Weekend 15-17 December

[Draknor]

And it's over already...

[Draknor]

Pretty laid back weekend for me. My boss gave me a gift certificate to Applebees as a Christmas gift, so I took Guenter and Mrs. Guenter out to dinner Friday. Tried out Dungeon Runners for an hour or two. Did chores and errands.

Mrs. Guenter goes in for surgery at the Mayo Clinic tomorrow to have her brain tumor removed. If you could reserve a few moments to send her a few positive thoughts it would be appreciated. I'll be inhabiting the waiting room with the family for a couple days, but will be back later this week.

[DirkDarkBlade]

I'll keep Mrs. Guenter (and you and her family) in my prayers.

For my weekend:

Friday logged in and went on further adventures, experience flowed well, and Dinged 50! Yeah, only there were no LoW's on to see it. I went to train and spent over 26G triaining! (yikes!) which was well over half my money. I have to work on that.

Saturday: Got a good run in (not great but good). I'm not nearly as prepared for the race (in three weeks! Yikes again) as I've been in the past but I think I will still make it. After that I ran errands and I think I mostly finished my Christmas shopping.

Sunday: Church musical was great. Did the grocery shopping thing. Cleaned house some more (I'm starting to be able to tell I've done something!). Then went out for a quick run.

I still need to stop by the craft store this week and need to make cookies etc so I'm not sure when I'll get to play this week.

[Caranthir]

Friday - DNP. Worked on finishing up homework. Also watched BSG.

Saturday - DNP. Last day of classes, then did Christmas shopping in Lincoln before coming home and crashing hard.

Sunday - Played Kaerik for a bit, finally getting him to 30. Cleaned a bit, finally getting my living room back to a semblance of what it was before some twit shoved their Thanksgiving dinner down their garbage disposal. Watched The Simpsons, American Dad, Family Guy, and the season finale of Dexter.

[Lycos]

Played WoW while watching the kids for most of the weekend. It was a good time had by all. A number of friends were seen or invited over to play so everyone was doing pretty well. I did go out and do some shopping on Sunday afternoon. Looked for some things to buy, but overall I didn't find anything that I wanted to spend money on yet.

Last night, I dinged Charity to level 57. I finished a number of quests up and picked up more. Currently, I'm making progress in Winterspring towards level 58. :D

[EricStratton]

Friday: Played a bunch of Civ4 and FF12. When Joy came home we went to Outback for dinner. Came home and watched BSG.

Saturday: Ran errands, played Civ4. Finally got around to putting up our outside Xmas lights. At 8pm or so we went to my company's Xmas party. Most of the ppl I was good friends w/ in the company are either already gone or didn't bother going to the party but we still had fun. And the food was awesome.

Sunday: Ran errands and watched football. Yeah, Skins! Sorry, Andrea. As I've said when the Skins can put together an entire game, it's beautiful. Hopefully we can keep it up going into the last two games and show we've got the ppl we need for next year.

[Shiz]

ISP was flaky most of the weekend so I chose to play PS when I could game instead of EQ2. Saturday night was the monthly "IntoxiOp" where everyone drinks when they die. My ISP went down after about an hour so I didn't get to experience drunken Teamspeak rants. Probably for the best.

On Sunday we had a Christmas brunch at the club and then headed to the local firehouse for fire engine rides. Stone and I sat in the passenger seat and he got to blow the really loud horn (not the siren) at will. In the afternoon, I watched the Eagles smack the Giants around. Serani beat me in the FFL playoffs by 3.

[Serani]

We'll keep Mrs. Guenter in our thoughts and prayers. I hope everything goes well.

This week the weather has been killing me. The temperature keeps ping-ponging between mid 30's and 60. As a result, I've been fighting migraines since about Tuesday. Had one most of the weekend and my throat started hurting up into my ears on Saturday.

Friday, I went out to Borders cafe to finish up my final paper. 3 cups of coffee, 12 pages of text and 15 minutes before closing and I finally finished. Rubi said it was good, though, sans a tiny bit of correction, when he read it on Saturday. When I got home, I just went straight to bed.


