Now... no mo pneumo?

As I know all of my regular readers already know, I had to go in for lung surgery again on February 15, 2006. When I went in for my checkup, they determined that I had another Pneumothorax... this is bad because the last surgery was supposed to stop them. They called me in for immediate surgery. This time it wasn't the fun la-dee-da cameras through small holes surgery, it was the more serious old-fashoned open me up surgery. Thank you all of my friends for the love and support you have shown with the previous surgery, and this one in particular.

You all are the best.
-Mr. Bento

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A Post-Post note: Oh, by the by, the way you comment on this blog template is by clicking either on the title or on the number next to the title.
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A Post-Post-Post note: One more thing, you'll notice a few new links on my sidebar (by the way, "no" is the japanese particle for " 's " ). Portable Apps is a handy collection of PC applications which can be run directly from a jump drive at any PC location. Its very handy for having all of your stuff with you at the same time. BugMeNot is a handy thing I found recently on the internet. It gives you names and passwords for "compulsory registration" websites, which basically means that you can access websites like the New York Times (and hundreds of others) without getting spam in your email inbox... or having to give them a password. Pretty cool eh?

Poetry Schmoetry

I worked for a while today on my new template (K1 Black), so I figured I should christen it with a post. For the record, that's The Cheat from Homestar Runner, and Flexo, Bender's slightly less evil twin from Futurama. Speaking of Futurama, Adult Swim told me the other day that they're talking about making new Futurama episodes on DVD... which is fricking sweet. (This Futurama fansite mentions the same announcement.)It's not a return to TV... yet... but it's a step in the right direction. So everyone do your part and buy the Futurama DVDs as soon as they hit the shelf! You'll be doing me and the three other Futurama fans out there a big favor.

I wanted to finish with a bit of poetry. No not my own, I got the idea from Rob to just copy someone elses. Wandering the web, I found a picture of Data's cat "Spot." She really looks a lot like Janelle's cat Sammy to me. But anyway, I also found Data's poem "An Ode to Spot" which I thought was hilarious. I hope you do too.


An Ode to Spot

Felis Cattus, is your taxonomic nomenclature,
an endothermic quadruped carnivorous by nature?
Your visual, olfactory and auditory senses
contribute to your hunting skills, and natural defenses.

I find myself intrigued by your subvocal oscillations,
a singular development of cat communications
that obviates your basic hedonistic predilection
for a rhythmic stroking of your fur, to demonstrate affection.

A tail is quite essential for your acrobatic talents;
you would not be so agile if you lacked its counterbalance.
And when not being utilized to aide in locomotion,
it often serves to illustrate the state of your emotion.

O Spot, the complex levels of behaviour you display
connote a fairly well-developed cognitive array.
And though you are not sentient, Spot, and do not comprehend,
I nonetheless consider you a true and valued friend.

Peace out my friends, and word to your respective mothers!

No mo pneumo!

Well it's been a month since I've posted and for good reason. I've been into and out of the hospital. I've got no more Pneumothorax, and though I'm still recovering, I'm feeling pretty well. It still hurts when I breathe really deeply with a yawn or sneeze, but at least I can yawn now. Work's been pretty nice and are allowing me to go in half days as I recover (well technically I could take entire days off, but I'd like to leave a few vacation days for our anniversary in April).

I'm watching Grey's Anatomy right now with Janelle, it seems to be an interesting show... at least an interesting episode. I like watching tv with her, it's pretty fun. We should do this more often, if only there were more quality shows to watch. Well, we do have the tivo-like "Windows Media Center," I guess we could record good shows to watch, we just need to know which ones to record. Any recommendations? I'm currently just recording The Daily Show and The Colbert Report, Futurama and Stargate SG1.

In other news, I'm very interested in watching news from the Middle East with Hamas in power, and Ariel Sharon out of commission. Amazing the stuff that can happen in one month, I wish I'd thought to bring a radio to the hospital so I could have listened to NPR. Or at least have had a newspaper. A real newspaper of course, the local newspaper sucks... as does local tv news (which we're currently watching). Why does local news suck so much?! They just said "the future of hollywood is just down the road". Hurrah, we should stay in Tallahassee for the rest of our lives.

Well it's getting late, I should get to bed. Peace out my friends, and word to your respective mothers!

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A Post-Post Note: I almost forgot! I've got a goatee! I was in the hospital for two weeks, and when I got out, I just decided not to shave off the middle. So it turns out I'm the evil Adam from an alternate universe! It's fun, though I don't know how long it will last.