Yesterday I had my pre-surgery physical. I didn't even have to take my clothes off. The doctor talked to me, listened to heart and lungs, felt my pulse in my feet, and said I was good. On the other hand, I *did* have to have a liver and kidney and whatever-all-else organ function blood test done. And I got the Worst Blood-Drawer Ever.

( Because it's a long post (not all about blood), I've been kind and cut it. )

Am still sick. Ugh. But I'm really feeling much better, up to about 85% of normal. Also, there's a lot of work right now. This is good, but it meant I got no weekend and am rather sleep-deprived at the moment. My executive decision to totally ignore work rules about not having beverages at one's desk has really improved my morale, though. And so ( Read more... )

Feeling a lot better today. Actually had any energy at all. Still having horrible wracking phlegmy coughing bouts, but they have decreased in frequency from every ten minutes to about every hour. Am so happy that I seem to be getting healthy ( Read more... )

Finished up my portion of a coding project for the day, which is happy. Now I've got the afternoon to work on the other two current top priorities: cataloging various acquisitions so I can sell them (decluttering + $$ = Happy Abra), and getting all my martial arts notes in order (pretty important, since I'm at the reviewing stage and notes are ( Read more... )

I frequently entirely seriously/jokingly say that the world has a way of giving me presents for my birthday. The definition has expanded over time, from "my birthday" to "the week of my birthday" to, now, "the month of my birthday"--though I thought getting to attend seminars way out of my league and getting published photo credits was a pretty ( Read more... )

I'm looking to hire another couple of coders for NightOwl. If you know somebody who's looking for work, pass this along:

( The details )

Ngh. It's been a "productive" (for maintenance-type writing chores) yet frustrating writing day. My mind starts going elliptical after staring at writer's guidelines for a certain amount of time ( Read more... )

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4 people can get through 2 boxes/day ( Read more... )

...and then a project came up at Job #1 that bids fair to swallow all my time for the next two months or so. Six-day work weeks, at least once I factor in the one day a week commitment to Job #2. Add in that I really, really need to commit a fair chunk of time to practicing my martial arts material. Oh, and that I have to do some writing stuff ( Read more... )