Eight hours surgery, eight days in the hospital, and eight weeks for recovery (mostly). I’m half-way through the latter today. Opened up with a knife front and back–insert “foot long” here–in the final phase of tri-modal therapy that includes chemotherapy, … Continue reading
Category Archives: Miscellaneous
Not ET’s Heart Light
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Here are three views of “the alien.” It’s the bright thing. (There’s a tiny icon in the bottom-left corner of each image showing its orientation: from the feet, from the left, and face-on looking straight in. Each image is a … Continue reading
Cancer
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I have esophageal cancer, a “locally advanced adenocarcinoma of the esophagus” to quote the doctor. It’s down inside the lower third of my esophagus. I noticed difficulties swallowing. Food would get stuck and I’d need a drink of … Continue reading
Flat5’s 50 Percent
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Stats are interesting. WordPress tallies a lot of information about this website including how many times pages are viewed, where in the world those viewers are, and so forth. (No, it doesn’t capture your credit card or license plate number. … Continue reading
Blinking HDMI
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Does your HDMI-fed TV go black for a second or two and then come back on? If so, you may have what I’m calling HDMI Blink. Ending a multi-year, on-and-off quest, I think I understand the cause and, with it, … Continue reading
Purpose of Laws
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Outlaws are, by definition, outside the law. Laws don’t stop them. Passing new laws to stop criminals is foolish. Laws define criminals. No more than that. Those who voluntarily comply are the lawful citizenry. That’s me and probably most of … Continue reading
Rainy Sunday at the Bagel Shop
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Only 92 F today. Rain in the morning. The winter rye, seeded last Wednesday and watered 5X on each of the four days since, has sprouted in thousands of tiny shoots all over our yard. It’s fall in Phoenix. Just a week … Continue reading
Interesting Places in Translation
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When you travel to a place that uses a language you don’t know, things can be challenging. Where’s my hotel? Where can I get something to eat? What sign means “Bathroom” and which is which? Fortunately, Google Translate has a … Continue reading
When You Want to Spew
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Writing from the heart occurs in two distinct phases: spew, and then clean it up. In the first phase, the goal is to capture feelings. The heart does the writing while the mind sits quietly waiting its turn in the … Continue reading
Blogging vs Writing vs Thinking
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Yesterday as I worked on that day’s article about the 1% versus the 99% and the redistribution of wealth, a common thing happened: It took several revisions to not only organize my thoughts but, more importantly, to figure out what … Continue reading