I'll get this out of the way first, I was hurting today...alot. Nothing much left my kidney today (stone-wise) and I just get the feeling that something big is on the way. Being that I was in alot of pain I really just sat on my ass and didn't do much, except watch Trekkies & Trekkies 2. See what I think of Trekkies 2 in my review.
I went online today to visit that Galaxy Far, Far Away again and was a bit frustrated with all the glitches since Publish 10 went live this week. Every now and then the makers of Star Wars: Galaxies tweak the game to fix bugs that appear or streamline gameplay or change the rules, each time they upload major changes they're called a Publish and we're up to number 10.
With this one they changed the way people become Jedi. They change this every so often and I really don't have an interest in becoming one because it's such a convoluted process. Over time you've had to dip your hand into the various Professions (Artisan, Brawler, Marksman, Medic, Scout, etc) and earn experience in several different fields to become "Force Aware" (though it was never releaved which fields gave you this ability and so players would "waste" months building up experience in every field only to never become Force Aware or worse, to have the makers change the rules on you sending you back to square one), that then gave you the ability to look for Holocrons that could give you a clue as to what to do next to follow the path towards Jedi. Well, the Holocron idea seems to have been dropped and who knows what it's really based on to become Aware, but now there's something called "The Old Man" who you have to hunt down and hope he "appears" to you to give you guidance (I guess ala Obi-Wan's Ghost). Where "The Old Man" resides and how long you'll have to wait for him to appear seems to be on everyone's mind now (that's assuming you're Force Aware remember, if you're not, don't even bother...).
Since everyone's looking for The Old Man the Cantinas are nearly empty (this is where you go to heal from battle or meet up with friends) and the Medical Centers have lost most of their doctors who are also out on this quest, and as a result it's very difficult to get healed from battle damage or death! This also presents a problem since it appears most players are coming back into the game to go on this hunt and the servers are overworked, this makes gameplay for everyone very "jumpy" and makes you "warp" (you could run on foot for a few seconds and all of a sudden - POOF! - you're 100 meters BACK to where you started from and have to start all over again!). It's very frustrating and it seems those not interested in searching for The Old Man are not coming back until this insanity settles, which leaves even less people in the Medical Centers and Cantinas!
But that's neither here nor there, or there nor here, but if here was there then I'd be there already and wouldn't need to go there since there is here....my brain hurts....
RobMac
Saturday, September 04, 2004
Friday, September 03, 2004
Trip To The Future - Delayed
I just finished reading The Digital Bits website (DVD reviews and information) and I am slightly miffed at Paramount, though only slightly. You see, Tuesday 9/7 was supposed to see the release of the Star Trek: Generations Special Edition DVD, not any more. Paramount mistakenly printed on the case that a Teaser and Theatrical Trailer were extras on the disc, but they're not there. Sites reviewing the disc mention the misprint and blow it off as a minor mistake, and I agree because the original Generations DVD has them and most Star Trek fans already have the bare-bones non-anamorphic first disc, so it's really not a tragedy, but Paramount has been undecided what to do about it. Today I learn that with only 4 days left until release, they're recalling the entire run to reprint a spec-insert removing 4 words! Needless to say the there will be retailers that will not ship back pallets of the DVDs already in their warehouses, so some fans will still find them on shelves Tuesday and I hope to be one of them. I could give a crap that there are 4 errant words inside the plastic cover, I want to see (and hear) Generations in anamorphic widescreen with a (highly rated) DTS 5.1 soundtrack. I won't go nuts if I don't find it, as the delay should be minimal (a few weeks?), and I have plenty of DVDs left to watch, but still, it's the principal of the thing. Also, you're now going to get the eBay freaks hitting all the stores Tuesday morning at opening times to horde the DVDs that do find shelf space only to claim "rare misprint" or "early release, in stock!" for $200 on eBay or other auction sites. Parasites.
