20100217

Today didn't start out the greatest. I had a crappy night of sleep, if you even want to call it that. I did not make my morning swim time, I had a cumbersome to travel to meeting get cancelled also earlier on. But the day improved as it wore on

This story really kind of stuck with me today

I mainly appreciated that dying while doing what you love, it's definitely the way I want to go. I don't want to have a heart attack in the middle of the day because I had been working too much and/or under too much stress, which up until recently was clearly where I was headed. I will say, I ALWAYS avoid staged poses at places. I do realize sometimes you just want to document that you were there... Still I'm glad the guy went out the way he did!

During the course of the day, I started looking into using an open source product as a potential project for some upcoming work. It's amazing that this set of features is available essentially for free, and I'd like to find a small clinic to deploy and field test this to.

I met cousin Brenton at the NL pool today and tried to give him some pointers on swimming. I managed to squeeze in another 5000 m swim in the afternoon. Dropped another pound and hit 187.0. These last few pounds are going to be tough!
In terms of progress on the Mm swim, I found this website today. I'm not doing so bad on the year!
I have 32 swim in so far in 2010 buring 24767 Total kcal and at 134.28 Total km total distance.


Later on, I helped Mark edit our lupus lesion classification paper, I think it's almost published, finally! Scientific peer review is a dreadful process, wrought with politics and utter nastiness. I think I would prefer to define and solve problems, implement solutions, maybe push out the occasional white paper. Academia is simply not for me! 20 years is enough!

The cedar lane property in Solon near Sugarbottom became available as a for sale by owner today (I knew the listing was expiring and I pounced on it). Awesome!!! I am already in contact with the owner, via text/email negotiating on a lease and/or real estate contract. Cross your fingers, tyler and I need a new place to live June 1.

My thoughts this evening are with my aunts and uncles on Kerns side of my family. My maternal grandmother (gma k) is having a right hemicolectomy tomorrow morning.


I am sending all positive thoughts, good karma and energy towards gma k and our family (kids, grandkids and great grandkids)! I know and feel she will get through this!