A Bit of Good News
I've been burning some vacation this week, staying around the house and working on the hootis. You know, a hootis is a chore to build. And I keep having to buy more parts. I could have bought a pre-made hootis for the money I've spent. Last week I went to the urologist to have some blood drawn for my first PSA since the surgery.
They said that it would take a day to get the results back and then a couple of days to get them to me, but I got tired of waiting so we called the doctor. The PSA level was 0.01 which is good. I'll be getting it checked every three months for a while and let's hope it stays low. With a little luck I'll be back to normal one day. Well, what I would call normal.
The hootis roared to life today and made a huge mess in the garage. I've got a ways to go and I'm sure everyone will be thoroughly let down when they see it. It's not a great thing or even pretty. However, it is useful and I'll leave it at that.
Not much reaction from the first two chapters of Coy, Jr. By the way, that's a working title, not the final one. The real action starts in the next chapter, but I didn't get many responses from people, so I guess I'll stop posting it. I'll admit it's not your normal internet fare. No explicit language, no porn, no celebrities. C'est la vie.
The swine flu is scary, isn't it? Actually it's a mix of swine, bird and human flu so it's a nasty one. You know, as bad as it is, it did remind me of a story. My cousin once decided to be a pig farmer and bought a couple of sows. Unfortunately he didn't have enough money to buy a boar hog, as well. So he went to the vet to see about artificial insemination and when the vet told him how much it would cost, he was flabbergasted. Then the vet told him something not too many people know. He said that a human could actually get a pig pregnant. My cousin couldn't bear the idea of doing it, but he knew it took more than a couple of pigs to make a pig farm. The vet told him that it might take several attempts, but at least it was free. My cousin asked him how he would be able to tell when he could quit doing it and the vet told him that they would start acting different or at least a little bit peculiar. Anyway, after about a week, he got up the nerve and loaded his two pigs in the back of his truck and took them off the back of his place. And there, as tough as it was, he personally serviced them.
Each day he watched them to see if their behavior changed, but it didn't. This went on everyday for a month. Load them up, drive to the back of the place and poke the pigs. My cousin was downright worn out. One Friday after he came back from his little chore, he unloaded the pigs, went to bed and didn't even wake up until Sunday afternoon. He was so tired that he couldn't get out of bed. He asked his wife to look out in the barnyard and see if the pigs were acting peculiar. She went over to the window and took a look out. She told him, "Yeah, they're acting pretty strange." He was ecstatic and asked what were they doing. "Well, one's in the back of your truck jumping up and down and the other one is in the cab blowing the horn!"
They said that it would take a day to get the results back and then a couple of days to get them to me, but I got tired of waiting so we called the doctor. The PSA level was 0.01 which is good. I'll be getting it checked every three months for a while and let's hope it stays low. With a little luck I'll be back to normal one day. Well, what I would call normal.
The hootis roared to life today and made a huge mess in the garage. I've got a ways to go and I'm sure everyone will be thoroughly let down when they see it. It's not a great thing or even pretty. However, it is useful and I'll leave it at that.
Not much reaction from the first two chapters of Coy, Jr. By the way, that's a working title, not the final one. The real action starts in the next chapter, but I didn't get many responses from people, so I guess I'll stop posting it. I'll admit it's not your normal internet fare. No explicit language, no porn, no celebrities. C'est la vie.
The swine flu is scary, isn't it? Actually it's a mix of swine, bird and human flu so it's a nasty one. You know, as bad as it is, it did remind me of a story. My cousin once decided to be a pig farmer and bought a couple of sows. Unfortunately he didn't have enough money to buy a boar hog, as well. So he went to the vet to see about artificial insemination and when the vet told him how much it would cost, he was flabbergasted. Then the vet told him something not too many people know. He said that a human could actually get a pig pregnant. My cousin couldn't bear the idea of doing it, but he knew it took more than a couple of pigs to make a pig farm. The vet told him that it might take several attempts, but at least it was free. My cousin asked him how he would be able to tell when he could quit doing it and the vet told him that they would start acting different or at least a little bit peculiar. Anyway, after about a week, he got up the nerve and loaded his two pigs in the back of his truck and took them off the back of his place. And there, as tough as it was, he personally serviced them.
Each day he watched them to see if their behavior changed, but it didn't. This went on everyday for a month. Load them up, drive to the back of the place and poke the pigs. My cousin was downright worn out. One Friday after he came back from his little chore, he unloaded the pigs, went to bed and didn't even wake up until Sunday afternoon. He was so tired that he couldn't get out of bed. He asked his wife to look out in the barnyard and see if the pigs were acting peculiar. She went over to the window and took a look out. She told him, "Yeah, they're acting pretty strange." He was ecstatic and asked what were they doing. "Well, one's in the back of your truck jumping up and down and the other one is in the cab blowing the horn!"
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