And he never will...

Winston, I'd be interested in hearing your take on the article Beamer posted called "Why the Democrats are losing the housewife vote."

Warning: Highly offensive stereotyping at this link. Please do not click on it!

http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e133/jes...andsharpies.jpg

I haven't dealt with this for a long time but low grade used to mean not aggressive (not likely to mestastitise), minimal if any chemo or radio. If it's still the same the best way to look at it is it's cancer because it'll continue to grow until removed but you don't really have to worry about it spreading to other parts of the body. If that;s the case it's probably a bit less severe than the stones. By the way, this means you were right about what's causing the pain and only getting rid of the stones kills the pain.

Nature abhors a vacuum. I guess it's a matter of perception- of how you perceive your world. My wife and I were pretty much like her-including church on Sunday- but we never felt like we had been abandoned by the Democratic Party. Our perception is, and always has been, that this party works because it's diverse enough to not make a judgement on 'normal.'

My philosophy is: unless you're a multi-millionaire, you're a fool to vote Republican- you'll always be voting against your interests, and no one will look after your interests if you don't.

Or, as the guy I replaced at work 10 years ago always told his students: "Vote your pocketbook!"

noting in my pocket book do i vote for "none"

You think you're old?

CO - I'm very glad to know the tumor is low grade. Its likely not invasive and can be treated - and may be treated with radiation pellets without having a major surgical procedure. The kidney stones are another matter if the tumor is blocking their passing and undoubtedly the cause of significant pain. You have manged to accomplish more around your house in the last two days than I could ever imagine possible. I know you will feel like you are on pins and needles until the next medical appointment with the uncertainty of everything building, and it being so terribly hard not to think about eventualities. You have the patience of a saint. I would want to know everything yesterday, not next week. I find the not knowing worse than the knowing. Hang in there. You and your husband are in my prayers.
The Snuff

And now for a diversion:

Subject: CAN YOU FIGURE THESE OUT?



1
A murderer is condemned to death.
He has to choose between three rooms.
The first is full of raging fires, the second is full of assassins with loaded guns, and the third is full of lions that haven't eaten in 3 years.
Which room is safest for him?

2
A woman shoots her husband.
Then she holds him under water for over 5 minutes.Finally, she hangs him. But 5 minutes later, they both go out together and enjoy a wonderful dinner together.
How can this be?

3
What is black when you buy it,
red when you use it, and gray when you throw it away?

4
Can you name three consecutive days without using the words Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday or
Sunday?

5
This is an unusual paragraph.
I'm curious how quickly you can find out what is so unusual about it. It looks so plain you would think nothing was wrong with it. In fact, nothing is wrong with it! It is unusual though. Study it,and think about it, but you still may not find
anything odd. But if you work at it a bit, you might find out. Try to do so without any coaching!





Sure do, and here they are!

1. The third. Lions that haven't eaten in three years are dead.

2. The woman was a photographer. She shot a picture of her
husband, developed it and hung it up to dry.

3. Charcoal.

4. Sure you can: Yesterday, today and tomorrow.

5. The letter 'e' (the most common in the English language),
does not appear once in the paragraph.

Fun ditty, Snuff.

Sister Mary Pegatha is on her game tonight. I burst out laughing as she transitioned from
"never doing laundry" to asking GWS to reply to Beamer's post.
(BTW: SonPie does do his own laundry when at college. How do I know this ? Because he often calls me and bitches about it while doing it. The joys of "free" cell phone minutes. )

I don't get it. I think you made up something funny in your own brain. Never said anything about "never doing laundry."

Did post incredibly offensive link which nobody should click on.

Not even small loads?

The pic was okay becasue you did provide a waringing about it.

This was emailed to me by a friend of mine in California. Sorry its political, but its quite good.


"I'm the Decider"
by Roddy McCorley

"Well, it took me awhile, but I finally realized what "I'm the decider"
reminds me of. It sounds like something a character in a Dr. Seuss book
might say.

