When Sunette and I are back home we make breakfast for dinner about once a week. It’s a big comfort food for us. I’m talking eggs, cheese grits, turkey bacon and biscuits; that kinda breakfast. It struck me the other day that we haven’t had a breakfast like that since we’ve been in Philly, going on 2 months now. Holy cow. I’m a breakfast guy, it’s my favorite meal, and I haven’t had a good ole down home grits and eggs since I’ve been here. Time to rectify.
On our way home from the hospital yesterday evening before supper we decided to swing into the Philly Diner on Walnut Street. We’ve been passing it at least a couple times every day as we walk to and from the hospital. Although it was a little earlier than we normally eat, 5:30pm, we were down for some breakfast. I settled on the Grand Country Breakfast and Sunette ordered up the 2 Egg Special. Of course I wasn’t expecting grits, being in Philly, but there they were! You could substitute grits for hashbrowns. Unfortunately when the waitress came around I got so caught up that I forgot to make the switch. DOH! Oh well, the hashbrowns were good too. I chowed down on biscuits and sausage gravy, eggs, hashbrowns and sausage links. Topped off with about 3 cups of joe. Mmmmmmmm. There’s nothing like some comfort food to make it all better. What do you turn to when you need the love?
My blog is feeling really blah in the design. <and everyone says "mmm hmmmm"> So how are some of you guys designing your pages? Like Dustin for instance. I mean, that is just a cool looking blog; and Los’ well, what can you say. Then you get to mine….well, I could use the excuse that I’m a guitarist/fisherman/banker, not a designer; but honestly, I do have better design skills than that. I just don’t write CSS or WordPress, yet. So do you guys use templates or is everybody and their cousin on wordpress?
EDIT: That’s a little better don’t you think. It’s still not as pimped as Dustin or Los, but hey, it’s a start.
It’s going on 6 weeks for us here in Philly. We’re itching to get home, to our new home that our dear friends have spent hours painting for us and moving us in. I can’t even think of how we’re going to say thanks to everyone who has contributed.
There’s a lot that we’re missing about home, but one thing that I’m jonesin for is playing guitar. Whether it’s playing with my buddy John or playing at church. I play lead guitar for our church praise & worship band and that’s my primary outlet. I absolutely love it. I’d like to think we have a pretty decent band. In fact, below is a recording I did of a jazzy praise song that our leader Jay Lesley wrote. He sings and plays acoustic, I’m on electric and a guy named Charles Robinson is on sax. Charles is amazing, probably the best live sax player I’ve heard, and I’ve heard a few. Charles should be a full-time musician, that’s what his God given talent is. So if you’re a famous praise & worship leader, traveling the globe, leading people into God’s presence, and you need a phenomenal sax player. I know where you can find one.
This song is called Zephaniah 3:17. I recorded it back in May and did a rough mix on headphones while I’ve been up here in Philly. Let me know whatcha think.
Sorry for the random post, but I’ve really started using StumbleUpon and I "stumbled upon" this video. I must admit that I like electronic music, hard to believe I know. I’ve also developed some decent beat-box skills over the course of my life. However, this guy takes the cake, literally.
It’s Tuesday the 14th and we’ve been in Philadelphia for 5 weeks. We spent 2 weeks at the Ronald McDonald House in Camden, we spent one week in the hospital, and we’ve spent the last two weeks at the Ronald House of Philly. When I say spent, I mean that’s where we’ve slept, of course we spend our days at the hospital.
Elliot’s now 3 weeks old and he’s doing pretty well after his heart surgery. They have put him back on a low flow of supplemental oxygen to see if they can get his O2 saturations to normalize. If they don’t then they may have to do a heart cath to make sure the shunt that they put it isn’t restricting blood flow to the heart.
So we’re watching and waiting, biding time at the hospital. Here are some updated pics of the handsome fella.
They extubated Elliot yesterday morning (took the breathing tube out). He’s doing very well so far, having a little heart arrhythmia, but nothing concerning right now. They held off on his feeds for about 12 hours until they were sure that they wouldn’t have to re-intubate him. He was definitely getting ornery from an empty belly. They started feeding him this morning at 3 am so he’s doing better.
I apologize for the short updates. My focus has been on the carepage, and I don’t want to just duplicate posts. Although that’s about what I’m doing. I do have some new pictures and what not that I’ll post soon. I left my thumbdrive at the room and I can’t operate without it. Why? It houses my mobile computer programs and I just don’t feel comfortable computing without it. Haven’t heard of such a thing or don’t know why you should be wary of public computers? Check out Lifehacker’s posting about how to pimp your thumbdrive. All I did was install the PortableApps suite and then added a few others for flavor, ie. an image editor, a wave editor and a torrent client.
So if you have a thumb drive and you’re on a public computer, check it out. There’s nothing like the feeling of entering the password you use for all of your financial websites onto an unprotected public computer to get you thinking about it.
I’m running out of ways to say thanks. This version of thanks goes out to the 12-15 people who are painting my house right now. People from my church & work are gathering at our new house to paint it before the carpet and hardwood go in, just before the furniture and before we get home sometime near the first of September. I am overwhelmed by their generosity. I mean, we don’t deserve to have our house painted. It’s something that we can do once we get home and things settle down a bit, but I have to say that we greatly appreciate it. So…Muchas Gracias to those that are helping.
Regarding Elliot, the doctors plan to extubate him at 4pm so please keep him in your prayers. He didn’t do so well last time so hopefully this one will go a little easier.
Well, Elliot was pretty fussy last night with his vent tube, which was to be expected. His sedation medication wore off and he didn’t like the tube in. Every time he would get agitated it negatively affected his blood gases and oxidation. The doctors felt that they should try to extubate (take the tube out) him to see if it would calm him down and his blood gases would stabilize. So they took him off the ventilator but his blood gases got worse so they made the decision to re-sedate and put him back on the ventilator. It’s not uncommon for this to happen. It usually takes going through the motion a couple times before they actually stay off the ventilator.
It’s a minor step back, but that’s okay. He’s stable now and we’ll get him back strong again and give it another shot.
My in ears r on their last legs. Anyone want to donate some @UltimateEars to a po musician? http://twitpic.com/2lkc2k 2010/09/05
It's Wed and I scooted to ATL to see S and E-e for the evening. Gonna grab Indian for dinner and get my tank full o' hugs and kisses. 2010/08/25
mmmkay, I'm in Denver, work finished, it's 85 and sunny. What do I do for the rest of the afternoon? Rockies aren't playing. thoughts? 2010/08/18
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