Big Yellow Taxi

Labor Day weekend went well, if too quickly. I had a great time with Man-who-uses-forty-foot-ladders-to-hang-birdhouses and The Texan Elf. Pity both don’t live more closely. I made lobsters and corn on the cob for dinner, and both turned out just fine (insert huge sigh of relief here). We went out and played miniature golf afterwards,…

Yet another draining session. This time we got 9.3 Liters out of me. My abdomen is really sore at the moment – it will take time for my guts to reconfigure themselves back into place. My lab scores continue to fall closer and closer into normal ranges. My bilirubin is still high (though not as…

Monday has arrived, and signals the end of The Socialist’s semester break. The first eight weeks of his summer schedule have him teaching at the college Monday through Thursday nights. I’m not sure I’d like this as a long-term schedule, but I have to admit that I’m looking forward to having early summer evenings to…

I never know if I should consider the anniversary the 25th or the 26th. Does it count from when I was opened up, or when they finished closing me after plugging in the new liver? Regardless. Somewhere a young Hispanic boy should have been turning 20 this year. Keep him and his family in your…

You just have to think it was a guy who invented the mammogram. No way would a woman ever devise anything quite so diabolical. I’m getting it into my head that what the Female Nation needs to do as a return favor is license the Scrotogram, and then get the AMA to require all guys…

So here we go. Another woebegone orphan entry, devoid of context, with no promise of a more prompt follow-up. Europe was great. We drove a lot, saw Nice, stayed in Barcelona, ate well, drank too much (on my liver, anything is too much, and I definitely surpassed that limit). My really good digital camera decided…