Mister Elric is home and doing well; we picked him up yesterday from the hospital and have been alternately resting with him, writing (red_mike_yog, not me -- he's on a novel deadline), reading, watching flicks, and lots of sleeping ( Read more... )

Elric is doing well and is in his hospital room -- I'm afraid I wasn't able to post earlier because, indeed, of wifi problems and hauling all his stuff plus my laptop up to the room after being upright and in a not-very-back-comfortable chair for hours while waiting (looking back on it, going off the painkillers this week may not have been such a ( Read more... )

Elric's in surgery (I left there about 9:50am), and I'm over in the Bridge Cafe in Manchester on the wonkiest wifi I've ever had the displeasure to almost use. But it's free (I guess I'm getting what I pay for, eh?). So, I'll try to post when I can, but I really can't read easily (I get a page to load about every 15 min or so, and I'm fast losing ( Read more... )

Just a reminder to everyone that baron_elric's surgery (prostate cancer) is tomorrow -- please do that voodoo that you do so well. Whatever form that may take: candles, prayers, well wishes, meditation, the good thoughts of content bees...

He'll be going in early, surgery at 10am ET, and I'll be meanwhile hanging around The Bridge Cafe and surfing (and ( Read more... )

I'm getting too old to stay up all night -- that trick on Tues. has meant I was dizzy and nauseated (to the point of vomiting) all of Wed., which I think was a migraine that wouldn't go away even with Maxalt. Bah. But I had to get more chapters done and do that doctor's appointment with E on Wed., so I soldiered on. And for my pains slept badly on ( Read more... )

Another all-nighter, still working on proofreading the computer programming language book for Wiley (chapter 1 is finally in -- clocking in at over 160 page, alone!), as this is due tomorrow. Whee!

Help keep me awake, guys. I'm dyin' here. Radio Paradise can only keep my eyes open so long ( Read more... )

I have wifi at Catholic Medical Center. Wow.

The only downside is it automatically opened up my browser, and all the windows that had saved, and every single tab I had opened and saved in Firefox was overwritten by the login window for their wifi system -- which means every single tab I had open (and I had a LOT) has now lost its data/website. It ( Read more... )

It's officially FUCKING COLD.


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Still alive, still coughing (oh, coughing so damn hard I keep, um, okay, TMI ...), and still on drugs ( Read more... )

OKAY, I'VE HAD IT.

baron_elric went out in the beginnings of this current snowstorm (a foot by morning, NOAA says) to finally get us a Christmas tree ( Read more... )