Fathers' Day Weekend
Weekend Update
I picked up another substitute teaching assignment for early July. The course is about Principles of Management. I ought to be able to talk for a couple of hours on the subject since I have been working in management for over twenty years and fifteen of those years were at the C-Level.
I didn’t go to my local Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf on Sunday as I usually do because of Fathers’ Day. I hope Tihana will be able to get over me not showing up. In fact, I am certain she already has.
I will begin cutting back on the large iced blendeds this coming weekend. I will be going from one every week to one every two weeks. I can certainly do without all of the extra sugar and I will save a few dollars in the process.
I had one of my former students, who also asked me to be her friend on Facebook, send me a Happy Fathers’ Day text message. This was not what I would usually expect. Once students leave my class, they tend to forget about me unless they are business student. I see business students all of the time in my classes.
I did sign up to be her friend on Facebook.
Me and Dr. Karen or She Who Must Be Obeyed
I had an interesting day with my visit to see Dr. Karen. Seeing Dr. Karen is always interesting for me.
My appointment was a bit later than usual. Dr. Karen had wanted to observe a procedure in the hospital and so she was late. She was going to tell me about the procedure but said it was too gory.
Good enough for me.
Our visit was short because I am in a stable state and we are just passing time until I get to the two year mark or thereabouts since the surgery. We didn’t have too much to talk about; all of my tests were normal.
Dr. Karen confirmed Doug’s conjecture that the upcoming colorectal surgery visit was a prelude to a colonoscopy procedure for me. I am guessing the procedure will be in either late July or early August. She also ordered a MRI to take another close look at my liver lesions and a CT scan to take a good look at my lymph nodes.
I received the results of my blood test from my regular doctor on Thursday. My diabetes results were good although my regular doctor thought I could do better. My cholesterol was fine as well. Dr. Karen thought my cholesterol results were very good.
I told her that she and my regular doctor were on opposite sides of my weight gain. Dr. Karen has favored a reasonable weight gain because it will provide me with the energy to manage my chemotherapy program. My regular doctor would like to see me lose some weight since that would benefit my other conditions.
All of this got me to thinking about an old Ursula Andress film, SHE, based on the novel by H. Ryder Haggard. It was a 1965 film where Andress played a woman who had lived for thousands of years and who was referred to by the natives as “She who must be obeyed.” I decided that Dr. Karen was my modern version of She who must be obeyed.
Of course, Dr. Karen does not look at all like Ursula Andress. Andress is taller, has blond hair, and speaks with a European accent.
I finally settled on an avatar for Nurses Wendy and Vrunda. I like this one because they are always calling me and telling me what to do like exercise some more or don’t drink. They will probably not like it.
Dr. Karen writes up my prescription and sets my appointment and blood test dates right after the examination is completed. She was called away because one of her patients in the hospital had an emergency. I sat and waited for about an hour until she returned.
Nurse Vrunda wanted to mail me my appointments so I wouldn’t have to sit and wait for an undetermined period of time. I thanked her for thinking of me. I said that I needed to wait because I needed a prescription that she had to write for me.
I started Cycle 11 of my Second Round of Chemotherapy on Friday night.
Carbon dating myself
I can remember when a big download file was around 150kb; of course, this was over a 28.8kbps modem. We actually used modems that were that slow. My first modem’s speed was 14.4kbps. I thought that moving up to 28.8 was really something special.
Now, 5.0mb download files are common place.
Times do change
Visitors
The blog had another average visitor count for the week. We had 691 visitors who stopped by and viewed 897 pages. This was a bit off from last week but still a very nice turnout.
We did have one visitor from Libya Arab Jamahiriyo. I wonder where that exactly is.
I do appreciate all of you who visit the blog.
Fathers’ Day
Doug cooked a great casual dinner on Sunday to celebrate Fathers’ Day. He cooked some pork spare ribs with a good bar-be-que sauce. He added some potato salad and coleslaw; I brought along the bar-be-qued beans.
Doug’s mother bought an ice cream cake from Baskin Robbins for dessert. It was a chocolate cake that was covered by a layer of Jamoca ice cream and then covered with a frosting layer and some chocolate topping. I took home a small piece that I will have next weekend. I need to drain some of the calories from my system first.
The Princess called me and we talked for about half an hour. Her Fathers’ Day cards were perfect. I won’t go into any details but they did accurately reflect our relationship over the years. The Princess sent me two books; one was by Clive Cussler and the other was by Nassim Taleb.
I finished Cussler’s Arctic Drift by Sunday evening even if it was just over 500 pages long. It is a modern day, pulp fiction novel that read quickly. Taleb’s The Black Swan will obviously take much longer to read since it is about economics generally.
Doug gave me a copy of THE MUMMY: TOMB OF THE DRAGON EMPEROR on Blu-Ray. I will probably watch it over the next weekend.
The last element of Fathers’ Day celebrating for me was smoking a cigar in the car on the way home from Doug’s house. It was the first cigar in maybe two years for me. Fortunately for me, cigars are made of dried tobacco leaves and the beach is humid enough to help preserve them even longer.
I don’t think I will be smoking another cigar anytime soon. Nurses Vrunda and Wendy will probably yell at me for smoking again. But, once every two years is not all that frequent.
Paulina Garces
I managed to see Paulina on Saturday morning. It was a repeat show; it was still viewable for me. The company that employs her put together a montage of clips from prior programs. I am coming to the end of my Paulina Garces images.
Life happens and all good things must end eventually.
That was my Fathers’ Day weekend. I hope you had a great weekend.
