Thursday
Lifted back, wide grip. Ran an 8:00 mile to warm up, 4 miles in 27:59, then ran a 7:30 warm-down mile. Played basketball for an hour and a half tonight, no swim. I am feeling really sick. Something in my chest. I don't think I should have played tonight, so I am going to take tomorrow off. How is bachelor life treating you Jason? Slacker, long time, no read.
posted by John J Cherry at 8:08 PM
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Sorry about the extensive delay in posting. This week has been fairly insane. I am not supposed to put in more than about 10 hours a week on the class I am GSIing, or TAing, and my semester average was at 9.6 last Friday. It is now at 12.6 hrs/week. That's bad. I have put in about 35 hours in about 3 days. The other GSI went to Prague so I had to do it all myself. He just got back though, so I am now a free man for a few weeks while his hrs/week builds back up and mine drops back down to normal.
So I took the night off and went over to a friend's house to help him perform soldering surgery on his XBox. The surgery went well, but the DVD ROM drive itself was crap and wouldn't read his games. That's what he gets for buying a crap drive off of eBay I guess. I also got to play with my new birthday present that arrived here from China today. I ditched the Creative Zen Nano MP3 player and opted for the iPod Nano instead. The interface is sooo much nicer. It is really fun. Seeing as I have a little breathing room I am hoping I can get in a run tomorrow as well. We'll see about that I guess. I still need to get cracking on a final project for one of my classes and a pretty nasty homework assignment for the other.
The real news to share is that we heard back from the doctor today and the biopsy tested totally normal. The tissue appears to be normal breast tissue that just decided to grow a lot in that area. There is some name for it starting with hyper and then something with a p I think, but I don't remember right now. Either way, the doctor is now positive it is not cancerous or pre-cancerous and there is no greater risk of cancer developing in or around her lump than there is in any other part of her body.
It has been so nice to have Natalie's mom here to help out. She has been great at just taking care of everything in the house. This means that I am totally relieved of cooking dinner every night, cleaning the house, doing dishes, crap, even changing diapers for the most part. It is great! Natalie is recovering quite nicely. The surgery went really well, kind of amazing how quickly they did it in fact. It freaked Nat out a bit to take off the gauze yesterday when it was half way soaked through with blood and stuck to the steri-strips used to close up the wound. We had to work at it a bit and soak it in warm water for a while (her first shower in 3 days) but we got it off and now she no longer looks so lopsided. Amazing what getting rid of a huge gauze bandage can do. :) So life is slowly getting back to normal and it is great. Thank you for your thoughts and prayers over the past months. I know the Lord is mindful of us and I feel very blessed right now. Prayers of friends and family really do make a difference.
What a relief! To say we have been thinking about your family the last month or so would be a major understatement. Christy wishes me to inform you that we have an announcement to make, yes, we have decided that I am pregnant, as I couldn't even finish reading your posting out loud to Christy because I was so emotional. P.S. I have bad cramps and a headache and I am muscle achy, etc. Okay, so it is probably the flu, but I am still pretty emotional at any rate.
I am not working out today. Hopefully this will clear fast, I have a lesson to teach on Sunday. Hey, I bought a computer last night from TigerDirect. I am going to build it myself. In the end it came down to the price difference, quality of the computer, and the experience in general. I am excited and anxiously awaiting our new toy (in pieces).
Howdy gents - Bachelor life's been uneventful. After my long jog Tuesday night I had little energy for Wednesday morning’s lift. And that was especially tough since I was lifting upper body with my spotter gone. Should have eaten more before going to bed. That and I think my allergies are starting up again for spring.
By the time I got to Thursday’s my run was pathetic. I’d like to say I bonked after a mile, but in reality I didn’t have much for that first mile. I kept slowing down bit by bit and then just gave up at 1.75 miles for a really bad 8:09 pace. I’m pretty sure it’s just allergies. I refuse to believe I could be getting another cold.
Friday I slept until 8:30 then worked from home. I can get away with that when the family’s out of town. I went ahead and took the day off (from exercising) because I really wanted to do a longer run on Saturday. And that I did; ran for 55 minutes and I really hope I covered at least 6 miles. The weather was perfect; slightly over cast and in the low 60’s. Kept my heart rate around 170 bpm and just ran. We’ve got miles and miles of jogging/biking paths around here so I just went away from the house for 25 minutes then turned around and headed back home. I need to start looking because someone has to have distances measured for the different paths.
Mike, give your sweetheart a big hug from us. It’s wonderful to know she’s going to be fine. I trust the rest of the pregnancy is going well.
John it’s exciting to hear the good news that you’re expecting. Let’s hope it’s a bouncing baby computer that works perfectly and doesn’t give you any hassles.
Well, sort of. I got it all put together without any major problems. It took me some trial and error to figure out the incongruency between my header labels and the tower leads labels, oh, and I installed the floppy ide cable the wrong way. But after I figured that stuff out, I attempted to load my operating system (XP Pro) and it won't boot. I don't know if the problem is the disc or with the new motherboard. What to do now? Who knows. I am going to ask some friends at school. THis is about what I thought it was going to be like, fine until the software installation.
Sounds like you had a great run, I am so jealous. I have been so sick that I have only been outside 3 times in the last 6 days, not including my trip to emergency clinic. I got winded just walking up a hill today to go to the computer lab on campus.
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