Catwalker

Today has to be the hardest day in my life, a hollow feeling unlike any I have ever felt. This morning my mother passed away, of cancer. I am the baby of the family and was very close to my mother - do yourself a favour, spend time with your loved ones while you can, they are far more important than money, job and especially - things. 母さようなら、あなたは大好きだよ。

As my dear mother would say: "Don't eat that Elmo!" Take a look at this: Look at the size of those flakes! We have about 30 to 40cm and there seems to be no end in sight. It was supposed to turn to rain by this afternoon but no sign of that so far. 

 

またね

Well, there is about 25cm of snow outside and it is still piling up outside our apartment. This is great the Christmas lights are on, snow is falling, my sister-in-law and her kiddies are stranded here with us, they will be here until tomorrow anyway, the roads are hideous, the drivers haven't a clue on how to drive in it, and I am loving the white stuff. 

My co-workers all think I am nuts. Oh well, be a child for a few minutes, enjoy it, after all, there is nothing any of us can do to stop it, so stop whining. 雪が降ります! 私は雪が大好きですよ。新しい雪が奇麗ですから、 私は雪が降っているのを見ているのが好きです。 ではまた

The surgery took more out of me than I counted on, I am still very tired after a month of recovery. However, with some judicious self control I have only gained back about 5 of the 15 pounds I lost. Not bad. I am looking forward to having a bit more energy though. I am also using the time to catch up on Amateur (ham) radio things, I haven't really done much with it for the past 16 years, so I figured its time to get active again, dust off the old morse key, and have some fun building some projects again. またね

Well, overall, I am feeling pretty good, my innards are still letting me know that they are not happy having been cut open and a piece removed, however I have had no repetitions of the hideous pain I was having before, not only that I haven't experienced any real gut aches since the day before the surgery, so overall things are looking up. I lost 15 pounds in the week following surgery and have only gained back 4 so far, this is good, but I am not holding my breath that it will stay off. At this point, the loss of 14 more pounds would make a total loss of 100 pounds.... I am getting closer to looking like I did in the photo in my profile, hair a little thinner, mustache is gray, heading to white, but I can live with that. Yee - haw. またね

Well, it is now November 11th and I am feeling pretty good, played hooky from church this morning (yeah, I know, bad boy....) we watched the Remembrance Day ceremonies held at the cenotaph in front of the Legislature buildings. It is important we stop and think, and thank those who served, many giving their lives so that we wouldn't have to worship at the feet of Der Fuhrer. Because of them we have the rights we do. Without them, our medical professionals would doubtless be very "constrained" in what they could do and who they could help and how, and that is probably an understatement. If you enjoy the life you live in our western world, thank a vet, it's because of their selfless service that we are free.

Well, last Thursday was back into the operating theatre, since I am here typing you can gather it was successful. The hospital staff where I have had my surgeries have all been phenomenal, they are simply the best. Man that morphine is a bugger on the system though.... So more enforced weight loss, last Thursday morning before the surgery my weight was around 275 pounds, this morning, the Wednesday after my weight is now sitting at about 260 pounds, a 15 pound loss in one week. Miserable way to lose though. The first couple of days after my gall bladder came out I did pretty much nothing but sleep.... またね 健

Well, it's been a couple of months since I last posted here, I have posted on my other blog, about our trip to Japan. What's happening? A trip to the Emergency ward, with tonnes 'o pain in the gut, turns out my gallbladder no longer likes me and wants out. ;-) If it keeps this up, I'm only too happy to let it go. So sometime around thanksgiving this year it's back into the operating room. Oh well, enforced (strict) diets tend to melt weight off quickly, trouble is, it usually comes back almost as fast as it went. :-( またね

Well, I have set my next weight goal, a moderate one (again) but significant. 250 pounds. That's 10 pounds to lose (Yes, I am now sitting at 260) It is significant because it will make a total loss of 100 pounds.... Today I tried on a pair of jeans I haven't been able to wear for 10 years. They fit, Just right... they are a 44 waist which means a loss of 10 inches off of my waist so far. Woo hoo! またね

That is not a line from the euphonic type Goon Show, but a pitiful sound coming out of my mouth at the moment..... I should know better when I am told spans of time for recovery events! I always have them a day or two (or 3 or 4) later than everyone else... My jaw hurts!!! I may pop a picture of the surviving teeth onto the page, but then again, I don't think anyone R*E*A*L*L*Y wants to see two moderately rotten wisdom teeth... (I gather the other two had to be cut out... No wonder my jaw hurts!) またね

So in March (21st) I had my tonsils removed. Last week (June 1st) I had all 4 wisdom teeth yanked.... It has taken a few years of avoidance techniques (kidding) to get this far, but thank goodness they are out.... But the process of recovery is not pleasant... They had started to cause me some issues and I didn't want any while I was visiting Japan. Oh, and I now sit at 265 pounds, it's amazing how being able to only swallow liquids for a few days can drop your weight.... I know, a shallow weight loss, and it will come back fairly quickly most likely, but for now it is off. またね

So the Butt Head challenged Fred Thompson to a debate, Fred gave the Big mouth a tongue lashing he really earned on this. Ride 'em cowboy! Go Fred. The response to the crockumentary maker was perfect. またね

Hmmm, did I say in a previous post that it would not be too difficult to drop to 270 pounds? Well, I spoke too soon, the post - surgery weight loss was somewhat hollow.... I shot up to 285 within a week of being able to eat again, it has taken almost two months to get back down to 275... Oh well. Next stop, 270. またね

So I received an invite from a college friend to facebook a few days ago, and out of curiosity, I accepted and set up a profile. Interesting experience, not bad, beats the living daylights out of myspace.... I tried a myspace account for about a month.... Something I don't want to repeat, I kept receiving messages and friend requests from people claiming to be 17 - 20 something nymphomaniacs.... Well being happily married I decided to cut the myspace membership short... Facebook is not bad so far, we shall see after a month or so. じゃね

My favourite comic artist, and fellow believer Johnny Hart passed away on Saturday April 7th. Creators Syndicate Yahoo News Johnny created the B.C. Comic strip, and co - created the Wizard of Id comic strip. He died of a stroke while sitting working at his drawing table. What a way for an artist to go out, doing what he loved to do. See you in His kingdom Johnny. じゃね 健

Well, once again it has been a long time since I last posted, in the meantime, a number of things have happened: Christmas came and went. New Years came and went. A vile entity called SCO has decided to take its lawsuit deeper into stupidity by attempting to harass an innocent,but capable blogger who expresses both facts about the frivolous lawsuits of SCO, and her opinions about said lawsuit (Groklaw) How are they doing this? Visit the above link and read. (I will not go into detail here, the suit is well covered by PJ on her blog, linked above) 15 British sailors were kidnapped and then released two weeks later by Iran. I had my Tonsils removed at the age of 44. (The older you get, the harder on the body a tonsillectomy can be) I blew downwards right past my intermediate weight goal of 280 pounds to make 275. A loss of 16 pounds from where I had been. (Thanks to the surgery, but what a tough way to lose weight, couldn't eat anything other than popsicles and Jello. Also, I drank lots of water) My next weight goal is very minor, 270 pounds. Shouldn't be that difficult. またね