A very amusing day
Posted on December 21, 2006
Filed Under All, Taking Faith, Technology, Gulker labs |
Cassie and I made our .8358 mile circuit this morning uneventfully, thank you, before gearing up for a big day - Cassie by heading off to her indoor bed, and I by getting on the computer to wrap stuff up before dear friend Kevin McKean, in town for the holiday break (Kevin lives in San Francisco but works in NY… long story) came down.
Kevin took me to a rehab therapy session and then we did ‘guy stuff’: hit the Menlo Park hardware store and bought hard-to-find 20×25-inch furnace filters to replace last year’s dirty, and as yet unreplaced, filters given current events. We went to a camera store so I could buy B&W film for my old Leicas (the Leica bug has bit, for some reason) and some last-minute goodies to take to Santa Fe for our family Christmas break (chemo doesn’t now re-start until the 29th), to the drugstore to pick up some of the chemo drugs, the bank, the stationery and finally to lunch at Carpaccio, our neighborhood hangout, where long-time barkeep Mark served us personally.
In the camera store, Kevin saw a woman buying a camera with a page from Consumer Reports in her hand: Kevin is a VP and Editorial Director of Consumer’s Union, so he politely approached her and asked about a million questions about why she’d chosen their publication, that camera, et al. Kevin never stops working.
Along the way we talked about the faith and atheism flap, the cost of global warming and whether it was real and Kevin described how his daughter helped police nab the person who’d stolen her credit card. Later I demo’d the p2 ‘paperless‘ system for Kevin and we discussed the document workflow nightmare that every person and business has to deal with. A great morning and my thanks to Pam for letting Kevin get away so close to Christmas… we had fun…
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After chemo my mind went blank. I couldnt remember names and couldnt recall simple conversations. Im 31/2 years past treatment and those blank times are very rare now. Im thankful! WBR LeoP