"So with apologies to the late Mr. Geisel, here is some idle
speculation as to what else such a character might say:"

I'm the decider.
I pick and I choose.
I pick among whats.
And choose among whos.

And as I decide
Each particular day
The things I decide on
All turn out that way.

I decided on Freedom
For all of Iraq.
And now that we have it,
I'm not looking back.

I decided on tax cuts
That just help the wealthy.
And Medicare changes
That aren't really healthy.

And parklands and wetlands
Who needs all that stuff?
I decided that none
Would be more than enough!

I decided that schools
All in all are the best
The less that they teach
And the more that they test.

I decided those wages
You need to get by
Are much better spent
On some CEO guy.

I decided your Wade
Which was versing your Roe
Is terribly awful
And just has to go.

I decided that levees
Are not really needed.
Now when hurricanes come
They can come unimpeded.

That old Constitution?
Well, I have decided
As"just goddam paper"
It should be derided.

I've decided gay marriage
Is icky and weird.
Above all other things,
It's the one to be feared.

And Cheney and Rummy
And Condi all know
That I'm the Decider -
They tell me it's so.

I'm the Decider
So watch what you say
Or I may decide
To have you whisked away.

Or I'll tap your phones.
Your e-mail I'll read.
`cause I'm the Decider -
Like Jesus decreed.

Yes, I'm the Decider
The finest alive
And I'm nuking Iran.
Now watch this drive!

"Now that I think about it, Dr. Seuss anticipated this administration
pretty well when he wrote Yertle the Turtle..."

Time to let our Leader's dogs out ... The poor guys miss him even more than we do .. if that's possible!

And now I am going to post something which would make any parent extremely proud.

And which also shows what an amazing parent Fly actually is. Although this doesn't surprise me as there have been so many indications of the heart and wisdom he possesses even here.

I heard from him this morning. Someone had seen my post about Les' diagnosis and let Fly know. He typically took time to write and try to reassure me that it was much better than it might have been. See why I call him my "Rock"?

Anyway, he did say I could share this with all of you so here goes. His youngest daughter was presented with a very special award last night for her work with special needs children. She was inducted into the Teen Hall Of Fame in RI. Seems someone in state government wanted to note her volunteer work with special needs kids (she averages over 12 hours a week working with them on top of her high school during the day, college courses two nights a week and work on the week ends). The apple doesn't fall far from the tree in Fly's household it appears.



How very proud her parents must be !! If Christine is indicative of today's teens there may just be hope for us all yet !

I have taken the liberty of blacking out her name as I wasn't sure Fly would want it published.

Yeah, I was not very clear,
as I am most distracted these days. It was your response to
GWS's funny about SonPie never going to do laundry. The progression
of the posts just struck me as most clever. My weird brain, I guess.

------------

Major congrats to Doc's daughter !

Congratulations to Fly and his daughter for her recent induction into the Teen Hall of Fame for her volunteer work with special needs kids. Her schedule of working 12 hours a week working with these kids, in addition to a full high school curriculum and nightly college courses is impressive. She should undoubtedly receive any public service awards offered by her highschool upon graduation. What a contribution to society. I wish more high school students showed the initiative and public minded attitude to make such a contribution to the betterment of man. He's got to be proud of his daughter.

Good one! I forgot about that. I hooted when I read this!




Anyway, I should have just shut up and said thank you. I like it when people find me funny.

The time for a "no Fly zone" is just about up.

A round of applause for Christine!

Does anyone have a block and tackle? And maybe a set of handcuffs as well?

I can let the dogs out but it isn't the same as Fly doing it.

He always starts a day off with positive energy and he makes sure that energy level never goes below the warning light.

Anyone want to join me in a kidnapping ? Or a citizen's arrest ?

Or whatever it will take to bring back the heart of this place !

Time for everyone to get some bubble gum and start chew'in and blow'in !
So here's some gum:


I've already started:

http://s51.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=18ABQEZ...GI0VBHDDYO8OR7R


I have been popping in and out but work is CRAZY!


