News of the Inside

Yay me.  I don't have stomach cancer.  Not yet, at least.  Not that I'm trying for it, but you never know what the future will bring.

For those of you baffled completely by my first sentence, here's the story.  I went in for my every-few-years-upper-endoscopy thanks to an acid reflux issue last Wednesday.  While there was a camera down my throat and in my belly, they discovered some polyps in the upper portion of my stomach and removed about 1/2 of them, biopsied them and I just got the results back today.  So, I've been somewhat panicked over the past week that I was in for some bad news come today.  Mostly because the only time I've ever really heard the word "polyp" used was in reference to some form of cancer.  However, the biopsies came back negative and the only bad news (which is, of course, well overshadowed by the good news) is that I have to go back fairly soon to get the rest of them removed, which means another adventure of "Hey, is that a camera down your throat or are you just happy to see me?" and likely a follow-up of the same a year or two later along with every couple of years thereafter for... oh... ever.  Additional good news is that they didn't have to do any stretching while they were in there this time (ask me for details of previous events if you have no idea what I'm talking about here), so the Prevacid that I've been taking for the last 3 years seems to be doing its job well.

Woohoo!  Reason to celebrate.

New games

Played a new boardgame last night. Well, it isn't a brand new
boardgame so much as it is new to me. Rum & Pirates. Enjoyed it quite
a bit. Played with the full player lot of 5 people. Managed to come in
3rd. Thought it was going to be a better showing for me, but not bad.
I was only one point behind 2nd.

Also picked up Neverwinter Nights 2 last weekend, but I haven't had
much of a chance to play it yet.

Posting by Email

Sweet.  Just figured out how to post by email.  This might help me to update more frequently.

Have you seen me on a milk carton?

So, as should be most evident by this point, I have failed miserably in my New Year's resolutions. I can blame only an insane schedule bleeding itself through the beginning of this year. Lots of happenings over that time, but rather than toss them into a big review entry, I'll maybe try to toss them on piecemeal here and there. I have recently been told of another blogging form that may better suit my situation, offering an option to pop out one-liner status messages vs. a full blog entry. It's called Twitter. A kind of neat little idea, but I can't quite pinpoint how best to use it in my life. It's kind of a stagnant instant messenger, which is to say that you don't need the other party(ies) to be present to toss out your message. Check it out and feel free to check out my entries at http://www.twitter.com/do10hedron. You'll have to sign up (free) and request to be added to my friend's list to read my entries in an effort to keep the spammer types at bay, but if you're so inspired, have at it.

I managed to crack a tooth on Saturday. Not sure how it cracked actually. I didn't feel or hear anything, just bit down on something hard which turned out to be a part of one of my molars. Fortunately, the dentist was able to repair it with just a filling which meant it wasn't A) crazy painful or B) crazy expensive. Lucky me.

Killian continues to grow and develop in unbelievable leaps and bounds. He's talking constantly now and does something amazing (to me) every day. It's a pretty fascinating experience. Trying at times, but fascinating nonetheless. I have also managed to miserably fail to capture much of this development on any form of media other than memory. This is probably the area that I am most disappointed in myself from the New Year's resolutions standpoint.

I hope that the readers that are still with me are doing well and that I can pick back up and start posting with any degree of frequency again.

Not-So-Burning Crusade

I failed to take a picture of my kid today. Man am I quick to fail these resolutions. I did take both video and pictures yesterday, so I suppose I could credit myself a day.

Bobbie finally got back from Oklahoma at almost midnight last night. Killian was very happy to see her today (as was I, of course) and apparently they had a good reunion day overall.

I managed to avoid the draw of the World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade expansion today. I can't say the same for our roommate Mike as he sits and plays a Blood Elf character behind me. Since the new character race is all that it would buy me and I don't even have a 50th, much less 58th, level character, the temptation is fairly easy to ignore for the time being.

I've spent a few moments here and there over the last several days importing my CD collection into iTunes. Glad it's a fairly simple one-click process, but it's still taking forever even though I only have a little over 200 CDs in total. I'm running across all kinds of things that I forgot I even had. For example, I just encountered Peter Murphy "Deep".

The Carolina Hurricanes are on TV playing against the Florida Panthers in Florida which reminds me that I went to the game last week when Florida was in town playing us. It was pretty cool because I got free tickets and they were box seats, so that came with free food and drink to boot. The game was mighty crappy as we headed into the 3rd period down 0-3. However, it then "got all crazy" as the Canes proceeded to score six, yes six, goals in the 3rd period eventually winning 6-4. The place lit up. Two of the guys that were with me were at their first NHL game, so that was very cool for them to see and was a first for me. The most goals that I can remember ever seeing live in a period before that game is three. Woohoo, go Canes!