On a similar note (about DVDs anyway) I have not yet watched The Passion Of The Christ, and may put it off a few days as I have to get myself in the mood to sit through it. I haven't seen it at all but I've heard it's quite brutal so I need to get into the right mindset (if there is such a thing). The same with Schindler's List, it's a great movie, but I really have to be ready for it.
I did check out most of The Lion King 2: Simba's Pride DVD and I have to say I'm not disappointed. The original Lion King DVD has a nice Disney Home Theater 5.1 Surround Mix that accentuates the surround and LFE (Low Frequency Effects, aka bass) giving it a nice open, booming sound field, sadly The Lion King 1 1/2 and now The Lion King 2 don't have this same treatment so the LFE are nearly non-existent. I guess Disney feels that loud booming bass or an "open" soundstage might frighten young children, which is odd because there are some truly frightening visual moments in The Lion King already, so what if the sound of an elephant feels like it has mass or a stampede feels as threatening as if you were really there? So I'm glad TLK has it, but it would have been nice to have a consistent Home Theater mix for the sequels.
So, my scheduled trip to the 24th Century on September 7th has been potentially delayed, but I have enough to keep my mind occupied until it comes out. I have another trip scheduled on the 21st to A Galaxy Far, Far Away....
Fox had better not find a way to delay this trip unless there's something really special they plan to add!
RobMac
On a similar note (about DVDs anyway) I have not yet watched The Passion Of The Christ, and may put it off a few days as I have to get myself in the mood to sit through it. I haven't seen it at all but I've heard it's quite brutal so I need to get into the right mindset (if there is such a thing). The same with Schindler's List, it's a great movie, but I really have to be ready for it.
I did check out most of The Lion King 2: Simba's Pride DVD and I have to say I'm not disappointed. The original Lion King DVD has a nice Disney Home Theater 5.1 Surround Mix that accentuates the surround and LFE (Low Frequency Effects, aka bass) giving it a nice open, booming sound field, sadly The Lion King 1 1/2 and now The Lion King 2 don't have this same treatment so the LFE are nearly non-existent. I guess Disney feels that loud booming bass or an "open" soundstage might frighten young children, which is odd because there are some truly frightening visual moments in The Lion King already, so what if the sound of an elephant feels like it has mass or a stampede feels as threatening as if you were really there? So I'm glad TLK has it, but it would have been nice to have a consistent Home Theater mix for the sequels.
So, my scheduled trip to the 24th Century on September 7th has been potentially delayed, but I have enough to keep my mind occupied until it comes out. I have another trip scheduled on the 21st to A Galaxy Far, Far Away....
Fox had better not find a way to delay this trip unless there's something really special they plan to add!
RobMac
Thursday, September 02, 2004
Lazy Day Of Summer
Very uneventful day. I am continuing to pass some decent size chunks from my kidney stone but nothing the size of yesterday's present. Medication makes me lazy and since my DVD order from DigitalEyes just arrived I won't be reviewing Trekkies 2 or The Passion Of The Christ until tomorrow at the very earliest. Tonight I'll probably watch The Lion King 2 in glorious Anamorphic Widescreen.
No pontifications on anything else today, my back hurts and I'm sleepy, so I'm just going to say Eat Your Vegetables, Be Nice To Others & Don't Accept Any Wooden Nickles even though they may be worth big bucks in the coin collecting community now-a-days.
RobMac
No pontifications on anything else today, my back hurts and I'm sleepy, so I'm just going to say Eat Your Vegetables, Be Nice To Others & Don't Accept Any Wooden Nickles even though they may be worth big bucks in the coin collecting community now-a-days.
RobMac
Wednesday, September 01, 2004
Of Stones and Stores
I passed a mother of a kidney stone fragment today, it stung some but I'm glad to have that much more out of me. The stone I have (had?) is 2cm and this piece that appeared today was about 7mm (3/4cm), so it's almost half the size of the overall stone! It's flat, but it's wide and long, so it's a good portion of what was in there. If more of these size pieces pass I'll be very happy. I'll take the pain for a short period to pass them rather than have them stay inside giving me more pain over a longer period of time. Hopefully this is a sign of things to come.
