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Saturday, August 03, 2002

Today's penis spam includes: "Breakthroughs in Science have finally enabled men like you, to take things into their own hands!"
What, they're doing it just so they can impress themselves?
posted at 1:05 PM

Friday, August 02, 2002

If you check my webcam right now you can see my tomatoes. One's a little bigger than the other.
posted at 9:43 PM

Mispledding of the day: for a school supplies drive, the sponsor specifies as one of the possible items:

"marvel notebook"
posted at 6:20 PM

Latest spam combo -- porn spam followed by "keep your car's upholstery clean." Are we browsing one-handed in our cars now? No wonder people want SUVs taller than everyone else's.
posted at 4:56 PM

Some people are looking at my webcam. Hi people.
posted at 4:55 PM

More lies I never finished reading (this was sent to an email list and bounced to me): "Hi there; I saw you signed my friend's guest book. I thought we might have something in common. I, like you, have always been skeptical about online money making scams, "
posted at 12:04 AM

Thursday, August 01, 2002

Added links (I think). Yes, they work. WEBCAM and EMAIL at the top of the page.
posted at 10:09 PM

This special big dick spam update for Mexi: Sure, sometimes size DOESN'T matter, like when a
Midget is Driving a TANK down your street!
posted at 10:00 PM

More big dick spam:

"Proof that size does matter! A large
member has much more surface area ..."

That's what I look for in a man, more surface area.
posted at 9:58 PM

More mail I never finished reading:

"What have you been up to?
I don't know about you, but I am sick and tired of going
down to the store to find out that your printer cartridges
cost more than the printer itself!"

Yeah, that's at the top of my list.
posted at 9:56 PM

SpamOTD incorporating the "biggerhammer theory":

A man endowed with a 7-8" hammer is simply better equipped than a man with a 5-6"hammer. Would you rather have more than enough to get the job done or fall short. It's totally up to you. Our Methods are guaranteed to increase your size by 1-3"
posted at 9:53 PM

I've set up a webcam at work, because someone keeps stealing my sodas and candy.

If you see someone stealing something, let me know!
posted at 9:44 PM

My friend Carlos mentions that he's doing more visual stuff than reading on the web recently, and especially looking at wallpapers. Here's some wallpaper that's really wallpaper: William Morris designed intricate colorful wallpapers characteristically found in Victorian homes.

posted at 4:41 PM

Little stuff keeps getting stolen from the office. Sodas have gone missing. Candy bars disappear. Larger than normal quantities of candy is taken from my "free candy" basket. I mentioned this to my boss and yesterday he said some of his stuff is disappearing as well.

I remember at a previous job someone was stealing change from someone's desk, and batteries, and other piddly stuff. It seems stupid to risk your job over nickels and dimes, but there it is.

I guess I could put out some Ex-Lax candies.
posted at 4:30 PM

Catching up -- Mom arrived home fine. Gordon picked up her meds and got her a root beer snowball with marshmallow on it. She sounded great. Talked to her again yesterday and she sounded perky.
posted at 4:26 PM

Tuesday, July 30, 2002

Gordon called to say that Mom is coming home. And that she does not have heart failure, it was all the ulcers. And he has a list of appointments to be made and medications and treatment and all that. Now why is it we didn't get any of this information before? Sheesh.
posted at 7:12 PM

As seen on eBay: This auction is for a Sperm addition to a tongue ring! Great for a gag gift.

Gag gift, geddit? GEDDIT?
posted at 7:11 PM

Talked to another nurse, Wanda, who seems to be on the ball. Wanda gave me the doctor's name and phone number. They are supposed to be giving her new medication, the nurse thought, but apparently no one bothered to tell Mom or anyone in the family about it. They're waiting for lab work to see if the count is high enough (it was 32 last night which was okay) and will call them if the lab hasn't come back with the results by 5:45. Wanda will have the doctor call me and give me the whole story.

I hate being in an information vacuum.
posted at 5:20 PM

Mom is still waiting to see if they are going to let her go home. She had another transfusion last night. No one has said anything about giving her a prescription to deal with the ulcer, or the heart failure. This is ridiculous. If they don't do anything to deal with the problem then she'll just get sicker again. I'm really kind of frustrated with this.
posted at 5:06 PM

Mom and I were talking about the whales that beached themselves on the shore off Cape Cod. It looks like they've done it again. Nobody knows why they do it. The theory is that they play "follow the leader" and if the leader is sick or disoriented they just follow him. Maybe it's just a bid for attention.

Or maybe they like wearing those colorful sheets.
posted at 12:41 PM

Thoughts about Mom in the hospital.

All the times that Mom or Dad (who died August 22, 1992) have been in the hospital are balled up into the experience. The good and the bad, but of course the bad sort of overshadows a lot of the good.

It is good that she is in Saint Joseph Hospital, because she likes it there, rather than at Franklin Square where they took five hours to diagnose a terribly obvious stroke.

She does comment on the fact that it isn't super-clean. And the nurse on Sunday night! She wasn't actually ignoring Mom, but she was one of those failed empaths, who is getting off on her "understanding" what the patient needs and stroking Mom's hair while Mom just wants to be more physically comfortable and to be left alone otherwise.
posted at 1:31 AM

Mom has been colonoscopied and endoscopied and it turns out she has an ulcer.

If things go according to plan, she's going home tomorrow.
posted at 1:20 AM

Sunday, July 28, 2002

Hmm...for some reason these entries don't seem to be appearing on my blog page.
posted at 2:34 PM

My brother Gordon called me on Thursday night and we agreed that our mother has been moving kind of slow lately. She had a cardiologist appointment in two weeks, but after the conversation with Gordon, I called her to discuss it. She said that she had been feeling tired, and a little out of breath. We agreed that she should see the doctor sooner.

Friday morning she called the doctor's office; his receptionist said he wouldn't be available until next week, and gave her the name of another doctor who was handling his patients while he was away. That doctor didn't arrive until after 11 AM. He told her to go to the hospital, that they would probably admit her. My sister Judy and her husband went over to Mom's.

Mom lives in a senior community which has an EMT on call, so they called him. He said it sounded like she had fluid in the lungs and noted that her feet and lower legs were swollen. So they drove her to the hospital. Because it was my sister and brother in law instead of an ambo, she could go to the hospital she prefers, rather than the extremely sucky closest hospital (which took five hours to diagnose an obvious stroke last time she went), so there's a plus point.

They did admit her to the hospital. Gave her Lasix and about 2 quarts of fluid came out. And confirmed that she is in the early stages of heart failure, which in itself is no picnic, but can be controlled and can potentially be lived with for years.

But the other thing is that she's anemic. They did a rectal exam, and found some blood. Looking on the web it appears that any of about ten million things could be causing that, some not so picnicky either. She is on Coumadin (Warfarin) as a blood thinner since her stroke a couple of years ago and that is one of the potential causes they list.

She got some blood yesterday afternoon, and afterwards I noticed that she looks pinker and better than she has in quite a while, so now I realize she's probably been anemic for some time.

While it's nice she's in the hospital over the weekend, instead of at home alone, not much happens at the hospital over the weekend unless it's an emergency. They have to do some kind of heart imaging and a colonoscopy, but probably neither one will be happening until Monday. So we're all nervous.

Mom is in good spirits and feels pretty much okay, though still somewhat tired. She seemed to perk up after the blood, though it probably helped that we left her alone for a nap and dinner, about an hour and a half. Fortunately she doesn't hesitate to say, "I'm tired, you all can go" when she wants to rest.
posted at 2:06 PM

First entry -- I'm beginning my blog today.
posted at 2:05 PM

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