Saturday: I tried to play for a while after doing a bit of running in the morning but with the headache, my head wasn't taking the in game movement. I got dizzy quickly, so I played Super Collapse instead and then napped (in the laem attempt to rid myself of the perpetual headache) before my mom came out. At one point, I ended up on the shower floor, with my head up against the cold tiles. Eventually, I got rid of it (with the help of Rubi rubbing my head) so that I could take my mom and the kids to the big Christmas light display here. $12 donation, I was glad my mom was paying. Till we got through the line, I dropped her off and we got home it was almost midnight again. Fell asleep right away.

Sunday, the kid's and Rubi wanted to shop for me, so we all went out. I picked up my few things and battled yet another headache. (Will these temperatures ever quit!?!) Finally went away after throwing a couple doses of my migraine medication at it. I think I'm still sick overall, though, because I was ridiculously hot when no one else was and generally felt crappy (throat is STILL tight). Anyway, came home, set up in the dining room, watching part of the Steeler game (YAY!!) then Stargate (the movie) and the first couple disks of SG1 season 1. Wrapped for the rest of the night. I can't BELIEVE I managed to beat Shiz and that was with my QB dropping out after a few bad plays to injuries. :eek!: I play Drax this week in the final game. :floored:

I've got wrapping, cookie baking and cards to do this week. I doubt I'll play much, even with free time, until these temps stabilize. Ugh.

Edited to add: I just got my grade on my paper and it's a 96%!!!!:floored: :floored:

[Charinida]

More fun friday... 10hr OT, 4 Straight... good thing they really didn't need me from the office to the counter. :D The day before, there was a radar problem. Fun. Was tired for sure... Also worked on a few christmas cards and sent them out! Wheee!

Sat, instead of shipping some items out (one will be heavy!) I slept in, then went about in L2.

Sun, worked. Watched part of the Bear and (??) game. One of the guy in the football pool had the score (31/31) but couldn't win 'cos of the OT. :D He hasn't won any part of the games so far. More L2.

Overall, got the Wizard up to L30... Late Sat, dropped the Light Elf Ranger to make a new Dark Elf... Initially, she's going the same route as the Wizard but when her class change quest comes up (at L20), she will go the route of the Healer (Oracle then Elder at L40). I don't think I ever really played a healer in all the games I played. I've primarily played a Nuker type (Chari from EQ1 being Wizard, Sumire a Warlock) ...

Ah well... Will see what happens. The Guild she's in, they don't have a healer... Gonna be interesting...

And to Leng and Lady G... May all things go well, thoughts and prayers to you both.

[Raveneye]

Congrats on the A Serani!

Best wishes for a successful outcome and fast recovery for Mrs. Guenter (and decent cafeteria food for Draknor and Guenter while they wait it out).


FRI : Hung out with the boy after work while my wife, daughter and mom-in-law all went out shopping. Watched the BSG half-season finale. If that giant Target logo looking thing they stared at the whole episode turns out to be "The Eye of Jupiter" I swear I will fly to California and personally punch Ron Moore in the face.

SAT: My son had a couple of his buddies over for his 7th birthday party. The girls all went out shopping again, so it was me and a gang of 6-7 year old boys. They played at the house for a while, then I took them all to McDonalds (we had to go to two different one's, the first was packed with holiday shoppers), then we all went BOWLING. It was hilarious. They put the bumpers up on our lane, the guys all got 6-pound balls (no snickering!) and they had a blast for a couple of hours. One kid even topped 100, which I thought was impressive even with bumpers. :smile: Played some Dungeon Runners in the evening grouped with my older son who was home sick at his house.

SUN : Spent about 4 hours helping my mom pick up a new kitchen table and chairs from Sears then putting them together for her. They are from the Ty Pennington Collection, but are made in Vietnam. I hear his "Extreme Hut Makeover" is popular there. I have to admit, even though it took forever and the instructions were less than clear about some stuff, in the end it all came together perfectly and looks really nice.

After that we all went to a friend's restaraunt for a visit with Santa that they do every year. The kids each got a gift and some facetime with Santa and everyone had fun. In the evening I played some more Dungeon Runners and a bit of Guild Wars while watching parts of "Return of the King" on TNT.