I finished Paycheck today and posted a review on my site, you can check the review here. In a nutshell, it's a decent flick, along the lines of Total Recall but a little better, in my opinion.
I went out for a drive for the first time in over a week, I needed food so I ventured forth to the grocery store. I go to Redner's, a store chain here in Pennsylvania where I've found the best prices around on almost everything, which helps when you're sick and out of work for the better part of 8 years! They have warehouse prices with grocery store portions and there are no membership fees, it's a normal store anyone can shop at.
I was also reminded today why I hate people. I almost forgot being homebound for 10 days; people are selfish and obnoxious as a general rule. Upon arriving at the store I was greeted by a shopping cart left lazily in the handicapped parking space...while the Cart Return corral was no more than 10 feet away! Who the hell is so damn lazy they can't walk an additional 10 feet to put a cart away?! Selfish people who don't give a crap about someone needing a handicap spot, that's who. I speak not only for myself, because I can park a little further away without too much problem (though it helps to not have to walk too far) but there are people worse off than me, elderly people or people with severe mobility issues and this spot is carelessly left unusable to make someone's day just slightly more convenient. I hate those people. These are the people that never leave a space between stopped cars at traffic lights to let other drivers in or out of gas stations or stores or other entrances, yet they'll be the first to lay on their horn when you do the same thing preventing them from getting into those gas stations, stores or other entrances.
Yes, even though I had to park further away because I couldn't use the handicapped spot, I detoured to retrieve it and move it the additional 10 feet in the opposite direction so the next person is a little more comfortable walking 40-50 feet less to get their food, although they're probably the same people who would just leave the cart back in that spot once they're done with it too....but I'm not, so I don't just ignore it.
When you're inside a store other people ram their carts into each other without so much as a "sorry" and they'll block the entire aisle while they decide if they want cubed or crushed pineapple chunks. They don't see or hear anyone else invading their universe and when you make your presence known they act as if you're interfering with brain surgery.
One on one, people are usually pretty acceptable, and I've been fortunate to know quite a few exceptional people, but out there, in the world, it's full of little people too self involved to care about anyone but themselves and when you get them together in large groups you get riots and wars.
Life in general sucks so take the moments of peace and love when you can get them, because they're little slices of pleasure that don't happen often enough.
RobMac
I finished Paycheck today and posted a review on my site, you can check the review here. In a nutshell, it's a decent flick, along the lines of Total Recall but a little better, in my opinion.
I went out for a drive for the first time in over a week, I needed food so I ventured forth to the grocery store. I go to Redner's, a store chain here in Pennsylvania where I've found the best prices around on almost everything, which helps when you're sick and out of work for the better part of 8 years! They have warehouse prices with grocery store portions and there are no membership fees, it's a normal store anyone can shop at.
I was also reminded today why I hate people. I almost forgot being homebound for 10 days; people are selfish and obnoxious as a general rule. Upon arriving at the store I was greeted by a shopping cart left lazily in the handicapped parking space...while the Cart Return corral was no more than 10 feet away! Who the hell is so damn lazy they can't walk an additional 10 feet to put a cart away?! Selfish people who don't give a crap about someone needing a handicap spot, that's who. I speak not only for myself, because I can park a little further away without too much problem (though it helps to not have to walk too far) but there are people worse off than me, elderly people or people with severe mobility issues and this spot is carelessly left unusable to make someone's day just slightly more convenient. I hate those people. These are the people that never leave a space between stopped cars at traffic lights to let other drivers in or out of gas stations or stores or other entrances, yet they'll be the first to lay on their horn when you do the same thing preventing them from getting into those gas stations, stores or other entrances.
Yes, even though I had to park further away because I couldn't use the handicapped spot, I detoured to retrieve it and move it the additional 10 feet in the opposite direction so the next person is a little more comfortable walking 40-50 feet less to get their food, although they're probably the same people who would just leave the cart back in that spot once they're done with it too....but I'm not, so I don't just ignore it.
