My avocado is not ripe yet. Must remember to hold onto eggs for when it is. Dinner was a grapefruit and a handful of chocolate chips. It got the job done, more or less.

I hope whatever is going on with Chumley is neither too bad for him to endure nor too expensive for you, Theo. You've been through enough kitty illness lately.

Peace and comfort for your elderly relatives, Matt.

Hey, shrift, is it okay if I share Dear NSA on facebook? I know some people I want to tell about it. I won't mention your name.

Hey, shrift, is it okay if I share Dear NSA on facebook?

Sure.

I just finished the third part of my Civil War and Reconstruction course with a 100%. I will celebrate by taking a shower and then having some peach vodka.

LOVE The Dear NSA Tumblr, shrift!

Must come up with some goof additions!

Dear-NSA made me sign up for Tumblr

That's awesome, shrift.

Jesse, I hope your trip out here goes swimmingly.

I've been watching Iron Chef America on Netflix, and I'm struck by how much waste is going on. A large fish, and he only used the a cut of meat from around the neck. I must not appreciate haute cuisine, because so many parts to a sauce that is a dab on top of something else that is made of so many parts.

Of course, the parts left over may get used somewhere else.

I got a splinter at work on Sunday. You betcha I filled out an incident report. Part that asks what equipment was involved, I wrote in "a pineapple". I mean, sure I was also using a cutting board and a knife, but those weren't the source of the problem.

Have been dark dark grey, unable even to keep up the natter diet. So `ma to anyone who needs it. These days I only watch TV an hour a day during workouts or on days I've had treatments that leave me unable to work. I've been working on a mini-book (30,000 or so words) that I consider important. And basically any time I'm not spending doing chores and medical stuff and things like exercise that I need to slow down the rate at which I get worse, I spend working on it. This is the kind of thing I once could have knocked out in six weeks and have now been working since mid-January. But I just have to live with the fact that my productivity is going to be much much lower and work will go much more slowly until and unless medical facts change.

Speaking medical facts. I have a new hemotologist. He did some blood tests to try and determine whether or not I have kidney problems (follow up creatine tests contadict the original diagnosis so he is running something other than a creatine test to check). He is also checking other possibilities. If he does not find an explanaiton for my anemia he will do a bone marrow test. Not thrilling, but I agree this has gone on for too long without a cause diagnosed. Also, untreated anemia may be why my diabetic retinopathy is not getting better - so a diagnosis of the anemia will give me a much better chance of not going blind. Given that, I'm glad he is taking agressive steps to track down the cause of this. You know, I've found most of the medicaid doctors to be pretty damn good. My former hematolgist was an exception. This guy, unlike him has an awful beside manner. But I think he is a good doctor; so to hell with beside manner.

Fingers crossed, Gar.