1. Thank you everyone for your thoughts and prayers for my mom. Last I heard, we have to wait until her brain is not as swollen. So far, what is certain is that a) cancer is definitely under control, and b) mom’s left side is paralyzed. The extent of damage to the brain and how long it’ll take her to get back to normal is still to be determined. 2. It’s been an INSANE week since the news of mom’s stroke at 2 a.m. Tuesday night. First, Tuesday is prep day for our monthly board meeting. I was at work...
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Good news: Mom sounded great on Saturday. She’s starting to eat again. The cancer in her liver has shrunk to smaller than a millimeter. Nothing returns anywhere in her body. In this case, they’d stop chemo and switch her to oral medication. Bad news: 2 a.m. last night my dad called. The maid found mom on the floor by the bed walking in circle in the living room. She was conscious but couldn’t move her left side. It appeared to be a stroke. She just came out of CATscan half an hour ago. My dad will call in to report...
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Pearls Before Swine has become my other favorite comic strip. The other ones being Foxtrot and Non Sequitor. [Missing a strip about bloggers here.] Well, speaking of strip. I do have to write about this incident before it’s too old. Last weekend, Brandon and I got of the 405 heading to Huntington Beach. The traffic at the exit was busy, and then we saw a firefighter walking on the median. An accident, maybe? But we couldn’t see any fire engine anywhere. When we turned at the light, we saw another firefighter holding with one hand a sign that said, “Raising...
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Don’t EVER log in to work email on a weekend again. Never ever. Never ever gets curious to see if everything the boss needs is in place after you’ve left on Friday. (I know, I know. If something else was needed Friday, I am indeed in no position to fix anything. But hey, I have the weekend to think about how I can fix it and do it the moment I walk in the door on Monday.) Curiosity, indeed, kills the cat. In my case today, the cat being having a good weekend…well, alright, Saturday night and Sunday morning. I...
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4 things that happened before 12 noon today. Emotion roller coaster ride from start to finish. #1 – “Diddeedeeeee” Moment Talking into a cell phone does not make your conversation private. In a bus full of practically strangers, this girl made her purchasing transaction over her cell phone. Here we were, the passengers in the front of the bus who heard her address, phone number, credit card number and expiration date clear as day. Um. Duh. #2 – “Goooooal” Moment Having arrived at work at 7:30 a.m., I called my dad. He was watching the Argentina v.s. Serbia & Montenegro...
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LA Times picked up on the FOOTBALL fever around Los Angeles. See, I’m not alone in this....
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