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01:28 am
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Alive
I'm alive. Well sort of. *L* I just haven't had time to actually sit down and write a decent entry. Not to worry. The entry is coming and I'm still reading. I'll likely write once I can get a day off. For now though, I hear my pillow calling me.
Current Mood:  tired
Current Music: Loreena McKennitt - Marco Polo - Live
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09:04 am
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Sans Piping
*stretches* I woke up 30 minutes ago. After sleeping through the night. *grins* That so rocks. Life without extra piping is good. *chuckles*
I got all sorts of advice about removing the catheter. *L* "Drink nothing but water for 24 hours before you pull it" *nods* Not bad advice so I followed it. The sister unit was talking about popping a Vicodin 30 minutes before I pulled it. *shrugs* I did that because I'm not a fan of non constructive pain. The rest of the advice I received got tossed out the window. The actual even was very anticlimactic. The only thing that hurt was ripping of the patch on my leg. I threw everything out and then stood in the shower for 30 minutes. *grins*
Now I've got an interview at 10:30. That I didn't have to get up four hours in advance for. I could so get used to a schedule like this.
I don't have the words to describe what it's been like to receive so much love and support. Mind blowing comes close. Life altering is better. I had the words the other day when I answered a comment from ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) caveofimmanuel. All I can say now is thank you. From the bottom of my soul, thank you.
*bows and bounces off to the interview*
Edit: 18 December 2006 12:41 AM
I think that the last four or five entries need to be public. Cancer is a scary thing. I know it scared the shit out of me. It's also something that a lot of people are afraid to talk about. I don't know if having my experience public will help anyone but it's worth a shot.
Current Mood:  grateful
Current Music: Queensrÿche - Silent Lucidity
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01:31 am
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Deliverance
( Read more... )
Current Mood:  contemplative
Current Music: Pat Benatar - We Belong
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01:08 pm
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Beware Of Blockage or The Water No Longer Floweth
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Current Location: home
Current Mood:  bored
Current Music: Mr. Mister - Kyrie
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10:52 pm
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Medical Update
Procedure's done. They went in and removed the tumor completely. I'll try to talk more about it tomorrow. Right now I'm just extremely tired and I need to sleep.
I found out who my real friends were and my outlook has shifted drastically. I lot of changes are in order and will be happening soon. I came through this fine but I'm not sitting back and allowing it to happen again. Should there be a next time I may not be so lucky.
To everyone who commented and called, thank you. I'll never be able to express how grateful I am to all of you. The words don't exist. *bows deeply*
Off to bed now. I have an interview, at Comcast, to tomorrow morning. Night all and to all of you, thank you for being here. You add meaning to my life that I'll, again, never be able to express adequately.
*reads back over it* So much for going to straight to bed, huh? *chuckles*
*crawls off to bed and falls on it face first*
Current Location: home
Current Mood: tired
Current Music: Symphonie No.1,Op.21,C-Dur - Adagio Molto, Allegro Con Brio
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03:06 pm
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Controlled Terror
I went in to the Urologist today. He wanted to take a look inside my bladder to find out why blood was there almost two weeks ago. His bedside manner lacks a little bit. As in telling me, point blank that there is bladder cancer. *growls* That is so not what I wanted to hear. I was expecting to hear that I had a kidney stone.
The upside to this is that the procedure is a quick one. He goes in, removes it and I go home the same day with one day for recovery. They've caught it early enough to eradicate it completely. As simple as it sounds I'm still terrified. Life is an exercise in controlled terror at the moment. I'm just keeping it under wraps so that I can function. Work has been called and they're aware that I'm taking the time off as soon as the procedure can be scheduled. The cigarettes have been flushed down the toilet and I've gone cold turkey. I may give up caffeine as well. I haven't decided yet.
Also on the upside, I got a voice message from Comcast about an inbound sales position that they are considering me for. Excellent. I need to get the hell out of retail. Especially since the management hung our asses out to dry during Black Friday.
I'm going to call Comcast back, call some friends and then go and occupy myself somehow.
Current Mood:  scared
Current Music: Tori Amos - A Sorta Fairytale
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12:26 am
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Friends Only
I should make it official, I guess. My journal is friends only now. Largely because I'm too damned lazy to change the security settings in Semagic. Locking people out isn't an issue, since I know that security, in regards to the internet, is a joke. *L* If I had concerns about security, I wouldn't be posting in the first place.
For anyone who wants to be added to my friends list, comment here. I'll take a look at your journal and make a decision. If I friend you, welcome. If I don't, accept and move on. The internet is a big place, after all.
Current Mood: calm
Current Music: Dixie Chicks - More Love
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11:57 pm
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The end of the adventure
The adventures with Yahoo culminated today with my getting back into the Wallbrat account. Shock doesn't really describe it. I think aghast works.
I faxed over some information to verify my identity. I didn't expect it to work. Now I have access to the account again and the first thing I did was pick a long password. I don't know if I'm going to keep the account or not. I may delete it and that would seem the more prudent course of action. As least I don't have to worry about people getting web links from that account anymore.
