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Just a biomed, ma’am, just a biomed.Archive for Barix
Not Very Good
March 22, 2008 at 10:35 am · Filed under B/C, Barix, Just Me, Media, Squish
Well I guess I am already slipping pretty good at writting on here everyday. But I really want to, I just don’t want to write about me everyday. There are much more interesting things going on around the world, don’t you think? Anyways (a Philadelphia colloquialism), last night we found out that Squish’s Uncle Vince is in the Hospital because he had bleeding ulcer and they had to remove half of his stomach and part of his intestine. After that he went into kidney failure. He has had some bad medical problems in the past which make fixing him a lot harder. Not a good sign, we are praying for him.
Today I started off by watching American Chopper and Smash Labs, love both shows. Didn’t think I would like American Chopper without Vinnie but so far so good. I would still like to see the Choppers that Vinnie and Colby are designing, hopefully they will have a special or something. Smash Labs is also cool, kind of a combination of Mythbusters and Junkyard Wars. I like what I have seen thus far. After that I spent some time reading about OOP. I am really struggling with this programming, but I am still at a very rudimentary level of it, and think once I get going on it and really start using it will start coming together. What else, got an email from Barix, and they think te reply from Blue Cross will take 4 to 6 weeks, and then the ball will really start to roll. I am scared and apprehensive about getting the procedure done, but also really think it will be a great turning point for me, that and B/C coming. We went to Target last night, and got a few 1sies for B/C with a very generous gift from Sue Klein, one of our oldest family friends. Thanks Mrs. Klein! Squish is still really struggling with her morning sickness, I hope she starts to feel better soon. I can hear her getting sick as I write this. Now she will come down stairs and yell at me, got to love the mood swings! Anyway, while shopping for B/C, which I must say I initiated, I couldn’t help day dream again,a bout one day travelling with B/C and seeing the world. I hope we can really get our finances in order to do so…
Obama told Angelo Cataldi, 610AM WIP Philadelphia, that “The point I was making was not that my grandmother harbors any racial animosity, but that she is a typical white person. If she sees somebody on the street that she doesn’t know (pause) there’s a reaction in her that doesn’t go away and it comes out in the wrong way.” Can you imagine the uproar in the media if McCain said that about a black woman. Its fairly hushed, but the media isn’t biased. I am not sure what I find more offensive, the idea that Obama can’t be racist or biased because he is Black or that the media thinks that it is reporting news, not editorializing it. Strange that the whole passport thing broke shortly after the quote did, and that it initially came out that it was only Obama’s passport, and not as really happened all of the candidates. Let’s go back to my idea of the other day, no more primaries, that fixes the whole Michigan and Florida residents votes not counting, and also we may get reports on news instead of giving the media extra time to cook up new stories we are supposed to think are news.
Well thats all I have for now, now I just have to learn to force myself to write every day, as well as take photos and program.
Tramatic Monday
March 18, 2008 at 9:29 am · Filed under B/C, Barix, Just Me, Squish
So yesterday I had a consultation with Barix about getting gastric bypass. After talking to Martine for a week in Haiti, I am kind of excited about giving it a shot. I say that know that there is no turning back after doing so. I really want to start my new life with wife and baby on an upswing, really can’t get any lower on a down swing, so no choice there either. Anyway, we will see what the insurance company says, I have to get an psych eval, and also want to talk to Dr. Kautzky, knowing in advance she is not gung ho about the possibility. But diets don’t seem to work well with me, and something has got to give. Anyway, afterwords, Squish and I walked around the mall and sat in the massage chairs for our dollar’s time (3 minutes). Now I am not a huge massage fan, and infact quite wimpy to them. I hate deep massages, they are just painful and I don’t seem to get anything from them. I like the bumpy stuff on my back and the neck and legs. Now here is the tramatic stuff, the seats seem to give you a deep butt massage. Yuck, Scary prison movie stuff. Was that needed? I need my blankey!


