Happy Easter

[Grogyan]

Hi everyone, hope you all had a great long weekend.

I have just returned from a road trip, and back on the horse barding my trade

[Chacal]

I had emergency surgery for appendicitis. It was interesting.

[Grogyan]

Sorry to hear that Chacal.

Mine was interesting too, some jerk thought it was funny to kick the side of my new car in, just got a quote for that, $720, that and the backpackers I was staying at had very creaky beds, so no matter who turned over at night, I woke up, I also woke up several times with snoring.

Ahh the joys of backpacker hostels

[pappou]

And Happy Easter to you, Grogyan. Where did you do your backpacking?

Sorry to hear of your operation, Chacal. How are you doing? Were you able to avoid sepsis? Hope so; that can really be nasty.

As for my Easter, i won't enjoy the Resurrection until next month. We are Eastern (Greek) Orthodox and celebrate it as Pascha -- which is the culmination of Holy Week, which itself follows Lent (we are in the second week of Lent).

Tell us how you are doing, Chacal.

[andylegate]

I remember when my little sister got appendicitis. My parents were stationed in Italy, and my dad took my mom to Greece for a week, leaving me incharge.

Then my sister got sick to her tummy one school night and complained that it hurt, plus she had a fever. Next day we went to school, was High School then, and I sent her to see the school nurse to see what was wrong. A few hours later I was called to the office, and got told that they rushed her to the hospital for surgery, that she had appendicitis. Luckly, every thing was fine and she was okay.

But I had made homemade pizza the night before. She still won't eat my pizza 24 years later.

Hope you get better Chacal!

[teedyo]

But I had made homemade pizza the night before. She still won't eat my pizza 24 years later.
Hope you get better Chacal!

Well, there is a limit to the number of organs the human body can lose and still function.

Be well, Chacal.

[Chacal]

I'm all right, thanks. This is a "good" illness, by which I mean a usual illness that our health system is used to treating on a regular basis. Heart attacks are like that too. So they have processes for those ilnesses. As soon as I stepped foot inside the hospital I was sucked into the process and got excellent service, ending back home less than 48 hours later. Quite different from the battle I waged against the system last year while trying to take care of my elderly father.

The good news is, while before I got sick I was hopelessly behind in my work, with customers impatiently waiting for deliverables, now I have a 2-week medical break and the customers are OK with that. So the pressure has dropped and I can sleep, browse forums at leisure. I have even started going through Trylon's first Age tutorial, a thing that normally would have waited until summer.

Doing the tutorial is slightly more painful than appendicitis. And I have done modeling before.

[Grogyan]

And Happy Easter to you, Grogyan. Where did you do your backpacking?

I drove up to Whangarei and stayed at "The Mural"

[pappou]

I hear that is great out-of-doors country -- staggering changes of topography and climate in very small areas. But i've never been down under. I did live in Oregon tho -- used to wake up and look out at beautiful Mount Washington.

Now it has no top; not beautiful anymore, i understand.