Monday, August 02, 2010
Murray is gone and the wave of grief is pounding me now since the service ended and I returned back to the tri-state from western NY. I'd like to say that I'll be posting some great stuff soon but I think it'll be a while before I can post his work for others dispassionately.

Tuesday, June 29, 2010
So I forgot to renew my domain registration...obviously the site is back up. Tuzik is doing well and is ~45 pounds now. When I get some time I'll type up an update on my paralyzed hand. In short I should get all movement back but it could take months and possibly years.

Monday, May 24, 2010
Tuzik is beginning another growth spurt. Two days ago he couldn't go down the stairs on the deck. Today he bounded down them at full speed.
Growth Charting
6 weeks ago
two days ago

Tuesday, May 18, 2010
I'm back home now after my trip to Philly to have my old buddy, now dentist, give my teeth the attention they deserve. Tuzik has nearly trippled his weight in 23 days. He now rests at 20 pounds.

Friday, May 07, 2010
Lil' Tuzik is settling in nicely. He and Laika are now playing a lot and she tires him out which is a good thing. He's growing like a weed. I got him just two weeks ago at 7.5 pounds....he's at 14.6 now. Potty training is going well. He has managed to hold it the last three days for when I get home and when we get up in the morning. I hadn't expected this type of control would come for months. He still 'mouths' everything including me and I haven't been able to curb that yet. I need that to stop soon because it won't be long before that does real damage. Here's some new charting of his growth. I need to clean this up a bit but here's the quick and dirty version.

Friday, April 23, 2010
The little baby is now home safe and sound. Soooooo tiny and cute. Need to take him to the pet store tomorrow to get him a collar and some chew toys.

Sunday, April 18, 2010
Five days to go before the new baby arrives! I'll post pics as soon as I can.

Thursday, April 08, 2010
The new puppy arrives in about ten days. I'm really excited. Laika doesn't know what's up yet but I think she senses that things are about to change. I've been re-arranging the house all week in preparation.

Monday, April 05, 2010
Long time no update. Just got back from Batavia. Had a great time with the Morrow clan again. We got our travel arrangements squared away for the trip to Avon as well I learned more info on the missionary trip to Honduras in November. Both trips will be weeks full of adventure and fun.

Opening day was last night. The Bombers lost but it's early. I'm very thankful that it's pinstripes season again finally.

In home news, my application for a new puppy to keep Laika happy has been approved. I'm just waiting on a shipping date for him. It'll be a big adjustment for mom on trips home but I'm sure if I handle it right she'll come around when it's full grown.

Sunday, March 14, 2010
Exciting news this time -- I got us a boat for the beach trip. We're going out to the Gulf Stream for the first time to catch some of the big fish. I've chartered us a full day of fishing that Wednesday on the Godspeed. It's a perfect fit for this group of guys. http://www.godspeedcharters.com/Godspeed/. We'll be in Avon from July 17 through the 24th. If anyone else is going to be in the banks, let me know.

Sunday, March 07, 2010
WOOT! My cousin Jess and her husband Phil invited me to go on vacation with them this summer mid-July. Of all the places they could have picked, they picked my favorite beach -- the outer banks of North Carolina. We've got a beautiful place in Avon for a week. I'm so psyched to get back to my second home again for the first time in nearly 15 years.

In other news, I have my orientation meeting to coach a local kids soccer team next Thursday. That should be quite the experience.

Oh, also, I haven't mentioned it yet but I'm going to Honduras with Phil and Jess in November to do missionary work. We'll be visiting villages and distributing food, clothing and medicine.

Monday, March 01, 2010
I'm approaching the completion of week two with the cpap a-flex machine and mask. So far things have been better even though i wake up with it off of my face. I've been able to sleep through the nights and not have my throat and palette rubbed completely raw. The humidifier in it has been wonderful. Now that the body is catching up on years of lost sleep I find that I want to be in bed all day.

Thursday, February 18, 2010
After the first night with the cpap, I finally slept through an entire night for the first time in a long, long time. As awkward as it is, this may be a win long-term.

