Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome
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A day at Dana Farber

It was today I was due for my CATT scan at Dana Farber.  If you have been following this blog for the past two years you will know I started being treated there for NH Lymphoma.

The good news is today's scan and blood test came up negative.  Negative in this case is good.

After each visit, when I get this news, it feels like a temporary reprieve from the Governor. You exhale and drop your shoulders.  It will take another three months for the shoulders to ride up again and the breath to shorten.

There is no complaint here.  Two years ago I was getting my affairs in order.  It's a good thing I've lasted this long because I  haven't finished.

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The New Year (Scots and Klingons)

Hogmanay is what Scots call the First Day.  And Quaaltagh means First Step.

We Scots are generally a very superstitious people. (How else can we explain...?)

It is on this day we concentrate more superstitions than apply to the rest of the year.

I grew up in a house full of ginger topped Scots.  We were forbidden by all others of our own nationality from being the first person to cross their threshold after midnight on New Years eve.

They wanted a tall dark haired man with blue eyes.  It made me feel slightly rejected.  Now that my hair is entirely white, I'll have to  research if that ban still applies.

Knowing how long we Scots remember things, I am sure it still does.

Happy New Year!

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Boxing Day

For our traditional Boxing Day Chinese dinner we all went to China Rose in Brunswick, ME. 

The last time we were there in late Summer the food had gone from mediocre to barely edible. We stopped going.

When we read in the local paper it was under new management we thought we'd give it another go.

We're sorry we did.  This time the food was not even edible.  When I tore apart a conglomerate of chicken slices in black bean sauce I found the meat inside to be raw.

When I pointed this out to the waitress she laughed and took the dish away.  Leaving soon after I told the management. 

They said "raw chicken!" &  laughed some more.  In the middle of this conversation a woman came in to warn of the icy conditions in the parking lot.

He laughed again and said "No much I can do about it. "

Then I told him he just lost business from 2 regular customers. 

He frowned that.

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Things change by remaining the same.

Nine years ago I met a man who I thought held a certain position.  It took me three years to discover that he didn't.  As of today, he now does.  Amazing what can happen if you wait around long enough!

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Does Scibefire for Opera work?

If you're reading this on Belltowernews.com, it does.  This is a much underused blogging tool I made great use of when Chrome was my primary browser.

Now that I've started up a new laptop and, in an attempt to keep things simple, I am using opera for browsing, reading and all my email, it's good to know It can be used now to also write to the blog, a habit I would like to more than I have been of late. 

A caution here:  I just went to my Picasa online photos and was very surprised to find a copy of picture I took with my EVO.  I thought I sent the picture, which was of a document, to Evernote only.  It surprised me to no end to find it sitting there all nice and exposed in my Picasa Gallery.  The good news is it was in my not public, but how not public these files are is anybody's guess.  I need to check settings on the phone and with Evernote to see that this doesn't happen again.  Taking pictures of information for later use is too convenient for me not give it up.

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Talk about taking a long time!  It was my intention to make the simple modification to the template of this blog that put back up in the style we preferred.  We took a minute away from our Thanksgiving dinner, between the pile and the pie, to bring up the template and fix it.

Now I wish all of you a very happy and fulsome Thanksgiving.  Don't get trampled tomorrow.

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