ALLOW ME to take the time to get my stories up to date. So much has been happening over the past few months, I feel rather guilty that all I've mentioned on this blog since November last year has been my engagement and its subsequent party! In reality, the past two months have been a complete roller-coaster. Allow me to explain.Well, first up has been the career "re-alignment". I must be careful at this point not to break one my my golden rules of blogging i.e. don't blog about work. At least nothing that could be found by a current ...

Since Ed’s last medical/colon update 3 or so weeks ago, we have been riding once again the roller coaster a bit. You may remember we heard at that point the healing of the internal sutures had begun but would take longer than originally planned. Just six days later (on January 18), another visit and exam shocked our doctor that the sutures appeared to have closed up and healing was close to done. This exam was done with a special butt telescope-like instrument as well as by the old fashion digital feel. The doctor and we were all elated. The ...

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Fitness guru and EthanSays friend Scott Herman is featured in Prospect Hill's new video for "Roller Coaster". In the video Scott is going through a relationship roller coaster himself, being portrayed in flash-back scenes with different girls. The ending shows everyone running down stairs and into a room to rock out with Prospect Hill as they perform for the whole party. Just like a roller-coaster, it ends where it begins - with Scott back outside the party in his car. The video was filmed in one shot, meaning one take with no editing. And yes, gents (and ladies), you ...

These are 2 updates I sent to our friends and family this past week. Since I know some of you among our virtual family are following Ed's progress, I wanted to let you see what has been happening. xoxo, ESENT 11/24/09:Hello Again Everyone:I am getting lots of emails from folks asking how Ed is doing, so I think it is just easier to send out the big emails again with one message. (If anyone wants to be taken off the email list at this point, please let me know. I know how email in-boxes mount up.)So, the first week at ...

Back to Gotham after a long weekend in San Francisco. The official reason was a conference but we managed to shove some major sights and long nights to the stew. This weekend was about reconnecting, finding back our romantic loving selves, almost a salvage mission. Did it work? no clear answer. Some moments were amazing, exciting, embracing. Others were tense, wicked, almost nasty. It's like there are four people in this relationship, two of me and two of him (JC+, JC- and R+, R-). The resulting matrix is a complex combination of explosive love and vicious hurt. When one of ...

Because it was just so much fun to live it the first time... 8: The Mormon Propsition (H/t: Pam) You'll laugh! You'll cry! And then you'll live another year and watch it all in a film version! But it does look good. Someday we'll put it on the DVD shelf right next to the our wedding video, so that whenever rain prevents us from taking our grandkids to a literal roller coaster, we can take them on an emotional one instead. ...

After a long week of server issues, it looks like everything is back to running normally here on AKA William. Actually, it should be running even better and faster — while the server craziness was going on I made some speed changes under the hood of AKA William that should end slow-server frustrations for good. (The server issues were especially frustrating this week when I was all fired up after the NEM, but that’s the way the technology roller coaster rolls sometimes.)So, after a week of server issues, I gotta mop up and wipe the counters down, which is what ...