It's been summer storms galore here, usually late afternoon, as people are leaving work. since I tend to leave late, I have missed most of it, luckily.

I really don't like V8 juice, but I may look at the V8 Fruit juice blend drink they make and see if the sodium to potassium content.

And I'll look for No Salt and add that.

Thanks so much for the advice.

It's cool outside so I thought I'd open the windows, but they are closed again. The neighbors little boys are playing and the youngest deals with frustration or confusion by screeching. At first I was worried they were fighting then I could here the older one ask what was wrong "you touched my car!" "I can't find my car".

I'm ready to amputate my stupid foot. I finally heard back from my doctor's office and got a referral to a local podiatrist. I called that office to discover that it had closed on Wednesday. The doctor has another office not to far away so I called them and the earliest appointment available is July 12th. Arrrrrggggg.

I called my doc's office to tell them about the office change and to ask if there is another place they can refer me to that might have an earlier appointment.

I just went out to brunch with a bunch of vegan friends, which was fun. Two of them have toddlers, so it was a bit overwhelming -- they're both not quite 2, so just a little too young to really deal with sitting down through a whole meal. One of them ate a handful of margarine. I also learned that the vegan toddler word for tofu is "fufu." (This was a pancake house, so OK with toddlers being a little bit rowdy, but not quite a running-around place like a fast food restaurant might be.)

So I found out the results of my Dad's cancer biopsy for the place on his ear.

It is cancer, but it's the "good kind" of skin cancer and they they got most of it, but he's going to go back and they'll remove the rest of it and then do another test to make sure.

According to Dad the doctor thinks they can get it all removed and it hasn't spread.

Fuck cancer, but yay?

askye, that is good news. I think it's pretty common for guys to get skin cancer on their ears, my grandfather did (he worked outside his whole life and gardened, too). It was the "good kind" and he's never had another issue.

My mother had a bout of skin cancer back in the 90s. Once it was excised she was fine.

Glad do hear it, askye!