Absent…
When we last left our hero Chris……
He was a lazy bum between the October 2007 post and about the middle of November who couldn’t bother to write a post.
Well a couple things happened between then and the post brand spanking old. I actually got very sick. I found out that I picked up a parasite and the first hospital stay for it was sometime in the middle of November. I was discharged on Thanksgiving Day. Though I was still very ill they wrote me several prescriptions and sent me on my way. Needless to say I was VERY happy to be home.
I managed to stay out of the hospital until January, when I went in again. I stayed for a week there and they released me with even more prescriptions all for this parasite that just wasn’t going away.
Now what I haven’t yet told you is that I weigh probably 72 pounds at this point and it’s due to this parasite in my stomach/intestines.
(If you have a week constitution you should probably cover your eyes for a few lines)
The parasite was making me nauseous and I was vomiting all my food back up, and it caused severe diarrhea. Between the two things the vomiting and the diarrhea is what caused me to lose all the weight and it dropped off so quickly it literally caught me by surprise.
Now due to the rapid and extreme weight loss the salts in my body went down to almost nothing and that caused me to go crazy literally. I lost my mind, I forgot who I was, I forgot who my parents were. I didn’t know anyone, nor did I trust anyone.
Well the bad part passed by and apparently I figured out who I was. It’s taken me from February till now to get to a point where I can start living again.
I got my tax check back somewhere in April or may cuz I always file as soon as I have all my w4’s, and with that and a little bit of money I had saved up I bought a brand new tv. It’s nice it’s a 37″ flat screen HDTV by Vizio, and I got it at a pretty good price at Wal-Mart.
I forget exactly when but at some point my old laptop crashed and I lost everything on it. I was told that the motherboard crashed and the memory and the hard drive were both no longer any good. So that was a bummer cuz all my pictures are gone, pictures I will never get back. I did get a new laptop but now that I have had it a while I figured out exactly how much I hate Windows Vista and I’m not too terribly impressed with HP either (not that I ever was) but at least I am able to check email and go wireless again.
So far does it sound like a bad six months to you? Well it’s not quite over yet…
Being sick and then losing my laptop I wasn’t able to keep up with the spam to my site. By the time I was able to get to the comments I had over 11 thousand spam messages. Let me tell you those guys that do the spamming are fucking bastards! But again thanks to David July he was able to get rid of them for me so that my site would be a little bit faster and I could write posts.
So that’s why I have been absent and I’m only getting stronger and feeling more energy every day, so look out I’m absent no longer!
July 2nd, 2008 at 9:45 pm
The comments table of the database was at 75 MB when I started and 1.1 MB afterward. 11,000 is one hell of a lot of spam. I am glad I was able to dispatch them more quickly for you.
July 2nd, 2008 at 10:02 pm
What no comment how while you were MIA you were masquerading as a Swedish Flight Attendant in order to gain vital information while infitrating the OPEC mafia?
:)
July 2nd, 2008 at 11:32 pm
I don’t think I could pass for a Swedish anything…
July 2nd, 2008 at 11:36 pm
Maybe as spokesman for a Swedish-made penis enlarger. Yeah, baby, yeah!
July 3rd, 2008 at 11:06 am
I don’t even know what that is is! That sort of thing ain’t my bag, baby.