[Greebo]

Friday: Took the half day off in the afternoon. Headed down to DC to meet up with Larry and Rena. We played a game of "Princes of Florence", then went out to dinner at an Ethiopian restaurant. Very interesting style of dining - food is served on a communal plate and you're given a rubbery kind of bread which you use to pick up and eat the food. Tasty! Spicy!!

Then it was off to the Comedy Spot to catch The Renaissance Man's one man, audience particiaption presentation of "A Christmas Carol". I was Scrooge. (I think I was the only volunteer.) That was a lot of fun, and I got several compliments afterwards on my performace.

Saturday: Got Dungeon Runners up and running by manually downloading the patches so the patcher could apply them. Something flaky there but it doesn't seem widespread, so it could be my compute. Played it off and on both Sat and Sun, got my mage up to lvl 12. Pretty basic hack and slash game, but not without its humor value. We watched Alastair Sims in A Christmas Carol sat night, but I napped through most of it. We also ordered chinese...

Sunday: ...which led to Carol being sick all day Sunday. We think she got some fishy egg foo young. She was nasty sick most of the day and spent all day on the couch. She's feeling somewhat better today, yay. WHen I wasn't tending to my debilitated bride, I was playing DR, or Tetris, or watching some DIY shows...

[Lycos]

I missed the Mrs. Guenter part. I do hope all goes well with the surgery. They have kids, right?

[shadowgate]

Craptastic weekend!

Friday - Took half day to do things with family but by 5pm I hand what seemed to be a raging migraine and went to bed after daughter openned her first day of Chanukah.

Saturday - Still was feeling bad and decided I might actually have the virius my daughter was getting over without the fever. Stayed home while my daughter and wife went to two of her friends birthday parties. Get a call at 5pm from frantic wife that my daughter has a mouth full of blood due the a three year old boy ramming himself into her mouth (guessing his head). This is at a pump it up party (all pumped up bouncing/sliding equipment). Later find out this was second time at party that this boy did this... Also later find out that the mother of the party when she hears that my daughters teeth are loose...."at least they are baby teeth"!

Anyway wife rushes her home for me to take a look at her since the bleeding has mostly stopped. We take her to the emergancy room to find that four off her front top teeth at loose.! :( Doctor says there is nothing to be done other than antibiotics and salt rinses and eating only soft food.

Sunday - Talk to our dentist and he come into the office to check her out. Says mostly the same as the emergancy doc. Says at least "most" of the teeth would come out on there own within a year. We will be going back to see dentist on Friday when hopefully the teeth are more stable and he can do x-rays to make sure there is not broken parts of the teeth or bone damage. He doesn't believe there is either of those.

Oh, and did I mention that Friday night my wife did something to her back and by Sunday night has pain down her leg and can hardly move? He is taking motrin and icing it with only "some" relief. Tried heat but that didn't seem to help at all.

Fun weekend!!! NOT!

[Kiir]

Friday: Erm I don't really remember what I did Friday. I think I had a cold and spent most of the day in bed resting and reading and surfing the boards. I think I played my DS a bit as well. Oh and lit Hanukkah lights for the first night of Hanukkah

Saturday: We went out shopping some. I know really silly idea, but we didn't head anywhere near the mall at least. Went to Best Buy and bought a Xbox360. We decided that it was worth it, we've been debating it a few weeks now. Bought some games to go with it as well. Stopped at Home Depot to look and decide on a cabinet/sink base for the half bath, decided on one, though didn't end up replacing it this weekend. We were going to stop at Target but well, the line to get into the parking lot was backing up the street on both sides in front of the shopping center so we passed. Did stop at EB games and went out to lunch though. Headed back to Home Depot after that to see what kind of TV stands they had since we're getting rid of both our entertainment centers. Found one we liked but they were out of stock so headed home. Set up and played the new Xbox360. It is impressive and the graphics blow the gamecube away, heck they blow the computer away depending on the game.

