What's Goin On in Our Real Lives

[Pyrotex]

Lessee...

my avatar name is... uh... Pregnotrim? no. Picotrack? no. Pyrotex?

YES!

And I used to post at this website called... Hypnofloozy? Whatever.

 

Anyhow. I appear to be back. I'll double check that later.

 

The surgery went 100% and my shoulder tendons have been reconstructed. All healed up with no scars or stitches. No pain. Therapy going well.

I spent two and a half weeks at TIRR, The Institute for Rehabilitation and Research. Without my left arm, I am pretty dead in the water, and so I needed 24x7 care, including the ever-beloved bedpan and hydraulic hoists. Indignities were heaped upon me, but I responded nobly with such witticisms as high fever, uncontrollable shivering and projectile vomiting. In an attempt to mediate my initial depression and anxiety, they gave me little blue Zoloft pills. However, when I began to complain of seeing little silver spiders in my peripheral vision, they stopped that. By the end of the first week, I was back to normal and on the road to recovery. Except for the bedpans.

 

I have been home with Gwen as my care-giver for almost three weeks. We were given a lot of training by the therapists at TIRR, so Gwen and I do rather nicely, in spite of the fact that I am NOT to use the left arm for another 4 weeks. Strength building therapy begins then. However, I CAN use both hands, as I am nimbly demonstrating right now.

 

How come I am not posting on Hypogratuity every day? Higher priorities. There's dressing and undressing, pooping and peeing, eating and drinking--all of which take 3 times longer than before. There's the unending exercises. We leave the house once each day to keep from going crazy. There's email and paper mail and managing a very tight budget, as I'm on short term disability. I have started a new commitment to build a new and workable filing system at home, and organize all the paper I have accumulated over the years. i have committed to creating a budget and living within it.

 

We have successfully sold the house and the money is in the bank. Debts are being paid off, and crredit cards torn to shreds.

 

And I got a letter from the ARES Corporation: contingent on their win of the contract, I am being offered a generous package to come work for them as a MANAGER (oh boy, oh boy!) on... {drumroll, professor} the CEV project. The Crew Exploration Vehicle, replacement for the Shuttle. Somebody pinch me!!!!! Work starts on October 1. (contingent)

 

By then, my left arm should be in good enough shape to put on my new black pin-striped suit, the royal blue shirt and my mega-power tie, show up in me NEW wheelchair, and begin kicking butts.

 

Complete recovery should be by Christmas.

 

Do not despair, dear friends, I shall be posting anon. As soon as my other projects are in place. I have not forgotten my compatriots at Hypnopottamus. I'll be dropping in from time to time. Thanks for all the letters and phone calls.

 

Pyrotex/Nelson :) :evil: :doh: :) :)

[Turtle]

Complete recovery should be by Christmas.

 

Do not despair, dear friends, I shall be posting anon. As soon as my other projects are in place. I have not forgotten my compatriots at Hypnopottamus. I'll be dropping in from time to time. Thanks for all the letters and phone calls.

 

Pyrotex/Nelson :doh: :) :) :) :)

Very relieving to hear you are well Nelson. :) Perhaps for some of your rehab you can make a wall clock from one of those bedpans.:) We here at Hypochondriography have missed your wit.:evil: (I am so poor at recalling names I may have referenced you somewhere as Winston rather than Nelson:doh: ; my bad.;) )

Turtle Out

[Tormod]

Hypnofloozy?

 

Nonono! Hyposnaphy! Did they take your brain out??? :hihi:

 

Higher priorities

 

Bah! Bet you'll call on higher authorities next. :confused:

 

I am being offered a generous package to come work for them as a MANAGER (oh boy, oh boy!) on... {drumroll, professor} the CEV project. The Crew Exploration Vehicle, replacement for the Shuttle. Somebody pinch me!!!!! Work starts on October 1. (contingent)

 

:D

 

You *know* you will have to invite me for a tour of the premises, right? :eek:

 

So good to hear from you my friend. Take your time to get well!

[Tormod]

We here at Hypochondriography have missed your wit.:D (I am so poor at recalling names I may have referenced you somewhere as Winston rather than Nelson:doh: ; my bad.:hihi: )

Turtle Out

 

I thought it was Newton...:confused:

[Boerseun]

Good going, Pyromaniac!

[Jay-qu]

Thats incredible news Pyro! great to hear everything is going so well :confused: you may have one of the coolest jobs I have ever heard of anyone getting

[Chacmool]

:confused: Hooray, welcome back! It's great to hear from you again, Pyro!

[InfiniteNow]

Damnit... He's back... and just when I thought we'd finally rid this place of his awful stench. :)

 

Oh hell! Did I actually submit that? Why can't I edit my posts...

 

 

A great big ginormous

 

 

CHEERS

 

 

my friend, and a super uber massive (BIG) congratulations on the job! :)

[learnin to learn]

Welcome back!!!! I was wondering why I hadnt seen you in awhile! It sounds like you have a great job ahead of you! congrats!

[Tormod]

Oh hell! Did I actually submit that? Why can't I edit my posts...

 

Maybe Pytorex has imposed his awesome might already. :hihi:

[Boerseun]

I think his terrible abuse of power can only be forgiven by pasting a big "www.hypography.com" and a big red "H" on the outside of the Crew Exploration Vehicle. The URL should be applied in big luminous highly visible Infrared and UV-resistant paint, right next to the main camera.

 

That should do, I think.

[Tormod]

:hihi: Yes, that would be a minimum requirement. Then we can start talking about the crew jumpsuits.

[InfiniteNow]

Then we can start talking about the crew jumpsuits.

How about tattoos? :lol:

[Pyrotex]

Okay guys, before you get toooooo carried away...

 

The new job is not well defined yet. But it is basically the job of keeping track of all the software changes made (by others) to some of the flight software and ground software that will support the vehicle. It's kind of an integration, configuration management, update scheduling kind of job. I will be working closely with the manager (my boss) and he intends to take on another job in six months, leaving me as his replacement.

 

There. I've told you more than I actually know.

 

Somebody else will design and cut metal on the CEV and paint the exterior with NASA meatballs. So sorry.

 

EDIT: hmmmmmmmm... I may be able to persuade the crew to get tattoos, however. :D

[Boerseun]

EDIT: hmmmmmmmm... I may be able to persuade the crew to get tattoos, however. :)

Cool. All the female crew will get lower-back just-above-the-g-string hypography tramp-stamps!

 

I want it on the CREW EXPLORATION VEHICLE!

 

Come on, Tyropex. You can do it. Pull a few strings, talk to a coupla' people, you know. Make it happen, know whaddeye mean?

[Jay-qu]

Sound like an idea Soerbeun :) but dont push the man to hard, we will settle for are large revolving H logo on all the screens before they cut to ad breaks on the maiden voyage!

[Tormod]

There. I've told you more than I actually know.

 

Perfect match for a NASA contractor, then. :hihi:

 

EDIT: hmmmmmmmm... I may be able to persuade the crew to get tattoos, however. :)

 

No, the deal was the decals on front of the CEV. Or else the "nurse" who checked on your shoulder last week will, uhm, not remove the little, ah, "thing" she implanted to "speed up healing". :)