David just called -- the operation lasted only 15 minutes and went perfectly. Emmett was out in 30 seconds and awake 20 minutes later, having had an excellently cool hallucicogenic dream in between, and is now nestled in a bed in the recovery ward at California Pacific Medical Center, watching the Disney Channel and munching on a graham cracker. He has a wee bit of plaster on his nose. They'll be leaving in a little bit, he'll have to lay low and be not-sporty for two weeks, and after that he will just be plain Emmett again.

HOORAY!

I'm selling off more of my old technology. E-mail me if you are interested:

iBook G3/600 384 MB of RAM, 20 GB HD, 12" Screen, CD-RW/DVD combo Drive, Airport. $500

Treo 600 GSM model $225

Profile address for email.

Both are now sold.

Cat~ma needed for Harvey.

Just dropped Harvey at the vet's.

He was going to the litter box every 5 minutes or fewer. I hope I did not wait too long. Apparently there are UT problems in cats that the few hours between noticing something is up, and actually getting them seen by the vet is critical time, and a few may be too many. On the up side, he was eating and drinking as usual, and as perky as usual.

I realised that I haven't mentioned that my wife - who posted as PennyJ once or twice in TT days - is expecting our first son on May 6th. Which is incredibly exciting...

A couple of days ago Moonlit signed the contract for her first ever teaching assignment. She will be teaching Studies of Society and Environment (SOSE) and English, to a bunch of unruly 13-year-olds in a small rural secondary college in south-eastern Victoria.

To all the people who wished little Stefan well - he was declared in complete remission today. Chemeo has been stopped completely, and he is feeling great. He will need to be checked monthly for the next two years, so no-reoccurance-ma is very welcome, but this is wonderful news.

Thanks for all the good wishes and Cat~ma, everyone. Harvey has a UTI, and he's home. He's doing pretty well, and has some meds to take. When he is almost done with the antibiotic, I have to clean out the litter box, put in some "No-Sorb" granuals, wait until he pees, and collect it all to take back for follow-up testing. That should be fun. Now I guess I should ask for future pee-collecting~ma, as I'm almost certain that won't be as easy as it sounds.

So very relieved to have him home, and know he is going to be ok. He has given me so much love over the years, I hate the idea that there are so many things that could go wrong for him that I just could not afford to do anything about.

Well, dark grey turned out to be pretty much black. I'm sure everyone was waiting with bated breath, but I had my conference and I think I may just be back! The conference went better than I could have hoped. I should have some Barrow pictures up by early next week.

Wooo!

I have applied for time off on April 20-21-22, so I can visit Windsparrow April 20-24. She has already secured her time off.

Holy mother of carp! That's two-1/2 weeks.

Anybody who can find the best deal on roundtrip tickets going out in the morning on 4/20 and coming back 4/24 any time, let me know ASAP, preferrably at dcjensen [at] mac [dot] com, but I'll check profile addy, too.

I'm changing my home email. So if you have my address and want to email me, change it from @earthlink.net to @mac.com.

Thank you and goodbye!