Jamey Wright - Tech Pages

After months and months of this thing sitting idle and me not having anything I have felt like sharing, I have decided to go a different direction with my blog.  Yes, I am still dieting and trying to lose weight.  My success is not what I would like for it to be but I can say I have made progress.  This new direction will also touch on this from time to time but overall I want to do something different. I could have chosen a number of things to write about like computers and networking, or ham radio, or politics (yeah, right) but there are lots of those type blogs out there already.  I am going to write about my cooking and meals.  I have no idea how this will go but hopefully I'll be able to keep up the content.  I'll share my recipes and thoughts on improving them, family reaction to the meal, maybe some pics of the dish and who knows what else. To kick this off, I'll start with last night's meal.  Sorry, there won't be any pictures for this one ...

Well..... I really didn't... but it still looks that way.  Everybody knows how it goes.  We all get busy, life gets in the way and things just get pushed aside.  This is no exception. Well... I guess I should give an update on where I am.  In the last post,I mentioned I still had a couple of pounds to lose.  Well, I did manage to lose those pounds.  The nutritionist was pleased and I was pretty happy too.  After a couple of days, the insurance coordinator called me and said I was approve by Blue Cross to have the surgery.  Shortly after her call, the surgeon's nurse called to schedule my surgery.  Wow!!!  I was not prepared for those emotions.  I didn't have an answer for her.  I had a lot of stuff going on at work and even had some work related travel planned.  I told her all of that and that I would have to look at my schedule and get back with her.  Well, things kind of rocked along for a week or so and I ignored...

Whew.  The last few weeks have been rough, especially the last 7 days.  I had meant to post sooner but life just hasn't allowed it.  As some of you know, my dad has been sick and things are still not back to normal.  First though, I'll talk about me. My last nutritionist appointment went pretty good.  I hadn't lost much weight but I had lost some.  I still had about 3 pounds to lose.  I have been working really hard to get those three pounds off and have been somewhat successful.  The last I checked, I have about 2 pounds to go.  I have changed my diet around quite a bit but it is a slow go.  Still, I think I can make it. Dealing with Dad has really been tough the last month or so.  He was diagnosed with lung cancer in the last part of December as well as mild dementia and COPD.  Last Wednesday, he had surgery to remove the upper lobe of his left lung.  The surgery was successful but there are some side effects that ma...

Holy crap it has been a long time since I posted anything here.  Sorry about that folks.  Life has just been absolutely crazy the last few months.  Truthfully, I don't even know where to start but here we go! The last time I posted I was in Chicago and had gotten myself into some kind of funk and was kinda down.  I am over that particular funk but there is plenty of other stuff to take its place.  Chicago was an interesting place... at least what I saw (but, honestly, wasn't much).  It was a nice break away from everything here though. I really enjoyed seeing my good friends Amy and Glenn.  We didn't get to spend as much time visiting as we wanted to but we still had a good time.  Chicago was also fun because it allowed me to experience some new foods.  I had Polish, German, Chicago Beef, Chicago Hot Dogs, and Chicago Style Pizza.  I have to say that the Chicago Style pizza was my favorite.  Even with eating all of my meals out a...

Peace and quiet.  "What is that?" most people will ask.  It is kind of a rare thing for me too.  Most of the time life is constantly bombarding me with something.  I suspect a lot of people are the same way, but I really don't know for sure.  Honestly, I kind of have this weird personality.  I really don't like to mingle with and socialize with people, or at least people I really don't know.  I love my closest friends and will hang out with them anytime but when in unfamiliar places with people I just met or don't even know, I am uncomfortable.  I am in Chicago right now so once again I am around people I don't really know.  The people in the class I am in aren't too bad but when I'm not in class, things are different.  Tonight, when I went to dinner, I was really overcome with a feeling of... Actually, I was flooded with several feelings and emotions.  I felt really awkward going into the restaurant by myself.  While waiting f...

Again, I have been terrible at posting here on a regular basis.  I started to write something the other night but I could not come up with anything to write about, or at least anything I felt was appropriate to say in public.  That's the way life goes I guess. Work has been really busy lately.  We have been working on this huge project that was started in 2004.  To me, it is a pain in the ass.  My boss calls it "welfare for lawyers".  This is a FCC (read Federal Govt) mandated thing and it is being paid for by Sprint (Nextel) wireless.  I won't bore anyone with the details unless they really want to know.  In a nutshell, it involves reprogramming a bunch of police, fire, and ems radios.  From 2004 until the middle of this year, the whole project was just an exercise in killing trees and other administrative tasks.  The last month or so we have finally started actually doing the work and it has been a pain.  The contract project m...

Yep, Fall is here.  I am not so sure that I am really ready for it but it doesn't matter, there's not a thing in the world I can do about it.  Well, I could move to some tropical island but that comes with its own set of issues.  Today was a beautiful day.  The biggest complaint I had with it though was the temperature.  70-75 degrees is nice.  65 is a little cool for me. To be truthful, I dislike cold weather very much.  I guess I'm getting old because the cold weather and even approaching cold fronts make my bone and joints hurt.  Such is life though.  If the weather would stay like this from now until Spring it would suit me fine but alas, I know winter is approaching.  I have heard all kinds of nasty rumors about what kind of winter we will have here.  I have heard that it will be worse than last year.  If so, that really sucks because last year was horrible with all of the snow we had.  I hope they are wrong.  E...