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Today is close to coming to an end. 6pm and I'm exhausted. That probably has something to do with trying to chase a very old dog that tried to hobble out the front door and down the stairs. In his youth, his escape could mean hours of pursuit. He was a fast dog, and fiercely independant. Now, well he's still independent and headstrong (for a...
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Sometimes it's good to remember where you came from.

This is a bad year. It started bad, and it's getting worse. Well, maybe not for me. It's hard to get "worse" than where I was in January, but there are parts of my life that while stable in January, are falling apart now.


Both the vascular surgeon and my nephrologist have made it clear that pharmaceutical narcotics are mine for the asking. And not...
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I don't know how to embed this video in SG, but it's a great story. It's the kind of thing I thought of doing a couple of years ago.

http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/up/player/popup/?cl=8132827

This afternoon I made one of my regularly irregular visits to have my left ear re-tubed. My hearing at the moment is awful. The tube in my ear fell out shortly before going into the hospital, and without it the world sounds like my head is underwater. Sound is muffled and distorted. Honestly, for me this isn't a problem. However the people who have to...
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Ya' know Ms. Clinton, if you'd been half as fierce about protesting the war in Iraq, or holding the current administration accountable for their clearly illegal activities while you were a senator as you are about winning the Democratic nomination for president, I would probably want to vote for you. But you didn't, and I don't. Have fun in obscurity.

I came home today. The surgery worked, and I now have options again. The immediate future contains a much lower probability of my death than it did 4 days ago. I'm still pretty out of it, but I wanted to let those of you who were concerned that I'm alive. Thank you for your thoughts and support,

Well another week, and another hospital stay. I was admitted on my birthday because I sprung a leak again. Just under the area they had stitched Monday before. They got me into opeating room that night, removed that dialysis access, and closed up the hole. Unfortunately that began a series of unfortunate events which has left me with almost no usable dialysis accesses. Today will...
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Ever since the unpleasantness on Monday, the days leading up to my birthday have been a blast. I built my new computer! With monitor the bill came to $800, and I'm satisfied with it. Here are the specs for people interested in that kind of thing:

Processor: AMD 8650 Phenom x3
Motherboard: Gigabyte Ga-MA78GM
Video card: Nvidia 8800gt
RAM: 2gig DDR2 800
Case: Cooler Master...
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The following is my Livejournal post on the events of the day. It's a little more in depth on what happened this afternoon, and includes everything that came after.

Caught up in the action of our lives it is amazingly easy to forget just how quickly we can find ourselves faced with disaster. It happens as quickly as a turn of an ignition switch, or...
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