30 thoughts on “February 4, 2012: Folly Beach”

  2. So, Doc removed two polyps (5mm and 8mm), so I have to go on the 5yr plan instead of the 10yr plan 🙁

    The prep work was a damn nuisance, but not as bad as everyone warned. I had a bit of hospital anxiety, but not bad. I'm not a fan of needles, but I tolerate them, particularly when no blood is involved. That said, the RN didn't find the vein in my hand, so they had to try a second time, inside my forearm. 🙁 And THAT said, the most painful thing from the entire procedure was removing the tape from my arm hair.

    I remember chuckling at my wife when she had hers a few years back and was pretty loopy coming out of the anesthesia. Well, this was my turn to shine, apparently.

    All told, it's a tolerable experience. Like I tell people regarding medical screenings, you don't have to like it, you just have to do it.

    1. glad to hear that it was largely a clean sweep. And thanks for advocating for this important plumbing maintenance work.

      1. My anesthesia experience was pretty similar when I had mine a couple years ago. Apparently Mrs. Hayes had to gently but firmly tell me I was not driving home, and then listen to a fairly extensive, but mainly one-sided, discussion of the cardiovascular system.

        I'm glad you had a pretty good report, Rhu.

    2. As I was being put under for my wisdom teeth extraction a few years back, just before I was out completely I double and triple checked with the nurse to make sure my O2 sats were OK.

      1. Apparently I kept going over the list of songs that were played while waiting for the doctor, which is interesting because it was the last thing before going under that I was going to try and remember.

        I have never woken up as refreshed from sleep as I did from having my wisdom teeth removed, and this time wasn't much different. I feel sorry for the many people who have nausea and other issues with anesthesia.

  3. Race went ok, but not quite as well as I had hoped. I was hoping to break a 10 min/mile pace, but didn't quite make it. Unfortunately, it got pretty hot near the end and I decided to wear long sleeves. Oops. Around mile 12 I died and had to walk. Still made it in about 2:13, even with the walking, so that's not too bad.

  4. So after a week of temps in the 50's & 60's we finally received our first real snow of the winter here in Omaha. Just finished blowing 6"-7" of wet, heavy snow.

  5. it's official: google is awesome.


    (this is a screenshot from my computer; try it if you don't believe me.)

  6. One of my two favorite Polish poets, Wisława Szymborska, dead at 88 (the other being Czesław Miłosz).

    Many years ago, I copied this piece of hers into my journal:

    Interview With A Child

    The master hasn't been among us long.
    That's why he lurks in every corner.
    He covers his face with his hands and looks through the gap
    Standing, forehead to the wall, he suddenly turns.

    The master rejects in disgust the absurd thought
    That a table lost from sight has to remain a table
    That the chair behind his back stays within the boundaries of a chair.
    Without even trying to take advantage of the situation.

    True, it's hard to catch the world in its otherness
    The apple tree returns to the window just before the eyes blink.
    The rainbow-colored sparrows always darken right on time.
    The handle, the pitcher's ear, will catch any murmur.
    The nighttime closet feigns the passivity of the daytime closet.

    A drawer tries to convince the master
    That all that's in there is what was put in earlier.
    Even when a book of fairy tales is suddenly opened,
    The princess always makes it to the seat in the picture.

    They sense a new comer in me - the master sighs -
    They don't want to let a stranger play with them.
    But how come everything that exists is forced to exist in only one way
    In a horrible situation, with no exit from itself,
    Without a break of change of pace?
    In the humble here-to-there? A fly in a fly's trap?
    A mouse in a mouse's snare?
    A dog never turned loose from a concealed chain?
    A fire, without the nerve to be anything else but burn the master's trusting finger for the second time?

    Is this the ultimate world:
    Scattered wealth, impossible to gather,
    Useless splendor, forbidden possibility?

    No - the master shouts and stomps with as many feet as he has at his disposal
    - in such enormous despair - that even the six legs of the cricket would not suffice.

  7. Curtis Martin is now in the Pro Football Hall of Fame and Cris Carter is not. Say what?

      1. Just goes to show how impossible it is to attain a sports greatest honor with such a one dimensional game.

  8. 'Duck Soup' is on the MeTV channel Comcast added a few weeks back. the rest of my night is set. I kind of dig that channel, they show old 50s, 60, ans 70s programming. Ive been hooked on 'Hawaii 5-0'

  9. So the wife and I are sitting in the labor ward after she went into preterm labor. It looks like it's stopped for now, but man, sitting in a hospital room for 4 hours was really not on my plans for this morning.

    2. Ugh. We didn't do that once with the girl (first born), but we made 3 different trips to the maternity ward with the boy. Sucks. Hopefully they don't make your wife feel bad about it.

      2. Alls well for now. The wife got a few pills to stop the contractions and after they were effective, we were released. They didn't make her feel bad at all. The midwife said that we'd done exactly the right thing, so that was nice.

      3. fourth pregnancy and it hasn't happened yet. If it happens at this point, it's not preterm, just labor.

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