We are a commune of inquiring, skeptical, politically centrist, capitalist, anglophile, traditionalist New England Yankee humans, humanoids, and animals with many interests beyond and above politics. Each of us has had a high-school education (or GED), but all had ADD so didn't pay attention very well, especially the dogs. Each one of us does "try my best to be just like I am," and none of us enjoys working for others, including for Maggie, from whom we receive neither a nickel nor a dime. Freedom from nags, cranks, government, do-gooders, control-freaks and idiots is all that we ask for.
Not much today on Saturday in terms of activity and effort - snow made that a bit of a delay and reduction for some things.
Two sons and one girlfriend, we took the dog and went to our local brewery. Lions Roar Brewing in Westfield, NJ. They allowed the dog (she's my regular dog, a rescue Frenchy Bulldog we have, but my current specialist post surgery even if she's not really that specialized...helps us keep her around). Nice brewery with outdoor seating and warmth. Lovely joint.
We played some card games. I struggled a bit recovering and understanding the rules, we all had a great game and I guess I was ok.
I tried Red Ale. I didn't want beer originally, but figured why not one small one. I used to brew Red Ale and liked it as an old brewing. Today? Sorry, no taste. It wasn't bad. Just bland. So I drank half, and I guess beer is now done for me. There just wasn't anything I enjoyed. Not sad over that at all.
Ask Ethan: Why does nature always follow a Bell curve? Almost everything we can observe and measure follows what's known as a normal distribution, or a Bell curve. There's a profound reason why.
One regular physical which actually predated the surgery and current situation. I'd set that a month and a half ago PRIOR to the sudden outcome of 2/2-2/6. The meeting 2/16 with the 29 year old son (who I asked to join me for knowledge and conversation) went VERY well. Could be analyzed as "sad" but I said "Nope - not going for that." The doctor smiled and laughed and said he appreciated my approach which "just remember - anything could happen."
Sure. But why bother with that worry or concern now? IF it happens, we'll set as wise an approach with them as we can and my son was wonderful about it. In the meantime, I told him my love, positive outlook, and how I will forever (as much as possible) be kind and loving and forward thinking as I am capable of. My son smiled and said he would help with better knowledge and fulfillment as he can while time continues. There are some medical agreements we will set IF I lose any reality or knowledge or health.
Steroids still IMPROVING my short term health. But may be a short term option until other tests or treatments become straightforward. It will always be engaged if necessary, even if they have no positive outcomes. It's always for a high hope and belief that it may assist.
Sleeping? Still odd. Plenty. At least 6 hours for now (I would only get 6-7 before all this anyway, but usually not as easily then). Today? Great 6 hour deep sleeps but then 4 - 6 am wake ups regardless of when I go to sleep (10-2am varies). A few daily naps of an hour or so. All expected or temporary as my health (doctors' view) improves.
So this is a 4:30 am post! HA! Woke up, felt good, had some tea, and doing reading or writing where I can. Doctor suggested listening to music and singing to improve the memory again! I am starting that after my first week home taking a rest and taking it all easy!
Watching lots of sports (I have been down on Purdue college basketball and football for 2 years. Today? Did a long conversation and review - they are my #1 NCAA choice based on my analysis for college basketball. I was right about them for 2 years. Now? I have a very strong feeling of their play and potential outcome this year. Not my school, but I love reading what I'm seeing and THEY are my #1 belief.)
Planning some hikes and walks! Still OK. Hoping for a few with Bird Dog and his family ASAP!
Music! Love it a lot right now.
Son is an excellent cook and has been prepping food wonderfully (and frankly, I am stunned how delicious everything has been for the last 5 days - wow! I don't know why I'm having GREAT food results.)
