2005-03-29 
 

lollipop polyp

Got the pathology back today on my little operation from Friday and I'm happy to report a benign diagnosis. On the slightly more scary side is the fact that he did let me know that the polyp was quite large and could've changed for the worse had I waited a few more months to have myself checked out.

Moral of this story? GO TO THE DOCTOR! You know who you are. Stop dawdling and making up excuses. Just go.

But enough about you. Back to me.

The doctor let me know that I'll have to have another colonoscopy in a year because it's unusual for someone my age to have developed something like this. I started to slump a bit, but he made up for it by describing my pedunculated polyp as a lollipop. Maybe it was the relief of finding out that I'm cancer free, but I couldn't stop giggling to myself after hearing that.

I remember when going to the doctors meant that I came home with a lollipop. Must be a sign of age to go in and have one removed.

Labels: dose of mikey, medical mystery

* posted by me at 1:10 AM

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2005-03-26 
 

silver lining

Spent most of Thursday in the bathroom thanks to a new acquaintance named Visicol. (and later in the afternoon, his lady friend Dulcolax) Perhaps not quite so healthy a method of cleansing as the more traditional three day fast followed by a salt water wash out, but effective none-the-less.

At the beginning of the month, I'd been dreading this whole two day ordeal, but decided that it wasn't doing me any good to wallow in worry. After remembering that The Davinci Code had been sitting next to my bed for several weeks, patiently waiting for an open window of time in which I could read it cover to cover, I began to look forward to spending a day tied to the bathroom.

So, I joined the list of folks who've read The Code, and my insides were cleaner than they've been in quite some time. Making it easy for the doctor to excise the problematic polyp from inside me.

polyps, to me, seem to be something more likely found at the bottom of the sea rather than inside the large intestine

I even got to see the little oceanic creature, though my haze of sedation makes it hard to remember whether it was the size of a grape or a grapefruit. Both common sense and healthy hopes lead me toward grape. It's only my artistic need for hyperbole that prefers the latter.

Labels: dose of mikey, medical mystery, reading

* posted by me at 4:14 PM

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2005-03-23 
 

day of dude

On this day in 1974 my life changed forever. This little ball of strange noises and odd smells entered our home and took most of the attention away from my cute self.

He's one of the best things to ever happen to me, so it's with a loud and happy voice that I shout out:

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DUDE!!!

Labels: shout out

* posted by me at 10:43 PM

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2005-03-21 
 

walking to work

9:30 - Dolores Park



Spent a very long day in a beautiful victorian with the beautiful people...but I'd rather have been home with G and Oliver.

Labels: 1000 words, g, san francisco, sharketing

* posted by me at 2:17 AM

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2005-03-17 
 

green day

Totally forgot today is St. Patrick's day. As a rather large beer fan who's getting larger in the middle because of it, this was a bit odd. True, I'm not Irish, but...OH HOW MUNDANE! Rather unimpressed with my ability to write anything worth saving in the ether. The past two weeks at work have been insanely busy and my mind has turned to pudding. Not fun pudding like chocolate or butterscotch either. An odd pudding, like pistachio or spotted dick. Of course, Spotted Dick is semi-appropriate for today.

Beavis, he said 'Spotted Dick.' Heh heh, heh heh.

Okay, a bit better, but odd pudding names are a cheap laugh. You only owe me a quarter for that one.

Labels: 1000 words, dose of mikey

* posted by me at 10:52 PM

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2005-03-16 
 

foster parents

Keeks left for Boston tonight. While she's gone, G and I agreed to foster her cat Oliver. The girl with the cool glasses will come by in about two weeks to take Oliver back to his Mom, but until then G and I get to see what it's like to live with a cat. He was a little freaked out at first but seems to be adapting nicely to his temporary digs. I could write more, but right now I'd rather just go back to the couch and curl up with our new charge. It seems to comfort him to have one of us constantly within paws reach.

Labels: dose of mikey, g

* posted by me at 1:56 AM

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2005-03-13 
 

fireballs and other fun

Last free weekend until April, and I've spent it getting stumble bumble drunk and vegetating in front of the television. White trash, that's me.

Keeks had her going away bash at Amber on Friday. I drank too much, too quickly, but still managed to have a rather interesting discussion about gender politics with a straight boy from the mission and the girl with cool glasses. I'll have to let it sit inside my head for a while and then post about it later.

The most amusing part of the evening? Together we all scared away a skinheaded Bush supporter who seemed intent on talking about how wonderful the current administration is doing despite our efforts to point out social injustice and the soaring trade deficit. It's funny how easily the question, "But you're gay, aren't you?" will clear somebody like that out your immediate vicinity. (He actually cleared right out of the bar...poor misguided creature thought a straight bar in the Castro would be safe haven from freaks.) Good to live in San Francisco. That same tactic might get me a date with a baseball bat in a different part of the country.

I finally came home, announced to G, "I'm drunkened!" and fell into bed.

Yesterday we did some environmentally conscious errands and then watched The Village. Both of these acts left me vaguely longing for a simpler time. So I watched a backlog of Friends and Bewitched episodes that Tivo thought we'd like. Oh to wrinkle my nose and solve the world's problems!

Completely missed the fireball/earthquake, but how weird was that? Also weird is that articles from CNN.com and other news agencies have already disappeared. My inner Mulder is very suspicious.

Labels: dose of mikey, san francisco

* posted by me at 3:46 PM

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2005-03-11 
 

haiku #1

this morning's haiku
washed away in the shower
leaving me with this

Labels: writing

* posted by me at 2:44 AM

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2005-03-10 
 

earl grey and other noble folk

Just returned from a lovely little dinner with A. (formerly known as Stacia on this site, just FYI to future historians)

Very nice to sit and sip tea at Samovar whilst exchanging recollections of adventures past, yet relishing the eternal now. Hmm...the tea seems to've gone to my head.

