Deep Water
Here is the Shorts cuteness for today. The images are a little grainy due to (I guess) bad lighting.
Shorts on a dirty towel by my dirty clothes hamper:
Click for full size version.
Shorts on a pair of old school, nylon, rip-stop, hand-me-down, camo pants:
Click for full size version. That pink thing in the background is a candle. What did you think it was?!
In spite of pain from having my wisdom teeth removed and a secondary sinus infection, I decided to tough out a two hour, fast ramble this evening. I went to the oral surgeon for a checkup today and everything looked “pritty gud.” Sitting around the house was getting old, so I decided to go for it. I wasn’t sure I would make it, but since I’m such a badass*, you know I did. I pushed myself maybe just a tad harder than I “should” have, so I might be sitting out Thursday’s ramble (gotta “date” anyway, so… yeah, skippin’ it).
It was a stair ramble, my first. We climbed about two thousand stairs. We also climbed some pretty major hills. Blah blah blah. Here are some photos (as usual, taken with iPhone & edited with GIMP).
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*Yeah, I’m such a badass. You love it.
Yesterday morning, I had my wisdom teeth extracted. I think this is the most major medical treatment I’ve ever undergone, and my first surgery. I’ve had my share of stitches and broken bones, but I’ve never been anesthetized before. (Parents, please correct me if I’m wrong about this.)
I was a tiny bit nervous coming into it, especially about going under IV sedation, but the staff at Head & Neck Surgical Associates was great, very friendly and professional, answering my questions and chatting while I waited to go “under the knife.” I didn’t notice a thing while I was under, and had no adverse reaction to the sedative. I can highly recommend them, Dr. Bell in particular.
At home right after the operation
Kitties chillin’ with me in bed later in the afternoon
Mad props to Bonnie for taking time out of her day to bring me to the operation, wait while it was performed, and escort me home–especially on such short notice. She also had a good laugh about my post-operative condition, and I appreciate that too. 
The morning after
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All photos taken with iPhone; scaled with GIMP
So, “whiddiya do” when your home Internet access is cut off without warning*? Especially when you’ve just had your wisdom teeth extracted and don’t have much else to do (except lay in bed with the kitties and read Timeline by Michael Crichton)? Use yer iPhone, of course! So, how well does it work? Pretty well, all things considered–about what you’d expect from a tiny l’il computer talking to the Internet via an EDGE cellular network connection.
Checking and reading email is a breeze. Writing email is slow but not too bad, as long as the recipient understands that you’re being concise and not terse. Taking photos of the kitties and emailing them is always fun, especially when you’re on a call at the same time.
Browsing the Internet is decent too–sometimes fast, usually not too slow–especially sites like Gmail or Ta-da Lists that have mobile-specific versions of their sites. Note to self: create one of these for byCycle (right after we get some funding and finish up the other thousand items on the byCycle to-do list–any volunteers?).
Side note to Web developers: Flash-only sites with no alternatives suck. At the very least, throw up some text saying that Flash is required. I know this sounds soooo obvious, but even in 2008, it still happens. Another advantage of a text-based, flash-enhanced (or, better yet, DHTML/AJAX) site: it works on iPhone/Safari for free.
In some ways, iPhone is superior to a regular computer. I love the way scrolling and zooming work (fingertips on the screen). Apple’s latest laptop utilizes this technology in its trackpad. The 64GB solid state drive is pretty cool too. I’m more of a Linux fan, but I might consider one of these at some point–maybe in a year or two when the price on the solid state version drops a bit.
I wasn’t able to write this post at home on iPhone, but I should try that some time. Many mini-posts might be an interesting experiment–trying to condense a topic/thought/feeling into a few sentences, reducing it to it’s bare essence and not going off on a bunch of tangents.
Getting out into the yard today was good. I need to get out there more often. I keep thinking about gardening but get overwhelmed with the thought of it, partly because I’m also doing like 50 million other things (at least), but gardening and composting is really important to me. The compost pile is in full effect (yo), but the most I’ve done with gardening is daydream about luscious, home grown kale.
What I need to do is just start small and build up. There is a small bed next to the garage and also a small frame that our landlord dropped off for a raised bed. I’m going to start with one of these and just one or two “crops” then work my way up to other stuff. Also, on a related note, inspired by a recent blog post elsewhere, I plan to start sprouting.
What are they looking at? Photo taken with iPhone and scaled with GIMP.
After I mowed the lawn, Shorts and Totes came outside to investigate. They sniffed around and chased each other a bit. They’re not quite to the point of snuggling together, but I think that’s coming soon. I’ll post here as soon as they do.
Photo taken with iPhone and scaled with GIMP.
Lawns are weird. I’m not sure why most people have one. They don’t seem to be fully utilized all that often. We water them just to mow them down. On top of that, we could be growing food, not some pesky weed. In fact, we could just grow dandelions and other edible “weeds”–they’re highly nutritious. But we hate dandelions in this culture.
Having said that, I actually enjoy mowing the lawn. Not with one of those noisy, polluting gas mowers but with a push mower. Now, that, my friends, is some good, clean fun. It’s somehow meditative and a damn good workout. Not that it’s all that hard, mind you. The push mower I used looks ancient, but it cut that grass down like nobody’s business.
Photo taken with iPhone and edited with GIMP.
Take that, grass!
This is Shorts, quite possibly the cutest, sweetest kitten ever (other than her sister, Flubby). OK, I’m sure I’m just saying that because she’s my cat, but whatever… Click the image to see the full size version. I took this photo with my iPhone.
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