• Enough Already

    In one of Mom’s early post-op MRI’s, the doctors saw another small mass elsewhere in her brain. Could have been a fatty deposit, calcium deposit, or… another tumor. If it was another tumor, that bodes really badly as, obviously, the cancer is spreading. We just received confirmation that it is in fact another tumor. This one is located right behind her eye so while…

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  • Is February 15th Cursed?

    Yesterday was my birthday. I received 105 (update… 106) birthday wishes not including ones in person, but that’s not what this is about. Yes, I counted. It was a fun game. My good friend Molly wanted to take me out to lunch. I accepted. It was going to only be the two of us until my coworker and friend, Fahad, came into my office…

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  • One Day Can Change Everything

    For me, that day is January 30, 2011. Around noon, I receive a call from my sister saying her and my father are taking my mom to the local hospital. At breakfast, she began to not make any sense with her words and had thrown up. Upon arrival at the hospital, a CT scan is performed which shows a 2.3cm mass on her left…

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  • About San Antonio

    I just spent Sunday through Wednesday in the Lone Star State for the 2011 Chronotrack User’s Conference… San Antonio to be specific. This was the first time I’d ever spent any time in Texas aside from layovers in Dallas. My hopes weren’t too high as I have heard for years that Austin is really the only place worth visiting in the state… And I’d…

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  • Getting More Serious At the Gym

    I’ve now been visiting the gym casually for about a year now. I feel I’ve seen some differences in the way my body looks, but haven’t really noted anything in terms of actual gains in specific exercises. Two reasons (that I can think of) for this: I am a numbers person. A good part of why I run and bike is because I love…

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  • Two Movies You Need to Watch: Oldboy and This is England

    Both are available via Netflix streaming. Oldboy is what I like to call a “mind-f*” film. My favorite type. Fight Club, Memento, and others of that type fall into this category. It’ll leave you wowed. It’s a Korean film so you’ll be reading subtitles, but Heather and I agreed it was very nearly a 5-star. This Is England had been on my instant queue…

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