ProfessorTomoe

I am sincerely sorry to hear this. Is there anything we can do for you?

Welp, it's finally happened,. I'm going senile. Went into a room and started looking for my glasses. Couldn't find them. Went to another room, couldn't find them there. Lather, rinse, repeat three times. Finally realized that not only were they on my head, I'd been looking through them the entire time. I'm either senile or I'm being affected by the corneal scratch. I have to use a magnifying glass to see text on my screen at times since the scratch happened.

Ahem. Turns out the doctor was right. I have a scratch on my cornea. I'm supposed to apply all the usual eye drops and gels to get it to heal for the next week.

Talked to the nurse about an hour ago. She tried to blow me off, even asking me at one point if I sleep with my eyes partially open. I eventually convinced her to talk to the doctor. A few minutes later, the nurse calls back, saying that it's not related to the surgery. Very patronizing. I returned her attitude and hung up. Now I'm waiting for an eye doctor appointment at 1pm to see if it is some sort of eye issue. It still hurts, still waters, and my nose still drips. This is making me lose my cool.

While I should be whooping it up over the official release of my debut album and the successful completion of another round of back injections, unfortunately I'm not. Something went wrong in the surgery. The first thing I noticed was a burning pain in my left eye and a constant draining from it and from my left nostril. The nurses didn't know what was going on. One nurse just flushed my eye with saline 4 or 5 times. I kept having to blow my nose and catch the tears from my eye. I was also shivering like crazy and unbalanced; I needed help getting dressed. They held me for another 30 minutes until the shivering stopped and I could stand on my own. They then sent me home. The draining got worse after I got home. It eventually got uncontrollable while standing to the point that I had to stuff a napkin into my nose. My eye is worse, too: I can't focus through it, even with my glasses. We read for side effects and found that these were part of them, and than the eye one was particularly nasty. I therefore called the on-call doctor, got the answering service, left a message, and never heard back from anyone. My doctor's office is supposed to call today and check up on me. It's not going to be a pretty call.

The temporary web address is http://store.cdbaby.com/cd/leejackson1 . I'll have a more permanent address in a day or two. In either case, the link is hot and selling for $12.99! Amazon, iTunes, and other services are also selling - and delivering - the MP3 album for a suggested retail price of $9.99! Note: That is the permanent address for posting in forums and things of that nature. However, if you go to my blog, you can click on a button that'll take you straight to my page on CD Baby. Also note that there may be a CD stock shortage over the weekend. Please keep checking back Monday or later!

The Collector's Editions CDs have all sold! Thank you to everyone who bought one! To everyone else, there's still a chance, starting tomorrow morning (Friday), as the regular physical CDs go on sale at the CD Baby store. Once the link goes live, I'll post it here.

Does Magus/Ellen have a gender fluidity circumstance to deal with? Possibly primarily from female to male, the opposite of Tedd?

Pershing, Sherman, or Peabody, it doesn't change the fact that there's only one CD left!!! Thanks to any and all here who''ve bought one, and for those who haven't, there's still time to nab the very last one that will ever be made.

Six of them sold in less than 24 hours! Two are going to Canada, two are staying in the States, one is going to Germany, and one is going to Australia. It's surprised the hell out of me that people want to pay that much postage!

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Signed-and-numbered-CDs-Calibrations-Lee-Jackson-/302683956585

The discs are here, and I'm doing the eBay thing. I've signed and numbered ten of them. At 9:15 a.m. CDT, they'll go online and be available for $50 each. I can add a brief personal message by request - not too long, since there's not a lot of space on them. Just do an eBay search for "Signed and numbered CDs of Calibrations by Lee Jackson", or some significant part of that, and you should find it; I don't yet have the link and won't until 9am.

If it would have meant betterment for society and science, I would have seriously considered it.

The digital version of Calibrations is now available for pre-order on Amazon! https://tinyurl.com/yccnkosw

To be honest, the $50 collector signed and numbered edition. I'm going to go ahead and do that, but it'll be done through an eBay sale. The number available will count down from ten to zero as each sale is made. I'll also personalize each with a short message. It'll probably happen Monday.

As of 9:07 a.m. CDT this morning, my discs were on a UPS vehicle and headed to my house. I'm about to be inundated in Calibrations discs!

Just got back from the podiatrist. He says my infected second toe on my left foot doesn't look infected anymore. That's good news, since it means I can stop taking antibiotics and have my back injections next week as scheduled. Unfortunately, my third toe on my left foot doesn't look so good. In fact, it's broken. I rammed it into a cat scratch tower a couple of days ago. The only thing keeping me on my feet is oxycodone. I also seem to have pulled a muscle that connects my groin to my knee on my left leg. That hurts to move regardless of the amount of oxycodone I'm taking. I'm having a tremendous amount of trouble getting into and out of our vehicles as a result. Someone wanna trade bodies?

If anyone missed it (sorry about the technical problems in the first hour of the show), the release date has been announced! Barring any disaster, the CD and digital albums will be available on Friday, March 30th! CDs will be available at the CD Baby Store for $12.99 apiece. Digital albums will be available there as well as at Amazon, iTunes, Spotify, and a whole bunch of other places for a suggested retail price of $9.99. There may also be a limited run of ten (10) signed and numbered CDs, each with a small personal greeting. If this happens, it'll only happen once: after the ten CDs are gone, that's it. Would you pay $50 for something like this? What would you pay? Thank you all for following me through this process (I'd say ordeal, but I'm trying to keep my hopes up). Much obliged!

BIG NEWS! BIG NEWS! BIG NEWS! The release date for Calibrations will be announced on tomorrow's episode of "The Cyber Den," hosted by Jake "The Voice" Parr on Siren Radio in the U.K. at 10:00 a.m. GMT. For the United States, that time translates to 6am EDT, 5am CDT, 4am MDT, and 3am PDT. Australian listeners on the east coast, that time will be 9pm AEDT. Jake says to click on the "LISTEN" button on the top right side of the screen. The announcement will be made right at the beginning of the show, so if you can stay up late (or get up early) to hear the show, listen right at the beginning or you'll miss it. There will also be another announcement to go along with the release date. Lots of big news tomorrow!

I'm starting to get really mad at the second toe on my left foot. My podiatrist says that the wound from removing the toenail has physically healed, but it's still infected after two runs of antibiotics. He's put me on a seven day supply of Augmentin to see if it's going to heal at all. If it doesn't show any healing after seven days (at a follow-up appointment on the 22nd), he's going to have to use something stronger (I think). That would also mean that my back injection session, scheduled for the 29th, would have to be postponed, since I can't have antibiotics in my system seven days prior to my procedure. I'm still soaking my foot (with the help of Mrs. Prof) in a solution of vinegar and epsom salts to attack the infection from the outside. We don't know if that's doing any good either. Even after the infection's knocked out, there's still work to be done on that toe. It's developed into a "hammer toe." The joint is painful as a result. It will need surgery to fix.

And a blog post with details to go with it: https://dleejackson.lbjackson.com/2018/03/the-cd-secret-is-out/

I think this qualifies for the largest understatement I have ever seen in my life. Congratulations, @The Old Hack - here's your trophy.

Are they making any progress toward finding a drug that will prevent kidney stones from forming?

A sneak preview of the inside cover, only available here in this forum: