Learning CSS
We’re so far behind web page technology: we know basic HTML, but we never learned CSS, and these days most blogging packages are a mix of CSS and php (another technology we never learned). We understand (sort of) what CSS is and does, ditto for php, it’s just we’ve never coded pages with them. So, […]
The Leica goes for a walk
We decided to bring the Leica on our 1/2-mile morning walk this AM, did Cassie and I, and managed this snap of morning clouds.
The M8 was fun (for me, anyway) as usual… such a combination of the very old (rangefinder focusing) and the (kind of) new (Leica’s very basic digital technology).
I’m using a […]
The fatigue ‘wall’
Walked a half-mile with Cassie early, then checked work email and went to rehab, a good 45-minute workout. Got home, logged in to Adobe’s network and promptly hit the fatigue wall… it’s a cumulative thing after chemo, and I haven’t been getting naps in this week, between work and schedule. I was glad I was […]
An interesting graffitum
This Graffitum, on a trackside wall between Lawrence and San Jose train stations has caught my eye on the near-daily Adobe commute.
I used the high-speed multiple-image-capture feature of the Lumix DMC FZ50 to grab this image as the train wizzed by. It helped that I was on a slow local train this PM - I’m […]
Walked 1.2 miles today
To and from San Jose Diridon train station and Adobe - six tenths of a mile each way. 5 weeks ago I was doing this easily - today, at my chemo and steroid nadir, it was hard: my muscles were burning at the terminus of both trips. But I did it…! All I can do […]
Another birthday card
We’ll let this one speak for itself. What a ‘howl’…
Light and shadow
Light and shadow made an interesting play as I waited for my train at San Jose’s Diridon Station this afternoon. Despite not feeling my best (chemo, steroid problems, anemia and I think even our edema is back) we decided to make the best of things and go in. It’s hard, because I’m limping and stumbling […]
A birthday card
I completely forgot this very cheery birthday card that arrived from friend David Perry, yet another of his inimitable rubber stamp oeuvres. More cheer, a la the birthday party Saturday night, despite current setbacks…
Side effects of side effects
So, we’ve spent 2 pretty miserable days coping not with cancer, but with the side effects of drugs that we are taking to deal with cancer (or the side effect of some other drug or procedure).
The big muscles in my legs are very weak, thanks, I’m told, to ramping down the steroids that were given […]
Living and dying (and thinking about same)
Linda has a thoughtful post about living with treatable but incurable cancer in light of the Edwards’ interview on 60 minutes last night. We’re dealing with the same issue, and have some of the same feelings we heard expressed last night.
Backing away from daily living - job, family and friends - represents a big change. […]