The Worst Month of My Life
It seems as though I've been absent for some time now when actually, I was just trying to make it through October. I have officially declared October, 2008 to be the worst month of my life...so far.
"What sets October apart from all the rest," you ask?
Well, my wife went to take care of her father last April and had spent the entire summer with him. I didn't see her at all for five months. In the wee hours one morning during the first week of October, he passed away. At the same instant in another part of the house, my wife was being assaulted by a family member. She was severely beaten in the face and has required re-constructive surgery in order to save her vision. She still has facial paralysis and vision problems. (She also doesn't want me talking about it.)
The next week I was diagnosed with prostate cancer. Since then I've been having all sorts of tests done and Dr's visits getting that plan worked out. (If you know me, don't go blabbing it around because I haven't told everybody...like my parents, for instance). I have also had a great deal of pain in my right side like I was having an appendicitis. Of course after the cancer thing I kind of wanted to keep my mouth shut so I didn't bring that pain up to the Doctor. During the CT scan it showed that I have a kidney stone. I'm having that removed this Friday. The prostate is coming out December 18th. Add to this a HUGE load of projects at work and it's almost depressing.
Dealing with my new cell phone, now THAT'S depressing! I can't understand why they even waste the paper to print the stupid books. I swear the instructions are ridiculous. You look in the index and find "Music". Then you go the page and it gives two headings one that says "Music" and one that says "Music Player". Under "Music Player" it says, "Your phone has a music player." Is that explicit or what? I figured out how to play music, but I can't figure out how to stop playing music. So far the only way I can get out of the music player is to just start hitting buttons and go through several other applications until the music player isn't showing up anymore. If I don't, it will run the battery down. Ain't technology great?
"What sets October apart from all the rest," you ask?
Well, my wife went to take care of her father last April and had spent the entire summer with him. I didn't see her at all for five months. In the wee hours one morning during the first week of October, he passed away. At the same instant in another part of the house, my wife was being assaulted by a family member. She was severely beaten in the face and has required re-constructive surgery in order to save her vision. She still has facial paralysis and vision problems. (She also doesn't want me talking about it.)
The next week I was diagnosed with prostate cancer. Since then I've been having all sorts of tests done and Dr's visits getting that plan worked out. (If you know me, don't go blabbing it around because I haven't told everybody...like my parents, for instance). I have also had a great deal of pain in my right side like I was having an appendicitis. Of course after the cancer thing I kind of wanted to keep my mouth shut so I didn't bring that pain up to the Doctor. During the CT scan it showed that I have a kidney stone. I'm having that removed this Friday. The prostate is coming out December 18th. Add to this a HUGE load of projects at work and it's almost depressing.
Dealing with my new cell phone, now THAT'S depressing! I can't understand why they even waste the paper to print the stupid books. I swear the instructions are ridiculous. You look in the index and find "Music". Then you go the page and it gives two headings one that says "Music" and one that says "Music Player". Under "Music Player" it says, "Your phone has a music player." Is that explicit or what? I figured out how to play music, but I can't figure out how to stop playing music. So far the only way I can get out of the music player is to just start hitting buttons and go through several other applications until the music player isn't showing up anymore. If I don't, it will run the battery down. Ain't technology great?
Personally I would like to have October removed from the calendar. There is only one day of positive significance and that is your little namesake's birthday on the 2nd. Other than that, I can see no reason to keep October. Halloween could easily be shifted over to Nov. 1st. Nobody would care. Candy is candy no matter what day you collect it and most kids don't know the date anyway. October is a bad luck month for us. But January rapidly approaches and that brings a clean slate, a fresh start, a newly-turned leaf and for you...a clean bill of health. Let's hear it for JANUARY!!!
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Or, at the very least, I'll have fewer parts.
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About the new cell phone. Could it be that the owner's manual is written in Engrish?
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