Mike and Karen Online

Quick post of my Halloween costume this year.  Here is the appliance glued to my face with no makeup:

Liquid latex used to smooth the edges and first layer of makeup:

Final makeup:

Teeth inserted and cowl in place:

I knew that Ultimate Fighting Championship 83 was airing close to the wedding and with all the stuff that would be left to do, it may be hard to justify taking a night off to watch it. So Chad and I decided that we would call it my Bachelor Party. And so we did.
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My sunburn started to peel last night, what a nightmare. I kept waking up about every half an hour and peeling huge sheets of itchy skin off. I think I shed my entire back at least three times last night. It’s still peeling a little bit this morning make it hard to concentrate on work. GAHHHHH!

Met with Dr Pachaidee for my post hospital follow up. She wants to do another CT-Scan to take a look at how the artery is responding to the steroids. Since I’ve been doing so well, she said she would normally start dropping the dosage but with the wedding coming up and stress levels along with it, she wants to keep me at the same dosage until after the honeymoon at which point I will start lowering the dosage. She was not happy with me about the sunburn. The prednisone is going to make healing from it slow going. Lots of lotion and and lesson learned again I suppose. I’ll meet with her again middle of next month to go over the CT-Scan results.

Karen and I finally went last weekend to get some pictures done. There is a small studio nearby in Viera that was having a $9.95 special and we needed a good picture for the cover of the wedding program anyway. By the time we left, we spent a little over $100 worth of stuff. They gave us a CD with all the low-res stuff on it so I uploaded it.
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A funny thing happened a few days before my 43rd birthday. Tuesday, March 25th I started having abdominal issues. Felt like bad gas or maybe constipation. I pretty much just ignored it, figured whatever it was it would work itself out. Wednesday I had a normal bowel movement which was odd since I still had the gas/constipation feeling. I continued to ignore it. Bowels moved normally Wed so that was starting to bug me a little bit. How could I have gas or be constipated if everything was actually moving along just fine? Thursday night Karen and I worked out (Biceps and Back I think) and that night the pain got really bad. It was in my stomach and in my lower back. (more…)

After some problems with mod_security, we seem to be working.  Had to add an .htaccess file turning off mod security for the wp-admin directory as well as telling httpd to process the .htaccess file for that directory (the server was set to ignore htaccess directives).