Wednesday, February 17, 2010
I picked up my cpap today. Looks like I got the Cadillac of cpap machines. The thing has humidifier and is absolutely silent. I'm actually kinda looking forward to my first night with it after how bad the last couple years have been and in particular, the last month or two. Granted I won't exactly be breaking this thing out on first date stay-overs but if it works I'll be truly thankful.

Thursday, February 11, 2010
I got the call today. I'm going to pick up my cpap machine next wednesday. On a bad note, my mail box has decided to give up the ghost and rust through completely. It's now just resting on the pole and isn't attached to it in any way. I really wasn't expecting to have to do any mailbox maintainence this weekend.

Tuesday, February 09, 2010
Nose pillows...euphemism of the year award winner for that one. So I had my hospital visit today and tried out the nose pillow mask. It's the most comfortable of all the options and I should be getting my cpap machine this week. The phrase nose pillows aside, it really isn't too bad compared to the other ones. Hopefully this is the answer for getting my brain the rest it needs.

Sunday, February 07, 2010
I've got an appt. with the respiratory therapist Tuesday. Apparently, I HAVE to get the stupid mask and machine before they can switch me over to the mouthpiece.

Wednesday, February 03, 2010
Well, another episode last night. Woke up on the floor of my laundry room ie. the freezing basement. My palatte is completely raw from snoring so much so that I've thrown up twice today from gag reflex. I guess I decided to do laundry in my sleep. That's a new one. Lord knows what else I did. Stayed home today. Going up to the hospital to meet with the doctor again about the cpap test and moving on to the mouthpiece asap. Living like this sucks.

Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Monday, January 04, 2010
I'm back from attending Lacey's wedding in Batavia. It was a great time for all of us in the fam and one of the best I've had in many years of going to the homeland. Thursday I go back to the hospital for another sleep over study only this time I'll have the CPAP attached. Sounds like a big bag of no fun to be honest.

Tuesday, December 15, 2009
For those of you keeping score, here's the email I sent out today to the folks in the office and those not on FB. so here's the mass email update on the hospital visit. i'm going back on the night of the 22nd for the sleep study. they're going to wire me up to all kinds of monitoring devices -- brainwaves, heart rate, breathing, oxygen level, and so on. after that i have a follow-up on the 6th. as far as the eval went, apparently i'm not going batshit crazy. everything is in-line with sleep apnea. this along with the occassional GERD symptom nights creates the main side affect of which is what he kept calling 'pressured sleep' ie. the body knows it's tired and tries to force me to sleep all the time. in turn that causes the side-effect of sleep talk and walking, irritability, memory loss, confusion. the doc wants to see if we can verify the apnea and then knock that out to stop the chain. and he did say that all the walking was nothing he hasn't heard before and that driving isn't out of the realm of possibility. in the end, if you've run into me in the hall, asked how i was, and i responded 'tired' we now know why. or at least, very likely why. yup, i'm exhausted all the time. on one of the numerical score questions in the paperwork, i scored a 14 when anything approaching ten indicates a constant state of sleep deprivation. he wants to try to fix the problem with any method other than the last resort of benzoblahblahiates (valium et al). in the end, the real loser is of course, poor poor laikababy who will have to go an entire night without me! :P

Tuesday, December 08, 2009
Definitely a weird week so far. I had to do delete about 2/3 of the people in my facebook friends list that I rarely see or hear from so I could get all of the relevant posts from those that I do hear from. There have been hurt feelings from this action but I really intended no harm. Maybe that will lessen over time.[facebook seems to have a limit on how many people it will post updates for in your list...trying to figure out what the story is]

In light of a recent hit on the site, I have to admit that I'm missing the daily chats I had with someone special. Not sure why she's checking things out but I miss the nightly chats nonetheless.

Sunday, December 06, 2009
Just sent off an email to an old friend for some help in getting me in contact with someone in Hollywood. Hopefully he won't blow it off but I can't really blame him if he does. Now I wait. . .

Thursday, December 03, 2009
I've got my appointment with Danbury Hospital set now for the 15th. Work has been moving along nicely. I finished some code today that will make the rest of my project pretty much a cakewalk. I'm watching the Yankeeography on The Boss...really interesting.

Saturday, November 28, 2009
I'm back from Vienna, VA. Spent a good while with the old people on Thanksgiving and then had fun meeting up with a friend I haven't seen in 20 years. She and I have been through very similar experiences in the last few years. It was so comforting to find that at least one other person gets what I've been dealing with without having to say much.

