I’ve spent the last couple of days at the hospital.

My wife had a fairly major surgery on Tuesday. The next day, she was up and walking (she’s quite the trooper!). They finally disconnected her from all the tubes and hoses and let her come home last night. All is well, though she’s a little sore (well, “little” may be an understatement).

As for me… I met my new neurosurgeon on Tuesday as well. This man rocks! He took multiple x-rays of me in various positions, looked over my MRI’s and CAT Scans, and came to a conclusion: we need to operate and we should do it soon. So, I’m scheduled to go under the knife on May 10th.

He’s going to do it as non-invasivly as possible, coming in from the left side rather than cutting stomach or back muscles (yay!). This will make the healing process a lot quicker. I may actually get to ride my motorcycle/drive my car this year!

w00t! w00t!

This is a hella improvement from my pervious neurosurgeon’s “fast track” plan of september… and I seriously doubt that it would of happend then (he has this way of pulling the rug out from under your feet).

While I was away in Pittsburgh, my wife happened to win a pair of tickets for three different concerts.

We saw the first of the trio on Saturday night… the Australian Pink Floyd Show.

All I can say is.. “wow!”. They put on one hell of a show! Both vocally and musically they sounded like the real deal, and a special hats off to the people running the light show… it was incredible!

Spokane is a hard sell when it comes to concerts, and this was no exception. The opera house was half empty. But we made up for the lack of people with our enthusiasm. The place was hoppin!

Prior to the concert, we hit the downtown Onion (bah… no webpage) for dinner. I had the Murphy’s Steak (a 10oz sirloin stuffed with garlic cloves). After washing it down with a couple Guinness, I was ready for the concert.

And speaking of Gunness… there’s a new bar on Trent between Sullivan and Evergreen called “Bottoms Up”. It’s in the building that was formerly Fuzzy’s Tavern. This is my new most favorite after work bar! They have a 101 shots menu (the Irish Car Bomb is the bomb!) and the staff is friendly (and some of them are very, VERY hot!).

And finally… I have a new game to play. I got my hands on a copy of Far Cry on saturday. After one hell of a fight getting it set up, I’m now deeply buried in it. The jungle scenes are very beautiful, but the “inside” scenes are much like Halflife (and the storyline is headed much the same way).

I’ll bet multiplayer is gonna be a bitch in those outdoor maps. The terrain is huge, densely vegetated, and near impossible to find anyone in (unless, of course, you have either the heat vision goggles or the binoculars).

Currently, I just got out of the tree house level and am on an island at night. Not sure what’s coming next but I know there are a few of those punk-ass snipers up on the hills (they make my life unhappy). Now I wish I hadn’t dropped that sniper rifle in the lab.

More to follow later. In the mean time, there’s some screen shots of the game here.

This whole website thing amazes me.

I can’t believe how many people actually come here every day/moth/year and actually read the crap I spew into the ether. I have an even harder time understanding why they come back a second time. There’s nothing special here, and there’s no porn/mp3’s/warez or the other stupid things that seem to drag ’em in by the bus loads.

Because of all the hits, and the people linking to my site, something else happened….

I’m #1 on google when searching for “wwbd” (at least for today).

I beat out that damn “What would Brittney Do” page and all the “What Would Budda Do” sites.

I am in awe.

So… since there seems to be some sort of interest, I shall attempt to be interesting. I will post more mental diarrhea than ever before for you, the loyal reader (those of you who surfed in looking for animal porn are just outa luck).

w00t!

After the great Pittsburgh adventure, it’s life as normal once again.

I still have a ton of pictures to post as well as a write-up on the trip, but that will come later when I get time. For now, lets just say I survived the land of Italian wedding soup and french fries on your salad.

By the way… if you’re ever in Pittsburgh, make sure you get to Tramps Bar & Grill for lunch. The fish special is killer (thanks for the tip Gary!).

Now that the DR system has been transferred over, I’ve been given a new project. The servers will be here sometime on thursday for me to install the OS and such. Then on friday, I get to install, configure, and test the application (a brand new build with no installer… it’s gotta be done manually) as well as set up the database server. Everything better go perfectly, as it all has to be up and running exactly as designed by saturday morning.

No pressure here!

I’m also going to start working on a revamp of the site. I’ve decided that the current template looks too “canned” and want something new (like jester and eddie have done). There’s no ETA on this at the moment. The meds I take for my back are pretty rough on my creative abilities.

Don’t forget to check out mrmoth by clicking here or on the banner above. You won’t regret it!

You may notice the banner at the top of the page for mrmoth.com.

This isn’t some paid for thing. Mrmoth is a good friend of mine who happens to make some exceptional music. His new album “Unto the Wasteland” is absolutely fantastic, and I’m attempting to drive a little traffic his way. If nothing else, move your mouse across the banner… it changes the dirction that the “stars” fly (ooooh… interactive fun!!)

So, if you came here for reasons other than your infinite quest for bestiality porn (as 78% of my search engine driven traffic does), you might be interested in checking him out.

Help a brother and buy the album. You won’t regret it.

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