Went back out to mail a package and hit Target and Borders to finished up shopping for my inlaws, only have 2 things or so atty needs to pick up for me left to do and we are done shopping. Picked up Star Wars2 Legos, headed home and played some of that. It was fun and amusing. It is a well done game and really funny to be playing in a lego universe of StarWars. Headed to bed eventually.

Sunday: Played some more on the Xbox360 then went out. We went to Ikea and found a good TV stand, actually we found the one we planned to replace the old one with anyways. We then headed home with a stop at Best Buy because we wanted to buy octopus power supplies (ie not cube based ones). We stopped to look at the HD TVs while we were there since that is where the power supplies we wanted were. We erm ended up buying a new TV (which was totally not in the plans) it was within our budget and 32 inches which was all we really wanted, though we were planning to wait a year or two. Oh well, in a year or two we can upgrade to a bigger one if we wish now. Got home, atty put together the entertainment center I watched and helped as needed. Played some Dungeon Runner, played more Xbox360 now on the HD TV, which you can definitely tell the difference on. Stayed up a bit later then planned playing before heading to bed.

Overall, a fairly busy weekend, even though we didn't game online much.

[Lycos]

Shadowgate, sorry about the Craptastic weekend!

Hopefully, you'll find that kid and... :twisted:

Well, hopefully, your days will be better going forward! :D

[Drax]

A wonderful weekend! Friday night, went to church to celebrate Christmas with the recovering addicts program that meets every Friday. Great time, plus Santa visited and brought the children presents (courtesy of the church members and a gift tree). Great fun!

Sat, spent the day shopping. In the evening, Becky and I used her birthday gift, two tickets to A Christmas Carol at the Fabulous Fox Theater in downtown StL. Great time, wonderful show. And, I must confess, Becky looked hawt, wearing a little Marilyn Monroe-esque dress, but black. Very ... nice. ;)

Sunday, spent morning at church, afternoon Christmas shopping, and evening at church watching the children/youth Christmas program, A Mouse Christmas. Cute show. Following the show was cookies and fellowship time downstairs. Great fun!

And actually got to play some FFXII (finishing the Lhusu Mines section and getting past the Basch testimony section.
I play Drax this week in the final game. :floored:
I hope so, sera, but Ash actually has a great chance to beat me (b/c I managed 0.20pts from the recently Mr Reliable Marty Booker *sigh*) since he's down by 30pts, but has Chad Johnson against Indy in a projected shootout. My only real hope is that Rudi Johnson puts on a show tonight against Indy "vaunted" run Defense, which is a strong possibility. Good luck tonight, Ash!

[Asharad]

I hope so, sera, but Ash actually has a great chance to beat me (b/c I managed 0.20pts from the recently Mr Reliable Marty Booker *sigh*) since he's down by 30pts, but has Chad Johnson against Indy in a projected shootout. My only real hope is that Rudi Johnson puts on a show tonight against Indy "vaunted" run Defense, which is a strong possibility. Good luck tonight, Ash!

I don't know if it is a great chance, but it is a chance. The over/under on the game tonight is 54, which is the highest i have ever seen. I'm hoping Indy packs the box up to stop Rudi...

[Andrea]

Saturday - Still was feeling bad and decided I might actually have the virius my daughter was getting over without the fever. Stayed home while my daughter and wife went to two of her friends birthday parties. Get a call at 5pm from frantic wife that my daughter has a mouth full of blood due the a three year old boy ramming himself into her mouth (guessing his head). This is at a pump it up party (all pumped up bouncing/sliding equipment). Later find out this was second time at party that this boy did this... Also later find out that the mother of the party when she hears that my daughters teeth are loose...."at least they are baby teeth"!


To me, to say "at least they are baby teeth" is fighting words. I am a vindictive person and when it comes to my kids getting hurt, i get enraged. So if someone told me that in the same situation, i probably wouldve said something stupid or done something stupid..e.i. slashed the mom's tires. Cause to me...that is undermining the situation and poking fun at what had happen. Thats why i dont let my kids jump in the jumpy things cause I know Jack, he can get wild in them and I wont let him hurt others in there. I just try and avoid the whole situation. <gets off soapbox>


Fri: took a halfday at work and did most of my xmas shopping. Still got a couple things to pick up.

