Glorious Manhattan morning
Spouse Linda appears to have lucked into a glorious Sunday in Manhattan: I remember well jogging around the Central Park reservoir on a clear, beautiful morning - gives me goosebumps. And she was good, and went to church at St. Bartholomew’s after her run…
Bad Chris
So, Linda’s in NYC, and I decided to use the opportunity for a little treat. Linda’s been really good about keeping me on an oncologically-correct diet with lots of fish, vegetables and other healthy stuff. There’s also the issue that 12 months of high-dosage steroid therapy has left me 20 pounds overweight, despite being careful […]
‘Leopard is better and faster than Vista’
So says Walt Mossberg at the WSJ. I have been quite frustrated with iLife ‘08 and a couple of other current OS X ‘features’ like the recent .Mac Sync ‘upgrade’ that keeps making me sync my Macs apparently to no avail. Please, Apple, don’t fall into the Microsoft trap of more features whether we need […]
Leopard approaches
Just arrived in the inbox:
The following items have been shipped to you by Amazon.com:
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Qty     Item                          Price Shipped Subtotal
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Amazon.com items (Sold by Amazon.com, LLC):
1    Apple Mac OS X Version 10…. $189.00     1 $189.00
Shipped via UPS (estimated arrival date: 29-October-2007).
Tracking number: 1ZA722W80384339857
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We’ll be trying Leopard out on one of the Mac Minis before deploying it more widely […]
A case of black & white
Listening to the morning news (while doing my ‘hard Heidi’ exercises), I note how upbeat evacuees are about the services available to them at Qualcomm Park - water, blankets, diapers, hot breakfast et al.
I can’t help but compare this experience to that of the Katrina victims in New Orleans 2 years ago. Two major disasters, […]
What a day….
Started with a hard ‘Heidi’ workout, followed by a scramble to be at UCSF Radiology Imaging Center for a 9:00 AM MRI, followed by a MRI review (the news continues to be good on the tumor and Avastin seems to be the reason) with my neuro-oncology team.
Then lunch with Kelly, Karen and Jim, our cousins […]
Mac sales propel Apple results
iPhone and iPod were a big part of the story, but Apple’s Mac sales hit a record 2.16 million units, propelling Apple to not only a record quarter, but back into the ranks of the world’s largest computer makers. The Intel Macs are clearly a hit…
Busy week…
So we’re off to UCSF this morning, for rehab workouts, then back up again tomorrow for MRIs and a consult with the neuro-oncological team. There’s a dentist appt. in the middle of that somewhere, plus the usual Get Things Done stuff. Linda’s off to NYC, and there’s a couple of last touches we need on […]
Optimism Helps Quality, Not Length, of Life for Cancer Patients
So says a study of 1000 head and neck cancer patients, cited on WSJ’s Health Blog. But isn’t quality, not quantity what we want, anyway…?
Steroid countdown
Little nervous this morning as we face our first 5mg steroid day in the continuing ramp-down. Earlier this year, when I tried to ramp the steroids down, we got into trouble around 5 mg - the left side started to shut down as brain edema - an artifact of last December’s radiation therapy - returned […]
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