VACATION! Whoo Hooo
I’m back in Ohio this weekend. Dang do I miss the north. PEOPLE ACTUALLY DO THINGS quickly here. It’s amazing. Purely amazing. I realize every time I’m up here how much faster things move. I’m a faster kind of guy. The deep south drives me nuts. The truely amazing thing is this (not to be mean, but this is a pretty true fact most of the time…) I can understand the black people when they talk. They actually speak english, as opposed to ghetto ebonics.
As of yesterday I’m officially 23. Heh, it’s sorta depressing. The only thing I’ve got to show for it is about another 8lbs of flab, and 7 or 8 inches of hair… and a lot of hair that’s fallen out. I got my bottom retainer out of my mouth too. For the first time in about eight years, I can feel the back of my bottom teeth with my tounge, rather than a tounge-shredder. I can chew gum without it getting stuck to anything in my mouth! Finally! Oh, and I can brush the buggers right for a change.
Today I was hoping to get ahold of an old friend, but didn’t manage to do it for a lack of time. I had to cut the grass and roto-till my grandparents garden. Grandpa just had surgery on Weds, so he’s in no shape to be doing that, regardless of how he says he feels. He’s got about a 3 inch cut in his neck and he’s acting like it’s a mosquito bite. Not that that’s a bad thing, it’s just he ought to at least take it easy a few days before going back at it like he always does. If we didn’t ride him to not over-do it, he’d have raked out the low spots. Shoot, he asked me to let him to a strip with the tiller. No bloody way. That things a beastly old Massey-Ferguson from the late 70’s. It probably weighs close to 150lbs.
Anyhow, it’s been a good break. In the airports / on the plane I started a new patch to fix a long-standing design flaw in the BeOS AWT. It was my mistake to begin with, so I’d better fix it.
October 2nd, 2004 at 3:10 am
Good thing you got some done on the AWT; everyone’s watching you ;)
Also, congrats on your 23rd birthday! This means you’re almost exactly 1 year and 2 weeks older than I am.
What was it your grandpa has done? Something about a cut, did he accidenly fork()? :)
October 5th, 2004 at 2:04 pm
Thanks Mikael!
It’s not done… I started the patch, I need to finish it. It’s um… well… totally broken right now. Heh. It shouldn’t take but a bit (maybe an hour, total) to get it all working again.
My grandfather has a reoccurance of thyroid cancer. He had surgery on his neck last Weds. to remove a lump of cancer. They found two smaller lumps and removed them as well. The good news that came out of it was that it is thyroid cancer. As I’m told, it’s highly treatable. I assume this is true, considering he was first diagnosed with thyroid cancer something like fourteen years ago. Apparently, it’s a very rare occasion that anyone dies from thyroid cancer.
The bad news is, it seems to run in that side of the family. Not only does my grandfather have it, but my aunt (his daughter) was recently diagnosed with it.
I tell ya, my Grandpa makes retirement look really darn nice. He’s always busy doing something, and goes stir crazy when he’s not allowed to do things. :-)