June 22, 2006

Scott wrote this at around evening time:

So, for the next few weeks I’m going to be obsessively making sure my cell phone is with me at all times, and is not set to vibrate after I’m home and it’s on the table.

Why, you might ask? Well, it seems that shortly before 6PM yesterday, I had a missed call that, since I don’t look at my phone often, I didn’t know about until 6:30AM today when I was getting ready for work. And it was from Alice. Yes, that livejournal entry really is about her. My mind works that way.

I’ll probably never find out what it was about, since she just tends to periodically wander in and out of my life with no warning. Kind of like a comet, only less predictable, but just as catchable. I sent an email asking about it and suggesting that perhaps we should have dinner some time.

But no, I didn’t call. It was a bit too early in the morning for that, and then I was at work, and then I was home dealing with dinner for myself, and then suddenly it’s 9PM (probably not polite to call) and I’m writing this.

I’m good at excuses. Not good at good excuses, just good at having some kind of one.

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June 5, 2006

Update

Scott wrote this in the early evening:

Looks like my Dad is going to be ok. He had two arteries 95% blocked in his heart, and they put stents in. He’s feeling better now than he has for quite a while. Which makes me wonder about the chest pains I’ve been having the last 10 years, since he had no real risk factors, so it’s more of a genetic thing. We’ll find out tomorrow if he can go home yet. It looks like it will be Wednesday though.

Anyways, what I was supposed to write about yesterday. I saw the new X-Men movie, which is the first time I’ve watched on while it was still in the theaters. As a movie, it was pretty good, but in terms of the story itself in relation to the overall Marvel universe story, I have some objections. I’d rather they told one of the better story arcs than to cram bits from a whole bunch of them together, when they don’t really work as well that way and they have to make things up that should not ever happen. And don’t even get me started on the inaccuracies of characters abilities. On the plus side, they did get closer to showing what Magneto is capable of at last.

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June 4, 2006

Bad phone calls

Scott wrote this in the late afternoon:

My dad’s in intensive care tonight. Tomorrow they are doing a cardiac cathoderization, and depending on what they find, probably angioplasy or a stent.

He was doing yard work at my brother’s place yesterday and started having chest pains, so my mom took him to the emergency room. They weren’t very specific about what the problem was, the cardiologist just didn’t think he should leave.

He’ll probably get to go home Tuesday if everything goes ok.

I talked to him for a little while tonight, he’s a little depressed, a little pissed, but generally in good sprits.

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