2012

I am sitting at Tunnell Cancer Center. My mom’s getting her second day of treatment 2 of chemotherapy. She is only getting 4 treatments, the third will be around Christmas, the fourth will be in the middle of January. Then it looks like she will start a radiation regiment.

As you can imagine, it’s been very stressful the last few months, between numerous doctor appointments, numerous surgeries, physical therapy, chemotherapy, and now radiation treatments being added. All i can hope is that the end of this is in sight. I know that stage 3 isn’t the best diagnosis, but she seems to be doing well, so I am optimistic at this point. I just hope in a few months we can put this all behind us.

Hurricane Sandy hit Rehoboth Beach hard the passed few days. Everything in the complex seems to be all right and if you didn’t leave the road, you wouldn’t know that anything significant had happened. We had a lot of rain and wind, but we didn’t lose power, except for a few dips here and there, we didn’t lose cable, no trees came down, and there wasn’t a significant amount of flooding. I took a video on October 29th and uploaded it to YouTube. As you can see there wasn’t anything wrong in the immediate vicinity. It’s weird though, because if you left the area, and even just ventured out to the entrance of the complex, you’d see flooding. We are lucky with where we are.

Another blog post from my phone. This time I am not fishing though, I am in the car going to Johns Hopkins in Baltimore. My mom has an appointment with an endocrinologist and will possibly be getting a separate opinion in a Philadelphia hospital depending on what they tell her today. It just sucks having to travel 2 to 3 hours for a good doctor because doctors in Delaware are horrible.

Her surgery is on September 14th. She is having more than half her lung removed. They aren’t sure how long recovery will be, but they say that normally it is 6 months to a year. We will be going back to NY to grab some more clothes, our main computers and our dog and then staying for an extended period of time.

I know I hated Delaware when I lived here, it’s weird that I actually sort of miss it now that I don’t live here anymore. It isn’t even like I grew up here, I’m a Jersey boy, so to miss this backward state seems weird.

I have 2 sites I need to get the ball rolling on, 2 others that need to be done, I have nothing done for Leps Lair or Lepcode, my new business based site. I am thinking about doing a new blog over there for business related ventures, of course this blog would pretty much stay the staff blog or whatever thiis will officially become. I have a few ideas, I just need to execute them. I have a lot of ideas that I haven’t had time or inspiration to execute.

No word on the surgery for mom yet. I think they may be calling tomorrow. I guess depending on when it is, recovery time, time she’ll be in the hospital, etc will determine when we go home and either rest for a few days and come back, or just go home and stay there. There is just a lot of unknown at the moment and it sucks.

I am lucky that Kris and I don’t have conventional jobs where we need to be there, otherwise I think this whole thing would be a hell of a lot harder to deal with. I don’t want to deal with it either way obviously,  but it is what it is I guess.

We came down o Delaware in late June. We have stayed here ever since because my mom was diagnosed with lung cancer. She’s having surgery in the next couple of weeks, because it was discovered she has emphyzema and can’t do radiation.

It has been a very hard couple of weeks as I am sure you can imagine. She has been researching ever supposed cure for cancer there is, from some CAAT diet to cannibus oil. She even wanted to breathe in baking soda since it is opposite of sugar which is what cancer is attracted to. In theory it is a good idea, in reality I don’t think it would do much good.

The last few weeks has really been tough, but with the surgery and recovery and everything coming up, I imagine things will be getting much harder. I think I will be using this as an outlet more and more, considering I have been sitting staring at a screen trying to work and nothing is produced.

If I could concentrate and get things produced I could have a lot done for work and for Leps Lair which I want to turn into a nerd hub and entertainment social network. I have ideas of expanding the adult section with a sex advice, tube section, etc, plus removing sections and putting them on my new site which should hopefully be finished soon.

Unfortunately I haven’t had the inspiration. Even right now I am at the pier, fishing, drinking beer, and my mind will not stop. Anyone have any advice or any ideas on this?

We headed to Delaware at 2AM this morning, we arrived at around 7 or so at the beach. We will be here for a week or two, which will be a nice vacation for us, hopefully we will be able. To enjoy it and not be working the whole time. I know I have things I need to do and so does Kris, but we should be able to spare a day or two here and there. I should probably get the air conditioner in the window and get to sleep though. I will update more later.

