Oh yes, "old man" refers only to the quality of the sound, not the age of the maker. Bboy started with the grumbling relaxation years ago.

It just makes him sound like a cranky geezer.

I have no idea what that noise actually means. It doesn't sound like pain, or creakiness.

Kato doesn't really do the old-man grumble thing, but he has a world-weary beleaguered sigh that would put any drama queen teenager to shame. It is hilarious. No one knows Kato's pain! It is SO HARD to be Kato! Goofy dog.

Anyway, we can work something out over email.

Sounds good!

How's your head?

Fine. Went to the doctor on Monday, and she put me on a week-long course of oral antibiotics, just to be safe, but it's healing well.

Okay, so I watched the pilot eps of the two new fairy tale series:

"Once Upon a Time" on ABC and "Grimm" on NBC.

OUAT is decent and I think I will commit to the first 4 eps to see how it shakes out. It is entertaining and the production values (at least for the pilot) are pretty good, so we will see.

Grimm - not very good. At all. Unfortunately, I would put this in the category of "pretty terrible." The acting was bad, the direction was poor, and the writing - the tone shifted in the middle of the show. I'm not sure what happened with this pilot (was it network notes that fucked it up?)

It felt more like a bad SyFy movie than a viable series. I can't imagine anyone will watch this show past the pilot.

I'm starting to feel bad for NBC.

mmm, tea.

Thing is, len, I just want silence. But luckily he's quietened down, mostly. I feel bad for him, because he's obviously miserable, but he's barely able to fend for himself here. You can't depend on nurse response in the emergency room if you're not a high risk patient. And as far as I could tell, he had a fall with no unconsciousness. So, low on their list.

Okay, they keep asking me questions about my port that I can't answer. The ratio of saline to heparin? It's so much to keep track of. And the questions come in one at a time, so every week there's something new I don't know.

My aunt called this morning -- yesterday my Mom told me my brother was in the hospital for a tonsillectomy. It turns out that she was only told a partial truth -- he did have his tonsils out, but also some lymph nodes and a tumor, and they're going to be evaluating just what kind of cancer it is, how malignant, and what treatment, and what outcome he'll get, not to mention whether he'll keep his vocal cords, be able to swallow or talk and bunches of things like that.

I think I'm in shock. He's just turned 50.

I don't think you have to think you're in shock, Theo. It would make total sense for you to be. I'm so sorry. (And what is with these partial truths? Aren't we all grownups?)

Theo,

thing is: a tonsillectomy at your brother's age is pretty dangerous. Although I am not sure everyone is aware of that. I happen to know because my ENT doctor told me so when I was having tonsil problems.

A lot of 'ma for your brother. I hope is recovery goes okay.