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Dirkus Maximus |
Hacker, Husband, Daddy and Alpha Geek
Monday, 17 April 2006 | ||
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True suffering | ||
| Once upon I time I liked camping. I really did. It was fun to get out in the woods and rough it for a weekend, making fires by rubbing two sticks together and whatnot. I even tried getting my son into by going with him on a yearly camping trip right around the time of our birthdays in early April. This years trip, however, was an exercise in stretching the envelope of human suffering. Never in my life have I had a reaction to pollen this bad. You athsmatics out there can appreciate what a bad attack feels like. You have to struggle to breathe, you lungs hurt from trying to pull air through the ever-tightening sippy straw that is your esophogas, and you can't speak for lack of air and an overabundance of phlegm trying to plug up what little airway you still have left. Now, imagine that sensation lasting for three days straight. I was coughing so hard I could taste blood. I'm still coughing up chunks of mucus from the bottoms of my lungs, and I think I'm fighting an ear infection too. I'm going to see a specialist Real Soon Now to see if I'm eligible for the alergy shot. Anyone who knows me knows I hate needles with a passion, so voluntarily asking if I can get an injection is damn-near like watching the four horsemen of the apocolypse saddling up and the devil himself stocking up on Ice-Melt for his driveway. Wish me luck! | ||
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ATTENTION! I was born April 11, 1978 in Pascagoula, Mississippi. I've lived in Virginia most of my life, but have spent some time in Northern California, North Carolina, the Virgin Islands and Kansas while in the Coast Guard. Now I've settled down in Elizabeth City, NC and don't plan on moving for quite some time. I'm happily married to my high school sweetheart Westly Anne, and we have three children that are all cuter than yours. I currently work for Canon Information Technology Services, the company that handles all the tech support for Canon (the electronics and imaging giant) for the entire US. I'm the lead technical trainer in the cameras department. I've also worked for Exis.Net, as cheap labor in a chemichal plant in Portsmouth VA that makes the absorbent powder for baby diapers, and as an "Interpretive Ranger" (AKA Tour Guide) at a state park in Virginia. -= Friends' Blogs =-
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Colleen Dirk, that is terrible. I hope that you are feeling better. I have asthma, but never like that, of course, I'm always at work and never go ANYWHERE!! I am sooo looking forward to vacation Saturday!! Thanks for finally finding my picture. God bless and take care! ~Colleen (04/26/06)