February 2012
Nostalgic
Listening to a pub singer playing and singing Simon and Garfunkel songs.
Realizing this music is 45 or so years old.
I’m ancient.
The good news is Simon and Garfunkel are more ancient.
Master of the Obvious
It’s cold in Canada
You smiled. Admit it
At the gate
Ready to fly to Canada.
Hope my arms don’t get too tired.
Hehe
Wot?
Schedule
My flight is at 830 am.
50 mph winds forecast for here and Halifax.
My flight probably isn’t at 830 am.
Sigh. The funeral is Sunday.
I have a 24 hour cushion.
3 months of boyscouts as a teen taught me 2 things: be prepared and stay away from Mr FitzPatrick.
Roses
I bought a white rose at Snark from a homeless guy outside the bar around midnight.
I paid $3. That’s how much he told me it was.
I heard some people paid $6 for theirs.
I don’t know where my rose ended up.
Did any of you get a rose?
Grateful Things Today
I’m grateful Kat was able to be home in Nova Scotia for Christmas to see her dad and her family.
I’m grateful Kat was able to see her dad yesterday before he died.
I’m grateful I got to know Kat’s dad. Great guy.
I’m grateful my boss isn’t being a jerk about me taking time off for the funeral.
I’m grateful Kat sounds better on the phone today than...
41 weeks
I’ve been going to the gym for 3 straight weeks. I lost 5 pounds. I look in the mirror at myself naked sideways and I look like a 6’1” pregnant guy in his third trimester.
So not hot.
All the sighs. This is WORK.
4:45am decisions
Sleep?
Gym?
Sleep?
Gym?
Sleep?
Gym?
Ok. I’ll go to the gym.
Loss
Ugh. Kat’s dad just passed away.
Fortunately Kat got to be with him this afternoon before he died. She would have felt terrible and probably quite guilty had she not been there on time.
I love my wife. I feel so bad for her and her family. Losing a close relative is impossibly hard. I know how I felt when I lost my dad.
I’ll be flying to Nova Scotia Saturday morning to be with...
How you do it
It seems there are two kinds of Tumblrs:
-Those that want to interact..
-Those that couldn’t give a shit about interacting and just want to post their stuff. This post isn’t for you.
If you’re here to interact and you want to be social, but you don’t jump in and make it happen, it may frustrate you if you’re on the sidelines and feel left out.
It starts with...
timing
I’m glad Kat got there in time to be with her dad while he’s still alive.
As hard as it is for her, I think it would have been a lot harder if she was too late.
real life
There are a TON of really caring people that follow me.
Thank you for this community that IS real.
I don’t care what people say about real life vs virtual. You’re as real as they come.
You are not imaginary, holographic, or a compilation of pixels.
Don’t let people tell you otherwise.
Nannoo Nannoo
followup
Boss was sympathetic. He said “you’ll do what you have to do” He asked about Katherine.
rough day
I’m so sad…
I took Kat to the airport this morning so she hopefully has a chance to say goodbye to her dad… I was teary this morning with her. No matter how old a parent is, or how sick a parent has been, it’s hard as hell to face the prospect of losing him or her. She lost her mom 10 years ago. Now she’s about to lose her dad.
I should be there with Kat now,...
Ugh
I can’t imagine.
Kat’s mom was very sick from 1991 to 2001 with Kidney failure and home dialysis till she died. Her dad took care of her till he was 82.
Then her dad got sick soon after and she’s had to worry about him from NY while he’s been in Canada
She hasn’t been at peace with her parent’s health in 21 years.
Ugh.
She’s been worrying for...
Thanks for your well wishes. I’m hugging her tight with you all in mind.
She’s going home to Nova Scotia in the morning to be with family.
So hard for Kat
The doctor gave Kat’s dad 24 hours to live.
He’s 93, lives in a Nova Scotia nursing home with Alzheimer’s, bladder and prostate cancer.
All I can do is be supportive for Kat. She wants him to be at peace. He’s been Ill for a long time.
Whatever she wants. She has three brothers near him.
stoned
Last night, it was important for me to get a good night’s sleep so I took an Ambien. I was pretty sick with a cold (still am) and the ambien kicked in within about 20 minutes. I have a vague recollection of Kat helping me use some sort of inhaler before I went to bed for my congestion, then she left the room to go watch tv.
