My surgical biopsy went well yesterday. I remember getting wheeled into the surgery room, sliding onto the bed for surgery, getting a warm blanket put on my lower body, and then the anesthesia fully kicked in and I was out and woke up afterwards in a recovery room. My neck is still a bit sore, and I …
Author Archives: Luke
You may want to sit down for this one
OK. So. I’m going to keep this short and to the point for now. I found a lump on my neck. It is not good. It is lymphoma. It’s not noticeable if I’m wearing shirt, but yeah, it’s not exactly hiding out either: Last Monday I went to the doctor to get it checked out. …
Shredded
‘My bones are ringing the way sometimes people say their ears are ringing, I’m so tired.’ ‘I’m waiting til the last possible second to even breathe. I’m not expanding the cage till driven by necessity of air.’ ‘So tired it’s out of tired‘s word-range,’ Pemulis says. ‘Tired just doesn’t do it.’ Exhausted, shot, depleted,’ says …
Unpacking is always easier
I’m back from a week in the Smoky Mountains, which was both relaxing in the “sitting around a campfire all night drinking beer” way, and strenuous in the “let’s hike 30 miles during the week, half of which will be directly up a mountainside” way. I made some rookie mistakes regarding my photography throughout the …
I’m fairly certain it will be cold forever
Tell me what the biggest flaw with this photo is.
Urban Planning
My urban planning experiences are confined to hours engulfed in SimCity (the original, 2000, and 3000 (by SimCity 4 I realized I had an addiction and had to quit)), and staring at maps playing “land developer” in my head to most efficiently carve out swaths of land. There are, of course, the numerous flagrant fouls …
It’s still snowing
Protip: When your brakes start squeaking and leaving metallic shavings on your wheel, they might be a little past their useful life. Stopping power = good. Down-shifting like mad to slow down = bad.
Michigan Winter Beer Fest
Yesterday was the Michigan Winter Beer Festival, which was definitely held in winter-like weather at the parking lot next to Fifth Third Ballpark. Plans to go only came together in the last week, because tickets sold out in January, so I was elated to walk in with a complimentary ticket and a DD to take …
Promoted
I got a promotion today. Sort of. So did everyone else. All of the engineers in our department got switched to salaried positions, whereas before we were paid hourly. This included a pay raise to compensate for the fact that we wouldn’t be getting time-and-a-half pay for working all those overtime hours anymore, and new …
My Guaranteed* Weight Loss Plan
(*or your money back) Not a day goes by where I’m not painfully reminded of the slipping collective health of our nation, and so after thumbing through another diet book someone was reading to see what kind of advice was actually included, I thought I could do a better job in one post than in …