What's in a Name?

Hoo boy! This'll be a doosey!

I have needed to blog for some time and update my flickr site.... lol but no time....:D

So the back room in done and we are moved out. (pictures will be provided) There is a bit of lingering residue of stuff rejected by my wife's aunt I need to get but we're essentially done. I still have taxes to do and class work to catch up in and preparation for a killer vacation to come. Oh and signing up for summer semester.... Blah.... and maybe time for myself. LOL!

All these things aside an interesting thing has been observed this week. Heather my wife went in for Laproscopic surgery this last Thursday to remove an ovarian cyst. It was originally the week before but was delayed due to fever from a sinus infection. Things went great. The cyst was drained and all that went well. What was discovered that we didn't know before was Endometriosis. Don't worry she's fine and every thing's okay, but that's my point isn't it? Give it a name and it strikes horror into you.

Later I was looking up endometriosis online and Heather asked what I was looking up so I told her. She started getting panicky because her sister had endo and was prevented from having kids because of it. I calmly explained as I did before about what it was and how we were just fine and still able to have kids. After talking about it with me and a bit with my family she's okay, but this still amazes me how a name can change everything. Let me give you another example.

I was in at a routine check up for a sinus infection and the Dr. informed me besides the sinus stuff I had this and the symptoms were that ,I would get tired and the cure is to rest, and it would periodically reoccur. They call it a disease of all things which is so DUMB. Oh gosh! don't let me get ti--...zzzzzzzzzzz.

But here's the name....Mono. *gasp!* Suddenly everything jumps to mind how it totally leaves you waisted, stuck with you the rest of your life, the kissing disease, etc. etc. But just LOOK at the symptoms! how dumb and silly is that!? It's all in the Name.

Names are powerful.


So when you watch Lion King and Timon and Pumba are going off about the warthogs lack of appeal due to flatulence and the part comes in,"I gotta change in my name!""Oh what's in a name?!" You'll know.

Time Flies when it's All Used Up

Wow yet again it has been a while. Not because I haven't wanted to add to my posts and become more regular at this, (and no, not the Metamucil kind) but because I have spent my time like the valuable cash it is. First, I work. Work used to have the option of "flexing up" meaning you could spend more time there if you wanted to. I used to only need to be there 6 hours but I generally stayed 7 unless I had a time crunch. Since the beginning of the year they upped our hours goal to be more productive so I now need to stay all 7 hours. This normally would be so bad but I'm going to college.

Secondly therefore, I have an English class which is reading intensive, writing intensive, and presentation semi intensive. My Astronomy class is some what read intensive, but a big long test assignment each week that takes 4 hours intense. Thankfully my Technology class is lightly read intensive and mildly presentation paper intense. With those two alone it stretching to strike a balance, but to add to the joy I'm remodeling and moving.

Third and finally, the room. As you can see on the pictures it was supposed to be a medium project, tare out a corner and replace a little bit of the water damaged dry wall. That went to pot when we realized since this was an addition onto the house they nailed the drywall strait to the old outside shingles.Though the ceiling/roof is attached well they basically placed the wall next to the old shingles really close and so water was being driven in with wind from the side. We needed to do it right. We tore out the old shingling down to the wood nailed to the brick for the shingles. (which we'd use to screw on the new dry wall) We tore out the corners because the wall was moving 1/2 and inch back, replaced the insulation, filled in the gap to the outside with expandy foam and siliconed the outside, used water resistant dry wall, filled in the gap now at the ceiling, remounted the heater controls, repainted, and still need to remount door and it's accompanying frame. As you can see I've been busy. Thankfully for the moving part my wonderful wife Heather has slow and stedily been packing away things for storrage and moving. She still asks me to get boxes.

So to all you loyal fans (hopefull) my appologies for the long awaited next addition but here you are! P.S. check out my Flicker site I've updated.

Turkey and the Cosmos

So as my family gathers around for the great turkey feast of happiness and gorging, we pause to reflect and give thanks for our many blessings. Then we proceed right into a discussion about Special Relativity it's social misapplication to morals and how eternity fits into all of this. To give you some of the brief points, I was studying Special Relativity for my college Public Speaking class so I could better talk on black holes. As I read more I realized the idea of, "It's okay for someone to do bad things because it's relative to their life and situations, so I can't judge." comes directly out of this physics principle. The problem with the "Social Relativity" is that it only takes half the idea; The part saying that what you see (or judge) will deepened on your frame of reference. The missing other half is that there are constants in the universe, absolutes, and facts. Without these the actual relativity idea would not work. Eventually this lead into how we perceive eternity and our immortal soul. :D

It was a great dinner. Next I got to go to my wife side of the family's festivius feast. There couldn't be a greater difference. Heather's family never talks about politics or religion. (My families two favorite subjects) The shy away from profound topics like above. Table conversation was more about peoples lives, the fantastic food, and events that happened to people. My wife Heather is the youngest of nine kids. Needless to say there are plenty of nephews and nieces! This gives me a perfect outlet to enjoy and have fun. I love to entertain and to educate and kids love to be on the receiving end. I got to play a funny form of keep away on roller blades with them and enjoy their imaginations. After many left I started to talk with Baily (10) (one of many nieces to heather) about Math. For a half hour I got to tutor and give fun math tips. So she'll mark a second student of mine. Amanda (another niece) is the first and I help out with Science and math.

Ahhh... science! Why wouldn't anyone want to blow things up?

So the great grand turkey day was a surprising dichotomy of family cultures. :D Thank heavens for NOVA!