Steph, has he done any genetic testing? Some of the younger guys in my support group discovered they had Lynch syndrome that way, meant their risk for early cancer and multiple types of cancer was greater.
Angel: Miss me? Lilah: Only in the sense of…no.
'Just Rewards (2)'
Natter 77: I miss my friends. I miss my enemies. I miss the people I talked to every day.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
dcp - Apr 20, 2024 5:46:49 pm PDT #29892 of 30000
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
Laura - Apr 20, 2024 5:56:02 pm PDT #29893 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.
They ran as fast as they could and got on the plane. Helps that nephew and great nephew both jog. They'll get in around 11:45 tonight. The airport is only about 15 minutes away. They live in Otter Lake, so I am looking forward to the 14 yo seeing Fort Lauderdale beach after midnight on 4/20 during spring break. It won't be boring.
Gorgeous night too. Have all the windows and sliding doors open. I'll close them in their room because they won't be accustomed to the city noise. I can sleep through sirens, racing cars, and revelers who want to share their favorite music, but it is way quieter in the mountains.
I'll check out the app, dcp!
Steph L. - Apr 20, 2024 5:59:08 pm PDT #29894 of 30000
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
Steph, has he done any genetic testing? Some of the younger guys in my support group discovered they had Lynch syndrome that way, meant their risk for early cancer and multiple types of cancer was greater.
Not yet, I don't think. He's a physician's assistant, and his fiancee (our niece) graduates from med school next weekend, and his father is a physician, too, so they have a lot of resources at their fingertips. I'll make sure to ask about genetic testing -- thanks for mentioning it!
Shir - Apr 21, 2024 11:04:55 am PDT #29895 of 30000
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
It took a lot of thinking on how to prepare for Seder this year, when nothing feels normal and you can't really plan anything. And it's a holiday of freedom, and we are where we are, and there are the hostages. How can one have a Seder like this?
Eventually, two things helped me this year. The first, 'Seder' also means order. And I've been organizing alternative Seders for a while. What's a better year to call for a new order in the universe than this year? The other one was an interpretation of the text of the Haggada. It was a reminder that the text itself refers to a call for freedom when nothing was certain and everything seemed doomed. And Jews read this text for years, at least some of them had their own uncertainties and doominess. So in this year, I can do it too.
I'm not having an ordinary friends' Seder. Some elements will be missing on pourpse. Others added on purpose (lemon on the Seder plate, symbolizes the hostages. Other than the color, "missing an opportunity" and sourness are a wordplay in Hebrew. This holiday in particular is full of wordplays). It'll be outdoors, since so many of us lost their homes this year, and most of us had to stay indoors and take shelter when we were supposed to be elsewhere. 2/3 of my holiday donations are going to Gaza this year. But a Seder - a certain kind of Seder - will take place. Ordnung muss sein.
Have a good Passover, Jewistas. May our Seders bring back the good kind of order into this world.
meara - Apr 21, 2024 11:38:57 am PDT #29896 of 30000
Lovely to read Shir
quester - Apr 21, 2024 4:05:40 pm PDT #29897 of 30000
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.
Shir, that is a beautiful way to address the situation.
Gudanov - Apr 21, 2024 6:28:58 pm PDT #29898 of 30000
Coding and Sleeping
Rough weekend. I messed things up again and today I just feel like I want to go to sleep and never wake up. I spent about an hour just laying in bed and staring at the ceiling, but I figure I could be miserable and stare at the ceiling or be miserable and get some stuff done. I put away a couple loads of laundry, washed the sheets, did another load, went to the grocery store, built a couple of window frames to replace the rotting ones in the sleeping porch, took care of dishes, put away groceries of course, and cooked some chicken quesedias. Still I feel like the house is getting away from me which isn't helping things. Really need to vacuum and clean the kitchen floor, declutter the kitchen, organize my desk, clean up the garage, among other things. Going on a trip this weekend and need to do some work on my Wife's car weekend after, brake pads and oil change, so it's going to be hard to catch up. Also feeling burned out at work, but honestly it's home life that's harder than work life right now.
meara - Apr 21, 2024 9:51:45 pm PDT #29899 of 30000
I went to a soccer game, which was fun, and the weather was unexpectedly lovely (it said rain but was sunny) but even though I put on sunscreen I can already feel less than six hours later, it was not enough sunscreen. Oops.
DavidS - Apr 21, 2024 10:17:03 pm PDT #29900 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Also feeling burned out at work, but honestly it's home life that's harder than work life right now.So your wife still isn't doing any of the housework, just yelling at you when you don't do it to her satisfaction?
Jessica - Apr 22, 2024 6:50:59 am PDT #29901 of 30000
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
lemon on the Seder plate, symbolizes the hostages. Other than the color, "missing an opportunity" and sourness are a wordplay in Hebrew.
Oh, this is lovely. (We had an early Seder last night because tonight is the performance/award ceremony for Dylan's play*.) OTOH, the modern/social justice Seder plate is already hella crowded - alongside the traditional elements we add the orange (feminism), tomato (farmworkers/modern slavery), and potato (hunger/poverty).
*I've bragged about this on FB, but my son Dylan is an award-winning playwright! Why a NYC metro area theater would choose the first night of Passover to hold the celebration baffles me, but here we are.