Liz and I woke up early this morning, and made our way down to Frankfort for a dentist appointment. She goes to see Dr. Alan J. Heath, a family dentist that she’s been seeing… well, ever since she was little. She’s never been to another dentist besides him. And now me, I’m seeing him too….
A bunch of folks came over tonight, to help celebrate Lisa and James’ (albeit) brief return to Chicago. They’re back in town for a wedding, and it’s the first time I’ve seen James since the wedding. Everyone gathered at our place, and Jake really did most (if not all) of the cooking and food prep….
I took the day off work today, to go with Liz to scout out a possible wedding reception location. Today we had an appointment to meet with someone from the Lincoln Park Zoo, to talk about different spots, pricing, rules, etc. I didn’t take too many photos, but we did a fair amount of wandering…
So a brief update on my wrist. After my MRI last week, I went back today to meet with Dr. Wiedrich to discuss the MRI images. Reviewing the results, there’s definitely a tear… and a lot of fluid built up. Other than that, everything else looks fine. But the fluid build-up may be part of…
Ben, in his pursuit to become, like, the BEST_TROPHY_FINDER_EVER… has outdone himself. He’s starting up a Rock Paper Scissors tourney at the office, with a $2 entry fee. Winner gets $20, bragging rights, and… you guessed it: a nice, fancy trophy. We’ve had a good history of trophies at the company (The Lord and Master…
Lisa is in town, visiting this week… and tonight we had plans to meet up with her for dinner. Liz was hanging out with her during the late afternoon, and a surprise turned up: Jake got a hold of some Cubs tickets. He was only able to land three, so the three of them headed…
Last week, Liz got some pretty good news in the mail. A while back, she put in an application for a graduate assistantship… and recently learned that she got awarded one of the 2 or 3 available. She wasn’t told how many others applied, only that there were a good number of other applicants. The…
Today, I was re-arranging some of the electronics on the TV stand. We saw that the DVD player we purchased also plays CDs… so we decided to sell Liz’s 5-Disc CD changer on Craigslist. A long while back, I’m not sure exactly how… but I became the owner/guardian of Ben’s record player. I think that…
A big shopping day today. Liz and I were out for most of the afternoon, hitting the stores around North Avenue and Clybourn (we made sure to be careful about where we parked). Lots of clothes shopping, and also stopped in to Best Buy to get a few electronics. I got a new Sony DVD…
I wasted spent the bulk of my day playing the recently released Penny Arcade game “On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness: Episode One.” And let me say… time well spent. It definitely feels like you’re in the comic, and that in and of itself is worth the price of admission for me. There’s lots of…
After getting Parallels running well on my iMac at work… I was able to fire up the CD that contains the MRI scans of my wrist. There were a lot of different data files (maybe 12-15 total), and this was one of them I was able to fire up. Your guess… is as good as…
I’m a big fan of an online comic called Penny Arcade. While I have a love of video games, I’m not sure I necessarily classify in the “gamer” category. The jokes and subject matter on PA often contain references to games that only die-hard gamers might catch. Even though I get only about 50% of…
Today, I went back in to the Chicago Center for Surgery of the Hand. I was scheduled for an MRI, so that a closer inspection could be done on my wrist. On arriving in the MRI room, I was told to remove all metallic objects and to place them in a secure locker. I’ve heard…
This is a pretty fantastic mixture of machines and paint. Man – now I want to build my own vibrobots, and give this a whirl. [via]
Sooo…. remember when I hurt my hand back in December, and didn’t go check things out until January? Well, the problems have been persistent since that time, and I just sort of thought “it’ll get better on its own, eventually” and more or less ignored it. For like, four months. While I did see some…