Later this coming week I'm headed to Danbury Hospital's Sleep Disorder department for testing of some sort for my increasingly bad sleepwalking. Hopefully they'll be able to help.

Thursday, November 19, 2009
Well the Stacey date didn't go very well on my end or hers. Moving on...Saturday/Sunday I'm headed to Philly to watch an old friend run the marathon.

Friday, November 06, 2009
Tomorrow I'm headed to Hartford to see my first heavyweight fight with a friend from work and his buddy. You can watch the bout on HBO Boxing After Dark for free. Let's Get Ready to RUMBLEEEEEEEEEE!!! Sunday I'm headed down to Stamford to meet Stacey. Hopefully that goes well.

Wednesday, November 04, 2009

Monday, November 02, 2009
BAH! we're headed back to the bronx. . .

Sunday, November 01, 2009
27 outs to go

Saturday, October 31, 2009

Thursday, October 29, 2009

Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Sunday, October 25, 2009
7 down, 4 to go

Thursday, October 22, 2009

Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Monday, October 19, 2009

Saturday, October 17, 2009
Just got back from the Bronx around 3:30am. Took my cousin Jason to his first game at either Yankee Stadium and it turned out to be a dandy. Until tonight, all Yankees games he'd seen were road games in the vicinity of Buffalo. So, his first game in the Bronx was a walk off in the bottom of the 13th of the American League Championship Series. We had a great time and the weather gods were kind to us. It was supposed to rain and shower all day but we didn't get any rain at all until about the 9th and it ended around the 11th inning. It was chilly but not brutally cold. My cousin got to see the museum, monument park, the roll call, and a hell of a lot of good, great, and terrible baseball all in one night.

Friday, October 16, 2009

Sunday, October 11, 2009

Saturday, October 10, 2009
Nothing on tv today other than Young Guns. Haven't seen this in years. Weird.

Friday, October 09, 2009

Wednesday, October 07, 2009

Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Today's Word of the Day: Really?!? really

Also, honey extraction went well this weekend. The girls managed to deliver 22 bottles that I'll be giving out at work, to fam & friends. You can see some quick pics here: honey

Wednesday, September 16, 2009
My honey extractor setup is on its way finally. By visual estimate I'm going to say I have about 20-30 pounds worth this year which is pretty good considering how bad this summer has been weather-wise. If you want a jar of bottled honey let me know.

Friday, September 11, 2009
2722 & 2723 woot! just got back from the game at 1:25 after leaving as the end o' top of the 5th made it an official game. got home in time to see the last 4 outs after the game went into rain delay again while i was on the train. the place went nuts in the 3rd with jeter's first hit & then later got to meet up with my friends from work for a little bit before taking off. also met some great guys from NY.

Long before the game started I set up camp near first base. As the rain delay dragged on there were a few guys that also joined in. Eventually one asked me about how to set up his camera to get a good shot. I did my best to help out and long story short, had a great time chatting with him and then eventually his son who also happens to be a law man.

I don't know if i bored them with camera minutia or not but we talked photography and yankees. Good stuff. I knew when Jeter came up to bat everyone would stand up and block our view/shots which did indeed happen. However, to our right was a platform set up for the press photogs that was empty. Ushers had been shewing people out of standing on it for a while but when Jeter took to the plate, an NYC officer showed up. A flash of the badge by my new fellow fans and we were up on it. Jetes didn't get the hit in the first inning but he did in the third and we were up on the platform to get the pics. I think my new fan buddy got a better pic than i did as he got the ball in the shot...all i got was the swing. My fail is further compounded by the fact that at a point before his at-bat in the first, I turned off auto-focus. fortunately, i had it set ideally for first base. I got the shots although they weren't ideal.

In the end, it was a great night. We all got to see some really great baseball history. Rain? No one seemed to care. There were 46 thousand on hand to see Jeter take the next step.

Wednesday, September 09, 2009
Tonight I got to take an old friend whom I haven't seen in 20 years to a Yankees game. We had a good time although most of the entertainment was provided by the people who sat around us rather than the blowout win of a game.