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Out of sight, out of mind (202.2)
I just commented on one of Dana's recent posts that the LiveJournal app getting yanked out of my arsenal when I upgraded to a new iPhone really interrupted my habit of checking in here, as did the end of the "Today in past years" e-mails I was getting from LJ for a while. Those were fun! I appreciated them the way I appreciate Facebook memories, as ( Read more... ) -
Why Oakland? (200.9)
A dream early this morning featured another trip, or at least planning for it. A doctor told me I should go to a specialist in Oakland, and I realized there happened to also be a conference there I wanted to go to, so I started figuring out how to get there. I kept wandering around the office I was in to find somewhere I could make a phone call ( Read more... ) -
Dreams (201.7)
I was just explaining closed captioning to someone by text message, then reached for the seat pocket to grab the printed itineraries to see what time our flights were tomorrow, but Penny woke me up from the dream by pushing open the bedroom door. Now I'll never know ( Read more... ) -
Remember that MRI in September? (197.3)
I wanted to confirm I was still cancer-free a year after my second tumor resection surgery in August 2022 ( Read more... ) -
Yowza! (200.2)
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First MRI (198.2)
I had my first four CT scans over the course of about a year starting almost two years ago, and this afternoon I get to have my first MRI! That’s what my kidney surgeon wants to use to look at my kidneys and make sure I’m still cancer free a year after my second surgery ( Read more... ) -
National Dog Day (195.6)
I shouldn't let National Dog Day go by without talking about the dogs who are no longer with us. Picasso and Malcolm and Dixie and Kaiya and Mya and Einstein and Scout and Sashi and Sonny and Sofie and Melodie and Nikki, among my canine houseguests. Ella and Lucy and Thor and Indy and Max and Stanley and Ripley and Nike and Miles and Ralph and Jack ( Read more... ) -
Love GrassRoots, but don't need to be there all weekend (198.0)
The Finger Lakes GrassRoots Festival of Music and Dance at the Trumansburg Fairground outside Ithaca is this weekend, Thursday through Sunday, and while I was really glad to get back there last July after two years of no festival (in 2020) and mini festival (in 2021), I'm taking a more restrained approach this year. I spent all of Thursday evening ( Read more... ) -
Back from a five day weekend
Having a federal holiday on a Tuesday does weird things. The Fourth of July isn’t one of those holidays you can move to a nearby Monday. Do you give people Monday off as a “bonus” paid holiday? Make them come in for one day before a holiday?
Officially, people mostly had Tuesday off and were working Monday, or could use a vacation day to make it a ( Read more... ) -
Happy 4th! (201.1)
There are pretty much never fireworks in Ithaca on the 4th of July, but there are some not far away at the Inn at Taughannock Falls, and I've gotten to enjoy those from the lake a couple of times. The Ithaca Community Fireworks, a donation-funded rather than municipally-funded tradition dating back to at least 1948 that I know of, has long been ( Read more... )