It’s been a heck of a year
Well, it’s good to be back. After much consternation I’ve decided to keep SIMU up and running, that and some friendly poking and prodding from Elwed inquiring as to what was going on with the site. It’s nice to have friends to give you a wake up call now and then thus forcing you back into reality and out of the mystical funk we sometimes find ourselves in.
The past year has been somewhat of a tragic comedy and I’ll share some of the lowlights here and hopefully dispel any rumors that I’ve lost my mind. That may be a tough one to prove.
Last September I signed a contract to migrate some 1300 SQL databases from San Antonio to North Carolina for one of larger banking institutions. The workload initially took me away but then in November my mom passed away. As tragic as it was, it was truly a celebration of her long and happy life. Upon my return home I discovered my older cat had become quite ill and was needing a lot of extra care that I really wasn’t in to. I shit you not, that same week I found out I had lymphoma as would be undergoing a series of radiation treatments following the new year. My girlfriend and I broke up about 10 times, dad got divorced and my A/C unit gave up the ghost.
About this time I had forgotten that I even had a blog which is funny because in the past the two things I’ve always done to relieve stress is blog and play golf. Oh, I failed to mention that I developed some weird hip pointer (I still think the Dr. was making things up) which prohibited any golf playing.
I can look back at everything now and smile and even laugh. Nothing was as bad as it appeared on the surface. My mom was 93, my cat’s 11, the lymphoma treatment was painless and successful, I finished the contract early and got a hefty bonus, the A/C was under warranty and fixed within 12 hours, the hip pointer got better with time off and the girlfriend and I are still fighting every chance we get. Putting things back into perspective it wasn’t nearly as bad of a year as I felt at the time.
Deadscot, we’ve missed you, dude. Welcome back, in all senses of the word.
xoxoxo
Posted by on 14 Jun, 2008 at 09:52