Sending a bit of white light out to A as a thank you for pointing out that you can choose to enjoy the now and still work on changing your current circumstances. In all fairness, Mom pointed out much the same thing yesterday and will get some white light herself too. Unfortunately, I was in the office during that particular conversation and a bit distracted. Somehow the tea and environs this evening pushed me over the edge into accepting what I already knew.

For anyone who's just tuned in, I'm feeling rather frustrated at work and have been wishing it would all just go away. In classic Mikey fashion, I decided to see it all as an awful experience in hopes that I'd spur myself into changing it. Funny thing is that, for the most part, work's pretty easy. Nice people and usually not much to complain about in the way of workload. It's been kind of exhausting not liking it.

So, I'm going to try something new. Given my penchant for just going with the flow, this might not be the easiest thing for me to do, but I'll try. I'm going to try and like work again and...wait for it...actually still change the path I've been travelling career-wise to something more satisfying.

No fair calling me on it if I still kvetch about work now and again. Kvetching about work has become a way for me to test out turns of phrase and vent frustrations that would be plain mean if used in context of another human being. Besides, the next three or four weeks are going to be busy enough that I'll have to implement the new path plan in fits and starts which will be frustrating enough to deserve a kvetch or two. Better inch by inch than not at all though, right?

In slightly related news, tonight A asked if I've ever tried yogo. This was odd since Mom mentioned the same thing to me yesterday. Several minutes after I passed that coincidence on to A, some random hottie passed by. He was in the midst of a conversation with a friend, but all we heard was, "Yoga is very relaxing."

The universe keeps whispering advice to me, and it's time to listen up. Anyone know a good do it yourself yoga site?

Labels: dose of mikey, san francisco

* posted by me at 12:10 AM

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2005-03-09 
 

very punny

Being prone to bad puns, today's title could've been any number of things, but sadly I had to choose just one. Fortunately for me, it's my blog, so I get to torture you with all of them instead of letting them fester inside my head.

Hair today, gone tomorrow.
A hair raising experience.
Lighter than hair.
Hair's looking at you kid.

Yes, after several months of barely trimmed growing, I finally buckled down and got myself a haircut. I'll honestly miss the shag-eared villian I was turning into, but a recent need to look "presentable" keeps me from going completely moptop.

So now I'm all clean cut, with some Star Trek type sideburns. Not sure if they'll survive the morning shave tomorrow, but for now I feel all hip and shit.

Labels: dose of mikey, writing

* posted by me at 2:04 AM

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2005-03-08 
 

silly season

I'm in the midst of the silly season at work, and while writing about all the craziness does help to keep me sane, I need to keep that offline due to a certain odious sense of honor I hold about promises made to my company. For my loyal readers, all 8 of you, I do whole heartedly apologize, but that's it for this evening.

Labels: blogging, sharketing

* posted by me at 12:24 AM

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2005-03-06 
 

across the bridge

We spent another day in the east bay looking around for new digs. I've looked up the Emerygoround, and we're contemplating options.

We'll see.

I still need to figure out what I want to be when I grow up....Pixar's over there, but Talbot's is back east...as is Lego. Don't get too excited folks, I'm also thinking of running up to northern CA and starting a commune...I'm a bit mixed up these days.

Labels: dose of mikey, linkage

* posted by me at 10:07 PM

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2005-03-05 
 

east bay afternoon

We've been looking for a new place. Being a dumbass, I forgot the camera so I can't show you the following fun sights we encountered:

Back seat of an Acura stuffed full of helium balloons in pinks and yellows. Upon reaching the front of the car, we see that it's being driven by a rather elderly but very stately Asian couple. Where were they going?

A funny billboard shouting out ESUVEES ARE NOT CARS! A campaign against them or some reverse psychological marketing ploy?

Various forms of urban blight and the flowers that sometimes pop up in the middle of it all. Why do things like that give me shivers?

Yes, I can't show you those things, so instead let me share Apartment Requirements:

Lotsa light
Eat-in kitchen with gas stove and big pantry
Lotsa storage
Space for our technical geekiness to thrive
Lotsa modern outlets
Area for us to barbecue
Lotsa happy times to be had
Quick access to Muni or Bart
(trains, not them mythical busses I hear about)

a fireplace would be nice
so would various fruit trees and herbs in the garden

NO noisy neighbors
NO nosy neighbors
NO nasty neighbors

cats are OK - purrr

Labels: dose of mikey, g, san francisco

* posted by me at 2:33 AM

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2005-03-02 
 

ups and downs

There's a line from a book I read long ago echoing in my head.

I can see that you do have your h'ups and downs Gladys!

See, I'm a person who usually claims to the outside world that I want to ride the merry go round of life, yet I constantly find myself on the rollercoaster. I must like it there or I'd get off the next time the ride got into the station and go find the much safer (and less exciting) horses going forever in circles. Like the aforementioned Gladys, I revel in the excitement of the complicated life. That being said, Gladys is never quite as excited about being a direct participant. Much happier in the role of observer. OK, I'm more like Jack than Gladys...but I'm digressing and becoming even more vague to anyone reading but my future self. I'm not ready to blog about all this right now.

For now, I'm going to go for a walk in the rain and see if that'll wash away some of this evening's troubles, but before I go:

1. I appreciate in advance any concern. Posts like the above often garner a few emails from my nearest and dearest, but I'm fine - really - just on a bumpy bit of the ride is all and feeling dramatic about it.

2. Bonus points to anyone who can source my quote up above.

Labels: dose of mikey, reading

* posted by me at 12:38 AM

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