Wokka, wokka, wokka!

We finally spent our first weekend in the new home! Wow, it feels great to be under the roof of a place I am on my way to owning! What a feeling!

So, of course with every purchase of a home, there comes the dreaded repairs! Or in my case, get 'er dones! The first 3 tasks included a new shower head, check, hooking up our stove, check and finally fixing the shotty job on the hot water tank, uncheck! Being that it was Fathers Day (happy, happy to all the Fathers out there!) I didn't want my dad to spend the whole day working around my house when my mom had bigger plans for him, like getting the yard ready for their new pool. So, not a bad weekend for me!

I got a few new toys this week as well. First was an air hockey table from my neighbor! Funny story to this. My nephew was over with my brother and we were out in the front yard when out of the kids mouth comes 'Dad, can we buy that air hockey table before Uncle Aaron does??' Haha, it caught me off guard and I had to check it out. Of course my brother put the kibosh on the purchase, I couldn't resist! Done! The second purchase was a new TV. Now, I don't necessarily have a need for this, but being that all of my stuff is still in Florida, I was in need of some things while the wait continues for me to travel and get my belongings. This thing is monsterous! A lush 65" of viewing pleasure for gaming and HD-DVD viewing at its finest! It's a Mitsubishi DLP 1080p so it has all the goodies a electronic geek could need.

Our first movie on it was 'Flags of our Fathers' and it was a great film to see on this TV. The real test came Saturday when my brother and his son and step-son stopped over. Greg had never seen Forza 2 yet and he wanted to check it out firsthand. So, in it went! And as he and my dad said, it was like looking thru the windshield of a real car. Just stunning to look at. There was some split-screen action that took place but ended a few hours later with me kicking everyone out so that I could eat dinner and watch another movie with Tiffany. Later that night as Tiff decided to take a relaxing bath, I hit the power to the 360 again and hit the XBox Live Arcade where I spent the next 3 hours jamming on, get this, Pacman Championship Edition. Can you imagine? I have all these trick games and I go back to my roots and play this game? Trust me, I couldnt't believe it either. But, I had a blast nonetheless! I did get a chance to play some Crackdown as well, where I spent about an 1 1/2 hunting elusive orbs for my taking! Great game to check out if you have a 360!

Not much happening this week, just getting ready to get some repair work done to the house after the haunting hail storm we had here about 10 days ago. Luckily I wasn't home for the event, but according to Tiffany, it sounded like a full on war outside. We had hail pound around there the size of softballs, busting out a window and torturing my siding. The management company that I bought the house from has insurance on it, so their gonna tackle that next week for me!

Hope everyone has a great week! We'll post more soon!

Whatdaya say we give this a try, AGAIN!

Hi friends!

Yes, its me, Scary Aaron, back on the scene............CANCER FREE SUCKAS!

Look's like my last report was quite some time ago, so let me catch most of you up, if anyone still stops by here!

Yes, I was officially diagonsed with non-godonal seminoma (testicular cancer, minus any testicular damage). The treatment at Mayo was just spectacular. Seems they biopsied the same tumor, thru the same spot, as the doc's in Erie did, but this time it was confirmed as cancer. I began my chemotherapy immediately, as it was at a critical stage. I was just fortunate enough to get up there when I did. The tumors were crushing my trachea and my heart and it was just a matter of time before one or both gave up. I ended up in Cuyahoga Falls General in October as I had made my way home. I stopped in the Falls to pick up my kids to head back home but my body pretty much just shut down. I was in a pretty bad way, borderline death. I had to be put in an ICU unit which was locked down from anyone coming in to visit me. I had staph infections along with septic shock. Not the funnest adventure!

So after a 2 week stay there I was released and headed back to Florida where I began an horrendeous regiment of chemo. I was taking cysplaten, etopicide and bleomycin on 8 cycles. The cycles consisted of 5 days, 6 hours followed by 3 weeks of 1 day, 1 hour sessions. It was just brutal to my body. I lost over 52 total pounds during that time, lost all of my hair and every bit of muscle mass I had.

