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I have a friend here in Portland who is in his mid-60s. He's going through a very similar cancer course to mine, albeit significantly more severe, as his primary cancer had already metastasized when first detected. Yesterday I had planned to visit him at his house, mostly to listen, and also to talk about strategies for surviving chemo with heart ( Read more... )

There's obviously a lot of transition going in my head and heart right now. In my life as a whole, I suppose.

Physically, I feel better right now than I have since right before the lung surgery in November, 2009. After spending months waking up every day feeling, at best, like I just got over a dreadful flu the day before (and those were the good ( Read more... )

Who says a candle only had two ends to burn?

Friday morning I woke up at 1:30 am Pacific time to catch my plane out of Omaha. Arrived in Seattle about 1:30 pm Pacific time, spent the afternoon with markbourne. We met up with calendula_witch and markferrari in the late afternoon, then hied off to a hastily-arranged dinner at Coastal Kitchen with e_bourne, mikigarrison, criada and kehrli. Dinner was lovely, if ( Read more... )

Fine-tuning Cancer Treatments - Drug companies are harnessing new knowledge of cancer genetics.

Size matters - Asteroids, to scale. (Via Bad Astronomy.)

7 Wonders of the RV World - Americana at its finest. (Via e_bourne.)

The Lizard, the Catacombs, and the Clock: The Story of Paris’s Most Secret Underground Society - (Via shelly_rae.)

The American Aristocracy - ( Read more... )

John Klima reviews Is Anybody Out There? for Tor.com

calendula_witch on my latest cancer diagnosis - Likewise shelly_rae.

'Inception': Ghost Town, Ghost Faces - More on the movie from Hua Hsu, guest-blogging at Ta-Nehisi Coates' joint.

35 movies in two minutes

Vintage Movie Poster: The Brain That Wouldn't Die

Welcome to Detroit: 1900 - Shorpy with an image that ( Read more... )

Nothing bad or emotionally wrenching happened yesterday on the cancer front. Lots and lots of writing and WRPA happened. Had a nice breakfast with H., had a nice Indian dinner with calendula_witch and jkoke, and shelly_rae 148 miles of the STP. Go wish her very well, indeed ( Read more... )

CT, of course. 'Tis definitely nobler to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous medicine than to die of cancer. Yesterday's scan was, well, a scan. Not much to tell until we get the results on Monday. calendula_witch and I were at the oncology clinic bright and early, where they set my port needle again and drew some blood, then down to the imaging center for ( Read more... )

4,200 words on the Sekrit Projekt yesterday, to 17,600. Not bad for a week's work. I should wrap it today unless the story wants to be meaningfully longer than the projected wordcount.

Tomorrow or Thursday I will start in on extensive edits to Endurance, which I have about four weeks to complete, before I hie off to New Zealand and Australia. ( Read more... )

Big Painting Sale - Terry Windling is having a painting sale to help a relative meet medical costs. Check it, boost the signal. (Via shelly_rae.)

More on fried olives (for those who are following the saga) - garyomaha with more on the fried olives made by shelly_rae.

The milkman cometh - Back to the days of future past?

Trains And Railways Extravaganza, Part 2 - Dark ( Read more... )