So I'm going to wear a costume for Halloween for the first time in about 30 years. I'm thinking of going as a dragon.

Build your own Chinese Dragon Mask

I'm thinking of getting a red suit jacket to wear with it. Plus I'd wear dress pants, shirt and tie--you know, what the well-dressed dragon is wearing these days. Plus maybe these dragon claws.

Ugh. My world, let me show you it.

And even more ugh, I got linked to a fundraising page for a friend of my brother's who is fighting cancer.

Bad enough, but I am trying so hard not to cringe at the details of how he turned down chemo to go live in Hawaii for the "cleaner air and food" and now that that did not work at all (oh really) is back at his mother's house and undergoing some kind of 3X a week "treatment" that is not covered by insurance. I shudder to think.

I wish him all the best, and I'll probably chip in something, but oh man.

Teppy, I love your author stories. There's something about pretentious idiots getting their comeuppance...

That looks cool, tommy.

His reply? "Whew! Editing is very very detail-oriented!"

As opposed to...science? I'm not sure he's science-ing right.

Hah, Dana FTW. Medicine, it's wibbly-wobbly science-y stuff.

It's almost 10am and between checking in (I wasn't in the system) and catching up on email from my PTO on Friday, I'm just now about to start the actual work I'm here to do. And I really don't wanna. And I don't like the emails I got (which said things I didn't want) and really dislike the emails I DIDNT get but should have (send me answers already!!). Sigh. Freakin Monday.

I am not, unfortunately, allowed to reply with "Hahahahahah NOPE."

Oh wow, that would be lovely. I dream of being able to do that myself.

Ugh, brenda. I can't understand people who want to fight it with "cleaner air and food." While it certainly helps to take a holistic approach, I'm also not going to discount sound medicine backed by science.

I can't understand people who want to fight it with "cleaner air and food."

I get filled with such raaaaaaaaage at people who rail against "Big Pharma" and how doctors are in cahoots with Big Pharma to make up diseases just to diagnose people so they'll have to take drugs for the rest of their life.

Or MAYBE, you asses, people don't die from infections they way they used to because we have antibiotics. You know how our life expectancy jumped in the modern medical era? What do you suppose that's about? NOT THE PALEO DIET.

I mean, eating healthy food is a good thing, and if someone feels better eating paleo/gluten-free/vegan/whatever, that's a good thing. But damn, son, if you get pneumonia or cancer of the everything, coconut oil is NOT going to fix it.

Hubby always got people who said "I know a guy, he's got a motel room on the other side of town because Big Pharma is looking for him to shut him down, but he can cure you without those poisons." His reply: "So why haven't the rich people with family members with cancer not found him and set him up in style? Why haven't the philanthropists who hate cancer not spread the word?" "Because they're just in it for the power and money, this guy just wants to help people." Right.

I had a lot more rage about his treatments than he did.

But, full disclosure, I do love me some coconut oil. Yum.