Hello Friends, I have bad news to share. Early this year, the blood cancer I have had since 2018, which had been under control, returned. The cancer (called multiple myeloma) causes the bone marrow to over-produce cancerous plasma cells, which cause bone pain and damage, kidney damage, fatigue, frequent infections, and eventually death. Treatments can keep it at bay for extended periods of time, but the cancer eventually mutates. Later […]
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Fun day yesterday at the Cal – Syracuse football game, despite the chilly weather and the disappointing performance by the Golden Bears (down 27-7 at the half after being 9-point favorites). Thanks Suzie Shupe, Cordel Stillman, Ann Stillman, and Paul Kay for helping me get my sports fix! Here are a few pictures from the game.
The bottom line after our first full two days in the new apartment in La Rochelle: Jetlag Triumphs! Especially when the two days haven’t been restful. Day 1 was dedicated to returning one rental car and getting another one. The big Peugeot 5008 that we’d gotten at the airport in Paris and driven to La Rochelle had to be returned by 11:30, and our new rental had to be picked […]
You know the saying, you can take the boy out of Iowa but you can’t take France out of the boy. Or something like that.
We got up this morning not knowing what we would be doing during the day. After some research and back and forth, we decided to drive to something called Le Sillon de Talbert, a 2-mile long, 100-yard wide spit of sand, gravel, and pebbles extending into the English Channel. Looks interesting, right? It took about 35 minutes to get there from Paimpol. We found the parking lot and walked on […]
I’m a sucker for electronic gadgets. Earlier this year I bought a handheld digital recorder for dictation. I bought it along on the trip to Brittany and had it with me yesterday at the Fete des Islandais. I was going to post these clips on Facebook, but it won’t let you post or link to audio clips. Boo hiss boo bad Meta bad. SSS Blog to the rescue! Here is […]
One of my consistently-Trumpiod friends from high school posted this on Facebook. There are two big lies here, one explicit and one implied. The explicit big lie is that this event was not reported by the “liberal mainstream media” – a favorite poor-me, oh-we’re-so-oppressed right-wing trope. A Google search that took me less than three seconds quickly reveals the lie, with three of the first four links being from the […]
My thought experiment is simpler. It doesn’t require understanding of quantum physics or the collapse of the quantum wavefunction. It requires only self-honesty and a moderate level of knowledge about our current politics.
In high school I took an advanced writing class, which required me to write a research paper of at least 10 double-spaced typewritten pages on a subject of my choosing (provided the instructor approved it). My paper was about the impact of nuclear power plants on aquatic life. The instructor required every factual statement in the paper to have a footnote identifying its source. Not only was this requirement a […]