{"id":125,"date":"2006-08-25T16:30:52","date_gmt":"2006-08-25T23:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rynosoft.dreamhosters.com\/blog\/?p=125"},"modified":"2008-04-14T20:40:46","modified_gmt":"2008-04-15T03:40:46","slug":"vital-statistics-67","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rynosoft.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/vital-statistics-67","title":{"rendered":"Vital Statistics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our new car arrived at the dealer on Wednesday and Tina picked it up that evening. I celebrated by driving the van to work <strong>two days in a row<\/strong> &#8211; the first time I&#8217;ve driven to work in months. We&#8217;re all excited about our new Scion. The racks come in next week and Tina has to drop by the dealer to get them installed.<\/p>\n<p>As I mentioned before, I slept at the sleep clinic again on Tuesday. They hooked me up with all the wires and I wore the CPAP nose mask all night. It went pretty smoothly until I started my R.E.M. period around four am. Evidently my mouth drops open during R.E.M.s which causes all the air to rush out. What&#8217;s more, I woke up startled and choking a couple of times until I finally awoke completely around five and couldn&#8217;t get back to sleep for about 15 minutes. During that time, the mask pushed the nostril microphones (yes, nostril microphones) into my septum. I awoke at 7:30 with a very sore septum. They&#8217;re probably going to give me a chin strap to keep my mouth shut. We&#8217;ll have to see if that works. I have an appointment with my doctor next week.<\/p>\n<p>Tina&#8217;s mom has been here all week. We&#8217;re having some mutual friends and Tina&#8217;s cousins over tonight for a little farewell BBQ. After we bid adieu to her tomorrow morning, my friend Don is coming over to help me reinforce the railings on our deck with a nice built-in bench. I&#8217;ll take pictures.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bike odometer:<\/strong> n\/a<br \/>\n<strong>Current reading:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Illuminatus\" target=\"wikipedia\">The Illuminatus! Trilogy<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Robert_Shea\" target=\"wikipedia\">Robert Shea<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Robert_Anton_Wilson\" target=\"wikipedia\">Robert Anton Wilson<\/a>, The Prince by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Machiavelli\" target=\"wikipedia\">Machiavelli<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Recent listening:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/bikeshow.portlandtransport.com\/\" target=\"kboo\">KBOO Bike Show<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/product.half.ebay.com\/Hes-Drunk-Plus-Also-Too_W0QQprZ3134834QQtgZinfo\" target=\"half\">He&#8217;s Drunk\/Plus Also Too<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Scrawl\" target=\"wikipedia\">Scrawl<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/product.half.ebay.com\/Spirit-Trail_W0QQtgZinfoQQprZ3269529\" target=\"half\">Spirit Trail<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bruce_Hornsby\" target=\"wikipedia\">Bruce Hornsby<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/product.half.ebay.com\/This-Is-The-Moody-Blues_W0QQtgZinfoQQprZ46441556\" target=\"half\">This Is The Moody Blues<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Moody_Blues\" target=\"wikipedia\">The Moody Blues<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/product.half.ebay.com\/Grace_W0QQprZ3080569QQtgZinfo\" target=\"half\">Grace<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jeff_Buckley\" target=\"wikipedia\">Jeff Buckley<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/product.half.ebay.com\/Lifted-Or-The-Story-Is-In-The-Soil-Keep_W0QQprZ3483910QQtgZinfo\" target=\"half\">Lifted or The Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bright_Eyes\" target=\"wikipedia\">Bright Eyes<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/product.half.ebay.com\/Has-Been_W0QQtgZinfoQQprZ30990677\" target=\"half\">Has Been<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/William_Shatner\" target=\"wikipedia\">William Shatner<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Recent viewing:<\/strong> The Daily Show, 30 Days, Sportscenter, The Colbert Report<br \/>\n<strong>Recent playing:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Zuma_%28computer_game%29\" target=\"wikipedia\">Zuma<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Recently accomplished:<\/strong> Zuma Level 12-7<br \/>\n<strong>Imperative To Do:<\/strong> Build bench to reinforce deck railing, install network in Graham&#8217;s room, labels for my sister&#8217;s CDs, pay bills, fix Newton server, kill and pull weeds<br \/>\n<strong>Cool Link:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/unitednuclear.com\/\" target=\"un\">United Nuclear<\/a>: Online purveyor of cool and geeky stuff. Looking for a place to buy thermite? This is it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our new car arrived at the dealer on Wednesday and Tina picked it up that evening. I celebrated by driving the van to work two days in a row &#8211; the first time I&#8217;ve driven to work in months. We&#8217;re all excited about our new Scion. The racks come in next week and Tina has &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rynosoft.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/vital-statistics-67\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Vital Statistics&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[39,1566,155,122,1567,272,116,975,1559,993,1562,1560,24,194],"class_list":["post-125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vital-statistics","tag-bills","tag-books","tag-comedy","tag-computers","tag-games","tag-gifts","tag-graham","tag-links","tag-music","tag-newton","tag-politics","tag-sports","tag-television","tag-yard-work"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peh6u-21","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rynosoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rynosoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rynosoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rynosoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rynosoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rynosoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rynosoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rynosoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rynosoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}