When you're inside a store other people ram their carts into each other without so much as a "sorry" and they'll block the entire aisle while they decide if they want cubed or crushed pineapple chunks. They don't see or hear anyone else invading their universe and when you make your presence known they act as if you're interfering with brain surgery.
One on one, people are usually pretty acceptable, and I've been fortunate to know quite a few exceptional people, but out there, in the world, it's full of little people too self involved to care about anyone but themselves and when you get them together in large groups you get riots and wars.
Life in general sucks so take the moments of peace and love when you can get them, because they're little slices of pleasure that don't happen often enough.
RobMac
Welcome....to Jurassic Park
This is me when I visited Jurassic Park...
My cousin took the picture and didn't tell me
about ole' "T" until he snapped this picture...
I barely made it out alive!
Tuesday, August 31, 2004
The cats live!
Yes, the cats survived the day....mostly by sleeping and keeping out of my way.
Not much happened today as I didn't go anywhere. I'm still not up for "out" after the procedure last week.
I played a little Star Wars: Galaxies, a pretty cool MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game). I've had it since July 2 and play it off and on, more off than on anymore, but when I'm on I usually stay on for a few hours. It's kinda like chat with avatars that can fight and kill things! I've been playing mostly solo, though by joining in groups you can gain more experience and gather skills making you better and you can choose any kind of lifestyle you want, from an Artisan who builds things to a Marksman who destroys things, you can become a Bounty Hunter or a Dancer, it's all up to you. It's a fun waste of time. I met up with two groups today, mostly amateurs (meaning less skilled than I am) and it was a little frustrating because when you attack something, like a creature lair, there's a way to do it (one creature at a time) and a wrong way (attack the lair and have all the creatures attack you at once!), they chose the wrong way more often than not, so everyone was killed...several times.
Sigh. Anyway, it wasted some of my day.
I started watching Paycheck with Ben Affleck but was forced to take a break when my mother stopped by for an impromptu visit, just to make sure I haven't died yet from my lithotripsy procedure last week. It's okay, she's cool and all, but it threw off my rhythm and I couldn't get back into the movie after she left. I'll have to finish it tomorrow, and post a review at Rob's Video Views. I'm also awaiting a delivery from DigitalEyes.net that will include Trekkies 2 (the original Trekkies documentary on the lifestyles of...well, trekkies, is amusing and entertaining, so I'm looking forward to seeing the next bit), The Passion Of The Christ and the newly anamorphic release of The Lion King 2: Simba's Pride (it was already out on DVD and I have the initial release, but it's non-anamorphic and so it's crappy to watch on a nice 65" HDTV, so I had to get the new version!) now I'll have all 3 Lion King movies in anamorphic widescreen!
You can watch Rob's Video Views for my thoughts on these titles over the next few days, though DigitalEyes has said they should arrive by Thursday.
I watched NBC's new computer animated show Father Of The Pride tonight and found it fairly amusing. It was on at 9pm (EDT) and is considered an "adult" cartoon, not for young kids, meaning it's not for the Telletubbie crowd. The animation was superb (in High Definition Widescreen, of course) and the voice talent was great, the story was a little silly but then again it is about Sigfried & Roy's animals. I like animation (traditional and computer generated) and I like furry creatures, so it was fun for me. I have Big Brother 5 (not very interesting anymore) and The Amazing Race 5 (always fun) on TiVo (a GREAT invention in case you don't have one!) waiting for me so I must go and try to get them in before I hit the hay.
So tune in tomorrow for the continuing adventures of Rob's Brainfarts!
RobMac
Not much happened today as I didn't go anywhere. I'm still not up for "out" after the procedure last week.
