Wi-Fi to Heal By
Category: Kitchen Sink...
Posted Wednesday, August 11, 2004 at 12:58 PM [GMT-6]

I'm blogging today live and direct from room 34 of the Pecos County Memorial Hospital, on the outskirts of beautiful metropolitan Fort Stockton, Texas (pop. 7,846 [more than I thought, Dawn]), and I've rarely felt more grateful for the magic we call technology.

I'm in FS today because my dad underwent "minor" surgery, which, as we all know, is surgery that's performed on someone else. The surgery went fine, he's resting well and the prognosis is for a speedy and complete recovery. The skill of the surgeons and the technology at their disposal made that possible (along with a heapin' helpin' of Divine attention).

I hauled my PowerBook down here thinking that I'd at least get some offline work done while I waited with my mom. We moved from the surgical waiting room to his private room, I booted up the laptop and started playing with MySQL monitor.

I only half-noticed the new window that popped up a couple of minutes later. Having been up since a quarter to five, it took me awhile to comprehend the meaning of the appearance of the Apple Software Update window. I may gripe about some of the shortcomings of OS X, but one of its major strengths is the way it automatically seeks out and connects to a wireless network, and that's exactly what happened here. So we have another miracle of technology: a highspeed Wi-Fi network in this little country hospital!

And here we sit, blogging to the sounds of Glenn Miller via iTunes, taking care of the occasional emailed website update from clients who don't even know that I'm out of town. I won't tell 'em if you won't. Life is wonderfully strange, isn't it?

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I'm impressed you could even THINK about work!

Heck, there is absolutely no such thing as "minor" surgery! It's ALL bad!

I'm glad your dad is okay, Eric!

*shudders*

Posted by: Mr. Freen at August 12, 2004 12:50 AM

Thanks for the best wishes. He'll be released sometime today, and he's doing much better this morning than he was when we left last night. He had a bit of a sinking spell mid-afternoon, but that's not unusual for a post-operative patient.

And, you know, work helps distract the mind from other, less-useful lines of thought...

Posted by: Eric at August 12, 2004 08:33 AM
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