Cameron's Thoughts

Cameron's Thoughts

Site Rewrite Update
Jan 3, 2009 05:14 PM
About a year ago, I wrote an entry explaining plans for a site rewrite. I put this on hold for a while, but the last few months I have been starting progress on this. I have decided to scale back some of my plans on this, it's not going to be quite as complicated as I initially intended. At this point I have written a new CMS from the ground up for this new site. It includes an templating system that generates all the HTML for me. The site rewrite is no where near complete, but I now have enough done to share. Be advised that this is a work in progress and might be down at times as I work on it. The new site is currently located at http://new.cbulock.com. I have made sure that everything will be backwards compatible, and that all the URL's will stay the same. Any feedback would be great.
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Health
Dec 17, 2008 12:47 AM
So, my health seems to be on a downward spiral lately. I went to the hospital once as I just couldn't tolerate the nausea and pain any longer. The doctor at the hospital actually gave me some medication that is helping for the most part with the nausea. I still feel sick every time I eat though. That's causing a lot of internal issues as I am hungry all the time, yet afraid to eat anything. I have seen the doctor again and he didn't really know what was going on now. So, I am finally seeing a gastrointestinal specialist, but unfortunately that isn't for another month. I don't really know how I am going to cope until that time. Thankfully I have insurance, but the deductibles for all the medications I'm taking and the doctors visits are starting to add up.
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Doctor Visit, Yet Again
Nov 9, 2008 08:51 PM
As I posted about a couple months back, I had a pretty serious stomach issue after switching medications one day. I was in probably the worst pain of my life for about an entire day. Things got better since then, but never back to normal. I've had aches in my stomach and started feeling regularly nauseated. More recently, the nausea has been almost constant. Once in a while, I would be up at night in front of the toilet for hours on the verge of puking. But, I never actually puke, I just wish I could. I had stopped drinking both alcohol and Monster and hadn't touched either in over two weeks as I thought they were triggering the issues. But, Thursday night, yet again, I was up all night in lots of pain. I didn't get any sleep, so I decided to call in to work sick so that I could rest and visit the doctor. This time, my stomach issue was identified as gastritis. After the doctor explained to me what it is, and reading online about it, he is completely correct with the diagnosis.
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Taking a Break
Oct 26, 2008 10:55 PM
Just a note to anyone out there that reads this, I have made a decision to take a six month break from drinking alcohol. This doesn't mean that I won't be wanting to go out and hang out at bars or parties or anything like that. I just won't be consuming alcohol at those places. I may explain the reasoning for this at another time. I also need to make some more general postings on here as theres been a fair amount going on lately that I haven't been writing about.
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Michigan Voting Info and Proposals
Oct 21, 2008 09:48 AM
Since that time is coming up for the election, I want to share some voting info that is relevant to people that live in Michigan. This is probably the biggest election of my lifetime, so I hope that good information gets out there. One thing that is really important is that people simply get out to vote. I haven't voted yet since I've lived at my apartment and I bet for a lot of people, this may be their first time voting. So, I had no idea where I needed to go on election day. Thankfully, the State of Michigan has a Web Voter Information Center where you can make sure that you are in fact registered and it will show you where to go. You can also see exactly what the ballot will look like ahead of time so there are no surprises when you show up on election day.
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Kids Pictures
Oct 20, 2008 02:56 PM
I've uploaded a number of pictures of the kids and such recently to Facebook. I plan to update their picture album websites and combine them into one, but I haven't gotten around to doing that. Once that is done, I will get more pictures up on there as well. Facebook is just so much easier though. Anyhow, here are the recent uploads from the past couple months.
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Full Comments Are Back
Oct 9, 2008 01:05 AM
I have brought back the ability to comment on this site without the need to login. The only change now is there is a basic question that is asked that proves you are a human and not a bot. Please let me know if something isn't working with that.
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Spore Review 1
Oct 1, 2008 01:05 AM
Here is my initial review of the game Spore. I bought this game the day it came out as I was majorly excited about its release. To give a quick summery of the game right off the bat, I'm fairly disappointed. But, I have more to say than just that. Mainly, I guess I was expecting a more "SimEverything" type game, which I believe was actually one of the original titles given to the game. And by that, I guess I was expecting the same type of depth that was available in games such as SimCity and SimEarth, but playable through all the stages from cell to space. Instead, this game plays like five different games, but watered-down versions of the games. With the time that was spent making the game, I was hoping for so much more.
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