Go get some Neil young at the above link!

Good day, all...

Actual answers to a college level history test
(Compiled elsewhere)


Ancient Egypt was old. It was inhabited by gypsies and mummies who all wrote in hydraulics.
They lived in the Sarah Dessert. The climate of the Sarah is such that all the inhabitants
have to live elsewhere.

Moses led the Hebrew slaves to the Red Sea where they made unleavened bread, which is bread
made without any ingredients. Moses went up on Mount Cyanide to get the ten commandos. He died
before he ever reached Canada but his commandos made it.

Solomon had three hundred wives and seven hundred porcupines. He was an actual hysterical figure
as well as being in the bible. It sounds like he was sort of busy too.

The Greeks were a highly sculptured people, and without them we wouldn't have history. The Greeks
also had myths. A myth is a young female moth.

Socrates was a famous old Greek teacher who went around giving people advice. They killed him.
He later died from an overdose of wedlock which is apparently poisonous. After his death, his
career suffered a dramatic decline.

In the first Olympic games, Greeks ran races, jumped, hurled biscuits, and threw the Java. The games
were messier then than they show on TV now.

Julius Caesar extinguished himself on the battlefields of Gaul. The Ides of March murdered him because
they thought he was going to be made king. Dying, he gasped out "Same to you, Brutus."

Joan of Arc was burnt to a steak and was canonized by Bernard Shaw for reasons I don't really understand.
The English and French still have problems.

Queen Elizabeth was the "Virgin Queen". As a queen she was a success. When she exposed herself before her
troops they all shouted "hurrah!" and that was the end of the fighting for a long while.

It was an age of great inventions and discoveries. Gutenberg invented removable type and the Bible. Another
important invention was the circulation of blood.

Sir Walter Raleigh is a historical figure because he invented cigarettes and started smoking.

Sir Francis Drake circumcised the world with a 100 foot clipper which was very dangerous to all his men.

The greatest writer of the Renaissance was William Shakespeare. He was born in the year 1564, supposedly on
his birthday. He never made much money and is famous only because of his plays. He wrote tragedies, comedies,
and hysterectomies, all in Islamic pentameter.

Writing at the same time as Shakespeare was Miguel Cervantes. He wrote Donkey Hote. The next great author
was John Milton. Milton wrote Paradise Lost. Since then no one ever found it.

Delegates from the original 13 states formed the Contented Congress. Thomas Jefferson, a Virgin, and
Benjamin Franklin were two singers of the Declaration of Independence. Franklin discovered electricity by
rubbing two cats backward and also declared, "A horse divided against itself cannot stand." He was a
naturalist for sure. Franklin died in 1790 and is still dead.

Abraham Lincoln became America's greatest Precedent. Lincoln's Mother died in infancy, and he was born in a
log cabin which he built with his own hands.. Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves by signing the Emasculation
Proclamation. On the night of April 14,1865, Lincoln went to the theater and got shot in his seat by one
of the actors in a moving picture show. They believe the assinator was John Wilkes Booth, a supposingly
insane actor. This ruined Booth's career.

Johann Bach wrote a great many musical compositions and had a large number of children. In between he
practiced on an old spinster which he kept up in his attic. Bach died from 1750 to the present. Bach was
the most famous composer in the world and so was Handel. Handel was half German, half Italian, and half
English. He was very large.
Beethoven wrote music even though he was deaf. He was so deaf that he wrote loud music and became the father
of rock and roll. He took long walks in the forest even when everyone was calling for him. Beethoven expired
in 1827 and later died for this.
The nineteenth century was a time of a great many thoughts and inventions. People stopped reproducing by hand
and started reproducing by machine. The invention of the steamboat caused a network of rivers to spring up.

