A semi-daily journal of my routines and what I perceive of things going on around me.
My voice is starting to return slowly, only half of my words are garbled now. I went to the doctor yesterday and confirmed that I do indeed have a sinus infection and possibly an ear infection, so I got some wonderful meds. So far so good, I’m less congested and feel like I’ll be as good as new by the weekend. Whoopie!
-richard out
I don’t know what the hell is going on, yesterday I was feeling better, but took one more night off to get some rest, and guess what? When I woke, I was worse than I had been all week. My throat feels like sandpaper was rubbed all over it, my ears are pounding from all the crap that’s probably in my ear canals, my sinuses feel like they’re gonna burst and I can’t talk. I mean I literally can’t talk. I mouth the words but only a whisper comes out. Blah I say, blah!
-richard out
Two days later and I’m still all messed up. My throat is extremely sore and it hurts to talk. The headaches are nearly gone at least and I’m not having problems sleeping now. I already missed the last two nights of work, and it’s not looking good for tonight. If that’s the case, I should almost definitely be back for tomorrow night.
-richard out
Figured I’d take a this chance to make a post since it’s been a week or so. I went to bed this morning feeling great, maybe a bit tired, but that’s it. I woke up about 2-3 hours later and couldn’t hardly breathe and I had a horrible headache. I took some generic Day-Quil which helped drain my sinuses, but I still feel like total and utter crap. Usually when I feel like this, it’s the onset of a sinus infection. *Sigh*
-richard out
Here’s a link to a photo from earlier today after the haircut, enjoy!
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So I got a haircut today. I literally haven’t gotten my hair cut since last September, I think. Maybe I link a picture of the new dew tonight, could be fun times involved. Having your bangs reach your chin kinda sucks, your hair becomes impossible to handle and starts looking like complete crap. I guess I never really cared because I’m not trying to impress anyone at the moment, working on the night shift and all.
-richard out
My FF XI group finally drug an old RTCW/ET pal of ours into the game, shake! Shake also played some Neverwinter Nights with us back in the day, so he should be a fun addition. While I’m on the topic of FF XI, it’s a little eerie at how easy it is to find yourself still sitting in front of the monitor four hours later and you haven’t really accomplished much.. this has only happened once or twice, but sometimes that’s what happens in games you get caught up in.
-richard out
I tend to watch Sportscenter whenever I get home from work, during that 40-50 minute period when I’m sitting with my brother waiting for his work van to arrive, and something that has been a main focus lately has been the LA Lakers. With Shaq demanding a trade, Kobe being a jackass and the team looking for a new coach because Kobe didn’t like Phil Jackson. I want to center in on Kobe for a second, since he seems to think everything should and does revolve around him. I can’t see how anyone would ever want to root for this guy. Lets ignore his off the court actions for a second, on the court, he is a ball hog. He doesn’t make his teammates better, if he has an off night his team might very well lose the game. The guy takes more bad shots in one game than an entire high school team combined. Now combine this with how he is controlling the way the Lakers are operating. I’m surprised they were able to hire any coach at all, I wouldn’t want to deal with this guy. I hope for Shaq’s sake he gets that trade, hopefully to Dallas, I’d love to see Dallas beat up on LA for the next couple of seasons.
On a side note, Farscape is getting a second chance to finish up its story line. If any of you didn’t follow that show at all, you may not realize how Sci-fi cancelled the show after the filming of season 4 had wrapped up. Truly a horrible thing to do to a show that had a plot that continued from season to season. So all of us fans were left staring at the screen when the season finale was over wondering wtf we just saw considering it was likely the last Farscape episode we’d ever see again. The word cliffhanger isn’t good enough of a description. My friend Dave pointed me to this, and I couldn’t say how much happier I could be at the moment.
-richard out
A few days between updates there, my bad. Lately all I’ve done at home is a bunch of nothing and playing Final Fantasy XI. The only times I can find time to play are after I get off work and have put my brother on the van to work (which is around 9am) and then again when I wake up in the evening around 5 or 6pm. When I haven’t been doing that, I’ve caught up on a few episodes of Star Trek: Voyager from season 1 and catching the random movie here and there. I even formatted and reinstalled Winblows XP on my gaming system. It seems to be running a bit smoother now, so that’s a good thing.
On the reading side of things, I finished “The Vampire Lestat” last week and have moved into “The Queen of the Damned” and have gotten just passed the half way point. They aren’t real page turners like the fantasy books I was reading last month, but they are still very interesting. The fact that it takes me more than three or four days to finish one lends to its interest as well.
-richard out