Current Mood: tired
Current Music: Alison Krauss and Union Station - The Boy Who Wouldn't Hoe Corn
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10:22 am
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Further Adventures in Yahoo
Calling Customer Service, Bill or Account Verification doesn't help. All it serves to do is irritate the fuck out of me. Whoever locked me out of the account changed the zip code so now I can't verify who I am. I received an e-mail from Yahoo security asking me for information, including a copy of my photo ID.
For security reasons, if you are unable to supply us with the correct information in your next request, we will not be able to offer assistance with this account.
As frustrating as this has been I may write them and thank them for their efforts, whether this works or not. At least they're using common sense in this. Still, I'm moving all of my email over to the gmail account and will be moving the Wallbrat Messenger contacts over to Wallbouncer97217 this weekend. I've got a three day weekend so I'll have time to do that. Aside from helping a certain kitten move the rest of the time is free.
Current Mood: awake
Current Music: Van Halen - Little Guitars
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11:55 pm
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Adventures in Yahoo
The adventure with Yahoo Mail continues. The e-mail I received was less than helpful. I know more than what they give me credit for. *shrugs* Since I work with the public I gave them the benefit of the doubt and tried all of their suggestions, even though I had already done all but one of them before I e-mailed them. I finally sent them all of the information they requested for a password reset. We'll see what happens.
I remembered the password to my gmail account and I'm playing with it a bit. I may just transfer over to that instead and keep my email clear of Yahoo. Safety, on the Internet, is a relative thing these days, however, gmail might be more secure. The address is wallbrat@gmail.com. Don't expect any traffic out of it for now though. I'm playing around with the POP3 features to see if it's worth my while and secure enough.
Current Mood: determined
Current Music: Richard Marx - Don't Mean Nothing
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10:40 pm
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Hacked Account
Sometimes it doesn't pay to get out of bed. *sighs* My Yahoo account, Wallbrat, has been hacked. I'm locked out of it completely. If any of you are getting messages from that e-mail account or from instant messenger, ignore them. I'm in the process of setting up wallbouncer97217 as my permanent e-mail. Hopefully, Yahoo will have something intelligent to say in the morning.
I'm not holding my breath.
*beats his head against the desk and goes back to work*
Current Mood:  angry
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01:56 pm
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Note to self
Self, before getting irritated that Linux isn't picking up the onboard sound on the old box, check to see if you actually turned it back on after removing the old sound card.
*headdesk*
*wanders off to find a Linux client*
Current Mood: amused
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01:37 am
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Meme
I was bored and the muses aren't cooperating. Grabbed from prehensile_wit
Current Mood: bored
Current Music: Billy Joel - The Downeaster Alexa
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04:54 pm
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Cafe Press
Yep. I finally got off of my ass and did it. There are two shirts available for the Caffeine Enhanced. *grins* This link is also on my info page.
Current Mood:  bouncy
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02:00 am
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RENT
I've had a copy of RENT since shortly after it came out on DVD. I finally got around to watching it tonight. After years of listening to the Broadway Cast CD, I thought I knew what I'd see.
I just stared at nothing for eight minutes, trying to figure out what to type.
I can't find the words. I don't think there are any.
Current Mood: touched
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09:39 am
[Link] | Internet was down for a bout a day and a half. As usual, Verizon has no idea why we went down. *grumbles*
I'll start catching up on entries after I get back from work.
Current Mood: irate
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11:01 pm
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RENT
*bounce bounce bounce*
My copy of RENT showed up today.
*bounce bounce bounce*
I hear my DVD player calling me. *grins*
Current Mood: bouncy
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10:31 am
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Pre Rant Mutterings
*yawnstretch*
*grumbles* I've had these ideas floating around in my head for weeks now. No free time to write them out. The only way I could do it is to pull a sleepless night. Nononononono.
I have a lot of female friends and most of them bitch, at one time or another, about not being pretty or needing to lose weight or needing to make some type of change so that they can feel beautiful and desirable. That's not something that I'm equipped to understand, since I see all women as beautiful and desirable.
Come on now. You're all stronger than I am, in many ways and you put up with males. We should give you medals for that as the race would die out if you didn't. I'll probably write more on it, once I can make some time. I definitely sense a rant coming on about it.
*wanders off to the shower*
Current Mood: awake
Current Music: Sarah McLachlan - Fallen - Reprise
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02:17 am
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Clues, Vowels, What Have You?
I meant to write this earlier and I kept getting distracted. *shrugs* Shit happens. Depending on how it turns out I may post this at the beginning of my journal as well.
I do not understand people sometimes. OK. Most of the time. I've had people drop off of my friends list because I don't post often. Catch a clue or buy a damned vowel. For those of you who can't do that I'll be happy to spell a few things out.
Do all of these things before you even consider adding me. If you haven't run away screaming by the end of the list then we should talk. If you fail on any of them then too bad. I'm not all things to all people.
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Current Mood: calm
Current Music: Eagles - Hotel California
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10:34 pm
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Everyone needs a good laugh
( Chili Cook Off )
Current Mood: amused
Current Music: Trans-Siberian Orchestra - Christmas in Sarajevo
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