Sat: Went to a birthday lunch at a local restaurant for a friend. Picked up the birthday cake for Jack and headed to his birthday party as Saturday, Dec 16th was his actually bday. The Zombie Slayer has turned 7. And yes, most of the people dressed as ninjas. Picked up a random kid movie from the movie rental place and played with Jack's bday toys for the rest of the night. I think I may have popped in WoW, not sure.

Sun: Took the kids to the mall to go see Santa. Waited in line for about an hour. Shopped around a lil bit. It got super crowded so I decided to leave since I had a high risk at losing Jack in one of the stores cause he tends to wander and doesnt listen well. Came home, watched football. Think I played WoW off and on. I know I did complete some Xmas quests and such. So I am totally exhausted and ready for the holidays to be over with!

[DirkDarkBlade]

Do we have somewhere a list of what the Christmas WoW quests are? Just curious. (I looked in the WoW forum...or whatever its called now) but didn't see it.

[Sylvene]

Thursday/Friday - worst wind storm the Seattle-Tacoma area has seen in the past 15 years. Power dropped most everywhere as trees went down, taking power lines with them.

Friday night - we have a gas stove & gas water heater, so stayed in. Showed brother tricks of keeping warm - heating up frying pans and sweeping the bed with it.

Saturday - dug out the good ol' wool & fake fur-lined cloak from SCA days and spent cozy day reading and snoozing in front of fire - still recovering from the nasty virus. Lunch and dinner was fortifying soups and stews as we cooked all we could. Picked up some cough medicine from the pharmacy once they got power back in the afternoon, charged up my cell phone at the Starbucks. Bro took family to the office to camp out. I wasn't leaving my bed. Boiled couple large pots of water to augment water heater and had a hot, hot bath, dug out ol' sleeping bag to add on top of duvet. Slept 'til morn and woke up to freezing cold house.

Sunday - breakfast & charged up cell phone. Then shopping with friend & lunch at local mall. Back to house - Bro had returned to shower family - showed him trick of heating up fry-pan and taking it to the bath room to put clothes in - cooked up remaining defrosted food in another large pot of stew. Ate, then snoozed curled up in cloak in front of fire place. Then it was dinner with other friends. Back to house where water heater had time to re-charge. Hot, hot, hot shower, washed hair even... wrapped up in cloak in front of fire again until hair was dry... warmed up bed. Ahhh...

Monday - still powerless in the house. Back to work. Same old, same old. ;)

[Drax]

Do we have somewhere a list of what the Christmas WoW quests are? Just curious. (I looked in the WoW forum...or whatever its called now) but didn't see it.
Here's the only list (http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_gw/105-5504928-3971604?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=Christmas+WoW+)I know of...

Hope it helps!


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What? ;)

[Aananla]

Mrs. Guenter goes in for surgery at the Mayo Clinic tomorrow to have her brain tumor removed. If you could reserve a few moments to send her a few positive thoughts it would be appreciated. I'll be inhabiting the waiting room with the family for a couple days, but will be back later this week.
Mrs. Guenter is in my prayers.

Edited to add: I just got my grade on my paper and it's a 96%!!!!:floored: :floored:
Great job Serani!

I was Scrooge. (I think I was the only volunteer.) That was a lot of fun, and I got several compliments afterwards on my performace.
Came naturally, did it?

Got to play a little. Aananla dinged. Crafted a little. Ran Jadiir around Steamfont killing stuff. Couldn't find the Explorer for the "Mouthing Off" quest. Dunno what it is exactly. Could be a clicky, or a mob to kill, but didn't see anything around.

[Sylvene]

Mrs. Guenter goes in for surgery at the Mayo Clinic tomorrow to have her brain tumor removed. If you could reserve a few moments to send her a few positive thoughts it would be appreciated. I'll be inhabiting the waiting room with the family for a couple days, but will be back later this week.

Best wishes and prayers!