During all of this I still tried to keep up with work, but it just wasn't happening. The ass I worked for pretty much cut me off and wouldn't give me anymore work, and on top of that the stress from not knowing how things were gonna work out for me and my family pretty much was pushing me over the edge. He couldn't even give me the time of day to talk about things. F' em I say, his loss!

I decided that my best option was to return to Ohio and start fresh. So we picked up and came back home in March. I started a great job that was less stressful to work at and began the recovery process. In the meantime it was time to improve our personal lives as well, so Tiffany and I purchased our first home in Akron. (See above!) I also needed reliable wheels so I picked up a 2007 Dodge Caliber! This car rocks!!

Things are looking up though! We just needed to stop and redirect our focus and energies. It's paying off now.

I'm hoping to start keeping this more up to date and I hope you'll all stop back to be amused and entertained.

I've got tons more to blog about, including the life suck of gaming which is titled Forza. This game is just hardcore. Stop back and I'll throw ya a few opinions soon.

Later clowns!

Health Update: Next stop, Mayo Clinic

So I haven't posted in awhile, AGAIN, but I wanted to bring all my fans an update as to what's going on here in Scary's world!

The past few months have been tough with the health problems, but what can ya do? I'm just playing it day by day and hoping that I'll wake up the next day and feel better. Unfortunately, after getting as educated as I am about what's going on, I'm starting to become a realist.

In this top pic. that is not a view of my lungs, unfortunately. That is one of the 5 masses that I am dealing with right now!

For your viewing pleasures I thought I'd share a few sample pics of my chest x-rays so you could actually see what's going on here. In the view you'll see that my trachea is about an 1" away from where it should be. This is being caused by a mass growing on the left side of my neck thats pushing towards the right. It's causing breathing and eating issues, but I am still able to deal with it. Just very difficult to get comfortable at night to sleep. I've been very restless!

I met with my cariologist and my cardiothoroasic surgeon both in the past week and both are insistant that this needs to be taken care of a team of specialists. The mass on my neck is inter-twined with veins and arteries that should not be messed with under regular circumstances. So I've hooked up with the Mayo Clinic to continue this journey.



I haven't set up the date yet and won't until the doctors get back to me on when they can get all 3 of the specialists together at the same time for me. Very expensive deal here and I can't afford several trips up there.

I have some very cool CT scans that they gave me as well so I'm going to try and record a video of them and see if I can get it posted here for all to see. Technology rocks!

Alex's first steps!

Well, he's been taking 'baby' steps for about 2 months now, but he's finally getting his legs under him!

Tiffany and Brooke took his socks off yesterday and decided to see if they could entice him to walk more! Success!! It worked out great!

Now that I'm a YouTube groupie, I'll be loading more stuff up like this more often!

Enjoy!

'Live To Win' - Purely Paul!

I finally got my hands on it!

And as a bonus, it makes its release on my birthday October 24th, 2006!

People, the first thing I'll tell you to do is forget that this is THEE voice of KISS for the past 30 years. This is exactly what I expected though. Stripped down and just pure music. No bombs, no blasts, no over the top sound to it at all! And I love it from first track to last!

Ha, and I was gonna post a link to it over at Rock Confidential I get this message on the webpage "Audio removed by request"!

So, now you'll have to wait like the rest of the world for your opportunity to hear it!

Until then, here is a track listing:

Track Listing:

Live To Win

Lift

Wake Up Screaming

Every Time I See You Around

Bulletproof

All About You

Second To None

It's Not Me

Loving You Without You Now

Where Angels Dare

This album is very radio friendly as I listened to it. I'm just not sure what radio station would be playing it. I don't want to say it's Top 40, because its not, and it doesn't have a whole rock sound to it. It's just Paul laying out some melodic, catchy tunes.

