Had my crew cut on Friday, and not a moment too soon! Tonite my youngest (much younger) brother Phil saw the cut and said "That’s not a real crew cut." I said "the barber set the electric cutter at one inch and that’s good enough for me." Well, just took a shower and the hair … Read more
Who’d a thunk it? After less than a week, I’ve already gotten some spam comments. "buy stocks", "build a website", "Wow what a great site – I’ve bookmarked it! Do you need an MPG player?" Will have to figure out how to delete them. Addendum. Figured out how to delete unwanted spam comments and … Read more
Hair started to go Thursday – yesterday morning. Perfect timing 16 days after my first chemo and two days after the second one. Just about as the docs and nurses predicted. I was in the shower at 7AM when some hair on my head started coming out. As I got out, in walked the 8 … Read more
Which is a little publication put out by the SS. Francis and Therese Catholic Worker house of Worcester, MA. Claire and Scott Schaeffer-Duffy have run a "House of Hospitality" with meals and sleeping arrangements for the down and out for over twenty years. Supporters have lived in the house, some for several years, but … Read more
The NY Times is going in the dumper – yesterday they announced the firing of 500 employees. AND three years ago their stock price was $47.05. Yesterday it was 31.13. The S & P 500 over the same time frame has risen just under 45%. The math is bad for the Gray Lady. Here’s … Read more
As I left the gym tonite, I caught a minute of the Yanks v. Orioles. Yanks ahead 5-3, man on first, no outs. Jeter hits easy double play ball back to pitcher – who drops it taking it out of his glove, picks it up , drops it again – everybody safe. Instead of … Read more
The session went pretty well. It ran from about 9:30 to 3 o’clock. The good news was that Dr. Chia, the oncologist I saw before the session, felt that since I’d tolerated the first chemo session very well, it was likely the other session would go well as far as side effects. And all the … Read more
Tomorrow I will have my second chemotherapy session – as an out-patient at the Memorial Sloan Kettering satellite offices in Sleepy Hollow. The building adjacent to, and owned by Phelps Memorial Hospital. I was diagnosed with lymphoma a little over two years ago, after a small lump in my neck was taken out. Here is … Read more
This web journal was named and begun on Sept. 8th on another weblog service, and today I decided to move the fledgling operation over to blogspot or blogger.com, which is owned by Goggle. The estimate is that there are almost 17 million weblogs out there, and Goggle is hosting 8 million of them. This is … Read more