[Drax]

Mrs. Guenter goes in for surgery at the Mayo Clinic tomorrow to have her brain tumor removed. If you could reserve a few moments to send her a few positive thoughts it would be appreciated. I'll be inhabiting the waiting room with the family for a couple days, but will be back later this week.
Geez, totally missed this the first time through.

G and the Missus will be in my prayers in the coming days, that God's hands guide the doctors' in a successful operation and for a speedy recovery!

[Sylvene]

Oh my, Shadowgate... hope everything turns out alright. :( That was indeed a craptastic weekend.

[Caranthir]

I'll be praying for Mrs. Guenter. You don't get much better care than the Mayo Clinic, so I'm sure she'll pull through just fine.

[shadowgate]

Mrs. Guenter goes in for surgery at the Mayo Clinic tomorrow to have her brain tumor removed. If you could reserve a few moments to send her a few positive thoughts it would be appreciated. I'll be inhabiting the waiting room with the family for a couple days, but will be back later this week.

Our prayers are also with Mrs. Guenter and her family!

[leng]

Took mum out to buy a new car on saturday. I hope she can summon the nerve to drive it, as she has been off the road for some time. Other than that I don't remember much about the weekend.

My best wishes to Mrs G., and to Mr. G who I am sure is putting on a brave face but wetting himself in private. And also to Shadowgate, who seems to have had more than his share of grief in the last few days.

[Greebo]

Then it was off to the Comedy Spot to catch The Renaissance Man's one man, audience particiaption presentation of "A Christmas Carol". I was Scrooge. (I think I was the only volunteer.) That was a lot of fun, and I got several compliments afterwards on my performace.

Came naturally, did it?

Bah, Humbug!

Actually, I got warned by the guy not to be funnier than him. ;) And then the woman who got picked to play the "Food for the homeless" campaign fund raiser was REALLY funny - she was all in my face about it, and we started improving a bit, and got warned for it again - and then after Scrooge's redemption, she got pulled up again for me to give generously, and we started improving again so the Renaissance Man just wandered over to her seat and sat down to watch! :) :goodie!::rotflmao:

[Drax]

then after Scrooge's redemption, she got pulled up again for me to give generously, and we started improving again so the Renaissance Man just wandered over to her seat and sat down to watch! :) :goodie!::rotflmao:
I don't doubt it, but I would hope you did some improvising as well... :lowlol: :goodie!:

[Greebo]

*eyeroll* "Improv" and "Improving" are accepted short hand terms for improvisation and improvising.

[Tulenyre]

Friday: Greebo covered this bit, we ate Ethopian a bit fast because we were in a rush (which aparently we didn't need to be since the show started late). We like ethopian food it's fun eating with your hands :) .

Greebo did a good job as scrooge, it was a natural extension of his personality :rotflmao: .

Saturday: Simple shopping and wrapping presents, went to see the Caps play Philly (and they kicked Phillies butt). Picked up a giant remote from brookstone for her parents, I think it's funny.

http://www.brookstone.com/store/product.asp?product_code=538744&search_type=search&search_words=remote&prodtemp=t1&cm_re=Result*R2C1*A

Sunday: Nothing exciting, went out to do some minor shopping.. wrapped a few more presents. Later in the day we decided to make our Christmas Ornament out of a hand spun glass ball from her home town and a glass etching kit (we etched in a Snowman and Snowflakes).. it was really hard to etch a glass ball (the round surface makes it difficult).

At various times all weekend I got to play Civ4... I love that game :) . I loaded it on my work laptop :) , It's a nice laptop....

[EricStratton]

Picked up a giant remote from brookstone for her parents, I think it's funny.

http://www.brookstone.com/store/product.asp?product_code=538744&search_type=search&search_words=remote&prodtemp=t1&cm_re=Result*R2C1*A

:eek!: :rotflmao: I like this quote from the item desc:

It even features glow-in-the-dark buttons, so you can easily find the remote in the dark.

I have a feeling it's less for you to be able to find it in the dark and more so you don't trip on it and kill yourself. :lowlol:

[Drax]

*eyeroll* "Improv" and "Improving" are accepted short hand terms for improvisation and improvising.
Also provides for punishing sentences... ;)

[Barrack]

Well, I might as well post some meself.