People - 99% love, kindness and friendliness. 1% anger, open results, honesty if it's "mean" because I do not care if you choose to be an idiot. One person, very nice guy I like a lot, former drug abuser who was arrested many years ago and cleaned up his life - built a business, he and I became really friendly with. Then, 3 months ago he became aggressive and lied about my sports commentaries. Literally lied and expanded how he responded to my results! At first I was nice about it and boosted the honesty and truth! He pretended to "joke" and called me stupid names. "Arrogant" "Wrong" "Liar of proof" "Don't consider the teams properly or the coaching." UGHHHHH I finally ended by saying he needs to stop being a dumbass. I have the highest respect for people like him who improved their own and other people's lives. I've never supported his teams (Dallas) and have always been open or honest about my responses - no lies. No falsehood. He then made a poorly supported claim about SF and several players - I checked with sports writer friends and I was 100% correct. He called me more names and a "liar" after my surgery. I reminded him I have great information and friends - and what my surgery is or why my outcomes were likely sad. That I RESPECTED AND SUPPORTED HIS PERSONAL IMPROVEMENTS. He again sends an aggressive and 100% incorrect response to me! I told him simply - stop or end our relationship. That's your problem. Nothing I wrote was wrong. He just didn't like it or agree with it and got angry at me for no good reason or an open discussion outside of calling me names. Nonsense. Unnecessary. I hope we regain our caring and friendly stuff. I don't think he knows what reality is - he never did properly, at times.
Sorry everyone if I say anything misspelled or long or incorrect! Please feel free to let me know when I do something improperly! I am sticking with the "I need to keep working on this" approach. Thank you again for prayers, support, happiness and love. You've all been so friendly!
Maybe as my health starts to shift a little, this all slows down or changes. I hope not!
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Was suddenly and surprisingly called to the oncologists a week earlier than they had planned. 4 hours with 5 different doctors and the surgeon who removed the staples from my head. Pretty good overall after 9 days.
He was very happy and positive with that. Says my speaking was excellent. I was surprising him well for health - recommended I go back to the gym regularly already. My intelligence? Very, very high since his surgeries on this topic often have far more concerning outcomes from the people treated. I was said to be shockingly good. But he did recommend some realism and expectations. Realistic is 18 months of probability. That's the likelihood. Not essentially how it will happen. Just pretty standard.
I mentioned I had 2 friends who i have - Glio Blastonoma - which both lasted 18 months. It's not assured, since there are now several things we can try and test. I said "I'm 100% in for anything immediately and I expect the best!" They like my attitude! But they also asked me to be a realist. I said fine - I've done that already. But I'm not going to just give up too easily. I'll expect more and try more for whatever can happen and expect!
I can head back to work already, technically. I will shift to 1 day a week for 6 weeks for now. After 6 weeks of radiation and chemo, I have to adopt some other tests and treatments that are merely "looks at what MIGHT help a little." I can work while having that. One will require shaving all hair off and adopting some electronic treatments long term. There are other things which I may engage, as well.
But the doctors, as happy as my push for happiness, positiveness, openness and anything good - they loved that I wasn't crying or upset. They were also "Let's just be open too about what reality seems to indicate."
I replied "fine - my brain is actually talking to me - and I'm fine with reality." They asked what I was being told by the brain. For the first time I repeated things that it keeps saying. They said it's correct - and that it's not terrible to expect even if the brain speaking may be driven by medication....doesn't mean the brain is wrong.
It rarely has been, of course, which is why I always loved writing and pushing attitudes some people even today are disgreeing with me about (incorrectly mostly).
So that's what we know for now. We shall learn more.
Boys came home, we've had some talks. We are being open and realistic. It will all be very, very hopeful and I am pushing myself hard already!
All the best and while 18 months will be expected, I'll love whatever we have. Always the best!!!
Knowing my probability is very short and I am taking things very specifically engaged, I had a very funny conversation with my 29 year old son about God and how "He" is managed and what "His"names are.
I reminded my son we've spent thousands of years of men misusing names and genders for God - and we've adopted a lot (all with the most positive and forward thinking views, of course) but that in reality God isn't male or female - we don't have a clue. LOL We don't even know if "HE" has a name. So many great names to raise, use and alter or employ. And not to be upset, angry or needing to revise it at all. Just fun to talk about it all!
I took many religious courses in college. Buddhism, Protestantism, Catholicism, Buddhism, Muslim/Islam, etc. I remember the Judaism 2 were with a very good friend (sadly struggling with her name which I'll remember eventually) and watching her apply the standard Jewish restrictions on the spelling and length of the use of "God", "Yahweh" and other utilizations. She'd limit its use and spelling in notes and usage. I'd just use it! LOL. All great fun and use - lots of differentiations and conversations and so many laughs from time to time.
