It certainly has been a while since my last post, and for all those fiending for new material, I apologize.

Some wild stuff has been going down in my life, and I been swept around, this way and that, …

The Bilge Rat

Hygiene is just that thing that happens to other pirates.

You like what you like. Taking a cannonball to the head in your younger days hasn’t helped. Not one to take risks, you enjoy …

This past Thursday I went into the doctor’s office to get my weekly blood test; the numbers revealed that my bone marrow had yet to bounce back, and that my platelet level in particular was even lower …

In response to my cousin Megan’s link to the BBC’s Male vs Female Brain Test, I have posted my results, as well as another link to the test, in case others would like to take it. …

I just took an online test to determine which side of the brain you favor, right or left. Here are my results:

Right Brain/ Left Brain Quiz

The higher of these two numbers below indicates which side …

So remember that screenshot I posted of a cartoon I said I was going to finish in a week a month ago? Well, I finally finished it.

All two minutes of it. Here it is, and let me know what you think! …

Good news!

I got the first half of my test results back this Tuesday (the bone marrow test), and they show I have no blast cells in my marrow, which means I am still in chronic phase, and not …

Good news! I have unearthed a video of me playing with one of my favorite bands of all time, The Candy Apples.

Never heard of them? Now you have.

I was introduced to their music back in 2005 by …

The warmest of hellos! Some of you may have heard about my experiences last night, but for those who haven’t, and those who haven’t heard enough, I give you this explanation.

As I mentioned in my post …

Big news! Finally, this blog ties into current political events, a major goal of mine for at least five minutes now. That issue is, as you may have surmised from the title, health insurance.

This is a …

Hello folks! So a more formal update is in order, I believe.

So I get a call from the hospital the other day and get the full fatty (my new word for skinny) on my health at the moment. As I mentioned …

Well folks, the big day has come and gone (please refer to my last post), and it turns out to have been a big anti-climax.

First, I went to the podiatrist, and they DIDN’T operate on my toes, which I …

Welcome back to a brand new post, after a much begrudged absence (at least I assume it was begrudged).

Tomorrow, Monday August 17th, is, as the title of this post alluded to, a big day. The reason is …

This is a little comic idea I came up with months ago for a Star Craft 2 cartoon contest Blizzard was running.

If you don’t know what Star Craft is, then you won’t get the joke…and even if you do know Star Craft, there’s a fair chance you won’t get the joke either. Needless to say the cartoon did not win, but it was a lot of fun to make. Pierre did the art, by the way (I can’t paint like that).

So I’ve been having random ideas for comic strips, mostly one-panel affairs, but some multi-panel concepts as well. Here’s my first attempt.

Folks, I have stumbled upon something so nerdy, so impressive, and so potentially useless that I had to share it.

That thing is ASCII Star Wars. Let me explain. Someone has animated the movie Star …

Salutations from the hinterlands! Well, the New Jersey suburbs, really. I apologize for the lag in posts, however not much of note has happened. That is, until now.

So I had another CBC (which is a …

Hey, it’s everybody’s favorite subject, bone marrow! I already told all the grisly bits in The Story So Far part 2, so today I can move on to the results,

which I got only a couple of hours ago. I …

Well hello folks, just a short post this time.

It’s happened. I feel practically myself again. I’m free from pain, my energy is up, and my mind is limber. The only things different

is that I don’t …

Welcome back to part 2 of the Leukemia story! After this I’ll write about something else, I promise.

If you missed part 1, I highly recommend checking it out, unless you like being confused.

I arrived …

Well, here it is, the only marginally abridged version of The Leukemia Story. Now, since I’ve written it here, I’ll only have to repeat it for the rest of my life. Here it is!

I was diagnosed with CML …