My SO prefers the evo timber flavor. I donāt like the taste very much, but the smell is more like tobacco.
I also thought I would want to switch out flavors, but it didnāt turn out that way.
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Dad made it through the surgery, is out of post-op, and is resting in his room now. The tumor had actually grown through the bladder wall, but the doctor thinks he finally got it all out. When he was awake, Dad said it felt like they took a melon out of his stomachā¦ and the lack of pressure felt good. (He got an epidural.)
Thereās still recovery to get through, and he needs a lot more weight on his bonesā¦ but I hope I can say āso far so goodā without jinxing anything.
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Iām so glad your dadās surgery went well. Must be a load off your mind. Hope my dadās goes as well (they found three tumors in his bladder on Monday).
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Hope all goes well with your dadās surgery @cheem1 and thank you for the update @Nightflyer I am glad he got through the surgery safely and is feeling immediately some relief.
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Oh crap, Iām sorry. If theyāre small, they might be able to remove them from the bladder walls via scope, instead of surgery. Hope all goes well for both of you!
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Thanks for the well-wishes, to you and @ChickieD. I donāt think laparoscopic surgery is in the cards, since the tumors are rather large (2.75ā or so in diameter), but we hope it all goes well.
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So, I like Turner Classic Movies, itās the only cable I actually watch, Iām not kidding; I also like them on Facebook. Well, they had a contest for folks to submit a Halloween-themed photo (costumes, decor, treats, that sort of thing), so I submitted this:
or was it this one?
At any rate, I WON a mystery treat bag thingy! I have to find out if I can still enter their 25th Anniversary Contest - make a 90-second video dedicating a classic film to someone, with all the whys and wherefores one can fit into 90 seconds. I want to dedicate āA Thousand Clownsā (1964) to my late father. He loved it, and I finally, after repeated viewings, figured out why. The prize for that is 25 people get to go to the TCM Studios and go on the air with Ben Mankiewicz (sp?) to introduce said film.
(srsly, those ARE two diff shots!)
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I finally got around to watching that because Nicholas Brothers.
Thoughts
1 wow. That is some complicated staging.
2 Iāve never seen the Nicholas Brothers doing backflips like that. Backflips to splits in dress shoes and a suit? They were amazing.
3. Seriously they couldnāt have the Black people in the same screen as the white people?
4. The acting was so stagey. Just love how in old movies they didnāt try at all for naturalismnor plausibility but it still worked because they were all so talented.
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Nope. Made it easier to clip them out in the South.
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Iām not sure, but itās not impossible. My dadās first tumor was 2.5", and they called it āsmall.ā But I am by no means an expert.
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Congrats! But, um, Iām having trouble parsing those images. What is it exactly?
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I think itās a small decorated Christmas tree, with a cheerful ribbon-of-lights wrapping. I think the colors are just perfect. I wouldnāt be surprised if thereās hot cider with cinnamon stick and a cozy fire out of frame.
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Exactly. Thatās the solid, mellow truth.
Well, Tex Beneke wasnāt a member of the RA. 
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Thanks for the kind wordsā¦nope, just a tray of cannabis under the loveseat, LOL!
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Even better
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Oh, cool. Now I get it ā and it looks familiar. Did you post it elsewhere?
We know Luke of course from the Pets thread! He looks smug. Cats do smug very well.
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ā¦Iā¦I donāt remember, LOL!
But thereās cannabis under the loveseatā¦
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Completed shredding 2.5 years worth of papers!
I am really starting to get close to the end of my āmake my place look habitable againā checklist that I started on after pulling out of my funk this autumn. I need to clean up the backyard garden, but actually doing some proper landscaping is a task thatāll have to wait until spring. Well. Iām not sure that it has to wait, but itās going to wait.
I still need to tidy (again) and clean the floors (again), but thatās more keeping up with perpetual maintenance, rather than dealing with the ever-worsening disaster that Iād been neglecting as recently as August. Oh, and clean the fridge interior, wipe down light switches, scrub the cabinet doorsā¦
Yeah. Thereās still work to be done, but all of the big tasks that I was dreading, the ones that were keeping me from wanting to start the massive clean-up in the first place, are done. I wouldnāt feel ashamed to have people come into my house anymore, which is nice. Iād still apologize for the mess, because itās not quite up to what Iād like my āhosting companyā standards to be, but itād be a polite āI wasnāt expecting anyoneā apology, and not a mortified āGive me a moment to clear stuff out of the way of the front door so I can open itā one.
I should be able to get everything up to snuff by the end of the week, which, coincidentally, is when my mother next visits. The last time she came, I only had it clean to ālow-hanging fruitā standards (which, itself, was a tremendous improvement on how it had been a week earlier), so this should be a nice surprise for her.
I really, really need to not let the shredding build up for so long again. I am still exhausted from sitting down, hunched over, reading fine print all yesterday so that I could figure out which receipts are really worth keeping (sidebar: the main lesson learned from sorting through those is that I need to cut down on buying candy). But, for now, itās done, done, DONE!
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Since you have a back garden, is it possible to burn the paper (in a metal bucket, say, if you you donāt have a fire pit or charcoal barbecue) rather than shred?
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