Tuesday, Tuesday... Wait. No song for that.

Yesterday was horrid. When Reibo and I arrived at the hospital, Mom was in tremendous pain. Because of the medications, her abnormal eating patterns, etc. her GI tract was all messed up. Of course, it's not like House, M.D., where the anti-social but brilliant diagnostician uses his Holmesian powers of observation to say "She's got an inflammation of the flammis and needs medication for lupus." Instead, Dr. Anti-House was called and paged several times. Finally, 4 iron in hand, he called back and prescribed a pill that slowly took the edge off Mom's pain. Today, sometime, she'll be moved to a nursing home for continued rehabilitation. We just don't know which one yet.
It's a pretty low key birthday for Pop, with Mom still in the hospital. But we're wishing him a Happy Birthday anyway, hoping that better days are coming for all of us. It may not be realistic, but it's human nature to hope for the best.
On a personal note, I went without a pressure stocking yesterday for the first time - and it was a 'yuge mistake'. My right leg blew up and turned red. It was OK for almost the entire day, but by night-time, it had blown up to the same size and alarming red color as before. Driving home, it was stiff and hurt a lot. No panic on my part this time, tho. Dr. Anti-House (and, more importantly, a super-experienced sonogram technician) had told me back in the beginning of July that I didn't have any blood clots. And, of course, we know doctors don't make mistakes, right?
My leg is only slightly swollen this AM, and the pressure stocking is right back on. It'll be a few months before I try that stunt again, tho.

On the gaming side of things, the Call of Duty: Black Ops multiplayer teaser was released, and it looks very MW2ish - but in a good way. If they keep out all the stuff that sometimes made MW2's multiplayer crap, Black Ops will be the greatest thing since sliced bread. (After seeing the teaser, it makes me wonder whether EA's apparent surrender to CoD and other shooters for 2010 was based on some insider info about the awesomness that is to be Call of Duty: Black Ops.) No doubt there'll be some in-depth dissections of the vid over the next week or so, and I'll try to link them here. Already linked today are the web and YouTube versions of IGN's analysis.
Today's featured Call of Duty vid is a CoD4 M60 Free-for All from tejbz. He's pretty good with that thing, I must say. Always loved the M60 in real life, tho I sure hated lugging it around. ;-) Moving on...

• Call of Duty: Black Ops multiplayer teaser trailer.
• IGN points out Five Awesome Additions to Black Ops Multiplayer.
• IGN's Rewind Theater analyzes the new Black Ops trailer. (YouTube version embedded below.)

• Black Ops teaser impressions: Examiner.
• Product Reviews has some clues which point to the inclusion of zombies in Black Ops.

• Medal of Honor preview: Metro UK.
• GamersHell's StarCraft II multiplayer guide.
• Quake Live exits beta, subscription options.
• Killzone 3 hands-on from IncGamers.
• Killzone 3 beta test web site launches. Beta coming?
• Wayne Newton to appear in Bethesda's Fallout: New Vegas as pre-progammed DJ voice. Danke schoen!
• Why 'serious gamers' won't go for wireless mice.
• NowGamer: 72% of UK devs target US market.
• GameHunters speculate about gaming subscriptions.
• 'Hellboy' director Del Toro entering games with THQ.
• Five Video Games That Must Become Movies. Glad that Half-life made the list, and Edward Norton is an ideal choice for Gordon Freeman. (Back in the day, my choice was then the young and unprosecuted Charlie Sheen, who had looked eerily Gordon Freeman-like in 1996's The Arrival.)

 

• Mars climate change hints at solar - not human - causes for global warming.
• Nerve regeneration possible after spinal cord injury.
• Secrets of sleeping soundly. A good shag surprisingly not on the list.
• White iPhone 4s in production? Or maybe dingy yellow iPhone 4s?
• iBike? iCycle? Apple makes a bike.
• Frash How to: Port Flash to iOS and the iPhone 4.
• Some LA coffee shops taking Wi-Fi off the menu. "Whaddaya mean I can't download War and Peace while I'm having my latte?" Does that joke even mean anything any more? The book's text is probably a few secs to download nowadays. Maybe the movie file...
• R.I.P. Patricial Neal. A brainy beauty who stunned me in The Fountainhead.