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Personal update is personal. And updated.

For a while now this blog has been largely on auto-pilot, with only my Tour de Holmes posts offering any sort of steady churn of posts. A lot of it has been due to my change of position combined with heavy crunch on Vampire: The Masquerade – 20th Anniversary Edition. I’m going to try to [...]

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Eating Less To Write More

And now, that inevitable blog cliché – a diet and exercise post. But I’ll make a stab at also making it a writing post. For me, losing weight and being healthy isn’t really about looking better (although I won’t cry if I lose some of my gut). This is another stage in the ongoing battle [...]

Better than I thought. Also, ICC.

Image by thinkpanama via Flickr The check-up with the surgeon’s office was very short — mostly it was a cleaning of the extraction sites and a quick lesson in how to do it myself (twice a day). The nurse told me that actually I’m doing really well — many patients can’t really even open their mouths [...]

Two steps forward, one step back

Image via Wikipedia Tuesday night, while I was playing Brutal Legend, I was struck with sudden and massive nausea. I went to lie down for a bit. I ate a little, and that seemed to help, but I went to bed very early. I woke up nearly 12 hours later, still nauseous and still exhausted, so I took another sick day from [...]

Oh, hey, I had some surgery

Image via Wikipedia I realized that while I mentioned this obliquely, I haven’t actually talked about my recent surgery, or why I needed to have it. Let me correct that oversight now. About a month ago, I went to a new dentist for a (long overdue) checkup. She took some X-rays, and said that all four of my wisdom teeth are [...]