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    Ramblings Archive

  • Happy Birthday to Me

    Well, I’m 41 now.  Hooray.  Had a pretty dull birthday. My parents came by and surprised me with an ice cream cake though!

    I got the fire pit for my birthday, but I still haven’t had a fire in it yet. Hoping to accomplish that this weekend!

    Last weekend, I went down to Poland for a little family get-together to see my California Family for the first time in a few years.  I need to spend more time at the pond, its so relaxing there.


  • Overdue Updates

    I’ve been lazy about posting for some time here. Its so bad that I even have a running list of reminders of things to post about.

    • I paid off my Truck Loan
    • I missed my 9th Minecraft Anniversary
    • Got a shiny new Cell Phone
    • I got a firepit

    For the first time since College, I am without a car/truck loan! It feels good. So good I finally got my own phone plan and upgraded my cell phone!  I got very shiny Motorola edge+, has a ridiculous 108 MP Camera!  I need to start taking more pictures for sure now.

    The 9th anniversary of my Minecraft world came and went, and I missed it entirely as I wasn’t actively playing for the last few months.  Just haven’t been able to find my mojo lately, none of the projects I want to work on will come together for me.  I need to brainstorm something, its been a few months since I’ve built and I feel the need.

    My parents got me a firepit for my backyard as an early birthday present!  You can see it in the picture above!


  • Dental Woes

    Its been a long few days here….

    Sunday afternoon, my tooth started hurting pretty bad. Kept me up all night so I couldn’t sleep, had to call out of work on Monday.  Had a scheduled doctor’s appointment that afternoon to get my blood pressure checked. Well, it was through the roof. They sent me down to Walk-In Care and they prescribed me some antibiotics for the infected tooth.  Tried to sleep that night, no luck again.  Couldn’t stay comfy, pain kept waking me up. Got up this morning, and my face was all swollen to shit, as you can see in the picture. Went BACK to Walk-In Care, they monitored me for a bit. Eventually sent me to the Dental Walk-In Care in Bangor.

    Saw the dentist, they did an x-ray, and find out I have TWO abscessed teeth. TWO.  They put in a drain in my gums to drain the gunk out, and it helped some.  Face is still pretty swollen, but it is going down. He said it might take a day or so.  I go back on Thursday to get the drain removed, and eventually have to get the two teeth pulled.  Hooray.

    On top of this, the doctor I saw at Walk-In Care is all concerned about my blood pressure being high. For starters, by doctor took me off one of my blood pressure meds 2 weeks ago, and with not sleeping and all this tooth pain who WOULDN’T have high blood pressure?! She’s put me on a new pill I need to take twice a day, as well as on the two antibiotics I’m on now.

    To make a long story short, I’m pretty damn miserable 🙁 Haven’t slept in two days, and it isn’t looking I’m going to get much again tonight.  Sigh….


  • My Friggen Cat

    It would appear Buddy has been having fun playing in the basement. I’ve been playing Civilization VI for a few hours now, and he came up on the desk for treats.

    When he got down again, I noticed the insane amount of foot prints he’d left on the desk.  I investigated further, and there’s an entire trail leading from the basement door.

    Looks like he’s been playing in the puddle in the basemen, then walking through his cat litter.

    Sigh.  #cats


  • MS Exchange = PURE EVIL

    If there is a group dedicated to seething hatred of Microsoft Exchange, I would like to join.

    I have spent the majority of the last two weeks dealing with a multitude of issues & problems with Exchange servers at work, and I feel like I’ve had enough for a lifetime.

    First I tried to apply a simple update to one server, and it borked itself. Spent over 50 hours restoring the thing from backup, and then days dealing with associated fallout from the failure.

    Then another server decided to go and get itself a virus.  That kept me busy for a day or two just trying to figure out how to fix it (as conveniently the backups had failed for that server).

    It all just made for a really long two weeks. I really hope that was the end of it, I don’t know if my sanity can take much more!


  • Buddy’s New Perch

    Buddy’s new perch has been on the wall for about a week now, and he’s finally started using it!  I had to put him up there myself the first time to let him know it was safe, and he managed to find his way down.  That was a week ago.  He didn’t seem to pay it much interest all week.

    Then yesterday, I was looking all around the house for him, and couldn’t find him anywhere. Looked up, and he was watching me from the hammock. Now he’s sleeping up there all the time!


  • Mangled Leg Update

    For those who don’t know, clumsy me fell down Cory’s steps last Sunday and did quite the number on myself.  Didn’t seem to break anything, but messed my leg up pretty bad. It got so swollen it got painful to bend my knee.  I’m doing a lot better now, the swelling is mostly gone except for a few places, and I’m bruising up nicely from my knee down to my toes.

    DAY TWO

    DAY THREE

    DAY EIGHT