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Yes, it's 5:30AM - I'm nauseated, Sick, and sicker of being sick. Leave off. 

 

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[VIDEOS] Santa visits the Fords

The links below are videos taken with my Droid3 at my Family Christmas party. Santa showed up and he was absolutely amazing. I am not usually a big Christmas lover, and most times when I see Santa out there ringing the bell, I want to slug him. This time, I was absolutely amazed, awed and maybe even more enchanted than the children he came to visit.
After that visit from Santa, I have a newfound respect for him. He may be fat, may be a little too jolly, but that boy has some mad skills!

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As a side note, Santa has a company that helps make it possible to have him come visit your family, business or party. Jared at http://partyandlawnservice.com can help make it happen.

Merry Christmas everyone!

So this is just commentary

The sheer amount of Mormons at my work can be overwhelming at times. I feel a thousand miles separation because of it. Good People, just lots of them...

Hardware+more makes me feel good...

This Hardware comparison made me feel good to read. I already knew my decision was a good one (what with the freedom and customization and all that) but i figured I'd share. http://bit.ly/rGDIXO

Skyrim music

Awesome music performance

http://www.bethblog.com/index.php/2011/11/23/skyrim-around-the-web/

Black Friday Christmas Shopping (Offering to help)

So I've got a business to business connection through these guys, and if you want anything, let me know so I can try and get you some of these deals (or better if my connection can do anything fancy). I'm not taking a cut, but thought I'd offer this out to all you folks who might be looking for some of this stuff. The Ad is from Compusa/TigerDirect - Let me know. http://bit.ly/rQH4f5

Merry Christmas All of you out there.

Promotion

I have applied for the L2 position, taken the test. Wish me luck.

Apple vs Android (the ire of a dead man)

http://www.androidguys.com/2011/10/21/steve-jobs-was-willing-to-go-thermonucl...

Be a good human being, help our economy

Sign this petition.

http://www.androidauthority.com/want-the-software-patent-madness-to-stop-sign...

Coffee break clip of the day

Yes, I am snickering as I post.

My sexy new Android device

Just a quick screen capture of my new phone.

Joanne and mom having coffee with me.

Taken with picplz at Green House Coffee in Millcreek, UT.

Candis @ the Greenhouse Effect Coffee. Celebrating our third anniversary

Taken with picplz at Green House Coffee in Millcreek, UT.

Flush your Apple device

Sadly, Apple has decided that in order to remain competitive and due to the limitations of their own innovative capabilities and lack of willingness to create new, diverse products, patent litigation has become their new business model. At one point, I liked Apple. Now, I am disgusted and have no reason to support or compliment them. I am personally never going to support their products. It's a shame that they won't get off their rears and make a new product, with competitive innovative technology. Blackberry has a plethora of new and diverse devices, android devices are all over the place, each a little different than the next. Apple has such a limited scope of products, and the behavior in the courts?

It's sad, pathetic, and wrong. Microsoft is just as bad, the only difference is that apples products actually function to the larger degree.

The current wallpaper of my phone.

Taken with picplz.

My wife looks so cute!

Taken with picplz.

Doesn't my cigarette smoke look a little like a ghost?

Taken with picplz.

The Story: "How I Got My New Teeth"

Long Long Ago, in January of 2009, I was living happily with my newly wed wife and two stepchildren in a little condo off State Street. We were tight on cash because my job wasn't giving me any hours, but I'd just received a promotion and had been on a special Dell Minuteman team for a week when I got a terrible stomach flu. We All did actually, but I got it and good because the rest of my family wasn't stuck in the rest room the majority of three days straight.

I got better however, and returned to work. That morning my back was just killing me, hurting terribly but I said to myself "It's just because of the stomach flu, sitting on the porcelain throne for three days straight and not enough sleep." As the day moved on, my back started hurting more and more and the strangest weakness in my legs and arms started showing up, it felt like my legs were being sapped of strength. By lunch time I could barely stand and knew I needed to go home before I couldn't stand or drive. So I talked to my supervisor and left.

 

I spent the rest of the day at home and it went from bad to worse. Over the next 10 days, I lost most of my fine coordination motor skills, couldn't type, could barely talk, could barely walk and was extremely sensitive to tactile sensation, light, sound and my sense of smell was up there too. I went from a healthy, strong 30-something year old to a weakling and a gimp. My wife, parents and friends were all concerned, and I had to take a medical leave of absence from my work due to the issue. On February 10th, 2009 I went into the E.R., they did several MRI's and gave me 1 gram of solu-medrol (a steroid IV they use to treat MS attacks). They thought maybe I had M.S. or some other neurological disorder, and I was sent home, high on Steroids and with a follow-up with a neurologist. The Steroids improved but didn't cure my symptoms, and after a few visits with Dr. Foley, he determined it wasn't M.S..

 

I then started a long, pointless search through the neurologist Dr. Elena James (Whom I'll never recommend to anyone) whom after two visits had decided that all the symptoms I was suffering from were "normal" and that the problem must be psychological in nature (she didn't recommend this the first visit because she hadn't seen the psych history from my teenage years). I tried getting a second opinion but he performed the same examination my Primary care physician had performed and decided that it was all in my head. So I was trying Physical Therapy and later started seeing a LCSW to verify/discredit the psychological cause and my wife was saying "Well, it might be your teeth - they're terrible." So we went to a dentist and he agreed my teeth were junk and dentures would probably be in order. I had the first three teeth extracted by the dentist but due to the structure of nerves in my mouth, felt every single thing (which put me into bad shock) - and it perforated my sinus. Shortly after, we had a tragedy in the family and I ended up really messing up my mouth in the process.

 

Once it was all healed, in May I had the rest of the teeth knocked out of my head by an oral surgeon. Low and behold, four hours after my teeth were gone, so were the majority of my symptoms. Apparently, my teeth were the cause of all the high-end pain, weakness, etc that's been plaguing me for the last 2+ years. Sadly, none of those M.D.'s ever considered that my mouth could be the cause. 

 

So, I'm left with a ruined job history, our family is broke, we lost our condo, and I'm currently trying to get myself back to work. I've got pretty new whites which I'm still adjusting to, and a new lease on life. My wife probably saved my life with her suggestions, and the doctors were freaking useless. 

The End

This was all posted by request - Hope you enjoyed Katia, and anyone else who was wondering.

 

:)

 

-Andy-

A waterfall from the Colorado trip, Dad, you remember the name?

Taken with picplz.

Good looking parents! Colorado trip.

Taken with picplz.