Life: April 2007 Archives
Getting older appears to be fraught with many perils. I've had a bump on my noggin for a few years now, and in the last several months, it has been getting bigger. Much bigger. So, a few weeks ago, I hoisted myself over to the Kaiser, to let a trained professional have a look. The pronouncement came down that it was just a cyst, nothing to really worry about, but something that I could have removed if I wanted.
It has been bugging me for awhile, so I thought getting it removed was a pretty good idea.
And it was a pretty good idea, up until the anesthetic wore off a few hours ago.
D'oh.
I spent about 10 minutes blindly taking pictures of my head, so that you (gentle blog reader) could get a look:
The stitches, closing the hole that got cut into my head today.
What came out of that gash was a chunk of fluid, blood, hair, and skin that was easily the size of two skittles stacked one ontop of another. That might not sound like much, but try cramming that under the skin between your skull and the outside world.
All in all, the procedure went really well -- the Kaiser was as brutally efficient as always, getting me in and out of there in just slightly over an hour. And when I get the stitches out, and this thing starts to feel better, I'm sure I'll be really glad that my head is slightly less misshapen than it has been. But for the next week or so, I think I'm going to be a bit grumpy, as this thing nags at me.
-Andy.
Well, my dad wore my mom down, and after only a month and a half, they have gotten a new dog. Well, as it turns out, they got two dogs:
Maggie and Max
Sara sent me an e-mail telling me the news, that I thought was pretty funny. So rather than regurgitate what she said, I'm just posting her e-mail after the jump...
-Andy.
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A little over a month ago, I blogged about my current running regimen. At that time, I said that one of my reasons for going with the Nike+ iPod kit was to try and start running longer distances. Well, I'm proud to say that I have finally started making my "normal" route a ~3.5 mile run, instead of ~2.5 miles.
I'd show you an updated graph from the Nike+ site, but it's currently down (and I'm too embarrassed to say who it is hosted by). So, I grabbed this screen shot out of my iTunes instead:
My last workout (3.49 miles) and workout history (over 165 miles).
As you can see, I had a pretty decent run today - covering ~3.5 miles in 30 minutes is a pretty good pace for me. When I first started this new route, it was taking me around 34 minutes to cover the same distance.
One thing that I've noticed about running 3.5 miles is that as of right now, I can't do this route 6 times a week -- my legs get too tired by about the 4th time in a row, and I need to take a day off. I'm hoping that if I keep at this, however, that I'll be able to increase my stamina.
-Andy.
