Category: Personal

  • Isotretinoin – Week 4

    This post is a bit late and I see that I skipped last week’s post as well.  However, better late than never. My treatment with Isotretinoin is progressing.  In the last few weeks I’ve gotten old-people hands as I’ve affectionately referred to them.  Effectively this means that my hands are quite dry and get cut pretty…

  • Running is now work

    Today was the first time in two weeks that I have actually ran at all.  I ran one mile tonight on the treadmill that my parents brought down last weekend (thanks Mom & Dad!) While I only ran one mile and (including a slow one minute warmup) it took about nine minutes to run, I couldn’t…

  • Covert Sparky

    Yesterday we made a startling discovery here at home.  It would seem that Sparky has learned how to get in the kitchen even when the gate is closed. We have a gate on our kitchen so that Sparky can’t get into the cat food.  It has a human door along with a small cat door.…

  • Winter Running

    Today was the second five-mile run of the week.  It was also the second day in a row of running around the campus instead of on a county road.  My runs normally focus on those roads as I typically would just come home from work, take Sparky out, then get dressed and go for a…

  • Skin Changes

    Today was my sixteenth dosage of isotretinoin. I can clearly see the changes that are already happening. As I am sure others can as well. For one, my face is considerably drier. It no longer is oily as the sebaceous glands are starting to shutdown. I need to apply moisturizer several times a day to…