Trip to Emmy’s
Sunday, August 16th, 2009Visited [Emmy]. Went there via train on Sunday, August 9th, 2009 and returned home on Sunday, August 16th, 2009.
Upon my arrival, [Emmy] showed me a lump on her neck that was about the diameter of a quarter and protruded three quarters of an inch. It was located over top of her spine. So we went to the emergency room at ShadysideHospital. After an hour or so of filling out paperwork and waiting, they drained the lump, which turned out to be just a very large pimple with a cyst inside. The put her on an antibiotic and suggested that she see her dermatologist once the sore heals to get the cystremoved. The sore healed well during the week with no signs of infection apparent. She’s going to see a doctor next week about getting that cyst removed.
We watched The Young and the Restless, Dr. Phil, NBC Nightly News, and CNN’s AC 360 all week, and when she and I weren’t hanging out together, I spent time social networking on the phone. [Emmy] really likes “I Dream of Jeannie”. So we watched several episodes of that from season 4. We only have one disc left in season 4 to see, before moving on the fifth and final season.
We ate at our favorite Indian restaurant down the street on Tuesday, enjoyed hoagies from Little Nipper’s Pizza on Thursday, and had Chinese food on Saturday. I cooked two salmon fillets on her George Foreman grill one evening, along with some broccoli. We also had lots of raisin bran and Kashi cereal too for breakfast.
I reformatted [Emmy's] computer in order to completely rid it of the Norton Internet Security suite software as well as to clean out the registry and speed up the computer. Unfortunately, we lost some Winamp bookmarks in the process. But there were only a few and they were links that [Emmy] had written down elsewhere. So not a terribly big deal. We must decide which anti virus software to install now, and we’ve narrowed the selections down to Avast, AVG, and Nod32. Will investigate further next week to see which of these best suits [Emmy's] needs.
We listened to lots of music and spent some hours on my current favorite social networking site.
I meant to do some journaling this week but never got around to it. So this entry will have to suffice.
[Emmy] gave me some very long and pleasant massages. She’s a gem.
Nothing noteworthy happened on the tran trips to and from Pittsburgh. Just nice, gentle rides in well air-conditioned cars and garden burgers for lunch each way.
Cell phone service is more reliable these days along the root than it’s ever been before, although there are still plenty of dropouts when the train passes under tunnels or is too far away from either Altoona, Johnstown, Greensburg, or Pittsburgh. Service is still rather spotty. But I’m encouraged by how much better it is not than it was, even just six years ago.
Tom Hesley