Cyrus McCormick invented the McCormick raper, which did the work of a hundred men. Louis Pasteur discovered
a cure for rabbits but I don't know why. Charles Darwin was a naturalist. He wrote the Organ of the Species.
It was very long and people got upset about it and had trials to see if it was really true. He sort of said
God's days were not just 24 hours but without watches who knew anyhow? I don't get it.

Madman Curie discovered radio. She was the first woman to do what she did. Other women have become scientists
since her but they didn't get to find radios because they were already taken.

Karl Marx was one of the Marx Brothers. The other three were in the movies. Karl made speeches and started
revolutions. Someone in the family had to have a job, I guess.

Can someone email me a copy of this so I can forward it?

Why don't you e-mail it to yourself?

I'd do it, but your addy is at home.

add: Oh, you could pm me with it, if you like.

I don't know how to grab a copy.
Thanks!

I told my sister about being number two and her immediate response was "You certainly are!". See, family's always there for you!

I will email you that post, which was
very funny (or sad, if one thinks too hard
about the future).

on edit: in the mail

My 'Warm-and-Fuzzzzzzy' for today.

Congratulations, Christine. I know you have made your mom and dad quite proud, but you have made your (cyber) extended family very proud too...

joe e

Ok .. now I am panicking. I had gone out grocery shopping and came home to a message on my phone from the doctors office. He wants Les and I to pick up a requisition at his office for an xray , take it to hospital tomorrow, have xray, bring it back to him, at his office for consultation.

Now, this may be because he is going away for 4 days next week or it may be that upon receiving the more detailed report he sees speed as being of the essence. It was too late to reach him when I got the message so I won't know until tomorrow.

Anyone wanta bet how much sleep I get tonight?

Ok .. calming down .. Breathe deeply and think.

( what Fly would tell me if he were here)

Maybe its to track the progress of the kidney stones if there is any progress... and knowing Les is in pain he wants to be on top of it before he goes away for the four days he said he would be away.

I'll find out tomorrow.

X rays sure sounds like it's about the stones.

Yep. I was beginning to think I really was over the edge .. I was talking to myself and answering as well ! Thank you Tom ! At least I know the marbles are still intact.

Don't worry about talking and answering yourself, worry when you get so mad at yourself that both sides refuse to talk to each other!

That will NEVER happen ! I am far too mouthy for that. Two of me would not be able to resist one-upping the other !

BTW.. Have I mentioned lately how happy I am that you are back ?

The funny thing is no one in real time has any idea I am even worried. Only you guys know.

Betty, I think Tom is right.
X-rays would be for the stones and I bet the Doc wants
to get on the pain relief and decide what to do about the stones
before he is gone for four days. This may be very good news.
Hang tough. :valentine:

I'm off the ceiling now Pie. I am so tired that my emotions are right on the surface these days. I am normally much more balanced and reasonable. Right now I immediately look first at the worst case scenario instead of thinking things through.

I think now that you and Tom are both probably right. Thank God I still appear calm to Les.

Betty,

Next time, don't just try to imagine what Doc would say - ask him! You know he'll always be there for you when you've got questions - he just told me so!

If you don't have his e-mail addy, you can route them through me, or several other of us.

-P

Peg, I was just talking to myself. I have Fly's email address and I know he would be there to help me but I'm saving that for a biggie. I can sweat the small stuff... once I start thinking instead of reacting. I really am sorry that I am using you guys as a sounding board these days. Its like a safety valve for me. I have to keep Les thinking I am not worried. Otherwise I am making things worse for him.

And talking to you guys allows me to do that.

left click the mouse and drag it over the text you want to save
use the keys "ctrl c " same time

open new message in the email left click the mouse in the email

"ctrl v " same time

that should work

renal functions off? Could just be looking to see if stones are blocking ureters (hydronephrosis)

Could just be an xray he wanted to make sure he did not want to forget to order since he will be off - duty 4 days.

Like tom/pie and peg have said you can always call.

No matter what: you are better off with both a rested doctor and an xrayed husband
and taking it from there.

Did I miss anything good today?

I forgot the two most important ones of all:


and