I hate to say it, but Tiffany and I both agreed that it sounds like a Michael Bolton album. Hey, not knocking it all, I know what I'm getting when I put a solo CD in from Paul, it's just an obvious observation at this point!

When you write songs with Desmond Child and Diane Warren you know what your gonna get!

But I've gotta tell ya, give it a try! You may just be impressed!

EDIT: OK, upon further review, this album is absolutely killer!!! You must go buy this and let your ears taste some great music! I hope you guys enjoy it as much as I am! Good stuff!

Alexander turns 1!!!!!

My lil bubba turns 1 today!

Gosh damn! One year already! Never had I had so much in my life worth living for, and nothing more of an inspiration to me daily this this little child has become! He keeps me going every day and I couldn't be a prouder parent!

This weekend we are throwing him a birthday party and we'll be broadcasting it for family and friends to tune in and say hello! Stop by my MSN Messenger at acspicer@hotmail.com and say hi!

OK now everyone, all together, it's the SroutKids Happy Birthday song! "Happy birthday to you! Happy Birthday to you!!..........."
Bubba, dada loves you!

Happy Birthday Silver!

I wanted to wish one of my best friends a special happy birthday!

Mr. Silverblood has officially joined Club 30!!

I hope you have a great day my friend and remember, it's just a number!

At 9:48pm this Tuesday evening......

....this is what Tiffany and I just busted up laughing at!

Enjoy!!

Ready to get back at it!

So I snuck back on and wanted to post one more blog for the evening. After a nice hot shower, warm dinner and time to reflect I wanted to jot down a few notes from the week.

Things aren't always what they seem. I lost focus with this sarcoidosis the first time! Won't happen again and I sure hope it's not the last chance that I have to kick it in the ass!

#2 Work! It's been a nice break to sit back and look at everything that's happened over the past few months. One thing that I am never quick to forget is my right-hand man getting me thru work, and being the ass kicker he is, Gary! He knows how to make these machines sing, I wrote the bad notes, he makes music out of it! LOL!! It doesn't matter what the situation, this kid has stuck it out thick and thin at this shop, where he could have easily gone north on me! Loved workin with him in Ohio and have been ever so grateful for all of his help both at work and away from it! Thank Chubbs!! It'll be nice to get back to work and start cranking thru some stuff again!

I just wasn't sure of the whole deal with the new guy at work, but after a few weeks now I have really learned to appreciate Clint and see how pretty talented the guy is. His buddy was very cool, I just really wished that had worked out differently with him. Clint probably could use a week off after being left there on his own with Gary and Bob opening shop up in North Cackalacky!!

The 'Ol man! I sure have missed him changing a complete design around! I have a few more to show him this week, let's see how many times we can change it! Really reinvigorated with work and ready to be able to get back to focusing on 'something' else for a change.

#3 Appreciating my wife, yet again! I spent the whole week at home with Alex and Tiffany (Brooke stayed with a friend for a few days during all of this) and just had the chance to see how challenging it is with my lil buddy all day long. He wears a guy out! Not to mention wearing a mommy thin!!! But I have been so happy to rest and relax with them at home and just heal for a bit.

We're going to go in to this more focused on the goal ahead, staying healthy!!

THe darker side of dancing........

Ha, and now here's bubba dancing to mommy's favorite music!

Well rounded kid he shall be!

Waaaaay too much time on my hands today!

Started updating another blog over at MSN's Spaces !

I'm going to do my best to make sure to keep things seperate with me now having 3 of these!

Hopefully I can coordinate it all thru the MSN Spaces site.

It seems to be my premier messenger for now an I'm gonna stick by it. Plus I'm learning some trick shit with keeping all the blogs and photo groups all together.

So here's the current list: Make sure you bookmark them!

http://scaryaaron.blogspot.com (here duh!)
http://aarons-sarcoidosis-story.blogspot.com (where I will begin to track my progress and stuff related)

http://scaryaaron.spaces.msn.com/ (this will be the newest addition)


Tiffany and I were having some fun making some cool pictures and videos and YouTube and we'll see how far that goes.

