This is the first post from my new iphone. With a new wordpress app for it I should be able to write posts from anywhere, meaning more posts.
Here’s a recent photo of Kaden so I can test the photo upload functionality. The picture is from a recent trip to the Oasis while Mom and Amy were here a few days back. We had a nice visit and now Kassy and Kaden are up in MO for a cousin’s wedding.
Well, the past few weeks since mid-June have just flown by. With the symbolic passing of another year, I marked the evening with several close friends playing a new board game that I enjoy very much, and wholeheartedly recommend, “Shadows Over Camelot.” More on that another time. Today I want to explain, for those who haven’t heard, just where my last 2 weeks have gone.
In essence they have gone to Dr’s visits. After my birthay rolled around, I got to thinking it was time for an annual checkup, seeing as how it had been closer to two. So, I made an appointment, and dropped in, know full well that I’d gained my “new baby 10″, and should be eating out less, exercising more, and to have a mole behind my ear measured. Well, all went well, I get a recommendation for a podiatrist to fix up my ingrown toenails a week or so later, and then she measured the mole and it had grown. So, off I go to the dermatologist (getting a doctor’s recommendation skips you ahead of the two month wait), and sure enough we have that nasty little bugger biopsy’d. So there’s the first week.
Not too worried about ye ole mole, as I have several, and one mole looks about the same as the next, until I get a call on Saturday morning from my dermatologist, letting me know that I have an “in situ melanoma“, and that I’ll need to make an appointment on the following Monday with a surgeon for a consulation. In this consultation I learn that in situ melanoma is an early stage skin cancer, and if not caught early can be very deadly. Thankfully, we had caught this as early as is possible, however, they needed to remove 1/2 cm margins around the mole to be sure to remove any sattelite cancerous cells that might still be lingering. So, we schedule that for last Friday (the 27th), a short two days after having my toenails operated on. In retrospect this might have been a bit much to handle, however, we are switching health plans as of today, and it made some financial sense.
Finally, the day after the surgery (Saturday) for those keeping score. Kassy, Kaden, and I attended a 1st birthday party for a friend’s daughter, and I was enjoying a delicious popcorn ball made with jello for flavoring & extra stickiness. However, during one of these bites of popcorn ball, I accidentally chipped a large chunk of enamel off of one of my two front teeth. Thankfully, my two front teeth have very large fillings from an accident as a child, and they were likely going to have to be replaced sometime soon, but still, “when it rains it pours.”
After a long weekend, a few Vicodin, and a bit of limping things are looking up. Kaden is sleeping through the night again (hooray!), I’m not limping nearly as much, and my bandages on my neck are almost ready to come off. All in all it looks like July should be a much better month than June was.
So a week or so ago, we decided to take the family out for an evening walk. We thought it’d definitely put Kaden to sleep, and be good for us to get some exercise. Now, mind you this was around 9pm, so it was getting dark, but our neighborhood is a nice one, well lit, all that jazz, so we were comfortable taking a quick stroll around the block by the school and park, and then back to our house. Things were going just fine until we turned the corner and headed through the edge of the park, when we noticed that our quiet suburban neighborhood had been invaded by a snake.
Now, I’m not going to say that I have an irrational fear of snakes, but I have a significant disdain for them existing within my sight, and would much prefer to never see one again. But as it turns out, we saw this snake (thankfully 10-15 feet before we got to it), crossing the path just ahead of us. Now, this is not the simple little garter snake I’m used to from Missouri. I’ve only seen maybe three real snakes since we moved to Texas, and in order I’m about to tell you their stories.
So without saying “I have an irrational fear of snakes,” I believe I have proved my point. And now back to our regularly scheduled programming.
I had to share:
Anyway, things are good here. About to turn another year older, so I’m doing some introspection. But honestly, Kaden’s not sleeping really well right now because he’s sick, and so I’m just trying to survive.
Well, Scrubs has come to a close, but I have to say that these last few episodes, although the season was cut drastically short by the writer’s strike we’re absolutely some of the funniest in a long time. This one, in particular has had me laughing several times, and has been mentioned at work a few times as well, so I thought I’d share with anyone out there who might have missed it. Thursday night is the season finale for The Office, and with that effectively the end of new TV until summer for our house. Oh sure, we’ll still watch The Daily Show, and Mythbusters, and a few other things, but really, what is TV without painful new episodes of everyone’s favorite manager stooping to all new lows. Here’s a bit to keep us all hanging on.
Wow, I had no idea we were even up for best blog of all time, but apparently CNN is already selling shirts saying so.
I stumbled across this new feature of CNN.com early this morning, where they allow you to buy a t-shirt ($15) with one of the day’s top headlines printed across it, like this. The funny thing is that I also noticed that the URL was not protected at all, and so it allows things like this, that, or more deviously these. I had a lot of un with it and couldn’t help but share the love.
Hope you enjoy!
I’m not really sure what hulu.com is up to, but it looks interesting. Full length episodes on-line, full length feature films, really? OK. Sure, I’ll watch “Monty Python’s Meaning of Life,” thank you very much. Waiting for the shoe to drop.
[Edit:] Apparently, Hulu is a joint venture between NBC(Universal) & Newscorp(Fox), and they’ve signed agreements with several other production houses. I’m pretty impressed with it overall. We watched a bit of “The Meaning of Life” tonight, honestly just from about 22 minutes in to around 35 minutes (nudge nudge, wink wink, say no more), but the resolution’s pretty good (not fully DVD quality mind you, but full screen is watchable), and it’s able to very quickly scan to wherever in the show you’d like to pick up. All in all the web site is well done, and if they get more content I can guarantee that I’ll be back.
This is baby care information that I could have used a while back. Not that I’ve violated too many of these guidelines…They are guidelines/recommendations right?
If you have any additional tips I should know about, please let me know soon. This little guy’s about to hit a year, and things are about to get outta control. What with all of the walking, self-feeding, and soon to be talking, it’s going to be a fun ride!
Two quick notes tonight, before I head off to bed. First, my first trip to Las Vegas was last month. Wow. What a crazy city. Afterwards, while still decompressing I ran into a friend who said that Las Vegas was a look at all of the American vices, and while I agree with him in principle, I found it very interesting that there were two things that were verboten in Las Vegas. First, prostitution. Sure, there are plenty of erotic dancers, and girlfriends for an evening, whatever you want to call it, but the fact is that the county Las Vegas sits in has made prostitution illegal, unlike most of the rest of the state of Nevada. Secondly, it turns out that while you can do just about anything else while gambling, saying the “F word” is not OK. Granted it was well past 2am, and we’d all had enough to drink to loosen up the tongues, but I was still very shocked at the response of the pit boss to two slips of the “F bomb.” Oh well, I guess they have to draw the line somewhere, right?
As for rediscovery, I have recently been introduced to two old friends by way of their blogs, and I can’t tell you how excited I am to continue to catch up on what they’ve been up to these last five years plus. I cannot believe that Kassy & I have been here in Austin nearly five years already. Time flies, and speaking of that, I have got to get to bed.
Although I match several of these descriptions from time to time, I thought I’d share the love with this great poster of “The 56 Geeks”. Not much been going on. Seems like all our time goes to work and Kaden, but we squeeze in a home project, Christmas decorating, and other important stuff as well.
Wouldn’t change a thing.
