https://soundcloud.com/the-hellcats/live-at-don-pedro

Love it.

Spent the weekend in New York with Reiley kama Betty and Wren went with me. We got in Friday night and waited a long time by the luggage rack. With Reiley. Eventually I noticed a guy walking with our luggage and grabbed it from him, it turns out we should have picked it up at the airplane. Oh well. We got an uber and took it to Reiley place. It’s very cute. It is two bedrooms and a bath and kitchen with enough room for Pho and Reiley stuff. We met Bo and her boyfriend Kaiyu, amazing people

Sunday we got up a little late and went out walking around town we headed towards the Staten Island Ferry but I took us the wrong way for 5 or 10 minutes before I realized it. We turned around and walked down Chinatown back to the Financial District where we walked right onto Wall Street. We kept going and found the Staten Island ferry. We went into a huge room where a man with a violin was playing beautiful tunes on top of pre recorded music he was about Grammy Dejan she thought he was quite handsome we tried to get her to put her name and number into his head but no go. The ferry runs every half an hour and we didn’t have to wait long before we were zooming across the Hudson River past the Statue of Liberty Wren and Grandma Stewart at the rail and watch the statue go by. Grammy had tears in her eyes. We got to Staten Island got off the ferry and ran around to the return ferry for a quick trip back. It was nice to hang out on the ferry and just enjoy the ride. Which was free. Awesome. Then we got and uber tried to get an over but the other was not able to find us so we walked more and had some bad service at Starbucks and we found a wonderful little Indian restaurant that hey Shan masala lentils and all the rest on a veggie platter that we all three shared. The nice lady open the door for us because it was kind of hot. We walked back more and eventually got back to the room to take a nap. Grandma and I went out to get foot massages, at a place called Foot heaven, and it was. A warm bucket of water and then 30 minutes of the most perfect gentle strong massage from the knee cap down. Granny sat next to me in a lazy boy and they made us feel great.

Cara and I in Asheville this weekend.  Asheville makes the best long weekend.   We had another fantastic time in our favorite weekend getaway town.

Yesterday morning I watched in utter awe as a beautiful creature made his way across the grassy knoll outside my apartment.  Low to the ground, straight and determined, moving fast. 

It was a fox.  It is a life changing moment for me whenever I have the privilege to encounter a non-human predator higher on the food chain, alive and fighting for more, in this human-battered and decimated natureless world that you and I have decided to make.

Within thirty minutes, I was driving to work, and found the fox dead on the road.

I cannot capture the despair.  Crushed,

I’ll always hold Peta partially responsible for the judgement against and lack of converts to Veganism. There will always be those among us who have none of the bravery or intellect to divert from their parents’ choices, no matter what they were. But there is a real segment of the human race that is rational and reasonable and intelligent and open to this kind of information. Peta’s methodical antagonism of everyone who wasn’t already vegan, over the course of decades, has done more harm to the growth of Veganism in this segment than anything else, imho. But… truth will out. So here we go into the future, with eternal optimism.

Elevator action is art of the highest form.

Doug, here’s your shopping list, once it all arrives, give me a shout out for a Micro-SD!

• Pi
• Case
• Power
• Controllers (get 2)

 

 

 

, said Dr Levine.  He installed a bell last year for 5+ year survivers to ring.  10 years out, I qualify!  What a great guy.  The last paper I found from him details how patients that got CRS with IPHC (the “mother of all surgeries”) live longer than previously suggested, by considering that the farther out you are, the better you do.  Thanks Dr. Levine, you will always be my personal hero.

UPDATE: the following Tuesday, I went to see Dr. Vig at Rex (following Dr. Bloom’s referral to a local laproscopic surgeon).  He works with Dr. Sturdivant now, who used to work with Dr. Cline (and had removed my port while I was in twilight, THAT was fun, like someone rooting around in your chest causing great pain while you watch – but he’s a great, sweet guy).  He doesn’t think it’s a good idea to poke around with laproscopy.  The first step is to blow up your peritoneum with gas, to separate all the organs and intestines – and that probably wouldn’t work with all my adhesions, it would just all stick together.  He suggested a contrast study, where they take X-rays over 3 hours watching the dye go through – or maybe later, a camera-in-a-capsule – but I think I’ll just leave well enough alone for now.  On with life!  :-)