Be well and stay happy.
I picked up another substitute teaching assignment for early July. The course is about Principles of Management. I ought to be able to talk for a couple of hours on the subject since I have been working in management for over twenty years and fifteen of those years were at the C-Level.
I didn’t go to my local Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf on Sunday as I usually do because of Fathers’ Day. I hope Tihana will be able to get over me not showing up. In fact, I am certain she already has.
I will begin cutting back on the large iced blendeds this coming weekend. I will be going from one every week to one every two weeks. I can certainly do without all of the extra sugar and I will save a few dollars in the process.
I had one of my former students, who also asked me to be her friend on Facebook, send me a Happy Fathers’ Day text message. This was not what I would usually expect. Once students leave my class, they tend to forget about me unless they are business student. I see business students all of the time in my classes.
I did sign up to be her friend on Facebook.
Me and Dr. Karen or She Who Must Be Obeyed
I had an interesting day with my visit to see Dr. Karen. Seeing Dr. Karen is always interesting for me.
My appointment was a bit later than usual. Dr. Karen had wanted to observe a procedure in the hospital and so she was late. She was going to tell me about the procedure but said it was too gory.
Good enough for me.
Our visit was short because I am in a stable state and we are just passing time until I get to the two year mark or thereabouts since the surgery. We didn’t have too much to talk about; all of my tests were normal.
Dr. Karen confirmed Doug’s conjecture that the upcoming colorectal surgery visit was a prelude to a colonoscopy procedure for me. I am guessing the procedure will be in either late July or early August. She also ordered a MRI to take another close look at my liver lesions and a CT scan to take a good look at my lymph nodes.
I received the results of my blood test from my regular doctor on Thursday. My diabetes results were good although my regular doctor thought I could do better. My cholesterol was fine as well. Dr. Karen thought my cholesterol results were very good.
I told her that she and my regular doctor were on opposite sides of my weight gain. Dr. Karen has favored a reasonable weight gain because it will provide me with the energy to manage my chemotherapy program. My regular doctor would like to see me lose some weight since that would benefit my other conditions.
All of this got me to thinking about an old Ursula Andress film, SHE, based on the novel by H. Ryder Haggard. It was a 1965 film where Andress played a woman who had lived for thousands of years and who was referred to by the natives as “She who must be obeyed.” I decided that Dr. Karen was my modern version of She who must be obeyed.
Of course, Dr. Karen does not look at all like Ursula Andress. Andress is taller, has blond hair, and speaks with a European accent.
I finally settled on an avatar for Nurses Wendy and Vrunda. I like this one because they are always calling me and telling me what to do like exercise some more or don’t drink. They will probably not like it.Dr. Karen writes up my prescription and sets my appointment and blood test dates right after the examination is completed. She was called away because one of her patients in the hospital had an emergency. I sat and waited for about an hour until she returned.
Nurse Vrunda wanted to mail me my appointments so I wouldn’t have to sit and wait for an undetermined period of time. I thanked her for thinking of me. I said that I needed to wait because I needed a prescription that she had to write for me.
I started Cycle 11 of my Second Round of Chemotherapy on Friday night.
Carbon dating myself
I can remember when a big download file was around 150kb; of course, this was over a 28.8kbps modem. We actually used modems that were that slow. My first modem’s speed was 14.4kbps. I thought that moving up to 28.8 was really something special.
Now, 5.0mb download files are common place.
Times do change
Visitors
The blog had another average visitor count for the week. We had 691 visitors who stopped by and viewed 897 pages. This was a bit off from last week but still a very nice turnout.
We did have one visitor from Libya Arab Jamahiriyo. I wonder where that exactly is.
I do appreciate all of you who visit the blog.
Fathers’ Day
Doug cooked a great casual dinner on Sunday to celebrate Fathers’ Day. He cooked some pork spare ribs with a good bar-be-que sauce. He added some potato salad and coleslaw; I brought along the bar-be-qued beans.
Doug’s mother bought an ice cream cake from Baskin Robbins for dessert. It was a chocolate cake that was covered by a layer of Jamoca ice cream and then covered with a frosting layer and some chocolate topping. I took home a small piece that I will have next weekend. I need to drain some of the calories from my system first.
The Princess called me and we talked for about half an hour. Her Fathers’ Day cards were perfect. I won’t go into any details but they did accurately reflect our relationship over the years. The Princess sent me two books; one was by Clive Cussler and the other was by Nassim Taleb.
I finished Cussler’s Arctic Drift by Sunday evening even if it was just over 500 pages long. It is a modern day, pulp fiction novel that read quickly. Taleb’s The Black Swan will obviously take much longer to read since it is about economics generally.
Doug gave me a copy of THE MUMMY: TOMB OF THE DRAGON EMPEROR on Blu-Ray. I will probably watch it over the next weekend.
The last element of Fathers’ Day celebrating for me was smoking a cigar in the car on the way home from Doug’s house. It was the first cigar in maybe two years for me. Fortunately for me, cigars are made of dried tobacco leaves and the beach is humid enough to help preserve them even longer.
I don’t think I will be smoking another cigar anytime soon. Nurses Vrunda and Wendy will probably yell at me for smoking again. But, once every two years is not all that frequent.
Paulina Garces
I managed to see Paulina on Saturday morning. It was a repeat show; it was still viewable for me. The company that employs her put together a montage of clips from prior programs. I am coming to the end of my Paulina Garces images.
Life happens and all good things must end eventually.
That was my Fathers’ Day weekend. I hope you had a great weekend.
Be well and stay happy.
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