Oh. Yeah.

I was gonna make this cool new webpage.

Well how's that for anti-climax?

Anyway, with decidedly little fanfare,

(though, if I hold my Discman up to the computer long enough, perhaps you can hear a Mr. Frank Black do a rendition of "I Heard Ramona Sing" that almost sounds like he's psyched for me)

This is it.

I don't really "do" HTML frames, because I haven't gotten far along enough in my studies yet to even begin that whole nefarious process. But to be honest with you, I don't think I'd try that anyway, because that shit always pisses me off! It really really (really!) does, unless I come to one of those rare sites that actually has an alternate page without frames. But basically, that, at this point, is simply just my lame excuse for being a beginner. So, expect no frames here. Or cool graphics. Well, maybe a couple. On a good day, when the light of the room you are in is dim enough, I might could (or as Jon, a.k.a. the "conspicuous carpetbagger in my guestbook", would have me say, "might very well possibly") pass for some kind of freakish artist. But mostly I'm doing this page for two reasons (and don't worry, when I actually get this page goin', don't expect to have to read this little abstract ever again).

Melodramatic Reason No.1:

Just to pass the time? Well yeah, but also, to upload some of my music, in the hopes that someone really loaded might hear it. So I can be FAMOUS. Or rather, famous to more people besides myself and Jay Shirah. And so I can learn a new skill in the process and still have a decent day-job.

Melodramatic Reason No.2:

This is a little bit lame from the get-go, but listen up. I want to share a little wisdom to the world about a condition known as Osteonecrosis. It's something I "caught" about a year ago, and ever since then my life has totally changed. Osteonecrosis is a blood/bone(? - who knows. & That's kinda the point of me writing about this) disease which can affect almost every joint in the body. It's a little like Arthritis, but it can be way more devastating than that particular condition can be, and it can affect a person in its full-blown state very quickly. I seem to only have been affected in both of my hips. I limped around for about a year, pissing off bosses and girlfriends alike for not being able to work at a full-speed-ahead kind of pace. At first I thought it was just a pinched nerve, maybe, or perhaps I had simply gotten REALLY drunk one night and forgotten about falling all the way down the stairs at my bar (I say "my" bar, because, I was a bar manager at the time... & may She rest in peace, because the bar has since been closed down for almost a year now). I am quite the expert drinker though, so I really couldn't figure out what the cause was. Anyway, here it is one solid year later. I found out what the deal was. Had multus tests performed, options weighed and reweighed, and finally in April I had my first corrective surgery for it, called a rotational osteotomy, which is just what it says: they took off the top half of my right femur and rotated it a good many degrees, hoping that this would give me a new surface of the joint to use. (I might go into more detail later, but basically that's all there is to it.) It was, um, tough, we'll say. I was tied down to a wheelchair for about four months, and that's a tight squeeze for me, kinda, because previous to my condition I was a very big fan of hitting the town. And even now I am still crutching around, sometimes on two old wooden crutches that are tweaked out with these fab stickers, which was a trend started by my friend Meredith. They call me the "pimp-gimp" because of this. But anyway, I'm getting better.