I played a little Star Wars: Galaxies, a pretty cool MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game). I've had it since July 2 and play it off and on, more off than on anymore, but when I'm on I usually stay on for a few hours. It's kinda like chat with avatars that can fight and kill things! I've been playing mostly solo, though by joining in groups you can gain more experience and gather skills making you better and you can choose any kind of lifestyle you want, from an Artisan who builds things to a Marksman who destroys things, you can become a Bounty Hunter or a Dancer, it's all up to you. It's a fun waste of time. I met up with two groups today, mostly amateurs (meaning less skilled than I am) and it was a little frustrating because when you attack something, like a creature lair, there's a way to do it (one creature at a time) and a wrong way (attack the lair and have all the creatures attack you at once!), they chose the wrong way more often than not, so everyone was killed...several times.
Sigh. Anyway, it wasted some of my day.
I started watching Paycheck with Ben Affleck but was forced to take a break when my mother stopped by for an impromptu visit, just to make sure I haven't died yet from my lithotripsy procedure last week. It's okay, she's cool and all, but it threw off my rhythm and I couldn't get back into the movie after she left. I'll have to finish it tomorrow, and post a review at Rob's Video Views. I'm also awaiting a delivery from DigitalEyes.net that will include Trekkies 2 (the original Trekkies documentary on the lifestyles of...well, trekkies, is amusing and entertaining, so I'm looking forward to seeing the next bit), The Passion Of The Christ and the newly anamorphic release of The Lion King 2: Simba's Pride (it was already out on DVD and I have the initial release, but it's non-anamorphic and so it's crappy to watch on a nice 65" HDTV, so I had to get the new version!) now I'll have all 3 Lion King movies in anamorphic widescreen!
You can watch Rob's Video Views for my thoughts on these titles over the next few days, though DigitalEyes has said they should arrive by Thursday.
I watched NBC's new computer animated show Father Of The Pride tonight and found it fairly amusing. It was on at 9pm (EDT) and is considered an "adult" cartoon, not for young kids, meaning it's not for the Telletubbie crowd. The animation was superb (in High Definition Widescreen, of course) and the voice talent was great, the story was a little silly but then again it is about Sigfried & Roy's animals. I like animation (traditional and computer generated) and I like furry creatures, so it was fun for me. I have Big Brother 5 (not very interesting anymore) and The Amazing Race 5 (always fun) on TiVo (a GREAT invention in case you don't have one!) waiting for me so I must go and try to get them in before I hit the hay.
So tune in tomorrow for the continuing adventures of Rob's Brainfarts!
RobMac
Early start, bad feeling....
If you have cats you may know of what I am about to speak; night terrorists. One is bad enough, get two of them together and you've got a party, but three? That's a rumble. First, I didn't ask for three cats, I wound up with three after my roommate died and left two to me. I have one, a Sphynx (hairless) who's name is Anck Su Namun (Pronounced An-Ox-On-A-Moon, "Moon" for short) she's the oldest and my roommate had two more, a Burmese named Saquarra and the youngest is a Bengal named Fleur, all females. Each night one of them wakes up (It's not usually Moon as she sleeps curled under my arm) and the smackdown begins. Usually around 2am is when it starts and around 3 by the time they run out of steam. Sometimes, however, the Bengal baby Fleur has more energy than the older ladies and continues to get into mischief all through the early morning hours.
This morning, as most mornings, I drift in and out of sleep to the sounds of things crashing, paper being chewed or loud screeching & meowing. She has a penchant for wires...this morning she was intent on chewing through the wire on my mouse....a dozen or so sprays from a water bottle kept bedside finally drives her mind elsewhere, but keeps my mind awake. I can't sleep anymore so I wake up...and she falls promptly to sleep - bitch.
So I am already starting off bad, when I don't sleep well I get very cranky because I'm usually in lots of pain, and today's no different as it rained all night, and weather definitely makes all the adhesions from my multiple abdominal surgeries ache. So I'm in pain, didn't sleep and it's 6am. Bad start.
So I turn on the TV...and without warning Comcast has decided to change my cable lineup...again. They do this every few months just when you finally memorize all 200 channels, they renumber them for no apparent reason other than to add 1 more channel, so they rearrange 50 or more to fit one in - bastards.