I apparently decided to take the opportunity to write an...
pressure cabin
My boss just walked into my office and said:
“You BETTER not get everyone Sick in the office with your cold! You better be sneezing into a tissue! I don’t want your airborne virus to infect everyone else.”
I told him I AM sneezing into tissues, and I showed him the box on my desk and the bottle of Hand Sanitizer spray on my desk I use every time I blow my nose.
I called...
Miscalculation
Me: Hi! Guess what is happening on February 23, 2014?
Kat: What?
Me: Besides our 15th Anniversary...
Kat: Our Anniversary is March 23. Not February 23.
Me: Oops
Kat: What else is happening on February 23, 2014?
Me: It will be my 20,000th day of life
Kat: You must have a lot of free time on your hands.
Me: :/ Talk to you later
Kat: Bye
20,000 Days of Life
I hear it’s a thing to celebrate your days of life now.
I just did some quick math (with the help of Excel @Date calculations) and discovered my 20,000th day of life will coincide, to the day, with my 15th wedding anniversary with Kat.
This is cause for some SERIOUS celebrating.
February 23, 2014 I’ll be alive 20,000 days. (assuming I make it)
Who wants to come to a party?
How...
No Yeast for you!
Kat and I agreed to give up bread for Lent.
It doesn’t matter that she’s Protesting and I’m Jewish.
We decided we didn’t need to eat bread for the next 6ish weeks and since we’re both trying to lose weight and get into shape, no harm done.
Maybe when Lent is over, we’ll give up bread till Hell freezes over too.
Randomness
I am constantly awed and amazed at the randomness of the internet.
How incredible is it that certain people connect with others, defying all odds, and how it leads to individual and group relationships?
Had I not been online in June ‘95 on Compuserve in that second that Kat logged in, I never would have started talking to her and still be with her, 17 years later.
Had I not started on...
Do you think Tumblr really accidentally unfollows people or is it one of the great lies of Tumblr?
Ash Wednesday Story
In my public high school there seemed to be an extraordinarily large number of practicing Catholics.
A big church was nearby.
On Ash Wednesday, every year, large numbers of students would be dismissed from class to go to church.
They’d come back hours later with big ash smudges on their foreheads.
I learned years later that many of the kids, instead of going to church, headed to the...
WatchAmbien wasted video.
Sorry in advance. My fat ugly face Ia laughable. To no one.
So so sad
Ambien snorted adventure.
In about to passed out on Ambien. I’m pretty gogiky.
Ask me your questions I’d you need to know the answers. You better sturdy. The room is spinning and words angles.
What to you want to knowww???
Ask me if my father was a natural polar bear or a illegitimate one. Ask me I’d I’m white wlvecause I’m a polar bear or if in a polar beat because I’m while.
...
On Running
Ive been running on a treadmill every other day for the past 2-3 weeks at the gym.
I’m heavy. 247 pounds. I feel like I have weights on my legs and ankles,
I was able to run 11 minutes at 4.6mph before my heart rate hit 150 then I walked for a minute at 3.9, then ran for 2, walked 1, ran 2, etc for 30 minutes in total. I think I ran 22 of 30 minutes.
It’s HARD at my age. The...
Truthful Tuesday
I’ll spend 10 minutes looking for the remote before I’ll get up and turn the tv on.
Do you do this too?
Timing
Last night, at 11pm, when I was lying in bed in the dark, sneezing; coughing; squirting my throat with mint flavored, green, artificial lidocaine; blowing my nose repeatedly, and wishing I was unconscious, Kat came into the room and asked if I was feeling frisky!!!
She picked the certain moment in the past few months, when she KNEW I would surely say “no” to initiate a little hanky...
misssstaciee:
We’ve all been there, the point where we just want to dump everything off a cliff, pack up what’s left, and start all over again. The truth is though, whatever problems you have before you visit the ledge of a cliff to dump them, they’ll still follow you where ever you decide to restart. The idea of this is tempting enough, it sounds like it might actually work. I assure you...
Taxes finished and filed
At least I did something productive on my sick day
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