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The Socialist had to take me downtown for check-up number 5 at Big City Hospital this morning. Hard to believe, but it’s been eight weeks now since I got the new liver, and I’ve been home for six weeks. Today’s landmark decisions to come out of the follow-up: – I get to drop two of…

Someone reading this has done something to hurt me. It was not an accidental slight. This was mean-spirited, malicious and required some small amount of preparation. Please, don’t e-mail me to ask if it was you. If you aren’t sure, then it wasn’t you. If you are sure, you really won’t have any reason to…

You’ll have to excuse me. I’m pissed. I’m really pissed. I probably shouldn’t be making an entry right now. I probably should be cooling off first. takes a deep breath But I’m going with the moment here. I have momentum. I have a good head of steam going. I am royally P.O.’d. I just got…

The world is burning. Mother Nature turns arsonist. Matches become weapons. Touch the button, a bomb explodes. The timer hits zero, shrapnel flies. Depress the key and the inflammatory cocktail whizzes along an electronic pathway to detonate at its assigned address. Forget to set the parking brake and the car becomes a missile, its targets…

JAVMA (The Journal of the American Veterinary Association) had a really cool pullout poster this issue. It’s the only time in the past ten years that I can recall them doing such a thing. The poster is a listing of “Disease from Potential Bioterrorist Agents”. I rather doubt these will be used as bioterrorist agents,…

Last year, when The Sisters planted my garden for me while I was recuperating, they planted three plants that never bloomed. My younger sister couldn’t remember what these plants were, but I was told to leave them be, and that they’d bloom the second year. Well, all three plants are back, and two of them…