So I spent the last half hour trying to find the new numbers for the HDTV channels. They used to be in the 180-186 range, now they're 210-220 range. Why? Don't ask me, ask the geniuses at Comcast because I didn't find any new HD channels in there. It's not just those channels that have moved, minor channels like G4TechTV was 138, now it's 163 or some such thing...no sense. So I had to print out a new listing to keep by the TV to find my local ABC, CBS, NBC stations along with Fox and WB....and I now have to go through my TiVo to make sure it recorded things that were on last night and upcoming shows to verify that they'll still be recorded...or as we now say "TiVo'ed".
Not the best start to the day, but seeing as how I have nothing planned for today other than mope about the house trying not to hurt so much and maybe watch a movie or two to review. Oh, yeah, I like to write reviews, nothing professional, just thoughts about movies I've seen. You can check out my main reviews page at Rob's Reviews and my new home video review page at Video Views. I don't work due to being out on Medical Leave with this damn kidney stone.
It's been one week since I had a Lithotripsy procedure to try to break the stone up (it was 2cm and IN my right kidney) and in the past week I've passed a good amount of gravel, but nothing close to resembling 2cm, and it's slowed, so I don't know if we got it all or not. I still hurt, but I also have a stent in there to keep the stone from backing me up, and that's probably what I'm feeling more than the stone at this point. I see my urologist in a week and we'll discuss removing the stent (it's been in 3 months now, so it has to be replaced), but I'll have a CT Scan done after it comes out to see if the stone is still there or if it's small enough now to not worry about putting another stent back in for three more months. Believe me when I say you do NOT want a stent put in if you have a kidney stone, if you're a guy, they go in the long way, without making any incisions. Just think of the route to get to the kidney without cutting any skin and you'll probably shudder as I do every time I remember it. I still feel the after effects of being violated that way. I am not looking forward to going through that again.
Well, I think that's enough for one morning so check back later and see if I still have three cats by the end of the day....
RobMac
This morning, as most mornings, I drift in and out of sleep to the sounds of things crashing, paper being chewed or loud screeching & meowing. She has a penchant for wires...this morning she was intent on chewing through the wire on my mouse....a dozen or so sprays from a water bottle kept bedside finally drives her mind elsewhere, but keeps my mind awake. I can't sleep anymore so I wake up...and she falls promptly to sleep - bitch.
So I am already starting off bad, when I don't sleep well I get very cranky because I'm usually in lots of pain, and today's no different as it rained all night, and weather definitely makes all the adhesions from my multiple abdominal surgeries ache. So I'm in pain, didn't sleep and it's 6am. Bad start.
So I turn on the TV...and without warning Comcast has decided to change my cable lineup...again. They do this every few months just when you finally memorize all 200 channels, they renumber them for no apparent reason other than to add 1 more channel, so they rearrange 50 or more to fit one in - bastards.
So I spent the last half hour trying to find the new numbers for the HDTV channels. They used to be in the 180-186 range, now they're 210-220 range. Why? Don't ask me, ask the geniuses at Comcast because I didn't find any new HD channels in there. It's not just those channels that have moved, minor channels like G4TechTV was 138, now it's 163 or some such thing...no sense. So I had to print out a new listing to keep by the TV to find my local ABC, CBS, NBC stations along with Fox and WB....and I now have to go through my TiVo to make sure it recorded things that were on last night and upcoming shows to verify that they'll still be recorded...or as we now say "TiVo'ed".
Not the best start to the day, but seeing as how I have nothing planned for today other than mope about the house trying not to hurt so much and maybe watch a movie or two to review. Oh, yeah, I like to write reviews, nothing professional, just thoughts about movies I've seen. You can check out my main reviews page at Rob's Reviews and my new home video review page at Video Views. I don't work due to being out on Medical Leave with this damn kidney stone.
