Much Better

I stayed home from work today. The medicine from the CAT scan we still working its way through my systems so I thought it would be better if I was home. Overall I feel fine, no more pain and no other issues. I'm going to stay away from fatty foods for a few days but other than that I'm good to go.

Sunday Fun

I was playing a computer game on Sunday afternoon at around 3:00pm when I got a bit of a pain in my chest. It moved from there into my abdomen and got a lot worse. I ended up curled in a ball on the floor in about a minute after it started. After that came the sweating, I went from dry to drenched in about 30 seconds. After about 15 minutes of that I called 911 as it wasn't letting up.

By the time I got to the hospital I was feeling considerably better. They hooked me up to the heart monitor and whatnot. The docs were checking to see is I had a heart-attack. I didn't. I was there for about an hour before the pain was gone. The monitored me for another hour before it all came back. Defiantly not a good night.

I got my first dose of Morphine and things got better, but I still had a nice dull pain in my abdomen. They were concerned that it could be my gallbladder or my appendix. The pain got all kinds of worse again about 5 minutes after I had my x-ray so they gave me a second does of morphine. I felt no pain at that point. After the shot they rolled in and ultrasound system and took a look that way. I was also drinking some stuff so I could get a CAT scan. Not bad tasting but not great either.

Nothing unusual on the x-ray or the ultrasound. I waited for an hour for my CAT scan and then another 2 hours after before I found out. Nothing was wrong with me :-) Based on the blood work they took earlier I had a high white blood cell count. Means my body was fighting an infection of some kind, but its not a specific marker for any one thing. I'm also low of phosphates which means I need to drink milk and eat more green leafy food.

At 11:00pm I was on my way home. All in all it was an, um, fun(?) night... heh. For now I have 2 prescriptions to take on an as needed bases and 1 to take daily for awhile. the daily one is for acid-reflux which is a possible cause, the others are for pain and nausea.

Chris stopped in while i was in the ER, he knew what was going on when I just left the game and didn't come back. I was texting Melissa while I was in the ER too. It nice to have some friends here to help out when ya need it :-)

Space

Mom sent me a little model of the new space capsule that will be replacing the shuttle in a few years. I took my time and put the whole thing together in about an hour. I took some pictures along the way, you can see them in my gallery.

Star Trek

Yup... The are making a new movie!!

Christmas Present

Well this Christmas I got some nice gifts. The biggest of which is my new bike. Mom was very nice and sent me a gift certificate to Walmart so I could try out the bikes there and get one tat suited me. As you can see I got a nice one. Its comfortable and lighter than my old bike.

Melissa got me a bunch of cube world people blocks. Each block is about an inch and a half square and has one digital stick person on it. The people each have their own actions, for example one is a cleaner, one has a pet, one has a ball. They all have a bunch of animations involving their own actions. The neat thing is when you place them next to each other (all four sides) they interact with each other. They climb into each others cubes and its just a fun little thing to watch and waste a few moments. I have them all at work and they keep me company during the day.

Update

I know I have been slacking with posting here... No real excuse for it, I know. Things have gotten a little festive in Hawaii. As you can see the state is putting up the Christmas decorations. They are interesting when compared to the decorations back in Pittsburgh. Santa giving a Shaka and wearing slippers :-)



This past week as been fun for me. I had a leak in my bedroom again, second time this year. it seems all the pipes for upstairs are right over my room. I had to take down all my stuff and they had to cut a hole in the ceiling to fix it. This should be the last time they have to do this as now both bathrooms upstairs have been fixed! I'm going to take the opportunity and try to paint my room while its all apart. At least get a little good out of the mess.

Fun Night Out

Last night was a lot of fun. Some of us from work got together for a little BBQ at Ku'uipo's house. We had steak, chicken, rise, chilly, salad, cookies, pie, cake and ice cream. Afterwards we hung out an talked for a bit. Some started to play the piano too, you can see Ku'uipo and Sterling in the picture playing and Chris in the background. It was a nice relaxing start to the evening. Ku'uipo and her family (all 12 including herself) are very nice.

