This obviously isn’t me, but I wish it was. This guy is amazing! This has nothing to do with our family other than the fact that I thought it was cool.

So it’s been over a month since a posted last. Not because there hasn’t been anything happening, but because I’ve been lazy about posting. I’m not sure why it’s been so hard to post lately, but hopefully this will break my streak and get my butt back in gear. I’ve got some pictures and adventures that I’ll be posting over the next couple days so stay tuned.

So I had to have surgery on an infected tooth this week. The infection was the result of a root canal that took place some time ago, but the point of this post is that this is only the second time I’ve ever been “put under” and I’ve decided I don’t like it. This is mainly due to the fact that there are gaps in my memory where I know I was awake enough to be mobile, but I don’t remember anything about them. At the risk of sounding to presumptuous, I have to think that this must be what it’s like in the early stages of Alzheimer’s (I just watched an episode of Scientific American Frontiers about memory loss the other day, hence the reference).

It’s just weird to think that my brain was working enough to get me from the Doctors office to the car, but I honestly can’t remember getting to the car or even getting home for that matter. I do remember talking to the nurse briefly as I woke up after the surgery. She asked me if I felt ok and if I was prone to puking. I told her I felt fine and that I don’t puke too often. Then she helped me stand up to move to the recovery room, but I don’t remember walking down the hall. I only vaguely remember laying down on the bed, but then I don’t remember anything until Emily got out of the car to get the kids from my mom. After that, the next thing I remember was laying on the couch at home. I don’t really even remember getting out of the car and into the house. It’s quite disturbing to think that I was up and interacting with people, but that I’m unable to recall most of it.

Anyway, the surgery went ok and aside from a little swelling I feel pretty good. My jaw aches a little, but for the most part there hasn’t even been any pain. I just hope the fix sticks and I don’t have to have that tooth worked on ever again.

I found a site the other day which allows you to “tilt-shift” any photo. For those of you unfamiliar with tilt-shifting, it’s a photo manipulation technique which basically blurs the foreground and background of your photo and results in a “miniaturization” effect. It only really works on landscape type photos, but the effect is pretty nifty. For example, the picture below was taken from the the ski lift at Park City earlier this summer:

You can see the original picture here for comparison. And if you’d like to try this out on your own photos, you can visit the tiltshiftmaker here. Or if you’d just like to view all the crazy pictures other people have made, you can check out the flickr group here (beware that some of the pictures in that gallery didn’t work out so well).

The past few days have been a bit rough on the twins (and Emily). On Monday Jack was puking most of the day and you could tell he felt pretty crappy. And now today Emily and Annie are both feeling pretty rotton. I think I may also be coming down with whatever it is and as I sit here thinking how crappy it is to feel crappy, I can’t help but think how it must suck 100 times worse when you have no idea why you feel bad and you have no way of expressing how you feel. It’s never good for anyone to feel sick, but I feel extra bad for the twins cause they have no idea what’s going on and they can’t really explain what they’re feeling. You can tell it’s a bit scary for them any time they throw up. They get a scared/confused look on their face like “Help me! My insides are falling out!”. I just hope we all get over it soon cause being sick blows.