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It was all going pretty well. This weekend was generally pretty relaxing. I even went out Saturday night - but there was no dancing, no yelling, no chewing contests. The percocet was a nice perk. Until maybe...5 am today. The pain woke me up. Just over in the bottom right (the one they were jacking with when I woke up during the surgery). So I took some more percocet, and sat there and moaned and held my face till I could sleep. About 6 hours later, it woke me up again. I'm to the point, I think, where unless I'm NOT taking it, I can't really function. This is not a positive step.


Oh, but this was a fun find by my friend John Yniguez.


I'm the epileptic one with the tie.

On the same note, if you go Here, it's the channel for my friend John, and has almost all the movies we ever did in high school. We were so strange. "The Good Soul" and "The Paperboy" are 2 I was involved in. They really are pretty thin on acting, and dialogue, and plot...

An Interesting Bit of Biology

Females have 2 X chromosomes and males have an X and a Y, right?

Well, those X and Y chromosomes produce "gene products." All that means is that the gene codes for something, that is, it tells the cell it's in to makes something, usually a protein.

Since females have 2 X chromosomes that are identical, their cells go thru a process called lyonization. All it does it makes one of the X chromosomes in each cell inactive, otherwise it would produce twice as much of the gene products - twice as much as males.

In placental animals (most mammals), the X gene that is inactivated is random, it can either be the one the father or the mother contributed. However, in marsupials, it's always the fraternal X chromosome.

I learned that while procrastinating in writing my paper for Biology.

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I still live. Lots of math and biology and getting up early now. It's an existence of a quiet chipping away.