I’ve been back at the apartment for the weekend, catching up on things and taking advantage of a keyboard that doesn’t fit in the palm of my hand for a change, but here’s how things on the recovery front are looking for the curious. She had the IV taken out on Wednesday, and was sent home to recover on Thursday. Apparently, we all had our expectations set too low–even her, as she did a lot better with it than she expected she would be. She was in hardly any pain, and what there was of it was easily taken care of with tylenol. And even that, she’d stopped taking after about 4:00 Friday morning. She wasn’t very mobile the first couple days–hardly at all on Thursday except the necessary, and Friday only enough to keep the circulation up and going, but by Saturday she was getting around fairly easily. She’s still not allowed to do hardly anything, so I’ll be returning there later today, but by the end of the week they’re figuring she’ll be able to at least drive to the grocery store, even if she can’t actually do the physical picking up of the groceries–that’s why she’s got me over there, among other reasons. They’ve given her a timeline of roughly a month, possibly a little more than that, before she’s back to being 100% herself. Gradually, she’ll probably start doing a little more as her healing permits, which will mean I won’t be so critcally required over there after a while. Barring complications, she should be more than ready to go by Christmas, and back to work by the new year. And it’ll be back to the same old routine for me by then, with a slight variation–more on that in an entry still to come. Now, back to catching up on things.
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An update on the mommy condition.
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Capitals 5, Maple Leafs 4.
I don’t know how much more of that I can take. Once again, they did everything right. Only this time, that included scoring. Both teams played the hell out of it, and matched each other point for point in regulation. Toronto lead after a period by 1, then Washington took over 3 to 1 in the second. I half expected the thing to just end right there like that. But, hey, occasionally they’re full of surprises. They were during that game. Midway through the third, it was 4 3 toronto. Naturally that wasn’t good enough–so Washington sent us to overtime. And then a shootout. And then we flopped. Officially, 5 4 was the score for the other guys–but unofficially, we beat the hell out of them. This is the type of game I don’t mind losing. Can we keep that up for next time?
- Wins: 5
- Losses: 7
- Shootout Wins: 0
- Shootout Losses: 1
- Points: 12
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Senators 3, Maple Leafs 2.
Ok, it could have been worse. It *was* worse for most of the game. We did damn near everything right but score for most of the show. At one point, we were closing in on 200 attempts on the net without a goal over the past 3 games. Then, of course, we got 2 back while I was freezing my ass off with a couple muts of my own. But, hey, they got a couple. I should probably stop complaining. Yeah, even if we’re in Washington without Captain D. Now, maybe we can hold onto this scoring thing? That’d rule.
- Wins: 5
- Losses: 6
- Shootout Wins: 0
- Shootout Losses: 0
- Points: 11
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The NL finally wins one.
See what happens when the Yankees blow up? That needs to happen more often. Just next time, can it be the Braves? They must be due now… Shush, Steve. I don’t wanna hear it. They’re due, dammit. Now back to watching my hockey team implode.
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Small note to federal conservatives.
Hey, guys? File sharing is legal in Canada. Please to not be saying otherwise in your c-32 debate. Thanks.
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A quick mommy update.
She’s being moved to a room shortly, if she hasn’t been already. Recovery’s going better than it was earlier, though we still have no idea when she’ll be released. For the moment, though, she’s happy, healthy and in one piece, minus what they took out. More as I know it.
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Miscellaneous medical mayhem and madness.
As I made vague mention to yesterday, I’m at the parents’ place for at least the week. Sans a computer, but I’ve already pronounced the frankenputer dead or near it. What has me here is the aftermath of a major surgery. Mom went in early this morning, and as of a couple hours ago is in recovery. This, of course, results in the chaos meter going off the scale. She’s off work for at least 8 weeks while she heals. I’m probably not going to be here for the entire time, but I’ll be here.
Folks who’ve been reading a while know how things get over here. The added twist of not having a real computer will probably make things a little more interesting. in the meantime, keep an eye on my twitter as well as the blog. Updates and random bits to come. And oh yeah, go Giants!
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A small note to Emoze.
I am currently not near anything remotely resembling traditional internet access. This is not, therefore, a good time to fail. Please to be ceasing and desisting immediately.
No love, Geek with little patience tonight
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The near death of the frankenputer.
Almost ironically, on perhaps the spookiest day of the year, the computer here at the parents’ place has decided to be on life support. After about half an hour of poking around with its software workings, I’ve come to one of two theories on just how borked the system actually is. Either the thing’s video card has died, or Windows forgot it had one. In either event, I get to turn the cell phone, in all its questionable reception glory, into a poor man’s netbook. Nifty, in an oh crap kind of way. I’ll go into more detail why I’m here once I have access to a proper keyboard, but for the next week, I get to either fix or kill the frankenputer. Hey, at least if HTML didn’t break, you’ll still see hockey posts. And whatever amuses me. Now, to go see if I can’t bring the frankenputer back from the dead.
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Rangers 2, Maple Leafs 0.
Ladies and gentlemen, what we have here is a failure to score. We played the hell out of that game, and all but tore up the shot clock. Not that it helped a whole lot. Oh well, at least we didn’t suck.
- Wins: 5
- losses: 5
- Shootout Wins: 0
- Shootout Losses: 0
- Points: 11