[photos] Your Monday moment of zen
Your Monday moment of zen.
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Posted: 5:36 am Mon January 25 2010 | Comments(0) |
[links] Link salad wears a yellow hat to blend in with the bananas
Werner Herzog reads Curious George — Hahaha.
“I dreamed I was twins in my Maidenform bra” — Um…
The sandpile model of Congress
The Other Terrorisms — Christianist lies, intimidation and murder against abortion. You know, the stuff that it’s persecution to speak out against, despite the deaths and terror? I simply don’t understand the Christianist obsession with forced pregnancy.
[South Carolina] Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer has compared giving people government assistance to “feeding stray animals.” — Ah, compassionate conservatism.
?otD: Are you curious, George?
1/25/2009
Body movement: 60 minute suburban walk
Hours slept: 8.0
This morning’s weigh-in: n/a (forgot)
Currently reading: Bangkok 8 by John Burdett
Posted: 5:33 am Mon January 25 2010 | Comments(0) |
[cancer] Chemotherapy, day two of session two
Yesterday was very slow. Wearing the pump with the 5FU infusion is numbing in a number of senses. Still, we managed a two mile walk, and a reasonable amount of intelligent conversation. Not much else for me, though. Too vague and unfocused to either read or write.
I did forget to mention a lovely new tranche of spoons which were deployed on Friday at the infusion center. That was fun. On the down side, this morning, the first signs of cold sensitivity and peripheral neuropathy expressed themselves. Sigh. The peripheral neuropathy is especially scary, because it’s the one of these side effects with the potential for permanent damage.
Onward I go. Pumps comes off about 2 pm this afternoon, then (hopefully) a walk.
Posted: 8:42 am Sun January 24 2010 | Comments(1) |
[photos] Your Sunday moment of zen
Your Sunday moment of zen.
A strange trio of automobiles, near Medicine Lake, WA. © 2006, 2010 Joseph E. Lake, Jr.
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Posted: 8:38 am Sun January 24 2010 | Comments(0) |
[links] Link salad says never never on a Sunday
My multiple Year’s Best story “On the Human Plan” is live at Escape Pod as a podcast
“Light washing” in gaming — A discussion of portrayals of characters of color, with passing references to the cover art of Justine Larbalestier’s Liar and my own Green.
Verne’s Right Half — A fascinating look at Jules Verne’s manuscripts, and the publishing process of his times, courtesy of art writing guru James Gurney.
The Beatles: A Retrospective From The Year 3000 — Hilarious video. (Thanks to Bill M.)
Poetica Vaginal — (Thanks to
The Secret Cities of Yemen — (Via Dark Roasted Blend.)
?otD: When do you do it, if not on a Sunday?
1/24/2009
Body movement: n/a (some walking later today, hopefully)
Hours slept: 9.0
This morning’s weigh-in: 227.6
Currently reading: Bangkok 8 by John Burdett
Posted: 8:23 am Sun January 24 2010 | Comments(1) |
[cancer] Chemotherapy, day one of session two
Yesterdy was day one of session two of chemotherapy for me. Each session last about 54 hours, from midmorning Friday to mid-afternoon Sunday. The first six hours is at the infusion center at OHSU’s waterfront clinic (a/k/a the Center For Health and Healing). Then I wear a takehome pump for 48 more hours.
Intake was simpler this time, because we knew what to expect. There also wasn’t a bunch of training, like last time. However,
The entertainment value was in a discussion of sex and side effects. We talked about the difficulty of condoms when erectile dysfunction was in play.
After that, and checking in for the third time (once for blood test, once for oncological consult, once for infusion — all at the same desk, all at the same facility, but separate check-ins for insurance tracking purposes, ahem), I got to sit in the big chair for many hours. The next chair over was occupied by a funny old woman who I’m pretty sure is an ageing protohippie, her partner with her. I knew a lot more about what to expect this time, including having my brain fry out on Oxaliplatin. Our only visitor was
Now I’m having all the same effects as last session. Mild headache, extreme fatigue, fuzzy headedness, hard-of-thinking-ness. At least constipation has not taken me over, unlike last time.
And damn, I’m tired. But so far, so okay.
Posted: 11:44 am Sat January 23 2010 | Comments(0) |
[photos] Your Saturday moment of zen
Your Saturday moment of zen.
Truck bits, Hunters, WA. © 2006, 2010 Joseph E. Lake, Jr.
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Posted: 9:48 am Sat January 23 2010 | Comments(0) |
[links] Link salad was walking through the park the other day, baby
Partially Clips on lactose intolerance — Hahahahahahahah. (Via Language Log.)
Empires of Africa — Cheryl Morgan with some commentary and pointers to fascinating African history.
Eclipses in the shade — APOD with a really nifty eclipse photo.
Defending the Planet: NRC Final Report — Some interesting and deep neepery about Near Earth Objects from Centauri Dreams. Deep Impact, anyone?
Did a thirst for beer spark civilization? — Interesting. (Via Scrivener’s Error.)
Photographers protest over UK terror search laws — Professional and amateur photographers have gathered in London’s Trafalgar Square to protest against terror stop and searches. The photographers say police are intimidating people with cameras in tactics to target possible terrorists.
2009 Ends Warmest Decade on Record — Ah, more of those liberally biased facts, this time from NASA, that well-known hotbed of Islamic socialism.
Bad Science on accountability in animal research — As well as the sometimes odious methods of opponents.
No More Jesus Rifles — A rollback of the Christianist nonsense about Bible verses on military rifle scopes. Every now and then, the forces of rationality actually score a point. Watch for this to be characterizes as persecution, of course, given the conservative fetish for victimization.
Ten Craziest things Pat Robertson Ever Said — And this man has had direct access to how many presidents? And the loyalty of how many millions of voters? Christianism is a poison in our society, pure and simple.
?otD: What do you think I saw?
1/23/2009
Body movement: n/a (some walking later today, hopefully)
Hours slept: 9.0
This morning’s weigh-in: 229.2
Currently reading: Bangkok 8 by John Burdett
Posted: 9:42 am Sat January 23 2010 | Comments(0) |
[help] Network issues at Nuevo Rancho Lake
ETA: Eventually my chemo-addled brain realized I could turn everything in the house off, in case something on the local network was creating a packet storm that borked out the WAPs. Wii, four networked printers and five networked computers later, I have Internet back. Will not bother to run down suspect device right now to identify root cause, but I believe it’s one of the two oldest printers.
Anyway, problem solved for now.
[posted via iPhone]
Severe network issues here at Nuevo Rancho Lake. Both primary and backup WAPs are declining connections. I am normally pretty good at the voodoo dance of network troubleshooting, having been a sysadmin at several points in my career, but not with my brain being fried by 2.3 ml of 5FU being delivered by pump every hour. I have neither the mental acuity nor the physical energy to do all the requite component isolation, power cycling, and possible help desk calling to either Cisco or Comcast.
If any Portland peeps with mad networking skillz have time to come over today and do the network dance, I would be profoundly grateful.
Until this is resolved, expect very light blogging from me,
Grr. Of all days to have to deal with this…
Posted: 6:04 am Sat January 23 2010 | Comments(0) |
[cancer|funny] Scenes from an infusion center
Setting: The chemo nurse has just finished tying the new bag of medicine, wearing her splash guard and biohazard containment gear. I am attempting to exit the chair.
General laughter ensues.
Posted: 11:20 am Fri January 22 2010 | Comments(1) |