When my dad started going to the doctor last year, he discovered--but didn't really share--that he has a mass in his lung. I knew he mentioned having less than a 1% chance of having cancer, but didn't divulge how that came into play for a few months. He'd also mentioned not wanting to be cracked open, I think after he finally shared the news ( Read more... )

A few weeks ago, I kept having the thought of making fancy ramen. Take regular ramen, and add stuff to it, so that it looks like the sort of broth bowl you'd get at an Asian restaurant. We'd roasted vegetables recently and had celery in the house, so a couple weeks ago I got a couple packages of chicken-flavored ramen, sliced up the celery, and ( Read more... )

This brightened my day ( Read more... )

Monday night, prior to going to band, all was normal. I got there, I put my flute together, I was talking to R the bari sax player and showing him my Fancy Band music. He's super impressed that I'm in that group and was curious to see what it looked like, so I pulled it all out to show him my various runs. Now, mind you, this set of music we're ( Read more... )

We've slowly been getting certain upgrades at work, and my workstation was the most recent one to get upgraded--mine, and the office manager's; this happened over the weekend. I came in to find a shiny new operating system, I suppose you could say. It's so much faster. Del's workstation was already upgraded, so at least how it looked wasn't super ( Read more... )

I'm falling apart ( Read more... )

We called grandma at 1 PM as usual. No answer ( Read more... )

This was an unusual week for this year of Fancy Band: It was the first one all year where we had sectionals of sorts. Director A wanted to work with the taiko drums by themselves, so that was the first portion of rehearsal; then, we're apparently having some sort of chamber group performance, so they got some time to play. Full rehearsal didn't ( Read more... )

It's been a couple weeks since my work schedule change. If I didn't mention it--and with my short-term memory on the fritz, I may not have--several of us had schedule changes ( Read more... )

Now that things have calmed down--and mom and I are speaking again; I kinda didn't want to deal with her yesterday--I found out how things went on the big casino outing ( Read more... )