“I’m down here in Sin City kicking the Devil in the junk for y’all”…

16Feb09

I’m goin’ in to Sin City
I’m gonna win in Sin City
Where the lights are bright
Do the town tonight
I’m gonna win in Sin City
AC-DC – Sin City

…so said Uncle Scratch’s Gospel Revival Friday night (the quote in the title, not the song lyric).  I thought it was a pretty funny line.   Ruth bought us tickets to [...]

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5, 6, 20, 2, 5, 4-4, 1, 4, and other numbers…

30Mar08

It’s been slightly over 5 weeks since my last post. Sorry…just haven’t had much muse kickin about, and been to into trying to heal things up. Which has been going well.
It’s 6 weeks since my life altering surgery, and the recovery process has been good. On week 2 my parents came [...]

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One Week!

21Feb08

It’s been a week since my operation; hard to believe.  It actually feels much longer to me, mainly because I spend alot of time just kinda sitting around, and because my nights are filled with half sleeps and restlessness.  I do my daily exercises, but beyond that I really don’t do much at all except [...]

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It really is all worth it…

19Feb08

My neck and shoulders hurt the most right now. It’s from trying to not move my chest when I cough, as that hurts ALOT, and it’s from trying to do most of my body positioning in bed with my head and neck instead of my arms. See, you’re not allowed to lift anything [...]

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The impending re-birth of Victor Schoenmeijer

12Feb08

“I’m made of clay
I fear I’m the only one who thinks this way
I’m always falling down the same hill
bamboo puncturing this skin
and nothing comes bleeding out of me just like a waterfall I’m drowning in“
Nine Inch Nails, I do Not Want This, the downward spiral, 1994
 
“Save the salesman…from the kitchen”
Yardbin (my old band), Storm Warning, [...]

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It must be an omen…

08Feb08

(I used to be my own protection)
On a Valentine’s Day,
(But not now)
On a Valentine’s Day
Valentine’s Day, Linkin Park, Minutes to Midnight
So I’ve been booked for my quadruple bypass: February 14th. Valentines day. There is some poetic sweetness in [...]

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The anticipation is killing me!

05Feb08

i got tired of waiting for my ship to come in
tired of waiting, waiting for the bus
tired of waiting for my shoes to get fixed
tired of waiting, waiting for my cheque
tired of waiting for a change in the weather
tired of waiting for the water to boil
tired of waiting for the paint to dry
tired of waiting, [...]

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Update on the surg…

24Jan08

Your smile lights up the hospital room,
please help me
please
During open-heart surgery,
please stay with me
During open-heart surgery….
“Open Heart Surgery”, Sense Field, 1999

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I’ll be meeting with the surgeon on Feb.7 and then going under the knife within a few weeks after that…could be the next day, could be 3 weeks. I’ve been doing [...]

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Yesterday, around 1 PM.

18Jan08

I watched my feet wriggle around under the blankets, making little shapes out of the sheet over top of them. My back was starting to hurt just a bit from 4 or 5 hours of lying on this hard bed, but nothing that would make me complain, really. The nurse was talking but [...]

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It’s called what?

10Jan08

“This body…this body holding me…Feeling eternal all this pain is an illusion”
Tool, “Parabola” 2001 Lateralus
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“Familial Hypercholesterolemia” Basically a genetic disorder in which the liver processes about half of the cholesterol it’s supposed to at any given time. Hence the reason I’ve had such ridiculously high cholesterol for so long. See [...]

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