Jamey Wright - Tech Pages

OK, not really but the boys are not overly impressed with the meal planning guide I brought home today.  That's OK, I HATE their choice of music tonight so I have donned the headphones and have massive amounts of Joe Satriani queued up in Windows Media Player.  For the moment, I think we're even. Today, I met with the program nutritionist at Alabama Surgical Associates.  He was a really nice guy but at the same time kinda weird too.  He had the attire and appearance of a real geek.  I had pretty much convinced myself he was until he shook my hand.  I thought he was trying to break it.  Good grief he had an iron grip.  I believe that the geeky look is merely a cover.  I think under those hideous clothes he is wearing a cape and other standard-issue super-hero attire.  It's the only explanation I have.  Anyway, he did a test using a weird machine but it was able to provide some numbers that detail the make-up of the body so it was n...

After Tuesday's post, I talked with some friends and got lots of encouragement.  You know who you are and thank you.  I'm still not totally de-stressed nor are any of the things that were bothering me really any better but I have just kind of pushed it aside and am just not letting it bother me right now.  I'm sure that sometime in the future it will rear its ugly head again but for now I'm just dealing with it day by day.  We kicked off the final phase of a big project this week at work.  I had almost decided it would never be completed but after 8 years it is finally going to be done!!  Of course it means more crap piled on me from now until December that I really don't need but oh well.  Now if I can just get a few things caught up I'll have it made.  Unfortunately, with one of my projects the parts I need and ordered are back-ordered and the first ones won't be in until the middle of October and the others won't be in until sometime in Novem...

Plain and simple... I am down and discouraged... about everything it seems.  As I sit here tonight and think about things I realize that I have no desire to do anything right now.  Nothing at all.  Plain and simple, I don't care anymore.  I can't really answer why... or maybe I can.  I don't know. I think a lot of it is stress.  I feel like I am under so much stress right now that I feel like I could just lose it.  The stress at work is about to push me over the edge.  I need a week away from that place so bad.  I want to take at least a week long vacation away from there.  Maybe even two weeks.  But hell, what good will that do?  Every time I take off I wind up getting called and questions asked or I have to go in to deal with some stupid problem.  Evey time I think it is getting to where I can take off, some new project or problem comes up and it always has to be fixed yesterday.  I know what I do is important and...

School is really getting to me again.  I am having a terrible time keeping up.  It seems there is just too much going on in my life right now.  When I look at my weekly life it doesn't look that busy but when comes to actually living it there is so little time for anything!  I think I need some of what Alice Cooper sings about in his 1972 hit School's Out.   If you aren't familiar with it, here it is .  I don't have to deal with pencils or dirty looks from teachers but sometimes it would nice if school was out forever.  No, I'm not saying I want it to blow up or anything like that but not having any classes would be nice.  Maybe now that the kids are back i n school I'll be a little more motivated... but somehow I doubt it.  This coming week is going to be especially tough because of everything going on.  I have to get Corey from school at 5:00 PM on Monday and Wednesday, I have to take him to pre-register for surgery at Decatur Surger...

OK, So I'm a dork.  I have been sitting here watching the special on the NatGeo Channel about the Darwin and the Galapagos Islands.  I know that watching things like this doesn't necessarily make one a dork but this is probably the 6th time I have watched it.  For whatever reason, I really enjoy it.  I like the blue-footed boobies.  No, NOT those kind of boobies.  They are birds that live in the Galapagos Islands.  There are several shows that I enjoy watching and  there are certain types of shows I enjoy.  The biggest problem is being able to watch in the first place.  It is usually monopolized by the kids (or Corey, at least) and used for playing video games.  I admit, I sometimes like to play games, but I can tell you that the boys always laugh at me because I don't have the same amunt of hand-eye coordination as them and as a result I am not as skilled as them when playing the games. The TV and DirectTV seem to be the only thi...

Well, I've not been the best about posting here but I just have lots of stuff going on.  Last Thursday, I had my first appointment with the people at the Surgical Weight Loss Center at Crestwood Hospital.  So far, all of the staff have been really nice.  Wow, they are much more thorough with the whole process.  On the first visit, before I even saw the coordinator, they did something called a "Metabolic Cart".  It is supposedly a test to measure your metabolic rate.  Yeah, ok... whatever.  I didn't really understand it but since it didn't hurt, I didn't mind.  The only thing I am really worried about is going freaking broke.  There is a lot of stuff that Insurance doesn't pay for and it is expensive.  And this doesn't even take into account the surgery.  Maybe it will all work out.  I hope so.  The only other thing that I have any reservations about is the type of procedure to be performed.  Initially (over a year ago...