After the BBQ some of us headed out to a club in town. Sterling, had his birthday party there. I ended up playing darts for a good part of the night with Shannon and her friend. It was a relaxing night. We all needed it too. Work has been no fun at all. its basically been lots of meeting and preparing to run through a disaster scenario on Tuesday.... We are really not ready for it. We stayed at the club till about 2AM when they closed for the night. Shannon gave me a ride back to my bike and I headed home.

New Look

So as you can see I've been working on how things look. Most of it is done, I know that I need to fix up viewing comments still. Let me know what you think about it. As well as the new look I've been putting together the rest of my site. Not all the photos are up and not the Family page isn't done but I think its a good start.

Halloween

Halloween was a lot of fun this year. Some departments at work really went all out. There was a haunted house, a haunted hospital and a haunted pirate ship. IT didn't do much cause we were all overly busy, but I think we are planning something for Christmas.

At night Melissa, Kari and myself dressed up and walked around Waikiki. We were all dressed up as gangsters. It looks kinda cool with up all done up. After walking around for a bit we went to a club and had a few drinks. All in all I think it was a good night. I have some pictures from my phone but I'm waiting on more from Melissa.

Back in Hawaii

Its good to be back in Hawaii. This weeks has been busy at work, lots of meeting for a bunch of process management stuff. I've been assigned to the BCP Infrastructure team. We are working on the who what how of how to get the business going again after a disaster of some scale. It's interesting but its lots of meetings an a lot of work and not sure what the outcome will be. It's defiantly not programming... It's not even really IT related...

Outside of work its been fun. Chris and I are working on a bit of a programming project to keep our skills up and have some fun. I've been riding my bike around too, just enjoying Hawaii while listening to a audio book. I'm listening to The Sword of Shannara at the moment. Alisha, the granddaughter of a friend of my mother moves here recently. I wasn't on island at the time so I couldn't do a greeting at the airport but I met up with her and har new husband the other day. We said a quick hello and I gave them a little welcome gift. They both seem to be very nice people. It would be nice to meet up with them again.

San Diago

I'm in San Diago taking a class for work. Most of the stuff I know but
there are the one or two new thing I'm hoping to pick up.

While I'm here I want to try and get to the zoo while I'm here but not
sure if I'll have time. If we get out early one day I'm gonna try.

For now, I'm having my coffee and relaxing for 10 min. before class
starts. Its nice seeing different sights but I miss Hawaii!

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~ Justin
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Fun Times

Well, things have been good with me. Not a lot going on but thats ok for the moment. I had dinner with Melissa and Keri the other night which was very nice. We has sushi and miso soup. It was nice to see them both for awhile. After dinner we went and walked around Sports Authority for a bit. When we were leaving I found I had a flat tire so they were very nice and gave me a ride home.

I fixed up my tire the next day after work and all is well. Last night I went and say Dragon Wars at the theater. It was an interesting movie. The plot was great, the special effects were awesome but the storyline sucked. They jumped around a lot in the beginning and skimmed over a lot. The end was interesting too... If you watch it, where exactly does the end of the movie take place? How does he get home? just odd... It could have been a really good movie but its lacking.

Today I'm off for a bit. Gonna grab lunch and ride my bike around. I got $100 dollars Apple store credit cause I bought my iPhone early so I'm going to stop and see what I wanna get. I picked up 3 audio book from iTunes. They were all on sale, well that or price dropped, from what I've seen them before. I got Eragon, The Restaurant At the End of the Universe and The Golden Compas. Should give me a few months of listening/reading :-)

Tomorrow I'm going in to work to help out. There is a meeting I'm going to help facilitate. Originally they thought there would be maybe 20 people attending but it turned into 80. It more Project Management stuff but sense my department has been through it already I'm helping out. I get a "float" day to take at another time, but who knows when that will be :-/

Long Day

Its been a long couple of days. I've had a head cold which has made things a little blah... Now mix that with a lot of meetings at work and  you have my life for the past 3 days. Lots of fun huh? Its not all bad, I get to have my coffee in the morning and enjoy the wonderful weather :-) I people watch and listen to one of my audiobooks on my iPhone. I'm listening to The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy at the moment.