Lot's going on, time to take advantage of technology and keep track of as much of it as I can!

Leave my mark on cyberspace!

Lets see how well this works!

This is a video I took the other day of Alexander!

He is very much in to music, but this is daddy's favorite!

Alex - Headbanging!

Please let me know if anyone is having issues viewing the file!

I may have it set to just friends and family.

Started another blog

I just recently found out that my pulmonary sarcoidosis may have come out of remission so I wanted to start keeping a digital diary of how I'm feeling.

Anyone interested in learning something new, just as I am, please stop on by and enjoy! It's at http://aarons-sarcoidosis-story.blogspot.com/

Hope ya learn something!

Happy Birthday Anthony a.k.a. Capt. Crash 31!

I just wanted to take a second and wish a good friend of mine, Anthony, a very happy birthday!

Here's wishing you the best bro, and hoping you get everything you want on this day!

I just hope that Bon Jovi serenades ya tonight!! I mean, you deserve it, ya know?!!

Another month gone by!

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And the rainy season begins!

So here we go! Not even 9 days in to the season and we have our first Tropical Storm of the season, Alberto! As a note, last year we had our first one down here around the same time frame. So this is nothing new.

As of this morning, we're not seeing much except for rain [much needed by the way] and it's coming down in buckets! We've had such a dry spell that it's almost a godsend since we are way below average rainfall for the year already. It's being upgraded (per CNN) to a hurricane but I don't really think it's gonna get too strong. For that matter it's already way north, near the panhandle.

Works blah, blah the past few weeks. We're in deep with a lot of projects, and it just seems that we stall out quite a bit. Mind you that we have a boss that likes to micro-manage the hell out of our projects, so there is that holding us back. One day it would be nice to just come in, do my job, not get questioned on it, and deliver to a customer! What a concept ehhh?

Brookes' finally out of school for the year. We haven't seen a report card yet either. So we're waiting to see how 'close' she made it thru! She's done great for all of the changing around this year we did with her. We moved down and she started at one school and had to switch halfway thru the year once we moved in to our new place. As always, she's a little trooper!

Alex is growing up so damn fast. He's already up to 7 teeth, and may have more on the way. We've been watching him closely and he's becoming quite cranky, definitely showing signs of teething! He looks so funny with his teeth coming in. He's daddy's lil lady killer! Such a ham! We're full-on crawling now. He's finally found his foooting. And as a bonus, he's now standing up and pulling himself up on things. It won't be long now and I'll be chasing his lil butt all over the house.

Tiff's getting pretty bored at being home all the time, but you'll have that! I feel so bad for her at times. I wish that I could get her out to do more, but it's only a matter of time and we'll be back to be-boppin' around town again.

I've been looking for insurance since I moved down here and I have to finally switch it, but it is completely assinine down here how it works. I haven't gotten the full story (either that or I just don't understand it yet) but in order for me to get insurance (married) you have to have both of your drivers licenses valid. Well, since I can't do that 'easily' for Tiff, I'm forced to file for insurance as 'single'. I didn't figure this out until I called the 4th insurance company. What a bunch of crazy laws down here!

Not too much more excitement to talk about! I'm pretty busy on a few projects that I'm working on. Both are websites, and one of them is really starting to take shape. The other will come along more as I have time to learn more about this Community Server stuff! I love learning new things! Should be a blast.

Gaming has been cut to a minimum now. My 360 (the 3rd one) has taken a dump on me AGAIN! I'm up to 3 red rings and it's only a matter of time before it's completely toast! Since I was an idiot and didn't buy an extended service warranty it's gonna rock me about $140 to get it fixed! Gotta love that! So it's back to World of Warcraft and BF2 on the PC for a bit!

Oh yeah, and my fantasy baseball teams blow chunks! Nuff said!

Happy Memorial Day!

