Scooter Chronicles

Since being on antibiotics for my cyst, I haven’t had a beer. So ironically I am going to post about some I have had recently.

Bell’s Porter - A rather ho-hum porter. I got a six pack the last time I was in Detroit. It was good given the winter months, but nothing exciting or new.

Great Divide Saint Bridget’s Porter - See above. Except substitute picking up a six pack in Detroit to having one at David and Catherine’s over a month ago.

Atwater Dunkel - I picked this one up (and the beer below) at a cool shop in Fountain Hill, Pennsylvania. It is a brewery out of Detroit that I have wanted to try for a long time that I have never found. Even...

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Modano Passes Mullen
Wanted to send my congrats out to Detroit native Mike Modano of the Dallas Stars. He surpassed Joey Mullen’s record of 502 goals scored in the NHL by an American last night. Modano has been a real credit to the game, after growing up in Livonia (I think he went to the same high school that my cousins John, Sarah, and Lisa did), playing his entire career (so far) with the Dallas Stars / Minnesota North Stars. Though seen as one of the pretty boys of the league, and was a bachelor for most of that time, he has always been a hard worker and willing to change his game for the better of the team. He helped lead the Stars to the 1999 Stanley Cup Championship. Modano now only trails Phil Housley...

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A few nights ago Marcia and I watched “Man of the Year”, starring Robin Williams, Laura Linney, Christopher Walken, and Lewis Black.

Here is a brief write up of the plot thanks to IMDB.Com and Amazon.Com (they both have the same synopsis posted):

Tom Dobbs (Williams), comedic host of a political talk show - a la Bill Maher and Jon Stewart - runs for President of the US as an independent candidate who, after an issues-oriented campaign and an explosive performance in the final debate, gets just enough votes to win. Trouble is he owes his victory to a computer glitch in the national touch-screen voting system marketed...

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Penguins Staying In Pittsburgh
Glad this is all over. The Pens finally made a DEAL with the state of PA and city of Pittsburgh to help pay to build a new arena. I had a feeling that something was going to get worked out. Not only because the Pens have one of the most promising teams on the ice right now, but because they are owned by Mario Lemieux. And Mr. 66 also said that he is going to KEEP the team now, too. All around, it’s good for the NHL.

And just so there is something else to talk about, there are rumors that the Sprint Center in Kansas City still looking for...

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I stayed home from work today. I was just too out of it. The painkiller I have was not helping to much with the pain, once the local wore off. And of course it was making me drowsy. So Marcia waited on my today AND took care of Nigel. After seeing the doctor this morning, he said everything looked good, gave me a prescription for more of the painkiller and said take it more often for the pain, if needed.

The dressing change this morning was painful. WARNING, graphic description ahead. As I mentioned, he didn’t close the cut and stuffed it with cotton/gauze. Well he pulled that out this morning. Yikes!! I was in a lot of pain, and ended up taking a painkiller before we left. Then took another when we got home. This...

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Everything went well with the procedure this evening. There were two issues that I could face. Removal of the cyst (as opposed to just draining it), and closing the incision. The doctor was able to remove the entire cyst. If he couldn’t this evening, obviously I would have had to come back at some other point to have it fully removed. Unfortunately the other issue that could happened has. The infection was to a point where he couldn’t entirely close the incision. He did the best he could, but said it was pointless to close it all, only making it better for the infection to grow and become worse. So the “wound” is still partially opened and I need to go and have the dressings changed everyday until they can...

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Melissa Etheridge - “Never Enough”

Tracks:

1. Ain’t it Heavy
2. 2001
3. Dance Without Sleeping
4. Place Your Hand
5. Must Be Crazy for Me
6. Meet Me in the Back
7. The Boy Feels Strange
8. Keep it Precious
9. The Letting Go
10. It’s for You

I had heard of Melissa Etheridge for a while, had seen her adds endorsing Ovation acoustic guitars, but had never bought any of her albums. Then one day in 1992, I am walking around a record shop and catch the cover of her new album (this one) out of the corner of my eye. Well,...

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On Sunday afternoon, I finally finished reading “The Audacity of Hope” by Senator Barack Obama (D-Ill.). The subtitle, “Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream” is a good point of direction of what he discusses in the book. Though he says right from the start, the book offers no solutions to the problems facing American families, but does bring up the issues plaguing us.

There is something to qualify of my opinions of this book. As mentioned before, I haven’t followed political issues as closely as I should. It seems these days that everyone’s opinions are so extreme. You are either “left”...

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Pizza Night
We had a Pizza Night on Friday for the first time in months. It was the first that Marcia, Nigel, and I had attended in even longer, since we missed the Christmas get together. It was great to see everyone again, especially Andy and Yvonne, and John and Kathleen who we haven’t seen in what feels like ages. We also had some special guests, some of Marcia’s relatives from Virginia. This will now be two years in a row that we will see them more then just once during the year.

Marcia had great plans of us having a poker tournament after dinner, but it just didn’t happen. There were so many people, and so many things to talk about, and so many kids running around (including Nigel)...

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I have had a cyst on my back now for about 14 years. You’re all saying “Yikes!” right now, I know. But it’s not as bad as you think. Part of the reason I have let it go for so long was that I kept forgetting about it. It’s in a place that I can’t reach, and it never caused me discomfort and/or pain. I had talked to the family doctor a couple of years ago about it, and he gave me a couple of doctors that could help, said it wasn’t dangerous, but that eventually it could cause me discomfort and/or pain. Well “eventually” happened on Thursday of last week.

I had started calling dermatologists that could take care of it, but either they didn’t accept my insurance, or couldn’t...

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