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Congratulations to my niece Teresa who just received word she was accepted into a local magnet high school at the Advanced Technologies Academy where she will focus on IT technology. It’s a great program and we are very happy she was accepted.

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I did get to go out for dinner with Hot Wife and Terry and Morgan for my birthday.
It was their first night out without kids. Ever. They have three kids. Let’s just say, the drinks flowed like water and we had a really good time.
Terry and Morgan are so cool — they got […]

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The vet had noticed a lump on Spencer’s right shoulder blade. I hadn’t noticed it and I felt terrible for missing it. However, Spencer is a pretty hairy cat and before his grooming, it was probably well hidden by hair. Also, like many semi-domesticated felines, he is pretty independent and doesn’t like to be petted […]

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Friday was a pretty bad day. There were some good things about it. It was my birthday so that was a good thing. I turned 36. Not so good but not bad. I had the day off from work which was really good. My employer gives us one floating holiday during the month of your […]

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Yesterday, I took my mother-in-law to a doctor’s appointment on my lunch break. For those of you who don’t know any better, my mother-in-law is Hot Wife’s Mom. Anyway, she had shoulder surgery on Monday, couldn’t drive, and she had a follow up appointment with her othropedic surgeon.
On the drive over, I was chatting […]

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I’ll finally be returning to work after being sick for a few days. I’ve had a very bad cough since Sunday and today I’m finally feeling to good enough to eat and be a little bit active around the house (mainly running outside to look at the rain gauge and look at the eclipse). I’ve […]

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Yesterday was my bone marrow donation. More properly it was a Peripheral Blood Stem Cell Donation (PBSC) which presumably was a bit easier on me than the other method which involves a big hollow needle, an operating room, and a few days with a sore back.
Wednesday I picked up Big Brother and we went to […]

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Tuesday, the home health nurse was scheduled to come to my house at 7:30 AM for my filgrastim shots. I was there with The Boy and The Princess. She checked my pain levels which were almost nil due to the wonders of Tylenol PM taken the night before and Hot Wife force feeding me some […]

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On Monday, I got up assuming I would be getting a call from a home health care nurse to continue my injections of filgrastim. It took a while and call to the marrow donation coordinator, but I finally got a call from her around lunch time and she said she would come to my office […]

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Despite waking up throwing up on Saturday morning, I was feeling good enough by Saturday night to fly out to Orange County for the first step in the marrow donation process. Early Sunday morning I went to the cancer center and the two nurses there opened the door for me. They did a quick physical […]

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