First off, I want to congratulate my 2 favoritist people in the world on 33 years of marriage, my Mom and Dad!

This is their weekend and I say 'Cheers' to them! Hope you 2 had a wonderful weekend up visiting Gramma!

This is a time that we as Americans need to remember that we are celebrating those that put their lives on the line for our freedoms! You too get a big 'Cheers' from me! Thank you for your service for my everyday freedoms that sometimes may go as 'unnoticed!'

I spent the weekend away from my family and miss them dearly! I am writing this from New York where I am visiting my good friend Ram and his family! We had a great weekend here where we got to see Mr. Silverblood and Miss Chatterbox and also my bud Capt. Crash 31! It was an awesome weekend and I just feel such great joy that I get to spend that time with my buds! I don't get to do that often, and now living in Florida makes it that much harder to do, but I am so glad that I got the opportunity to make it up here!

We stayed up late and had great times! Starbucks at 11:00 at night, WOW what a rush! Created some cool things for a new site we're working on, hubba, hubba!!! Weeeeeee! And we also got to see Jupiter last night thru Cable Monkey's killer telescope! Man, do I have to get one of those! Just good times people!

Thanks for the great weekend everyone!

Hope to see you all again soon!

Tiffany, Brooke and Alexander, daddy's on his way home! See you soon!

I give to you.........THE SNARLER!!!

Becoming a parent has given me such great joys over the past 9 months.

Yes, I have had Brooke, since she was 4 years old, but this is the first time that I have had a baby around the house. I have nieces and nephews, but that doesn't count in this case.

The thing that I have found so amazing is Alex's uncanny ability to pick up on things. We have several fun little games lately. One being the 'ehhh' call back and forth. He keeps this going until you stop completely. Quite funny!

But my all-time new favorite stems from a little incident that we had awhile back during daddy-son time! Mom didn't catch on to this until one hysterical night. See he was taking his nightly bath, which is usually the time that we also feed him as well. Well, daddy decided to mess with him and feed him some obscure food that I picked out for him. He didn't care for it and gave us this face that you see here!

It has now become a nightly habit, and now with the camera back, it's his preferred picture taking face! Witness.......




















What also makes this quite funny is not just the face, but rather the sounds that are created when doing so! I need to get a video over here to let you witness one of the funniest things I think you may have ever seen!

OK, I'll get over it!

I've been gettin a bit miffed by everything "Gene Simmons" lately and I just thought that he was really diluting and watering down my favorite band KISS.

But read this and see if you change your mind as I now have:

And an editorial note: Some of you get sick and tired of seeing GENE SIMMONS in front of every project. Not my problem. I like it. I like me. And, I am unabashed and unapologetic of being in the Gene Simmons Business. If there can be Geffen Records and Bloomberg TV and Walt Disney Pictures...there can be GENE SIMMONS EVERYTHING. Those guys did it right. And, I certainly intend to do the same.

Contact!

I had some time yesterday between some running around that Tiffany had and just being a lazy day that I sat thru a good portion of the movie 'Contact' again with Jodi Foster. I've never had a chance to sit completely thru this movie and wanted to catch it all. Of course I missed the ending, but thank goodness for digital video recorders! I'll catch the end tonight!

The reason for the mention is because of a lil program that I used to run on my computer for SETI. It was a little program that would run in the background and would basically analyize the data that those satellite dishes in the movies would pick up on. I started doing this back in '96 or so and just thought it would be cool to help contribute to science in some shape or form.

Now it's got some leg's under it and the data crunching has grown exponentially!

I'm mean, c'mon, how cool would it be to have your computer possibly analyze a piece of data that could be from a different world?? That is just way too cool! There are also some different studies that they have as well, I believe at one time there was a program to help decode DNA. Now that's pretty damn cool! Check out some of their other stuff at the SetiAtHome link.

If anyone is interested in learning more go to SetiAtHome for more details! I hope some of ya find it interesting!