Snow day, again?

Disproportionately high number of days of snow this winter, out here in the overcast northwest. It's coming own and it's threatening to stick, at least for the day. Keeps us from exiting our driveway, anyhow. Hopefully it will melt enough for Rob to make it to band practice tonight and for me to make it to a Lent Soup Supper somewhere. I'm thinking of checking out the Wooden Cross Lutheran just down the street. The interim pastor there used to be an interim pastor at our home church, Cross of Christ.

Went to Trinity Lutheran in Mount Vernon, WA on Sunday. We were there pretty much all day; service in the morning, lunch with the pastor and his family, afternoon jam session with his band. A good time had by all. I played drum kit for 2 hours! My legs were jello.


We had our first business meeting with each other Monday morning. Rob and I have sort of been wondering what each other does all day and not always knowing who's responsible for what. Then, we're surprised if it doesn't get done. Well, no more! We divided our life into categories, delegated categories, delineated tasks in each categories, divvied up weekly task between the 2 of us. I'll let you know how that works out. I'm feeling more confident in my efforts so far, let's say that.

Though I've been remembering things we should have covered since Monday. Gotta list those so we don't overlook them again.

Benign

So I went to see Dr Ilika for a post-op check-up yesterday and got good news. Here's the skinny:
☻ The fact that my last period (last week) was my most pain-free one ever is probably a really good sign, since the first one post-op is usually worse than the subsequent ones. Praise God!
☻ Structurally, I appear to be sound. Any symptoms I had related to the polyps should not occur since there are no more polyps. Praise God!
☻ The polyps were tested and were benign. Praise God!

I can now biff off to Africa with a clean bill of reproductive health and, hopefully, regaining a day or two of productivity every month. Isn't it funny that benign and malignant both sound exactly like what they mean?

She did give me the photos she'd taken of my endometrium, before and after shots of the polyp sites, but I'll have to scan those in before I can post them.

First podcast!

Yes, we're finally doing it: we're podcasting! OK, the first one is pretty simple. It's just the recording Rob did of the minutes after my wisdom teeth surgery, back in December. Still ... once we're in Namibia and have fun things to show you, the podcasting thing will be really cool. You don't have to have an iPod to enjoy podcasts, either. You don't even need iTunes, a free download from here: DOWNLOAD iTUNES. You can just click listen to begin podlistening.

Though it hurts us, precious, being crammed inside its tiny box.

testing the gear

We tested out Rob's MOTU Traveller on some script for the Dark Waters project. You know, taking advantage of a totally empty house. Empty except for us and the lizard, fish and hamster, that is. But they don't do much in the way of noise.

Christmas?

This is a funny Christmas video from Jonathon Coulton: Chiron Beta Prime

"Did I say overlords? I meant protectors ..."