After work isn't bad either. I've been trying to organize some stuff on my computer and I'm still learning all that it can do. I'm playing with iMovie and iDVD from the iLife package. The two pieces of software let me make movies out of pictures or video clips and then organize them into a DVD that will play in a standard DVD player. I also got Skype installed recently. I knew about it, and had used it, but that was YEARS ago and boy has it gotten better. I can talk to my dad over the internet and it sounds just like on the phone, if not better. And we get live video too!

Hello :- )

Well, not much going on at the moment. I've been going to a tun of meetings at work. Lots of projects going on, not much in the line of programming though. Kinda a pain actually. Just lots of work that isn't really what I want to be doing.

I've got dinner plans tomorrow though. It should be a good time. I'm meeting up with Melissa and Kari. Not sure where we will go but anyplace is just fine. I got a letter from Tera the other day. She seems to be having a good time in Gambia. Learning a lot about the culture and the language. Jamie graduated her officer training and is on her way to getting a private pilots licensee. The government pays for the training, but its up to Jamie to get it all done. Anastasia emailed me the other day, I need to email her back. I'll be doing that as soon as I'm done here. I've tried calling her but it just hasn't worked out...

I talked to Holly a bit the other day with some text messages. I've kinda slacked with the friends in PA this last little bit. I need to give Chrissie, Holly and Stacy a call to see how they are all doing. 

As for now, I'm making dinner - a steak - and gonna eat soon. After that a bit of TV and probably bed :-)

Dinner and Catching Up

Its been a few weeks sense I got to see Melissa, her family was in town and we were both a bit busy. But the good news is I got to see her tonight. We went and saw The Simpsons Movie and grab dinner. We ate at The Cheesecake Factory. We had a lot of little and some big things to catch up on so it made for a really nice evening. 

Update

Its been awhile sense I posted, but not a lot has happened. I'm
finishing up a big project at work. We are transitioning a lot of
little tasks from IT back to their rightful owners. You would think
that of would be easy but some people just don't want to do their own
work.

Regardless, its just about done. We have our last meeting with
everyone together. Its a lessons learned meeting. After this meeting
then all the other groups have all their tasks back for good.

As for fun stuff, not sure what's going on this weekend. Melissa is on
another island with her visiting family. Jamie is just about done with
her I'm hoping to meet up with some friends on Monday and I want to
catch a movie too.

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~ Justin
~ 808 221-8336

Melissa's Art Show

I went on a break from reading to visit Melissa at her show. All the work she has put into her students really shows. The different projects she had them work on this semester all had a theme that works well together. There are the spaceships, the paintings, the aliens and the planet surface :-) She really did a good job tying all the pieces together at the show.

2 Days

I got home from buying the last of the Harry Potter books and I started to read. I got in two chapters before I fell asleep. Saturday when I woke up I started reading again... The book is very well done, just makes you want to keep turning the page... In my opinion this is the darkest of the books, but it really had to be. I read a little over a quarter of the book before taking a break during the afternoon. I went up to se Melissa's art show from her classes.

After I got home from the art show I started reading again, finished a bit past the half way point before heading to bed again. Today I kinda read the whole day. Just finished the book about a min. ago. The completed story, 7 books, finishes out nicely. There are no questions left open in regards to Harry's story, in fact question remaining from the very first book have been answered. 

Questions about life after are given a small epilog. It was nice to that little glimpse of life after everything that had happened. I would have liked to know more though, in that regards it left me wanting more about the characters futures and their lives. I guess its just I wish it was not all over. I'll miss the anticipation of more to come. I can say that I will read the 7 books over and over again.

The Book

So I got my book and I just got home. Time for a few hours reading :-)

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~ Justin
~ 808 221-8336