Just a quick update to let you guys know the surgery went just fine. I got home yesterday evening and I’m glad I didn’t have to stay overnight. The new incision is about 5 inches long and they used surgical super glue to hold it back together on the outside but I do have some self-dissolving stitches on the tear internally. And yes, the pain medication is pretty decent but it still hurts like crazy. Especially when I woke up this morning after the pain killers wore off overnight. I felt like a dump truck had run me down then backed over me a couple more times for good measure LOL.

I am able to get up and walk around but it’s very limited. Hopefully I’ll be able to get back to work in a few days. Thanks everyone that stopped by for the nice comments and concerns on my condition in the previous post. I’ll be back!!

I just can’t seem to stay away from doctors and hospitals. I’ll be going in for a one or two day stay tomorrow, Monday the 29th for some minor surgery. The incision from my liver transplant from 3 years ago has come apart internally in my right side just below my ribs and must be repaired. As you can imagine I’m not too thrilled about that! You would think after 3 years of healing that you wouldn’t have to worry about such things but apparently not.

I know how it happened too, I was working out at the gym the morning of the day I noticed it. It doesn’t hurt much, just a bit sensitive but there’s the danger of an internal infection if I don’t get it fixed right away. It couldn’t hardly come at a worse time since I’m so backed up with blog design requests right now. Actually, when would it be a good time? LOL And this is after my doctors have urged me to get more exercise and lose a few pounds. This what I get for listening to doctors? I think it was all part of their evil plan to operate on me again. They just can’t get enough of me.

So, bright and early tomorrow morning I’ll be headed across town to get sliced up again, hopefully it will be just as minor as he claims. Just a few stitches maybe a small synthetic skin patch but they still have to cut me open to get to the tear so it’s gonna hurt for quite a while. No physical activity for at least 6 weeks!! Just when I was totally getting into the groove of working out at the gym!!

It’s Electric Shock Season Again YAY!! Not Really…

Every winter it’s the same old thing, every thing metal that I touch shocks the crap out of me. Today I felt my first shock of the season. The worst item is car doors. I can pretty much depend on it, just getting in and out will give me quite a jolt, it makes me hate to touch anything with my hands.

Often I’ll use my jacketed forearm or elbow to push a door open or closed to lessen the jolt. Sometimes I can build up a nice charge that will jump as much as an inch across! Bright enough that you can see and I hate it!! Anyone have any tips on how to stop it? It doesn’t seem to matter what I’m wearing or type of shoes or even if I’m walking on concrete, wood or carpet. I always get shocked. Annoying!!

I’ll give you guys an update on my condition in a few days, hopefully he’ll give me something good for pain!! hehe

I noticed about 2 weeks ago my primary PC was starting to act kinda wonky on me. I actually have three including the laptop but the two desktops are in constant use with the slower one (1400 mhz) acting as a backup. I built both of them myself and they were getting kind of old and tired and I knew it. Now it was looking like it might fail on me any day. And since I make my living on my computer I can’t afford to be without it. The primary one was about 6 years old, a 2600 mhz AMD and it was as fast and as powerful as you could get back then. It has served me extremely well over the years.

In computer years though, 2600 mhz is a virtual dinosaur so again I decided to go as fast and powerful as I could. The new one I built this past week is another AMD running at 6000+ mhz with a 160 gig sata 2 hard drive and 2 gigabytes of ddr2 memory. In other words blazing fast. The old machine would take almost 30 seconds to open my Photoshop CS2 program, the new one does it in about 2 seconds. What an amazing difference!

Building it was not without it’s problems though. I ordered all the components online and then carefully assembled everything. Plugged it in, turned it on and… nothing! It refused to boot up, no beeps, no post! Arrgh!! Next came lots of swearing as I tried to figure out which one of the new parts was faulty. It turned out to be the new motherboard. I ended up sending it back for exchange but I couldn’t wait two weeks for them to send another so I ended up buying one locally. Anyway, it now works and works quite well and I’m a happy camper again! Yay!! Hopefully this one will last me another 5 or 6 years.

Does anyone else dislike Nancy Grace on CNN as much as I do? She is very irritating, just the sound of her indignant voice is enough to make me go change the channel. I hate the way she badgers people on the air, people that are just witnesses to her story and are trying to be helpful. She treats them like dirt. One night she was questioning someone that had a stutter and she actually mocked his stuttering! She acts as though everyone she talks to on air is her own personal doormat. By the way I found that photo on the ‘net, it’s not one that I made up, LOL.

How about showing some social grace, Nancy Grace?

This photo just cracks me up and makes me wonder what the hell is going on here? LOL

I’ve been crazy busy and here’s a few new template designs I’ve done recently, Nappily Evah Aftah and two templates here for the same blog My Juxtaposition . The ones I did are named Many Faces and Butterflies, you’ll have to use the theme switcher to see them both. And another new one here for Unrestricted and a new one over at A Whole Lot of Nothing.

It’s Friday folks!! Hope you guys have a great weekend!!

Yes, I’m a bad boy! I’ve been neglecting this thing horribly. And I’ve been neglecting visiting you guys too. Did ya miss me much? LOL And yes, the photo of the escalator in the previous post is fake! I found the image on the ‘net. My fitness center does not have an escalator!!

I was flipping thru the TV channels the other day and landed on the Cartoon Network for a few minutes. What struck me was the advertising for kids snacks and candies, etc. and I realized that what they put up is just as bad or even worse than cigarette advertisements in it’s own way. Every ad you see is geared toward making kids think that snacking out on all that crappy junk food is fun, exciting and that they’re just not cool unless they do it too. Your childs head turns into a giant strawberry, grape or watermelon, or you soar thru the air from sheer excitement because of the flavor rush or they visualize it as near hallucinogenic or pseudo-psychedelic experiences just from biting into a piece of their mouth watering candy. How can children resist that kind of propaganda? The truth is that they don’t need any snacks at all, not a damn one, yet they’re made to feel that they can’t live without it.

Yeah, it’s all fun and games until somebody gets hurt. The hurt comes when your child weighs three hundred pounds before the age of 10. And that’s just a prelude to a lifetime addiction to junk food which in turn sets them up for high cholesterol, heart disease and diabetes by the time they’re 30 years old. Fun my ass. More people in this country die every year from heart related complications than those from tobacco related products yet we sit back and watch it happen. Where’s the outcry people?

Americans are no longer the tallest people in the world on average, but we’re still the widest!

In other news, Nanner came to N.O. over the weekend and it was great seeing her again. Nanner and her cousin and I walked around the French Quarter for a little while on Sunday and stopped in at the Clover Grill for burgers. The next day I picked her up for lunch and we went to the 615 Cafe that has some of the best fried catfish in the city. It’s an out of the way joint that’s known only to the locals and the food is always great. We only got to spend a couple hours together but it was still good fun. Good to see you again hon!

Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’m off to the gym to work off some of that candy I ate earlier…. Have a great weekend!!!