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Month: January 2010

  • A room with a view (of rain)

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    There isn’t much to report from Sunday, on the Piper front. Her doctors decided that it was a good idea to put her back on a paralytic today, because that is the only effective way that they have discovered, so far, to keep her from de-saturating. When she starts to wake up, even a little…

  • Nothing really new

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    Piper had a pretty uneventful day, Saturday. Being that she tends to become agitated and de-sat when she is awake, she was kept a bit more sedated. The doctors took another X-ray of her in the evening, which came back almost the same as it was Thursday. Although we would have liked to have had…

  • No Pulmonary Hypertension

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    An echocardiogram (not sure if that is how it is spelled) revealed that pulmonary hypertension, which Piper has historically suffered from, is not playing a factor in what is going on currently. In other words, the results revealed nothing abnormal with her heart, that the doctor believed wasn’t being caused by her pneumonia.  So, that…

  • PJ Update

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    ^—-PJ all swollen up from her IVs, safe and sound back in NYC We were able to get Piper back to Columbia, on Thursday. She arrived around 12:30 or so. It wasn’t a very smooth ride over. She had some blockage in her trache, and was having some bronchial spasms. She was generally in bad…

  • Piper is not feeling too hot

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    We found out yesterday that Piper hadn’t been feeling too hot, since Monday night. They said that she was having respiratory distress, and would be sending her to Columbia, if she could’t stabilize by 8. We got a call shortly after 7 that she had worsened and that they had some parametics taking her to…

  • It’s cold outside

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    I saw all of this ice that was collecting in the north cove marina, from my boss’s window Monday, when I was in his office. I decided to photograph it, Tuesday morning on my way in. The funny part? Apparently I wasn’t the only person I know, taking photos of floating ice in the Hudson.

  • Use Method

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    I know that everyone has seen millions of comical examples of product packaging on products originating from Asian countries. Just the same, I cracked up at this one and couldn’t resist sharing it. A few weeks ago, I ordered this nifty little LCD protector from Ebay, for the back of the 7D. As you can…

  • More Bridge P@^n

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    Sorry that I am kind obsessed with bridges, at the moment, because of the book that I’m reading. If you are sick of hearing about them, feel free to change the channel. I’m taking a break from blabbing about the Brooklyn Bridge for a minute to share this outstanding time-lapse video of the Manhattan Bridge.…

  • La Musica Coolica #54 (Luda)

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    Ludacris! Yeah, man. It is about time that I threw some southern hip-hip into the mix. Whenever I hear southern rap, it reminds me of the good old days before Lil’ Jon came along and ruined it all-up with “Crunk.” I mean, we all thought that Crunk was going to be one of those timeless…

  • Roebling quote of the week

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    I mentioned previously that I had recently started a new book about the conception and construction of the Brooklyn Bridge. As it turns out, the bridge was the brainchild of the Prussian immigrant architect/engineer/genius named John Roebling. The construction was overseen by himself and his son Washington Roebling, who evidently was equally gifted. John actually…