Well, here we are... the first entry of the sixth year of doing this.
It has been fun, and I'm gonna make the assumption that it will continue to be fun.
It is somehow appropriate the the server is down now... it went down about 06:15, I guess, 'cause that's the time on the last email that I have received this morning.. And that means that I may not get this up today, or this morning, anyway.
I don't really know what I was thinking five years ago, what gave me the audacity to start doing this online journalling thing. I have tried many times to figger it out and I've failed. I've had a lotta people ask me, and I have to tell them that I don't know. They always seem to be disappointed in that answer, but it's the best that I can do.
I have had some interpretations from other people about what goes on in my head, but I really don't want to get into that.
1825 entries, had I written every day. There are a few small gaps early on, and then a gap when karen and I went to NC last year... I don't know why I don't get my notes out and do those entries! Six months should be long enough to think about them. Anyways, that's a lesson learned... write every day, no matter what. No matter how dull or inane...
I've made a fool of myself repeatedly by announcing that I'm quitting smoking... it is a joke by now. Probably twenty times, at least.
I've taken probably 400 self-portraits and put them up here. I've put my love-poems to Karen up here, I've pretty much bared my psyche here all the way around.
I've embarrassed my friends and family here, but not nearly as much as I've embarrassed myself.
I've written about atheism, philosophy and plumbing... auto repair, carpentry and the evils of dry wall work. Ants and squirrels and birds and cats and dogs and fishing and comets and stars and lunar eclypses and meteor showers and keyboards and hard drives and microprocessors and windows and doors and floods and floors. Screwdrivers and dentists and colonoscopys and coronaries and angiography and photography and people dying and people living and people that I love and people that I don't like and drunks and druggies and lunatics and preachers.
So... what am I gonna write about today?
We have a new computer at work. It does multiplanar 3-D reconstruction of CT scans. It's wonderful. 3-D and color. I played with it most of last night when I wasn't running my butt off. And it is fast, fast, fast! I haven't checked to see what the processor is, but the key is not necessarily the processor of the computer itself, but that in the display drivers.
One of the neatest things that it can do is 3-D angiography... visualizing the arteries and veins in the body and the head. These things are definitely not routine yet, but they soon will be, like within the next year. Very exciting!
And pretty. The images are just simply beautiful. I love it! I can't wait to get into CT full-time.
Speaking of which... they still have no idea when this might happen, damn 'em.
Still can't get to nilknarf.net. Damn them people, too.
Four more nights. Last night wasn't bad after about 02:00... but the night cafe was closed, and they provided no food... I keep popcorn in my locker for such occasions, and a nurse in ICU gave me an apple, so I was tided over until the cafeteria opened at 06:30, when I got a coupla big rolls.
And it's time for bed... I spent ten hours sleeping yesterday, so I shouldn't be tired, but I'm gonna try to get to sleep anyway. I'll try to get this up one more time after I take my pills and before I hit the sack... otherwise, it'll be up when I get up.