Hey, I survived Spinal Stenosis, Charcot Foot, 2 heart attacks, open heart surgery, congestive heart failure, a stent, 3rd degree full thickness burns and skin grafts, nothing scares me any more… but I am just so very, very, tired. 🙁

I can only speak to my experience, January 2024 had a heart attack and as part of that, my heart stopped for 8 seconds.

No idea it happened, had go be told.

My wife says I’m not allowed to buy her the fun shirts:

so I have to settle:

Maybe not affordable and I wonder to if it’s like an anti-biotic. Once you start, you commit to the entire treatment.

We’ll see what the docs say once, you know, I get gutted like a fish. 😉 I already got cracked open like a lobster for the open heart surgery, what’s one more?

Chemo depends on the results of the surgery. Right now, it’s stage 2 which is resolved with surgery. If it gets into the lymph nodes, that bumps it to stage 3 and requires chemo.

So they pull the entire sigmoid colon and the related lymph nodes and send it all off for biopsy.

Hard to say, recovery is going to be a bitch because, get this… 12 days after my diagnosis, 1 day before the CT Scan and 2 days before meeting the surgeon, my wife felt a numbness and tingling in her legs, tried to stand up and fell to the floor.

An infection she had been fighting in her foot moved to her spine and tried to paralyze her(!) She had emergency surgery on her spine that night, a lower leg amputation a few days later, and has now been in the hospital… (checks math) 14 days.

So there’s a real possibility we’ll both be hospitalized at the same time or, best case, in surgical recovery at the same time. She can’t come home until she completes rehab for the nerve damage and amputation.

0/10 - Cancer surgery in 11 days.

I would also accept Wilford Brimley.

I was at a shop like that, kitty rolled over and showed his belly so I gave him all the belly rubs and picked him up when he started purring. He rubbed my face.

The owners were like “He… he doesn’t DO that!”

Yeah, well, he does for me!

Holographic / Crystalline storage.

One of the jewels in my collection:

They really wanted to sit on my chest and had zero concept of surgery incisions. 😞

It’s going to be tough here in a couple of weeks when I go in for cancer surgery.

Xbox One X is still a better choice than the Xbox Series S.

Let me explain:

It has more RAM than the Series S, so Xbox One titles and backwards compatible titles will run with Xbox One X enhancements that the Series S cannot run.

It has a physical disc drive for backwards compatible titles, DVDs, Blu Rays, and 4K UHD movies. The Series S is discless.

The only downside are newer games that are exclusive to Series S/X, but really, how many are there? Cyberpunk 2077 plays on the One X.

The new Forza won’t run, but the older ones should!

Source: Put the Xbox Series X and PS5 in the living room, moved the Xbox One X and PS4 to the bedroom. Still use it!

Can confirm. Following open heart surgery, it was a competition to see if Rocket or Keanu could get closer to me.

The Cell - Trailer here:

https://youtu.be/eIpy4p_yMV0

Weird how, on the cat, you have ⚫ ⚫ and then 3 tiers of stripes, but on the tattoo, they only do the top 2 tiers, leaving out the one on the bottom…

I had a cat oddly addicted to the flyers printed by Lincoln Automobiles.

Went to a car show, got a bunch of pamphlets, he’d pull out the Lincoln one and roll on it.

Coincidence? I’d stack them all up, square off the stack, he’d DIG through the pile until he found Lincoln and walk off with it. LOL.

Expensive tastes!

It did get maybe 90% there in a minute which is faster than a person would do it. Not a perfect tile, maybe take a few more interations. But not awful for cobbled together in a minute, and if your job is to come up with 50 or 100 different textures, still better than doing it by hand.

But as I noted, there are also already royalty free libraries for this stuff as well.

Well of course not, AI did it in 1 minute. 🤣

Check your local Unitarian Universalism (UU) branch.

https://www.uua.org/uuagovernance/committees/article-ii-study-commission/about-article-2

"Section C-2.1. Principles.

We, the member congregations of the Unitarian Universalist Association, covenant to affirm and promote

The inherent worth and dignity of every person;

Justice, equity and compassion in human relations;

Acceptance of one another and encouragement to spiritual growth in our congregations;

A free and responsible search for truth and meaning;

The right of conscience and the use of the democratic process within our congregations and in society at large;

The goal of world community with peace, liberty and justice for all;

Respect for the interdependent web of all existence of which we are a part."