Riley Jean Thompson was
born today at 1:50 this afternoon
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Wednesday, August 12, 2009
Wednesday, August 05, 2009
Update: What I really did on my summer vacation
My wife has been gone for several weeks and I was planning on getting a lot of studying done, both programming and bible study, working out every day, getting projects done, etc. I really did have plans to do some really good stuff.
Unfortunately, my body had other plans. I got a nasty sinus infection that dripped down into bronchitis and basically knocked me out for 2 weeks. I only worked out once, at the start of the thing. Buzzy was disappointed too. I did not even walk him around the lake during the time. I barely got out of bed. One good thing came of this sickness: I quit smoking, mainly because I could barely breathe ;-)
I did not go to the MD for this but got some herbs and stuff from the health food store my chiropractor recomended. That helped some. I switched to taking goldenseal root/echinacea capsules and almost completely got over it. There is still a lingering sinus infection, thankfully not gushing, just a mild drip. I had an appointment for a six month checkup with my endocrinologist last week. He gave me some keflex, which I filled last night. Hopefully this will clear up the last of the problem.
I was able to do some light bible study while on my back. I watched slideshows from K house or listened to the audio on my mp3 player. After about 10 days I started feeling merely bad, rather than "may I please just die and get it over with". This allowed me to play with java some for an hour or two at a time. Eventually I got to feeling pretty good, besides the nagging dripping sinuses, and got some projects done. I fixed a chair that has been broken for months. My friend Dana came over and helped me get started. I let it stay clamped for a couple days and finished it yesterday. It is solid, even holding my big body.
I also played with Glassfish and Apache Tomcat servers. I am going to go with Glassfish to learn server based java stuff, simply because it is less hassle to mess with. Supposedly Glassfish is more versatile than Tomcat in the services it provides for. I dunno, all these things are a sheer cliff face I need to climb. It is like you need to know a hundred things just to write a hello world app with a servlet or what have you. It is going to be interesting.
Add to all this my daughter in law is going to have my first grand child some time real soon. That is going to stomp on my study time, but Hey! That's OK! I can't wait to be a grandfather!
y'all have fun!
bt
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