Michael came home from the hospital 10 days ago, on Saturday the 15th. Michael discusses the surgery and the recovery over on his blog in greater detail than I could. His recovery has been pretty remarkable, he needed my help getting around for the first couple days, but has since graduated to a cane which […]
Archive for December, 2007
Happy Birthday Caligula! And surgery update.
December 13th, 2007 by pleia2
Today is Caligula’s 4th birthday! Michael’s been doing physical therapy at the hospital, yesterday when I arrived to visit him he was sitting up in a chair next to his bed and told me that they had him walking earlier in the day, and later in the afternoon they had him up walking again with […]
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Surgery – Success!
December 11th, 2007 by pleia2
Michael’s surgery was a success! There were some complications and the entire process took longer than expected – causing me to be at the hospital today for over 17 hours. I’m exhausted, just winding down now so I can sleep. Timeline of the day: 4:30AM – Wake up, dressed, showered, packed, sorted out all we […]
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Surgery
December 10th, 2007 by pleia2
Just about to leave for the hospital for Michael’s hip replacement surgery. Everything is expected to go well, I’ll update once he’s out.
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Ubuntu T-Shirt.. finally!
December 9th, 2007 by pleia2
I’ve actually had an Ubuntu t-shirt for a while, but it was a men’s size that was far too big on me. Imagine my delight when Canonical began offering a women’s shirt. …except it said “Linux for Ladies” instead of “Linux for Human Beings”. This was sorted out after some discussion and Canonical started offering […]
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Dad
December 7th, 2007 by pleia2
Today is the 3rd anniversary of the death of my father. I made it through most of the day OK, but I don’t think this anniversary is getting easier. I miss him.
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Debian on my Sparc Ultra10
December 4th, 2007 by pleia2
After the silo.conf silliness on Sunday, I finally got things sorted out with my Ultra10 this evening. Once I figured out what I needed to do, getting things up and running well went very quickly. Here’s what I did: Remove Creator3D card to do installation with the onboard video (apparently there is a boot option […]
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Toys!
December 2nd, 2007 by pleia2
Today I spent a bunch of time working on my Sparc on Debian. It went something like this. I don’t want to talk about it, except to say – hey the Rescue bit of the Debian Sparc Install CD works great (once I learned it existed), and I’m going to be better about running `silo` […]
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