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The cancer was found in early February. Dad has renal cell carcinoma which has infilitrated his bones. Last Sunday he had a spontaneous fracture of his femur. His surgery was Tuesday and he has post op delirium which the medical team has tried to dismiss as pre-existing dementia. The truth is he had no pre-existing dementia ( Read more... ) -
Thanksgiving Week
Thanksgiving week was a blur. Monday morning we got the message that an old family friend died from cancer. Monday evening we got the call that William's sister was in critical condition and we made the three hour trek to North Georgia.
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Bought Emir a gizmo a couple of weekends back that is loaded with old video games, hundreds or more of 'em. No fixed, unchanging self... I suck at Galaga, Arkanoid and all my other favorite childhood arcade games. Out of practice doesn't begin to cover it. What happened to the teenager who invested in the local arcade like it was a form of ( Read more... ) -
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Today was my first day of picking Ashley's I-don't-know-what-to-call-him-just-yet's brain. He might be a son-in-law soon or maybe already. Anyway he's from Benin. Helping me review my old high school French. The only French language book I can find is eighty years old. At best my French will be more or less correct but almost a century out of ( Read more... ) -
Happy Halloween
Halloween is Celtic New Years. I still find I like starting the year this time, seeing the new beginning when every thing looks dead and skeletal, more or less. My resolution is to update the LJ on a regular basis.
It helps that I quit my outside job. I am back home now and just plain old self employed. Second, I found the LJ ap for my phone.
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My second cousin was in a parking lot near a motel when he was confronted by two police officers on accusations of public intoxication. Things escalated and what should have been a routine line of questioning ended with my cousin being tazed twice, falling off of a ten foot embankment and being paralyzed from the chest down without the use of ( Read more... ) -
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Have you ever wanted to try a recipe because it's like thousands of years old? Finally making kykeon. Homer describes it as containing barley, water, honey, herbs and goat cheese. For herbs I am using thyme which is traditional and the goat cheese is getting subbed out with kefir starter. The taste should be unique to put it mildly but catch I ( Read more... ) -
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Sunday, I am on the mend from laryngitis, barely back in the land of the vocal. I made homemade mango lasi and a basil/spinach/oregano pizza. My last batch of kefir is getting low and I will have to put more on tonight or tomorrow. The idea of having milk setting on the table overnight in a jar is not part of our cultural norm and William seems ( Read more... )