Of course, we had different lives, raisings and usage - but it was so enjoyable engaging these conversations (even if sometimes MAYBE we got a little too emotionally engaged in differences). In the end, it was always great love and learning.
It's even fun having jokes and conversations with my son - far less religious than even I was or am slowly adopting again. But I appreciate the views and outlooks. Life is a great way to adopt and learn why we may need or use religion. Or not need and use it. I am certainly non-judgemental. But always appreciative!!!
Do you know how to do them? Painful, exhausting exercise. Worse than Burpees, I feel, but I can't do burpees anymore due to my damn left shoulder injury so I kinda forget how bad they were.
I do them across the gym floor, as many as I can handle before collapsing flat on the floor. If you were 7 years old, you could do them all day.
Look 'em up on youtube. It's all about beating yourself up.
Meat loaf and mashed taters, and maybe some steamed summer squash on the side. Meat loaf needs gravy or its juices, on top.
At the Maggie's HQ, we make meat loaf the Italian way:Italian Meat Loaf Recipe. Italian-style meat loaf usually has a dash of nutmeg and/or allspice in the recipe, but that particular one does not. I do not think they make this in Italy. Maybe it's a modified meat-ball recipe, but they don't eat meatballs in Italy either. (Nor do Swedes cook Swedish Meatballs.)
Best thing about meat loaf? Meat loaf sandwiches the next day or two. White bread only, plenty of mayo.
Brief hello and update! Good Morning! This may be long, but I spent a lot of time over the past few days having sports conversations and thinking about my growth and youth. So this may be broad and not overly specific in some ways. It's more of a combination of open conversations with friends who have happily swung by to speak and get together to see if I'm holding my head together and speech well.
I am slowly working on the reading, writing and updating. Will keep things as simple as possible. Some things are actually going way better even today than I'd expected! A few personal family and home things - oof. LOL. Frustratingly slow and asking help as words are struggled or forgotten, and I'm slowly reviving others which work!
Sorry if some of you have, or have families, friends or others who have had similar health issues like mine. I am not trying to make anyone feel bad or feel the need or desire to discuss. If I do speak about my situation in any way, I'm just happy to say what even others in my family have asked me to avoid raising. Mainly because I feel nice openly discussing as i need to work out the details! Hoping for great things as I may need to work through it all!
Lungers are a bitch, with dumbells in hand. You know how good they are because of how painful they are. I do walking lunges twice weekly, and hate them more than barbell squats.
As with everything, there is a right way and many wrong ways.
Such a pleasure as I work to recover! I will make one more statement that sounds mean but I'm not afraid to finish this finally, regardless of what anyone replies with. I make so few, but this is so overdue in my life and so damn annoying from the office. Zachriel, who I shall name once because I learned so much about his deep trouble, and his shit and his stupidity, who he is where he is from, his lies, his evil, his deepness that was often overlooked. I have no trouble if his mind is eliminated. He must go. His work is the most evil and I dug up so much about him in my online work, prior to my recent health issues, to know him, without exposing him, and I hope he finally got my recommendation to corporations who insisted delivery of my information. So many people opposed him and I agreed. I feel right to oppose his deep evil. I know he thinks I do NOT know who he is - but I do. I know where he is from, who he is, but I had to, due to the office, keep it all quiet publicly. That's how social groups handle this. But he fell into a range of BS that I had to keep raising because he is deeply evil in my POV and not afraid to lie and be an asshole as a person. So now I won't be the same toward his action. I'm sure someone or he thinks there is more information I don't know. That is incorrect. I'm far more intelligent than he ever knew or admitted. Far more connected, far more knowledgeable and he literally told me once I didn't know about him (or his group as he used to say) when I did. Corporate handling required ME remaining quiet...so I'm being as polite limited as I can. I know everything. He'll say I don't - and he should know he's lying if he doesn't realize it.
No more naming of him. He shall leave and we shall return to happiness and love without the truths I exposed about him.
