Thursday, June 24

Sorry So Sorry

I can't believe it has been 5 days with no updates. I wrote a looong one at the hospital on Monday night, but it's trapped on my work laptop which is a lot of work to boot up at 12:22 AM. Why was I at the hospital you ask? That would be due to Rich's recent open heart surgery, which I can now report has been going well. I believe they are moving him out of Intensive Care, which is obviously a good sign. He recently "passed up" the guy who had surgery the same morning as he did, which means he is making good progress. Obviously, I hope that things work out well for both of them as recovering from this procedure isn't exactly a contest.

myPod arrived today, it was 2nd generation-tastic and scratch-o-riffic. Surprisingly, these things haven't bothered me so far since the big unit seems to be humming along nicely. I am a bit concerned about my SoundFeeder's ability to consistently feed a quality FM signal to my car stereo - when are they going to start making cars with 3.5 mm adapters in them for stuff like this? Or better yet, all cars could follow BMW's footsteps and integrate the iPod into the steering wheel controls. Ich liebe Deutschland...

A big thanks to Michael for "inviting" me to join the GMail beta party, my latest and greatest e-mail address is bradleypjohnson at gmail.com. If you've never seen anyone post their e-mail address online this way before, be advised that it is done to prevent spambots from trolling the internet and picking up their actual e-mail address for a little spamtastic fun. So far I mostly like GMail, but there are plenty of others out there who have been using it much longer and more vigorously than I.

I'll post more details from this past weekend tomorrow, as I'm sure you're dying to find out how it all went down.

Now Playing: Dave Brubeck - Jazz at the College of the Pacific

posted by Brad at 6/24/2004 12:18:00 AM | permalink | 1 comments

1 Comments:

• I can confirm that Dad Larson is doing well. When we left him last night he was just getting comfortable in his spacious private room that has not one but two windows from which he can spy the planes flying by, the cars in the parking ramp and even the birds nestling into the side of the building. We left him in the hands of his nurse Pam whom he seemed to warm up to immediately and besides a little pain in his shoulders and nausea he is doing well! Thank God!

  By  Anonymous, at 6/24/2004 7:32 AM