On the brink of the road and the damned

Back at work, I'm glad last week is over. I'm really out of it - I spent yesterday just catching up on emails. I'm really glad Jer and Paul are here, it's like coming back to a second family. I realized I'm happier at work than spending time with my family, that's kind of sad. K. is still moving in. We've tried 3 times now to make her a copy of the house key. I've decided to make a couple of changes in my life - one thing I'm doing is switch my priorities around a little. After work on weekday nights I have to do certain things: work out, meditate, practice guitar, and study programming or work overtime about 2 hours, and do a little financial research and planning. I'm going to practice guitar last now - so if I am studying and it is really late and I don't get to practice guitar, then so be it - I don't get to practice guitar. I might not get to practice so much, but at least I'll get the most important things done. I have a hunch that I'll wind up staying up late or practicing a lot on the weekend to make up for the practice missed during the week. I've set up my own domain name too, and a wordpress blog. I'm going to be working a lot on this new site and the software I plan to post on it. I'm also taking Dave Ramsey's Financial Peace University, I've always been a fan of his podcast - this is a 13 week total money makeover. It teaches a lot of useful information, if you can get past the religious propaganda. One piece of information that stuck in my mind from week 1 was that it takes 15 to 17 years for a typical millionaire to accumulate his net worth.

Can the next generation change the world?

We've been coming to the hospital every day for a week now. We had some scares, but my dad's looking a lot better. They had him hooked up to a lot of machines that cleared out all the fluid in his lungs, and reduced some of the swelling in his chest. His overall prognosis, however, is pretty bad. They did an angiogram on Monday, followed up with a whole bunch of tests - mri, ekg, ct scan, etc. - all to see whether or not it will be feasible to do bypass surgery or a transplant. It looks like he's going to have a transplant. He's having a defibrulator put in right now, after the operation we'll bring him home. He'll have to change his diet and have a nurse with him for a few months, he's going to have to go back to the hospital for checkups.