Over a week after surgery, and finally some improvement.
My wife is now able to get around without need for assistance. For a little
over a week she needed assistance getting up and walking.
This weekend she went shopping, and the family went out for dinner. We will
be celebrating our 8th wedding ann. on the 30th. Tonight’s dinner was an
early celebration.
We have recently been training some new hires. This means adjusting
schedules.
Shift is not changing, just the days during the week I work.
The new hires have also kept me busy with daily training sessions.
Two times now!
I’ve been selected a second time for Employee of the week, by the senior manager team. Pretty cool honor. I think it’s a first in the company!
So, it will be kinda cool coming off of paid time off, to be the honored employee.
May be weired also being a holiday week.
My wife had to under go planned surgery on Wednesday, November 17th. The surgery was due to the following complications, and had been moved up due to the holidays and the pain and suffering being caused by the swelling of the gland.
A bad salivary gland and a deviated-septum
There were no complications in surgery, but the surgery took two and a half hours so it was a bit nerve racking, waiting for the doctor to come out, and let us know how things were going. Then we had another extended wait while they monitored and prepared her and the room in which she stayed in over night.
The Friday following the surgery, a drain tube was removed from her neck and splints from her nose. This of course brought on more pain, but there was no indication of problems — everything is healing well, etc.
The only outstanding issues are weakness/fatigue and sorness from the surgery, and sorness from the breathing tube that was used. If that continues another doctor appointment may be needed next week.
Visited the style competion page, and decided to use the Bulletin Board style.
Updated some plugins in wordpress, and learned that an extra linefeed/carriage return after the ending ?> tag in a php file; can cause problems 
Once this was removed, the plugins began to work flawlessly.
Clay Aiken
BTI Center-Meymandi Concert Hall, Raleigh, NC
Sun, Dec 12, 2004 08:00 PM
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My employer has selected me as “Employee of the Week”.
Kinda of a cool honor, it is something they started a few months ago.
The bonus, is a “reserved” parking space for the week. So I will enjoy getting to park close to the building for the rest of the week.
So far, two days out of the week. I have not gotten to use the space 
This morning, someone was parked in it waiting for their husband to get off work. I didn’t have the heart to ask the person to move. Maybe Wednesday, I’ll finally get to park in the reserved spot.
Well, this weekend was a bust. Woke up to no hot water.
We were able to get the pilot light restarted, but the unit continued to leak a little throughout the day; and within 24 hours the pilot light died again. It was manufactured in 1985, so I guess one cannot complain — it probably lasted it’s expected life.
We were able to get a new unit installed on Monday, so Tuesday morning I should be able to enjoy a hot shower!