Blog of Random Thoughts
A while back I had written that having a bad day does not necessarily mean that everything is bad. Yesterday we had our appliances delivered and the delivery group was fantastic and super professional. We did not have any issues with them or what they did, but in the evening we realized that we were…
I have been taking less pain meds as the days have progressed and for the most part it is quite manageable unless I do things that activate my core. This morning I went with a drive with Mel, and it was painful. It is hard to say whether it is her driving or the streets,…
When I was in high school I started watching F1 racing for some reason and my favorite team at the time was McLaren. In 1990 they won the championship with Senna but I was just a casual fan then. I would watch it on occasion. In 1997 Adrian Newey one of the best car designers…
This is my fourth day home from the hospital and I am starting to feel better. I am still annoyed that there is so much that I still can not do. Everyone says that this is expected as I have had major surgery. That is true, but I do not have to like it. I…
There are a lot of small simple things that you take for granted when you can no longer do them. Such as getting in and out of bed or getting up from a chair. They seem like such easy tasks until you struggle with it. The last two days it was quite painful to move,…
I started writing this yesterday and got interrupted. It may sound a bit disjointed and you may see a shift in tense. Before 7am I have received numerous heart felt messages wishing me well today. A friend of mine sent me a message Isaiah 41:10. I can not recall if I had mentioned this before…
I have not been feeling well today and I am not sure if it is because I am sick or whether it is subconscious anxiety from Tuesday. The reason why I am questioning it all is when I thought that we were 4 to 6 weeks out from knowing what was happening I felt great….
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There are some great qualities within Xavier as well as some really annoying ones. He is very dedicated once he has made his mind up on something. His goal this year has been to increase his strength as well as increase his flexibility. This involves him spending 30 minutes stretching every day. Last night we…
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Today has been quite the busy day and I have not had the chance to write. Even now we are watching a movie but I thought that I needed to have the discipline to carry through with this. Mel came back today. It was just me and the boys and Mel was worried about Olivier…
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I have a lot of servers at our house and add approximately 20TB or so every year. It is a bit of a pain in the ass when I need to reconfigure things and set it up and I should build in some redundancy into the system but getting all of the uninterrupted power supplies…