Hones-tea

My wife says I’m not allowed to buy her the fun shirts:

so I have to settle:

Maybe not affordable and I wonder to if it’s like an anti-biotic. Once you start, you commit to the entire treatment.

We’ll see what the docs say once, you know, I get gutted like a fish. 😉 I already got cracked open like a lobster for the open heart surgery, what’s one more?

Chemo depends on the results of the surgery. Right now, it’s stage 2 which is resolved with surgery. If it gets into the lymph nodes, that bumps it to stage 3 and requires chemo.

So they pull the entire sigmoid colon and the related lymph nodes and send it all off for biopsy.

Hard to say, recovery is going to be a bitch because, get this… 12 days after my diagnosis, 1 day before the CT Scan and 2 days before meeting the surgeon, my wife felt a numbness and tingling in her legs, tried to stand up and fell to the floor.

An infection she had been fighting in her foot moved to her spine and tried to paralyze her(!) She had emergency surgery on her spjne that night, a lower leg amputation a few days later, and has now been in the hospital… (checks math) 14 days.

So there’s a real possibility we’ll both be hospitalized at the same time or, best case, in surgical recovery at the same time. She can’t come home until she completes rehab for the nerve damage and amputation.

0/10 - Cancer surgery in 11 days.

Depends on what standard of living you’re used to. 😉

My mortgage is $2,200 a month, $26,400 a year.

Add to that other bills, living expenses, etc. I could probably get by on $50K or $60K a year.

Now then… lifespan. If you expect to live another 30 years (unlikely for me, but possible), that’s between $1.5M and $1.8M.

So the plan is to completely remove the sigmoid colon and then attach the end of the descending colon to the rectum. They also have to pull all the lymph nodes around the colon because if it gets into them, that’s stage 3 and chemo. We won’t know until we get the results from the surgery.

Fortunately we all have more than enough colon to go around.

March is colon cancer awareness month, wear blue and get checked! If it could happen to me, it could happen to anyone!

Holographic / Crystalline storage.

Michael Pachter is, was, and always will be a complete idiot. Back in the PS2 era he stated that it was no big deal if Sony sold out in North America, they could just move units over from Europe… ignoring the fact that both the video and electricity standards don’t match.

$700 isn’t a “death sentence”, know how we know this?

ROG Xbox Ally X - $1000
PS5 Pro - $750
Xbox Series X - $650
ROG Xbox Ally - $600
PS5 - $550
Steam Deck - $550
Xbox Series S - $450

If Valve REALLY wanted to break people’s brains, they would release a “Supply your own RAM and storage” version for $399.

The Cell - Trailer here:

https://youtu.be/eIpy4p_yMV0

Impress a cat.

65" and it’s impressive with ONE drawback… Samsungs HDR implementation SUCKS. Suuuuuuuucks.

Without HDR, everything is bright, crisp, and clean.

With HDR, it’s dark, muddy, and unwatchable.

I’ve done all the firmware updates, RTINGS calibrations, NOTHING works.

Well, nothing except disabling HDR on every device attached to it.

I bought one on the premise of both PS5 and Xbox Series X releasing 8K content.

We got:

The Touryst - Not a bad game, but not needing 8K either.

https://youtu.be/DNGA_XnWVMg

Ori and the Will of the Wisps supported 6K, GREAT game.

https://youtu.be/4nUYBcp_WP0

On the PS5 Pro (through PSSR upscaling)

F1 24 (at 60 FPS)

Gran Turismo 7 (at 60 FPS)

No Man’s Sky (at 30 FPS)

Pure Pool Pro (at 30 FPS with ray tracing)

[REDACTED] (at 60 FPS)

The Callisto Protocol (at 30 FPS with ray tracing)

And that’s it…

I don’t, it’s the UU folks, and each UU church is slightly different. You can see my personal opinion at the bottom. 😉

I mean, the UU church is still a church after all, but without a lot of the toxic trappings. You aren’t going to get anyone telling you the only way to get to heaven is through Jesus for example.

https://www.uua.org/beliefs/what-we-believe/beliefs/christianity/views-jesus

"UUs may view Jesus as a moral exemplar, practicing the compassion, generosity, and mercy that he preached. In his own life and in stories like the Good Shepherd and the Good Samaritan, Jesus calls us to connect: to transcend pride and selfishness and choose instead to love and serve, to do good, and to care for each other.

For some, Jesus is a prophetic leader and an instrument of the divine. They may or may not believe Jesus was the son of God or was resurrected but share with Christians a conviction that his witness has the spiritual power to redeem mistakes and save lives. Many describe a personal relationship with him that strengthens and inspires. Jesus calls us to discover new life and truth by following him.

Others view Jesus as a reformer and dissident, an underdog and ally. He was executed as a political criminal because of his teachings, but his life made an impact, then and now. He called out injustice in his own community and in the government. He stood with and spoke up for the most vulnerable, and he challenged his followers to feed the hungry and visit the imprisoned. Jesus calls us to transform, to resist the unjust systems that divide us, and reshape them for good."

Personally, I wouldn’t be comfortable with any field of thought other than “Jesus was a literary fiction, constructed by the early church as a method of control over an illiterate populace.” but then that’s why I don’t go to church. 😉

Check your local Unitarian Universalism (UU) branch.

https://www.uua.org/uuagovernance/committees/article-ii-study-commission/about-article-2

"Section C-2.1. Principles.

We, the member congregations of the Unitarian Universalist Association, covenant to affirm and promote

The inherent worth and dignity of every person;

Justice, equity and compassion in human relations;

Acceptance of one another and encouragement to spiritual growth in our congregations;

A free and responsible search for truth and meaning;

The right of conscience and the use of the democratic process within our congregations and in society at large;

The goal of world community with peace, liberty and justice for all;

Respect for the interdependent web of all existence of which we are a part."

867-5309!

Does it scale to other instruments? Violin? Piano? Ukulele? LOL.

Remembering phone numbers.