It's been one week since I had a Lithotripsy procedure to try to break the stone up (it was 2cm and IN my right kidney) and in the past week I've passed a good amount of gravel, but nothing close to resembling 2cm, and it's slowed, so I don't know if we got it all or not. I still hurt, but I also have a stent in there to keep the stone from backing me up, and that's probably what I'm feeling more than the stone at this point. I see my urologist in a week and we'll discuss removing the stent (it's been in 3 months now, so it has to be replaced), but I'll have a CT Scan done after it comes out to see if the stone is still there or if it's small enough now to not worry about putting another stent back in for three more months. Believe me when I say you do NOT want a stent put in if you have a kidney stone, if you're a guy, they go in the long way, without making any incisions. Just think of the route to get to the kidney without cutting any skin and you'll probably shudder as I do every time I remember it. I still feel the after effects of being violated that way. I am not looking forward to going through that again.
Well, I think that's enough for one morning so check back later and see if I still have three cats by the end of the day....
RobMac
Monday, August 30, 2004
It's a boy!
Well, I'm born to Blogger.com. Here I am, admire me...or at least check on me from time to time.
It was suggested to me to start a blog since some people think I have something to say, important or not, I guess I do, so this will be a place for me to just vent about stuff that happens in my life. I don't think it's very interesting, indeed I think it's rather dull, but it was suggested that other people like to check in on us dull people to compare how dull or exciting their own lives are. Well, I guess it'll be safe to predict that your life will be far more exciting than mine once there's enough here to read.
My life in a nutshell consists of being sick...allot. You see, I have Crohn's Disease, which is a gastrointestinal disorder that makes life pretty miserable overall, but since I'm still here I guess all the drama I've been through over the last 8 years has been worth it, at least that's what they tell me.
Around December 1995 I started having some gastrointestinal difficulties, to say the least. I'll leave out the details for now. That's your digestive system to the layperson, anything that has to do with processing anything you eat from the time it enters your body until the time it leaves. It involves pain and a loss of control, which makes it pretty disgusting and almost taboo to talk about in polite conversation, and so becomes an embarrassing topic and therefore a lonely disease. I warn you now because the last 8 years and the interim surgeries (10 at last count) consume much of my thoughts so it's bound to rear its ugly head more often than not. I complain allot.
Anyway, I also tend to ramble and not make much sense, since when I type it's very "stream of consciousness" so I'm not going to adhere to perfect grammar, so don't try to correct my mistakes, I'm too lazy to change anything once it's on paper - Um, on screen?
This is enough for one night I suppose, though now that I'm typing away I see I may have enough to say to make this worthwhile, to me anyway. So, I guess I'll say goodnight and see you tomorrow.
RobMac
It was suggested to me to start a blog since some people think I have something to say, important or not, I guess I do, so this will be a place for me to just vent about stuff that happens in my life. I don't think it's very interesting, indeed I think it's rather dull, but it was suggested that other people like to check in on us dull people to compare how dull or exciting their own lives are. Well, I guess it'll be safe to predict that your life will be far more exciting than mine once there's enough here to read.
My life in a nutshell consists of being sick...allot. You see, I have Crohn's Disease, which is a gastrointestinal disorder that makes life pretty miserable overall, but since I'm still here I guess all the drama I've been through over the last 8 years has been worth it, at least that's what they tell me.
Around December 1995 I started having some gastrointestinal difficulties, to say the least. I'll leave out the details for now. That's your digestive system to the layperson, anything that has to do with processing anything you eat from the time it enters your body until the time it leaves. It involves pain and a loss of control, which makes it pretty disgusting and almost taboo to talk about in polite conversation, and so becomes an embarrassing topic and therefore a lonely disease. I warn you now because the last 8 years and the interim surgeries (10 at last count) consume much of my thoughts so it's bound to rear its ugly head more often than not. I complain allot.
Anyway, I also tend to ramble and not make much sense, since when I type it's very "stream of consciousness" so I'm not going to adhere to perfect grammar, so don't try to correct my mistakes, I'm too lazy to change anything once it's on paper - Um, on screen?
This is enough for one night I suppose, though now that I'm typing away I see I may have enough to say to make this worthwhile, to me anyway. So, I guess I'll say goodnight and see you tomorrow.
RobMac
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