So I just got the coolest little new thing.
As many of you know I got on of those Titanium Powerbook G4s. My friend Jeff recommended this cool product from J.R. Hill & Co. It’s this nice little pad that you put on your laptop keyboard, so that when you close it you don’t leave marks on your screen. I just got it in the mail and it’s great!

So last night I played my ‘dream gig’.

Ever since I moved to Boston I’ve been going to a place called The Phoenix Landing. It’s this cool pub that has DJs playing techno and house on Wednesday nights. It’s been going on quite a few years at this point. About 2 and a half years ago I started spinning myself. I’d always wanted to do the DJ thing. There’s just always seemed like there was something magical about what they do.

Ever since I started spinning the Wednesdays at the Phoenix Landing has been a goal of mine. I just think it’s one of the best nights out there in Boston. So when I was asked to spin there I accepted in a second. Last night was the night.

It was wonderful. I really had no idea what to expect. I’ve actually played at the Landing on a Sunday night, but while that was good, it wasn’t what I was shooting for. There’s something really great about looking out across a crowded room and watching everyone dance and knowing you’re the one doing it. It was also amazing because it was, so far, my biggest goal in DJing. Now I need to figure out what my next milestone will be!

Not much posting for me today. I’ll write about my trip to the transplant clinic tomorrow.

Right now it is 3 hours from my gig and I’ve got those pre-gig jitters. I’m sure I’ll smooth them out once I get a bite of food in me. More on that later too.

Wish me luck!

Today is bound to be a kind of busy day for posts.

Right now I’m watching they keynote from Macworld Expo. I’m quite excited about this. They announced OS X 10.1 today. It’s due to be released in September. The demo of it they were showing was definitely slick. I want it now. 🙂

Wow, busy posting day today for me.

I was looking back at what I posted earlier and wanted to add one piece to this. Towards the end I posted something about not being able to do all this on my own. This has actually been one of the hardest parts of this whole lung ordeal for me. I am a very independant person and one thing that all this has forced me to do is ask for help from people a lot more. Also, once I get my transplant I’m going to need a lot of support from my family and friends. I think that was my biggest lesson learned from back in May.

So, I just wanted to say a big Thank You to all my friends out there who read this. Because, while I’m a stubborn ass most of the time, when I have asked for help they have always been there.

Quick question for you other web folks out there. I’ve been looking at my logs this:
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So my guess is someone is trying to poke holes in my web machine. Anyone else see these? I tried searching around the web some, but couldn’t find anything that fit.

Just another quick random though.
The other day a friend of mine was saying she couldn’t see how I could post things like the post I just did in such a public place.

I think for me it’s a way for me to just vent about things to do with my life. In a lot of cases its stuff that I’d be telling my friends anyways. And if other people out there decide to read it, who cares.

In the case of my lung stuff, I figure that if someone else in a similar situation happens to find this stuff all the better. I know that i’ve benefitted from sites on the net that have to do with people’s experiences from transplants. One site that is a great example of this is: New Lungs — A Complete Guide To Lung Transplantation. In a lot of ways, this was about 1/4 of my inspiration for writing about this stuff more.

I’m starting to get a bit nervous about tomorrow. Besides being my gig at the Phoenix Landing I have an appointment at the Transplant Clinic. This is the first appointment I’ve had their since I got called as a backup (and turned it down). I feel like I’ve made really great strides since then in dealing with this all. I think at the time I was called back then I really wasn’t quite ready. I don’t know that you can ever fully be ready for it to happen, but that situation really did force me to face my fears about the whole issue.

It’s a very daunting thing for me. Just two years ago I was diagnosed with this ‘condition’ that has really ruled my life for at least that long. Now I’m facing a fix to the problem. The thing is, when you get a transplant you aren’t getting a cure for whatever you have. Instead you are replacing one medical condition (one where in many cases your chances for long term survival aren’t that great) with another medical condition (one that is also serious, but much more managable). It’s also going to mean some fairly substatial chagnes in my life. No more drinking (though I understand that after a while I can have a beer now and then). I have to be much more aware of my health. At the same time. I’ll be able to walk places and not feel like I’m going to pass out after walking half a block.

So, after that night in May, I had myself inactivated on the list for a little bit. My understanding of this is that while inactive, if my name were to come up, they’d just go to the next person on the list who matches. As of the end of this month I am hoping to activate myself again. I’m just really nervous because I feel bad about saying ‘no’ when they asked me to come in back in May. One of the things they ask you again and again when you are there is “Are you sure this is what you want to do?” And I’d said over and over again, “Yes”. I just don’t know that I’d really thought about all the issues to do with it. My biggest lesson learned was that I can’t do this all by myself.

LOTD: My Cat Hates You
Someone just pointed me at this one today. I love it!

So this morning I stumble into work a bit late due to being hungover to find that one of our Network Appliances seems to have crashed.

This has to be one of the coolest moments in my life. Why? Because when we bought this device I fought so hard to get it in a clustered configuration. What this means is that it if the first Filer (the name of the device) goes, the second will just take over for it. It worked *perfectly*. In fact it worked so perfectly that if I hadn’t gotten the email I never would have known. If we’d only had the single unit I would have been paged at some godawful hour this morning because things weren’t working. I would have had to crawl into work (hungover) and futz with this until it is fixed. Instead. I got to sleep, recover a bit, make it to my weekly team leaders meeting and in a few minutes will be driving over to Exodus to fix it. It’s still a high priority item, but it’s no longer an emergency.

I missed seeing Dino spin last night. I’m quite grumpy about that, but I was just feeling so hosed after hanging out at Dunwells listening to the Growroom guys spin yesterday. I think it was that huge Cosmopoliton that I had in a plastic cup that did me in.