist is taking its first steps toward feeling like its old self again. Let’s hope the good fortune continues… Oh, […]

I had my post-surgery follow-up appointment today, and all seems to be well. I’m healing up nicely, and the doc seems to think things are going well. The best news, however, is that the casts/bandages/stinky, non-removable stuff is gone, replaced with a reasonably unobtrusive nylon wrist brace that I can take off when I want […]

note: chuck is typing left handed; please be patient and forgiving! Surgery seems to have gone well; a couple of screws, no apparent complications.  Anesthesia didn’t have me throwing up, but has been hell on the sinuses (but then my sinuses are always sort of hellish, so no real change there).  There’s some pain, but […]

I just got a call from the doctor; turns out it might be worth it to screw my wrist back together after all…  I’m waiting for a call to be returned now, we’ll see how it goes.  In any case, it’ll likely go down next week. UPDATE: Tuesday, 3pm. One screw. cool sound effects.

Weirdness in the local men’s restroom at the office today: six shiny pennies arranged in a perfect circular pattern with a radius of about one inch around the flush-pipe apparatus of one of the urinals. well-to-do hobo signs? New symbols of the Larry Craig variety? An 18 inch high monolith constructed of wet ass-gaskets and […]

I really shouldn’t be allowed to read medical case studies. I had a CT scan done of my wrist on Friday morning, in order to get a better idea of what’s going on. I picked up the CD with the images on it this morning (they were having some equipment problems Friday, and couldn’t burn […]

okay, Nana, you were asking for pictures of the baby; here’s the little eight and a half pounder (according to the pediatrician today) in her little pink penguin outfit: Six weeks old and already evangelizing for the open source community. And look, I’m typing with eight fingers – diagnosis change on the arm; might have […]