OK the host I’m with has/had some technical issues. I lost a couple of posts because I haven’t backed up in the last few days. Totally my fault. I’ll post more later when things settle down.
My MIL got me the coolest thing for my birthday. A doublecereal dispenser. How cool is that! I personally think Frosted Flakes should be a food group all their own. I have had a pretty good birthday this year. Usually it sucks this close after Christmas. Everybody’s tired of celebrating; they really just want to stay home and sit like slugs on the couch, myself included. This usually translates to a crappy birthday, two weeks after Christmas, trust me.
This year was different for some reason, all I asked for was “lawyers, guns and money.” I got money, well… in the form of Best Buy bucks. I still don’t know what the hell I’m going to get with them though. Music has sucked for ten or more years now, and movies are just as bad. I have several games I want, but I don’t want to be stuck in the other room with my gaming PC, away from my family. I’d love an XBox but would rather get an PS3 if I’m getting a console. It’s quite a quandary, I tell ya. I just dont know. 
If it isn’t known, Elvis was born on January 8, 1935. Its always good to know these things.
Well, I’ve already missed one resolution: that is to post at least twice a week, oops. With the family issues and getting back in the saddle with work after a week off, it’s been a tiring week. I did JUST get some good news about my granddad. Apparently when he got his test results from after his chemo treatment they were read by his GP (general physician). His GP is not qualified (read: doesn’t have a fuckin clue) how to read oncology reports, but that didnt stop him from trying and sending the old man a letter of doom on Dec 23rd. Evidently the group that sent the test results errantly sent them to the GP as well as to the oncology doc. The latter told us today that the GP was wrong and that he didn’t want to see my granddad for 6 months. The report actually showed that for an 81 year old man, he was in very good shape after a lung removal and chemo for half a year. Hell, the old man was cutting his yard 3 weeks after the surgery to have a lung removed.
MIL will be leaving on Sunday after a week of visiting. I don’t mind her being here. She is actually good company. I just don’t like the forced celibacy. Tense is afraid of being heard, which I understand with company in the house. I’d still love to get cuddled up behind her and help relieve some of her tension. I may even get a hand myself with my own tension. If not, my Tense had better not get on top when we finally do connect ‘cause she may just end up on the moon.
Christmas was pretty good. Tense gave me a PSP which has garnered most of my time. It’s one cool geeky toy, I gotta tell ya. Littleone, of course, got most of what she wanted. Well, except for the four wheeler… She’s only 5 (although I’m sure that doesn’t stop some parents). I got my Tense some jewelry that she wanted. I don’t, however, buy her jewelry much, and I fretted about it until she opened it and I saw her face. I have a problem with waiting for people to open presents I get for them; I want them to open them NOW! That pisses off Tense to no end. I gave her the present on Christmas Eve so she could enjoy it that night for the church candlelight service. I had to fight her to take it though. Anybody else out there have that problem?
Miss Ann helped me to understand how the templates in Expression Engine work, so when I can tear myself away from playing with my PSP, I will be doing some work on the site. I hope to make at least a template change or get my blogroll to work the way I want it to instead of going to my Blogger site to go through my blog roll. Also I want to work out the private vs. public posting thing. Miss Ann, again, was kind enough to send me some instructions in order to do it; I just have to set it up. I will cross out items in the sticky post as I get them done.
On a different note, we got bad new from my Granddad’s post-chemo tests, but he hasn’t seen a doc to talk it over yet. Apparently, cancer has spread to his lymph nodes from his lungs. He has been on chemo for the last few months, but it is not certain he will continue the treatments. We won’t know until he speaks to the doc. Then, Mom is having her thyroid removed on the 21st of Jan. She’s had tumors removed from her ear canal and auditory nerve, and I think this is a by-product of the same problem in her. Also my great uncle is having a colonoscopy done to check for a possible cancer problem. The new year is NOT looking good at this point. I hope I am completely wrong.
It’s been a little while since I’ve had much to say; well, that’s all changed.
First, I hate to sound like everybody else you might read out there, but I am really not into this Christmas season. I think I’d just as soon not go through it at all. I am really trying to get the spirit of the season (to throw a cliche out there). So far it’s not working…
Secondly my wife’s step-grandfather’s father (whew) passed away this morning, so now on top of everything else, we have a visitation to go to tomorrow. I gotta tell you, this is not helping my attitude. It sucks. I got to thinking about my grandfather and really got depressed there for a while. If you don’t know, he had a lung removed ealier this year after a malignant tumor was found. It was supposed to have only been a lobe of the left lung, but when they got into his chest, they found tumors all through the lung… So they removed the whole lung. Now I have found out he is having the same cough and symptoms he had at the beginning of the year. He has been on a chemo round for three months and is going in tomorow for his six month checkup after the surgery. I hope for my littleone’s sake, he is doing better than it seems.
Third, work really sucks. We are supposed to have six people working. We have two - myself and one other person to fix around one hundred and fifty problem calls (on average) apiece. Not to mention the e-mail “what do you think” or “this piece of software won’t work like I think it should.” The people I work for (admin) have to be shown how to go to the file>exit to get out of a program. These are the people questioning (telling) the developers (Microsoft) that their program does not work correctly. I got my five year pin last week, and for the first time in five years I want to look for another job. I am extremely loyal to both friends and my employers. So I hate feeling like I do about work.
I had hoped to have a lot of things working on this site by now. All I have is a few different smilies. I suck. But, I found the dancing banana, and that makes it all worthwhile. 
He always makes me smile.
