Fuck Nancy Grace!

As some of you may recall, I had a sleep study a few months ago. Wonderful experience, really. Well, after dodging followups for a few weeks, I went and got the bad news: I stop breathing approximately 36 times an hour while sleeping (which is a moderate case of Sleep Apnea,/a>).

I apparently suffer from something called a "small throat", which if you've ever eaten with me will be a bit of a shock. So the doc is suggesting I get a CPAP machine (or as eyebeams calls it, a Darth Vader machine).

I'll admit, my nighttime breathing habits are curious ones; as anyone who's ever slept in the same room as me can attest, if you don't get to sleep first, you don't get to sleep. So, I'm gonna go next week and get myself a CPAP machine. Apparently my health plan covers a fuckload of it, but I suspect that's from the same amount as my massage. Dammit!

Anyway, I have an appointment to get fitted for one next week, which apparently takes an hour and a half (Fun!). After that, I get to try and then go in for another sleep study to see how well it's working. Can you smell the excitement?

Man. Why can't I just have lasers shot into my esophagus*?

Amusing thing: My Pulmonary specialist's first name is Tetsuo. He gives the patter for "your breathing is bad and here's how you can fix it" so smoothely I think he's given it a million times before (and I suspect he's got shares in the CPAP company). But everytime I looked at his certificates I flashed back to Akira.

Awkward.

Anyway, there's lots of fun to be had. Apparently I'll be on the machine until I need another machine to assist my breathing, IF YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN. So it will be another lifelong accessory, just like my wife.

*Rherotical question!

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Hoo'd win: Gravity VS a Slow Cooker full of Bean Casserole

Gravity.

Trust me, we don't need to vote on it.

Them Pesky Books

Hmmm. There's a thread over on RPG.net called "... but he's not very good at endings."

This post was made in the course of the discussion:

This is so completely wrong that I don't even know where to begin. Done telling the story = the story is completed and while there may be lots of secondary things going on that you could keep investigating, they are not the story you were telling.

I think that's actually wrong. If there's all these secondary things that are significant enough and presented in such a way that people are left wanting them explored, not exploring them is kind of not finishing the book. That's sort of what editors are supposed to do, right?

I mean, it's always possible for there to be stuff left for further investigation, especially if it's a franchise, but overall the main and sub plots should be wrapped up well enough that there's satisfaction on the reader's part, right?

I guess it's just the concept of "lots of secondary things" sounds like a fairly cluttered and sloppy story.

Well, that's odd...

Apparently adastra_con, the unofficial Ad Astra community on LJ has been deleted.

Shame about that.

I'm horrified by this.

Al Qaeda Also Fed Up With Ground Zero Construction Delays

This is so very bad. I'm horrified.

I removed the video because it seemed to auto run.

Ah, man. Ahhhhh, man.

Remember that scene in the Rambo trailer when he shoots the driver of a truck in the back of the head with some large caliber weapon imounted on the back of the truck?

That's how I feel after reading this Onion AV Club article about nerdy pop culture obsessions.

Ouch. It's like shaving with a cheese grater, it stings so bad.

At least they left off Babylon 5. I still have SOME dignity.

edit: yes, yes, who needs to have their opinions and hobbies validated by a bunch of strangers who write for The Onion, blah blah.