Right Wing Nation

From now on, Central Pennsylvania Orthodox will be my primary blog. I’ll cross-post health updates here, and overtly political posts here (it’s just that I’m not very focused on or interested in politics right now), but will use my other blog as my primary platform. At this stage in my life, I am focused more […]

My brother was here practically from the diagnosis before it was more than a guess and went back to Indiana last night. He waited until the last minute, so I’d shut down by the time he left. Anyway, this morning, I booted up and sent a message to my sister-in-law, just a “he wasn’t doing […]

Just in case you’re wondering why no politics here. Obama. Cancer. Do the math.

Hard to say, watching TV through a morphine fog.

Norman Vincent Peale, wasn’t it? When (actually if, but that’s where the positive thinking comes in) I get back home, and by extension, church, I’ll be in a wheelchair (I have no illusions about regaining much use of my legs). Orthodox worship in a wheelchair. It’s kind of upside down, isn’t it? I doubt I’d […]

Major surgery today. More sometime in the future, when I’m well enough and I have a way to post.

My legs are pretty much useless today — I can’t even close the recliner. I have an appointment Monday with the orthopedic surgeon, but as bad as this has gotten, I wonder if maybe I should call his office today.

Yesterday, the pain was the worst so far, and it did not let up all night (and I got no sleep). Today, I broke down and hit the pain meds, something I don’t want to do a lot, since there are only a finite number of them, and it takes more than a couple to […]

The Blogfather:
THE HEADLINE READS OBAMA CONTINUES TO LEAD 2012 CONTESTS, but that’s putting a pretty good spin on the fact that he’s only 4 points ahead of Mike Huckabee. Yes, Mike Huckabee. If you’re 47-43 over Mike Huckabee, that’s not a good sign. When, you know, you’re President, and the media love you.

Walking is a lot better than it was — mobility is improving rapidly. So I’m starting to hope that this won’t be as bad as it could be (although I awoke in sweat-inducing pain).

I’ve been discharged.

I’ve been admitted. I fractured my spine. There’s wi-fi in the room.

Yesterday while leaving Baby’s, I didn’t see the step down and fell. Blinding pain. I can barely walk, so I’m headed in to see what I did.
As if I didn’t have enough to worry about.

I’m going to have to take a break from grading (I’m nearly done) to go to my doctor. Course, this hip thing has gotten a lot better and I’m not quite sure what I’ll do there, but I do have some questions I’d like answered.
Oh. That, and pick up an extra value meal (more about […]

Today is the first day in three weeks now that I can say I am better. No back pain, and the hip pain is a lot less than it’s been all day, every day, for three weeks.

I keep getting these “Joey Bouillabaise is following you on twitter!” messages, except that if I have a twitter account, it’s news to me (you have to have an account right? If not, how can you follow somebody?) Either it’s some sort of phishing (I haven’t read any of these messages), or somebody’s confused.

H/T to Maggie’s Farm, to date the largest Anglo-Saxon treasure discovered in Straffordshire. Pics at the link.

The obituary to a once grand automobile, now the American Yugo, and a tribute to the beautiful, classy, Dinah Shore, who passed away fifteen years ago. One of my earliest memories is of Dinah singing this jingle.

Video: Tom DeLay on Dancing with the Stars.

Today, in a couple of hours.

Three hundred and eighty-nine years ago today, the Mayflower left England’s shores for America. Hat tip: Maggie’s Farm.

Done grading! Now, I have to finish up materials for class tomorrow, and put together a problem set to post on Thursday.
And find something to eat.

From New York, March 23 2008.
Nearly every opera performance, even those that should not be, is flawed. One of the singers is not having a good night. The conducter is rushing the music. The soloists were excellent, but the chorus was not. After the performance, we are left saying, “If only . . .”
Take the […]

Somewhere around 450 AD (according to the Venerable Bede), the Celtic warlord Vortigern, embattled by the northern Picts, made a decision that would change the world: He invited the Frisian brothers Horsa and Hengest to bring their warriors across the sea as mercenaries and help him defeat the Picts. After the fierce northern Germanic warriors […]

Astounding. The Hubble ultra-deep field in 3D. Watch it there in HD.

And it’s not surprising that he can tie a bowtie, one of those dying gentleman’s skills. I was once given a free bowtie in a formal wear shop in Chicago because nobody who worked there knew how to tie a bowtie and I taught them.
For me, it was an aha! experience — and I learned […]

Gene Expressions reports:
Interacting with women can impair men’s cognitive functioning
Yes, it was a study. Clearly, the researchers don’t watch South Park.

The arthritis in the hip has been acting up, but it’s actually now kind of incidental. For the last three months, I’ve had this pain behind my left shoulder blade (huh?), which has been getting worse. It’s too bad to ignore, so I’m going to the doctor this morning.
Tomorrow is a very full day. IT […]

I’m teaching this semester, so blogging may be a bit spotty (definitely this and next week, since the semester just started).

France has won the world air guitar championship (hat tip to Tim Blair).

They’re baaaaaaaack!

The semester starts Monday — this coming Monday — and I’m killing myself trying to get ready. I will re-post a few articles for your enlightenment and entertainment in a few minutes.

Taser parties!

Here, finally. More later, probably tomorrow morning.

Leaving for Indiana tomorrow, coming back Sunday. May or may not blog.

That’s this morning. Nothing here until this afternoon.

Holy crap!

Videos and pics from the last meeting of Civil War Veterans in 1938.

The guys at Popular Mechanics are right. The Grill Daddy actually works.

Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776
When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature’s God entitle them, […]