Now I will share other information because that's my last negativity...I've had several things on a few issues I've had to pressure and move on the last few weeks and now I've told everyone I'm ending that.
Thanking Bird Dog so much! We had a great call, even though I (sadly for a few moments) forgot his name. But it did come back and things are working again.
I loved how he rewrote my original. I asked him to. I was honest and clear about the obvious troll you all know.
Part of my job, or was, is managing that a lot. I finally took time to look that thing up and learned more than he realizes. I know a lot but will keep it quiet. It is not accepted or agreed to by anyone. It must go. I was clear to Bird Dog with some of the truths.
It saddens me to take those approaches about truth when there are liars and evil people like the troll. That is all I'll add as I prepped that before my sudden personal issues. It is part of my online job, I'd put it off for fairness for years. I could not recently. His entries here are evil, pure and simple. He lies far too much and I raised the online responses at my office elsewhere to find it all out. Enough - it's over he must go, my management actually had known as he's more common than you may realize and they tried to be "fair" too much. It's over now.
For me - the move is 100% support and love for all of you and thankfulness of your support.
Here is MY situation.
Health? Amazing for a 61, soon to be 62 year old. My surgeon does the 3mm cancer removal from my left brain and says there is work to do to figure out what it is and what the likely length(s) are. We shall see. 1 year? 10 years? 20 years? We do not know. We shall see.
He said "you can go to the gym after the surgery is repaired as you are encouragingly great shape! How were you against 45 year olds?" I told him I had won a lot in tennis this past summer against "better" 45 year old tennis players. More than even I'd expected. I ran the night of surgery for 7 miles online! Faster than 45 year olds! Suddenly the ONLY person who I couldn't understand (knew the English, but not the logic) was my wife! It had happened for 4 weeks first. Then the surprised issue on Friday Feb 2 and a hospital visit as a result from her with me leading to the study and surgery.... Anyone else? NO PROBLEM for 4 weeks. So odd and Feb 2 the doctors were speaking English and I just stared and said "Hmmm...it's English. I know the words. I cannot tell what you're asking me." Got the name, address, birthday, day lengths, car information, work names and information - so much correct! Health and wife info? English. No clue. LOL, so bizarre. 2 steroid shots - it all clears up till surgery!!!
Work? Lots of GREAT calls. NO issues. None, literally. My boss said "we know you have a few names and words you're working on - all good, though and you're 90% pushing the right words and the 10% are slowdowns to get them right - it's just us reminding you when you have to slow down." So I'm going to work to fix that over the next 2 months.
I am 100% happy, positive, loving, moving for the best. Except the obvious politicians who are liars and lying more for criminal reasons - I am open about that. My own friends (professors at several universities on politics) asked me to be nicer but all admitted I've had incredibly correct comments and truths even the media is hiding now (remember I've spent 38 years in various media over the years and know reality better than the awful things now active in modern media today that I've shifted out of content).
While one troll here has assumed I was a liar or stupid and even suggested it in its own way - I was happy to prove the downside of its input.
Several friends called me this weekend about our political, religion and sports calls (particularly the Super Bowl) and literally everything I said and they responded? "100% correct and great to know." I even helped many people win a ton of money at the Super Bowl because I made my expectations - and as I have always understood sports really well it all paid off! That is it for now. Love you all. Thank you all for your comments! Your love. I told Bird Dog while work has slown down and impacted my writing, I will write more as I recover. I'm adding more names and friends and I hope they add more as well!
All of our followers and readers - even many who rarely comment, but whether they do or not is meaningless. I just have enjoyed so many and am always happy with all of YOU!
All the best and as my health information becomes more and more available, I'll fill you in, but write about other things as well!
“What do you mean, ‘getting religious on you’? You wouldn’t meet with me all afternoon because you wanted a purpose. I’m asking you, what is your purpose? If there is no God and if you don’t know if there is a God and if when you die you rot, then isn’t it possible nothing you are doing has any meaning and nothing you are doing makes any difference?
Venice Is Doing Everything It Can to Stave Off Tourists.
Meat loaf and mashed taters, and maybe some steamed summer squash on the side. Meat loaf needs gravy or its juices, on top.
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