The Gift That Keeps On Giving...
From the original Analog Industries archive. Some links and images from that era no longer resolve.
This week has just been awesome. And I don’t mean “awesome” in the Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure sense of the word, but rather the dictionary sense.
awesome |ˈôsəm|
adjective
extremely impressive or daunting; inspiring great admiration, apprehension, or fear : the awesome power of the atomic bomb.
I set aside two specific days this week (today was the second of those two) where my PC, which is the box I do the vast majority of my work for AD on, would be disassembled and thus unusable. We had to time the operation with a certain amount of finesse, as we’re getting close to the finish line on BS2 and there’s not a real big window I could pull this whole thing off.
So yesterday I disassembled and moved my PC and the rack that goes with it up to our new place in Portland, and got a long ways towards re-assembling it. I was going to finish the rebuilding tomorrow. Note the tense of that sentence, as it is fairly important to this whole story. I am not in either Mill City or Portland, but rather 350 miles to the east in Spokane, Washington. My mother got taken to the hospital Monday afternoon with fainting spells and chest pains. Turns out, she’s gonna need to have heart surgery, so the hospital in Idaho sent her here to Sacred Heart in Spokane. Those of you that follow my Twitter feed know all about this, of course, and thanks for the well wishes.
Anyhow, here I sit. Lovely weather, too. Theoretically, the surgery will happen on Friday. I can’t say one way or another when I’ll be back in Portland, or Mill City to finish our move for that matter. My wife is safely ensconced in our new place, along with Pablo and Chica. The only thing she’s missing is furniture, really.
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Best wishes to your mom.
I hope your mom does okay.
When I had my brain tumor removed I learned something very important:
When you are a patient, have someone with you at the hospital ALWAYS.
Individual doctors and nurses may be great, but a hospital is a bureaucracy and patients fall through the cracks. I fell through the cracks in several ways not worth getting into here, but it was painful, unpleasant and lengthened my stay.
So, Chris, stay with your mom or make sure someone else from the family is. And make sure you know what the doctors want to have happen for your mom and don't rely on the hospital's system for the doctor's orders to be carried out.
Good luck and best wishes.
Hope everything goes okay with your mom. Best wishes Chris. Life is fucking crazy.
Best wishes to your mum Chris...
Yeah, good luck, and here's to a healthy and happy outcome.
aye, best wishes.
Sorry to hear. Hope the surgery goes well. Best wishes to her and your family.
It's a fairly simple procedure. I haven't spoken to the doctors yet (visiting doesn't start 'til 11, and I got here too late last night) but from what I can piece together talking to my mom, it involves lasers.
For some reason, the thought of having someone make a slit in my chest and shoot lasers at my heart doesn't fill me with warm and fuzzy feelings; rather, it sounds like something a Bond villain would do. But there you go.
Right now, I'm mainly wondering why the fuck I didn't bring my shiny new Duet so I could work on some tunes or something. Because, if you haven't been to Spokane (and there's no reason you would have been, really) you will completely fail to understand what a hole this town is. I've been here many, many times in my life and it always stuns me how much I dislike it.
That paragraph will no doubt engender a hurt email from a Spokane resident telling me how wrong I am, so for that I'll pre-apologize.
-CR
All the best to your mom.
hang in there man. best wishes to your mom.
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