Wednesday, October 19, 2005

Image Gallery up

I’ll put it in a more ordered place, but here’s the link in the meantime: Gallery be here.

Plus I need to muck around with the CSS in there a bit.

But the important thing is that there’s a gallery of pretty intense (read: gross) images from the eye surgery.

Jon scribbled this mess on 10/19/05 at 06:44 PM, best we can tell it fits in the category of Photos Regular Post. This many folks had something to say about that, The permanent home of this entry is here: Link

Image Galley Coming RSN™!

I’ve done all the back end stuff and an image gallery should be coming RSN™ (Real Soon Now)

Jon scribbled this mess on 10/19/05 at 11:10 AM, best we can tell it fits in the category of Regular Post. This many folks had something to say about that, The permanent home of this entry is here: Link

Somthing’s wrong with that boy

So I’m a funny guy, generally speaking, if I do say so myself. Reha once commented that being married to me was like hanging out with Steve Martin all the time. Which is high praise, indeed. There’s just something in my personality that makes/allows me to go for the funny quip rather than the serious or even appropriate thing. I’m sure it’s some weird interpersonal keep-everyone-at-a-distance behavior that can be looked at in a couple of ways. One, fun guy to be around and two, annoying as hell.

Like so much in life, the “go to the funny” gene is a two edged sword.

Never has this been more apparent to me than when I was coming out of the fog of anesthesia and the nurse began to ask me questions. “How are doing?” “Can you wake up?” That sort of thing. Standard post-op fare, I suppose.

One of the questions they asked (a couple of times, I remember) was “Do you know what surgery you had today?” or “Do you know why you are here?” The exact details escape me. I do remember thinking that there wasn’t any way I was going to be able to pull “I had surgery to correct strabismus” out of my foggy butt.

But my answer at least one of those times, was “I had breast augmentation surgery.”

That was pretty funny to at least someone in the room, I remember.

And though I have the barest of memories, it’s all quite the blur, at some point I overheard the nurse tell the doc that I thought I’d had breast augmentation surgery. I grabbed my chest and said “they feel good.” And I don’t know if it made it out of my mouth, but I have some vague thing rolling around in my head about liking “my new stripper boobs. Thank you very much.”

Kind of hope I didn’t say that last part. That could be slipping over onto the sharp edge of the sword.

Jon scribbled this mess on 10/19/05 at 08:30 AM, best we can tell it fits in the category of Regular Post. This many folks had something to say about that, The permanent home of this entry is here: Link

Monday, October 17, 2005

Gross! Put the sunglasses BACK ON!

Remember Fast Times at Ridgemont High? One of the many “catch phrases” from that movie was “People on ‘ludes should not drive.” My friends and I morphed that saying into many, many things. Basically stomped the saying into the ground until it was a) no longer funny and b) bore little resemblance to the original context. Things like, People on ‘ludes should not go to Geometry, mow the lawn, go to Church, ad infinitum, ad nauseam. It was moderately funny when Spicoli said it, a little humorous in context when I said it about mowing the lawn (because spinning blades of death and recreational pharmaceuticals are always at least a little funny) but it ceased to be funny after the fiftieth time.

So notwithstanding all of the above and herewith I present, ”People on Lortab should not be given access to digital cameras.” This self portrait comes from Saturday and I was yea verily, stoned to the gills. Both eyes are still quite red today (Monday), but the swelling has gone down a bit. And I don’t have double vision anymore! Zoraster be praised!

Jon scribbled this mess on 10/17/05 at 12:43 PM, best we can tell it fits in the category of Photos Regular Post. This many folks had something to say about that, The permanent home of this entry is here: Link

Saturday, October 15, 2005

I have survived

Came through the surgery fine. I’m having a decent amount of post-op pain, but it’s subsiding.

The part that sucks is that my eyes won’t stop watering. I’m like a drip garden hose over here. The kind that ooze and leak constantly.

I have intense and slightly gross pictures FROM THE SURGERY that I’ll be posting as soon as I can stop weeping uncontrollably.

Jon scribbled this mess on 10/15/05 at 10:11 AM, best we can tell it fits in the category of Regular Post. This many folks had something to say about that, The permanent home of this entry is here: Link