This weekend was interesting. found out my mom is still sick from some sort of bug, my dad made it sound like she was really bad off, but when April and I went to visit she seemed to be doing ok.

Sat was also the company holiday party, was fun but I think they could have picked a diffrent local then Coors Field.

On Sun, after work I picked up the first of 2 Chinchillas for Aprils last gift. Poor thing may have been tromitised a bit, seems it is hiding in one corner of the cage. (it is over at Aprils sisters house currently).

About a week or 2 ago we ended up getting 2 more ferrets, these were given to us by a friend's mom who had to get rid of them due to a change of landlord. The new gals and old guys took to each other right away.

On the gaming front, April and I have finally gotten our duo to 40th. April is complaining that I got my mount for free (Palidan, she is playing a mage).

Work is quite slow, esentally waiting for the begining of the New Year, It looks like we will be switching to web based apps useing VB.Net. I am looking forward to that.

I can't believe it is just 3.5 months till the wedding, still alot to do.

[Draknor]

They have terminals in all the waiting rooms here at St Marys/Mayo, so just a quick update.

Guenter's better half is making a fantastic recovery and the surgery went very well. She only spent the night in ICU, and was moved up to a "normal" room a few hours ago. Her doctor is even talking about letting her go home on Friday (!!).

Needless to say, everyone is extremely pleased. If you're ever looking to have brain surgery (not that I reccomend it), Mayo is the place to be.:lowsmile:

[Caranthir]

They have terminals in all the waiting rooms here at St Marys/Mayo, so just a quick update.

Guenter's better half is making a fantastic recovery and the surgery went very well. She only spent the night in ICU, and was moved up to a "normal" room a few hours ago. Her doctor is even talking about letting her go home on Friday (!!).

Needless to say, everyone is extremely pleased. If you're ever looking to have brain surgery (not that I reccomend it), Mayo is the place to be.:lowsmile:

/cheer

:goodie!:

Glad to hear Mrs. Guenter's doing well!

[Lycos]

Yay! Go go Mrs. Guenter! :mrgreen:

I'm glad to hear the good news!

[Aananla]

Fantastic news Drak. Thanks for the update.

[Asharad]

That's great, thanks for the update!

[Greebo]

EXCELLENT news! YAY!

[Serani]

That is WONDERFUL news!!! WOO HOO!!!

[DirkDarkBlade]

I'm very glad to hear that and will keep Mrs G in my prayers, that her recovery will continue to go smoothly and quickly.

[Sylvene]

Wuwu! That's fantastic news. :goodie!: :goodie!: Best wishes to Mrs. G for a speedy, bump-free recovery. :D

[leng]

I am extremely happy for you, G (and Mrs. G).

[Xuthia]

Sorry to hear about Mrs. G's condition, but pleased to hear that the surgery went well.

Sorry your weekend was so lousy SG. I've never dealt with loose baby teeth, but I truly emphasize.

I cannot believe I have not logged on since November 27! In addition to the end-of-the-semester chaos, grading. and seasonal events, I've been running back and forth to hometown because both my father and father-in-law have been undergoing diagnostic testing. My dad's diagnosis was good; he's been having dizzy spells, but, all of the tests indicated no major problems; the physicians think the cause of the dizziness is vertigo. Unfortunately, my father-in-law has prostate cancer and will begin radiation treatment in January. He had a triple by-pass several years ago and did very well. This news, however, has hit hard, of course, and he's a bit depressed and dreading the treatment. Meanwhile, everyone's trying to stay upbeat and focus on having a "normal" holiday.


Oh, and I spent the weekend grading final essays and exams. The deadline to submit grades was noon on Monday. The campus clock was chiming twelve as I entered the last grade . . . whew.

Now, time to do a bit of Christmas shopping.

[leng]

This does not seem to be a good time to be a relative of a LoW member.

Glad to hear that your father's condition is not too serious, Xuthia, although vertigo can be a right pain. I wish your father-in-law good luck for a speedy recovery, though.