Where has the geeeek gone?

I can not believe it’s been 4 months since I’ve blogged on geeeek.com. I haven’t had a drought like this in YEARS!! So what’s the deal? Well, it’s a combination of things;

1. Lack of direction
When you get down to it, I don’t really know exactly what I want to do with geeeek.com. Is it a personal blog? Is it a tech blog? If so, do I have time or the desire to stay up on tech subjects to make my site remotely interesting? I have to answer all of those questions with “I don’t know”

2. Lack of time
I got a promotion at work a few months back and it has really chewed up a lot of my free time. This isn’t a bad thing and it’s certainly not a complaint. But, it is what it is. More time at the office = less time at home. Less time at home means less time with the wife and kids. Less time to spend with them = less time for things like blogging and side projects.

3. Other hobbies
Since I don’t really make money from blogging (not much to speak of, anyway), I have to categorize it as a hobby. I have found that my free time has become more valuable to me and spending my free time sitting in front of a computer isn’t always what I want to be doing. I picked up a guitar (that I don’t play enough) and have recently picked up digital photography as a hobby. I’m really interested in learning both.

4. Other blogs
For a while I had a bunch of different blogs going. Some tech, some personal, some hobby and some just silly. I really enjoy blogging and have been blogging at least once a week on a blog I started a few months ago that is NOTHING but my personal rantings. That site is JohnHawkinsUnrated.com.

So, for now, geeeek.com will stay as it is. I can’t say when the next time I’ll post here will be. I’m guessing that if I do pick it back up at some time, it will have a specific focus. Not sure what I’ll do with the archived posts, but I guess I’ll figure that out when the time comes.

Cheers.

Easy surgery?? Is there such a thing?

On Friday I spent the afternoon at the dermatologist’s office having a small chunk of “pre-cancer” removed from my back. The surgery was about as simple as surgery can be. The doctor came in and marked the area with a pen. The nurse came in and gave me some shots to numb the area. Then, while they went away to wait for my back to be ready, I fell asleep on the table. When they got back in to the room the doctor had to shake me a little bit to wake me up. It didn’t help that I had my iPod on so I never heard them enter the room.

I never felt her cut in to me. It was over before I realize we had started. She spent about 5 minutes stitching me up (both internal and external stitches) and that was that. They brought in Chris to show her how to wash and re-bandage it as I have to keep it covered pretty much the entire 17 days I have them. Because it’s in a spot where the clothes will rub up against it constantly, it’s best to keep it covered. Oh joy.

So, for the next 17 days I’m not supposed to lift anything heavy, not supposed to reach too far for anything and I’m not supposed to put my hand over my head. That all seems easy enough. I’m not a big fan of lifting heavy things anyway.

As usual, the wife is taking this harder than I am. I haven’t so much as taken aTylenol and she’s about ready to commit me to bed rest. Not that I mind her doing her best Florence Nightingale routine on me. I really should milk this for all it’s worth. (it’s OK to say that here, she doesn’t read my blog.)

Here are a couple of photos for those of you who aren’t too squeamish. Enjoy.