Linda’s blog is very pretty today

First Blush has a gorgeous rainbow photo, and recounts a very busy dawn community morning. It really cheered me to hear the news when Linda got home after her run: the morning’s events seemed to cheer her. I think it breaks both our hearts that we’re no longer experiencing these mornings together….

24 hours I wish hadn’t happened…

Woke up Sunday morning so tired and weak I could barely stand. Poor spouse Linda bundled me off to Stanford ER, starting a 12-hour ordeal for her while numerous teams of doctors decided what to do. Finally they decided this wasn’t a tumor-related thing - which Linda had been saying - but some sort of […]

A morning walk under a pretty, unsettled sky….

Both our weather station and the local weather are predicting no worse than cloudy skies today after a rainy spell the last few days. The Barometer is rising and I see the garden temperature is up to 54 degrees (F) as of 10:45 AM: last night around 10 PM, it was 37. Chilly last night…we […]

First pic in a while… and some thoughts on Google Apps

Cassie, looking jaunty in the morning light, is the subject of this photo, one of the first I’ve snapped in a few days, as we made our way on our walk this morning. We’re definitely feeling better, if not completely back to normal.
So we interspersed meetings, email and other work, and an early PM nap […]

Another quiet day - working and napping

Doing better today than the last 2 - more energy but still taking it easy and napping when the urge comes. Had an appointment with my internist - hadn’t seen him since the cancer drill started - and he said my tiredness sounds a lot like what happens on a steroid ramp down - which […]

An eloquent First Blush

Linda’s blog is very good today: she takes our Presiding Bishop to task for what is a clear failure in moral leadership. Otherwise, a very quiet day for me, working from home (with lots of naps)…

Early day, and chemo gets us to a new place

An 8:00 AM meeting had me on the road at 6:20 AM this morning, and seeing a slice of dawn community about an hour earlier than my normal routine. There was a little color in the sky when I got to Palo Alto Station in time to catch the 7:19 to San Jose.
Connections worked well, […]

Wires, sunrise, but no shuttles…

Well, we thought to make sure Caltrain was running a normal schedule today, but for some reason I didn’t even think about the Marguerite Shuttle. Naturally, universities are more likely to  observe holidays, and while Marguerite’s internal hospital shuttles were running at least a reduced service, the B Clockwise to Palo Alto Transportation Center wasn’t […]

A favorite hike, and a challenge

So today marked a milestone: my return to one of our favorite hikes on Portola Town trails. We call this one ’short Portola,’ and pre-cancer Chris used to walk it easily and at a brisk pace. It now represents a challenge, but one I’m pleased to say I was up to, today. The path’s 2.5-mile […]

A ‘hail Mary’ sunset

This snap is a one-handed ‘hail Mary’ - a picture taken by holding the camera (the M8 with 21mm in this case) at arm’s length out the Escape Hybrid’s passenger window, pointed in approximately the right direction, and snapping the shutter. I was trying to capture the pretty sky as Linda and I headed out […]

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