I am fiscally responsible now (sort of), but when I first turned 18, I got my first credit card, a Home Depot Card, which I used to rack up some debt. I soon went onto Macy’s, Capital One and Chase credit cards. I am still trying to pay down some of this debt. I can’t say that I wouldn’t do it over again because with the cards I bought a Playstation 2, Xbox 360, Wii, television, and a bunch of other items I couldn’t see myself living without today. The other day we went and applied for financing for one (or possibly 2) of the last remaining 17″ Macbook Pro’s, but we weren’t successful. Kris and I did however acquire our first joint credit card. It’s a Best Buy card and we will be using it in the near future to purchase a Playstation 3, Wii U, and possibly a new monitor for myself, as this refurbished one I bought a few months ago is quickly dying.

I will be sure to bank enough to pay off at least half the debt in the first bill due, this way I can increase our credit scores and be able to put things off over multiple months. I am not too worried about being able to pay everything off more quickly though, as some things have changed and Kris and I will be getting a lot more work in the coming weeks it seems. Hopefully we will get enough to completely get rid of some of the useless loans we have (Kris’s personal loan, smaller limit credit cards, etc). I think all i all things are looking up, so hopefully we will be seeing some big changes soon.

It certainly has been a long time since I last wrote. It isn’t that I haven’t wanted to write, I just didn’t really have much inspiration to. Things have been pretty crazy the last few months too.

I guess I should probably start with my new gaming desktop, about a month after first getting it the power supply blew. I got a new one about a week later. It wasn’t the same kind that I originally had, but it will do as long as it doesn’t die again. I have turned that computer into pretty much a server I work off of no matter if I am on my laptop or my Mac. Of course I still do go play some Age of Empires and DCU online from time to time.

Speaking of gaming, E3 was this week and I must say, for once Sony showed me a game that put me over the top for wanting a PS3. Beyond Two Souls looks beautiful and it intrigues me, it even has Kris wanting to buy one too. Besides that, ZombiU looks amazing. The Wii U looks like it could have been a game changer, but with Microsoft’s Smart Glass it might be DOA, though with Nintendo, you never know. I do know that I can’t wait for the return of Master Chief in Halo 4 and thanks to Kris’ mom, I am already preordered.

After ten years we are in the process of getting a bathroom. We bought the supplies and are having a friend get it all together for us, the problem is that we have switched our schedule completely so we go to bed at 8AM when most people are waking up or are already at work.

Just because I haven’t blogged, doesn’t mean I haven’t been around working on stuff. There’s a new fanlisting up and I have a few more in the works. I have also been working on some other stuff, like new fanlistings, new galleries for the fanlistings, new pictures, etc. Also been looking at things around the main site and I am planning on revamping a lot of things, including the menu. I just need time to sort it all out properly. Hopefully in the next few months this stuff will come to fruition.

I bought a new computer today. I ordered a CyberpowerPC Gamer Ultra GU6015 Gaming PC with an AMD FX-6100 3.3GHz processor, 16GB DDR3 RAM, 2TB Hard drive, DVDRW (which I am replacing with my Blu-Ray burner that I got for Christmas, 1GB AMD Radeon HD 6870, 800W PSU with, Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit. I also bought a monitor that is HDCP compliant so I can watch Blu-Rays on it. All in all I am pretty excited. I will be setting up Dreamweaver, Photoshop and using it for my primary computer until I can restore my Mac to day 1. After which I will be using it for video editing, playing the Sims, and if it can handle it next year, playing SimCity 5 (I may try and find Sim City 4 since I never played that at all). I already plan on buying the Sims 3, and I may check out DC Universe Online.

Needless to say I am really excited. Nothing is processed yet, I hope it comes before Friday, but considering it probably won’t be processed until Monday I doubt that will happen.

It’s been a while since I last posted. First I took 2 trips to Delaware. I got back to New York a few weeks after my last entry. After that we went down for New Years. In between those trips a dear friend and neighbor passed away. There is a new tenant in his apartment that has been there a few days, but I haven’t seen yet. His truck is still here, but his son says that tomorrow the truck is supposed to be towed.

Christmas was good, Kristen got a Mac and I got a leather jacket and a bunch of other things I have wanted for a while. I can finally make game videos, Kris got me a Dazzle, but to be honest I haven’t been playing many games. I used the system once, and it works very well. I have a cord ready to be strung across the room, but I don’t know, I’m just not up to it.

Kris isn’t up to a lot of things too. I don’t know if it’s part of the mourning process, seasonal depression, or what, but we’re both in a funk and for the life of me I can’t figure out why exactly. Even this somewhat short blog entry, that I would normally just sit down and write without thinking about has taken me over a half hour to do. Maybe we need a real vacation? Maybe we just need to deal? I have no idea. Any suggestions are welcome.