Assorted Gnus
Pathology
First, some good news. My Dad received the results from pathology on his surgery last Tuesday. The cancer had not spread, and they removed all of it. This means that once he recovers from the surgery, there should be no further complications to worry about. Frequent checkups caught this early, so anyone out there who hasn't gotten a checkup recently, don't delay.
Mr. Fix It
I got off my butt and did my best at playing handyman at home. I installed a programmable thermostat ( at last ), which hopefully will help cut my gas bill this winter. I replaced a light fixture upstairs, and in the process found out the labels in my circuit box are WRONG. Nothing like grabbing a hot wire and falling off a chair to start your day off right. It is labeled correctly now. Who knew that '2nd floor Living Room' really means '3rd floor Hallway'? I also fixed the toilet in the guest bathroom ( required replacing all the parts inside the tank ).
I even scoped out a plan to redoing the ugly linoleum in my two entry ways. I really would like tile, but that's a lot of work, but I found some fake tile squares at Home Despot that I can just set in place. I'm leaning towards that route as it'll get the look I want a lot easier. Since I don't plan to be here more than another year or so, I figure I can live without having real stone tiles.
Club
My coach used to run a triathlon club at the local YMCA, but the Y got disinterested so the club is no more. Have no fear! Incorporated a new not-for-profit club, and the Salt Creek Tri Club is born. I volunteered to host and design the website, which just went live. Pretty cool to start that up. There are a lot of members from the abondoned Y club that are joining up, so we have a fairly decent group together already. We'll be competing in the USAT regional club standings starting in 2006. Should be fun to see where we stack up. Plus I've got a whole bunch of local training partners now.
C'est Tout
That's all for now. I'm in a recovery week, so I'm making the most of not having two a day workouts. I'm off to go catch up on some reading.
First, some good news. My Dad received the results from pathology on his surgery last Tuesday. The cancer had not spread, and they removed all of it. This means that once he recovers from the surgery, there should be no further complications to worry about. Frequent checkups caught this early, so anyone out there who hasn't gotten a checkup recently, don't delay.
Mr. Fix It
I got off my butt and did my best at playing handyman at home. I installed a programmable thermostat ( at last ), which hopefully will help cut my gas bill this winter. I replaced a light fixture upstairs, and in the process found out the labels in my circuit box are WRONG. Nothing like grabbing a hot wire and falling off a chair to start your day off right. It is labeled correctly now. Who knew that '2nd floor Living Room' really means '3rd floor Hallway'? I also fixed the toilet in the guest bathroom ( required replacing all the parts inside the tank ).
I even scoped out a plan to redoing the ugly linoleum in my two entry ways. I really would like tile, but that's a lot of work, but I found some fake tile squares at Home Despot that I can just set in place. I'm leaning towards that route as it'll get the look I want a lot easier. Since I don't plan to be here more than another year or so, I figure I can live without having real stone tiles.
Club
My coach used to run a triathlon club at the local YMCA, but the Y got disinterested so the club is no more. Have no fear! Incorporated a new not-for-profit club, and the Salt Creek Tri Club is born. I volunteered to host and design the website, which just went live. Pretty cool to start that up. There are a lot of members from the abondoned Y club that are joining up, so we have a fairly decent group together already. We'll be competing in the USAT regional club standings starting in 2006. Should be fun to see where we stack up. Plus I've got a whole bunch of local training partners now.
C'est Tout
That's all for now. I'm in a recovery week, so I'm making the most of not having two a day workouts. I'm off to go catch up on some reading.
posted by Chris Parker at
7:18 PM
2 Comments:
Great news about your dad!
By
Krisanne, at 9:51 PM
I'm happy to hear your dad is doing so well. And, the handyman stuff sounds a little dangerous. You might want to stick to running.
By
Ultragrrl, at 9:41 AM
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