Still on holidays, and having a blast!

Charles N. Brown, 72, Locus publisher, editor, and co-founder, died peacefully in his sleep July 12, 2009 on his way home from Readercon.

I’ve been a subscriber of Locus for quite a few years now, and his columns were always informative and entertaining.  From my understanding of Locus, Charles was the heart and soul of the magazine.  I hope it can continue without him at the helm… it would be a wonderful legacy.

Well, I’m 4 days into my holidays with the family. We hit Moose Jaw and went into the ‘Al Capone’ tunnels. I’d tell you about it, but I can’t. I was told to fugetaboutit. After that we hit Drumheller and wnt to the Royal Tyrrell Museum, which is always great. The kids loved it. They seems to enjoy Reptile World a bit more though.

Now we’re in Calgary visiting my brother, but we’re heading to Banff this morning. Cya, off to do more holidays…

“Daddy, why is 6 afraid of 7?”

http://www.cracked.com/video_17571_789-because-today-should-have-its-own-retarded-movie.html

Well, I had to cut the finger nail off today.  it was getting caught on things and I didn’t want it to tear.  Now, I’m worried that the edge of the cut will catch and tear, but there’s no way I’m trimming that.  Maybe a bandage will help, but then it keeps everything kinda moist, which I don’t like too much.

Happy Canada Day to everyone.

From: Top Cultured

Well, it’s been a while since I posted pictures of my finger.  But, since I just got the stitches out, here they are.  Unfortunately, the images a bit blurry and overexposed, but it’s what I got.

I definitely have some dead skin that’ll fall off.  If you look at the first set of photos, you’ll see a whitish ridge near thye nail where the stitches went.  I have no feeling there at all, so it’ll scab off in awhile.  The rest of the finger tip, however, feels pretty good!

I don’t see too much difference today from yesterday.  I’m considering leaving it out of the bandage for the rest of the evening, and maybe put it back in for the night (just so the edges don’t get caught on sheets, etc).  I think I’ll also soak it in warm, lightly salted water.  Hopefully that will get rid of the dry crusties.

Well, things are starting to look better.  It’s actually quite amazing how fast the body heals.  I’m still about a week away from getting the stitches out, but things look better already.  I’m almost ready to say it looks like I won’t lose the part I cut.  It’s color looks good to me.

I’m not going to put a new bandage on right away.  I figure some air will do it good.  I just hope I don’t accidentally bang it anywhere.