We’re doing well, even cool, in the PNW, but to our south, alas, poor California—and hugs to those dealing with the hurricane.
Hope you are all safe from the fires and the hurricane. 2020, what can we say?
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Hi All; too many adventures for all of us, not all good kinds. Try to stay safer, kids, okay? Joe, hope you feel better & get good treatment! Walt, welcome back Classic penguin with joy :). Our weather? … A hint of fall in the air; I remember some bad thunderstorms & the kind security guard who tracked me down to get car keyfob & close window left open by hospital parking valet; wow. A young ER doctor after 6 – 8 weeks, 3 more ambulance & hospital visits, LISTENED to ME, ran a CT scan on my own SUDDENLY PARKINSONS/DEMENTIA acting Walter and found the 2 bad brain bleeds missed by other hospital despite my pleading for a new CT scan and neurologist consult. Neurosurgery and brain drains within one hour. Home yesterday NO physical/cognitive disability, just PT for healing broken bones from May, and a very happy dog. YAY!
Who’re you calling “kid”? Hitler still “owned” Europe when I was born! One of the disappointments of my life is that I would’ve been born on the eve of D-day, except the weather in the channel was bad–Ike could wait a day, Mom couldn’t!
So you’re telling me my two-day colonoscopy prep was nothing? Certainly not, in comparison, but I still wasn’t having any fun! (And I still don’t have biopsy results.) You gotta keep that dog happy–they invest so much in their people, cats not so much if some not at all.
Yiii! Brain bleeds are nothing to fool with. DH had a couple of near misses with an AVM, surgery 3x, now free and clear for 25+ years — but we still look askance at any bad headache.
Wow, he’s very lucky to have no (temporary) impairments after two bad brain bleeds!
So good that you kept on insisting, and finally found a doctor that would listen!
Wishing him a quick recovery.
just got my copy from UPS
Wishing you a very happy belated birthday CJ!!! Hope you had a lovely day and/or are planning a great weekend; you mean so much to us 🙂
I went to my dermatologist yesterday to look at two moles that were getting a little overanxious in the growth department. One was on my left temple and the other on the right forearm. After looking at them, the doctor said “OK, take off your shirt.” I said, “I don’t have any other moles.” He said, “While we’re checking, let’s check.” So I pulled off my shirt. He checked my back, then said, “Alright, let’s look at your butt.”
I said, “You want me to take off my shorts!?”
There are only three men that have been this near to me with my clothing off: one was the doctor who caught me when I was born, one who gave me a very invasive “turn and cough” physical, and this dermatologist.
He said, “Your butt is fine.” I used a mock sexy voice and said, “Oh, thank you!”
Spence, my dad spent his childhood in a sunnier climate (Indonesia and Australia), and has had problems with skin cancers before. Now he has to get checked by a doctor at the hospital once a year, and that includes the butt.
From what I understand, if you’ve had a sunburn there once, maybe as a baby or young kid playing in the garden kiddie pool without your diapers on (when you were too young to remember it now), it too can have cells go cancerous. Though it gets less sun than the rest of one’s skin, and so the risk is less, it’s also hard to completely check yourself; so a good doctor won’t ignore a risk to their patient from prudishness.
Some years ago a young woman in my circle died of melanoma which originated between her toes. So I appreciate a dermatologist who looks everywhere at everything. Hope yours was nothing, Spence.
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I still haven’t got the results. Maybe after the holiday.
“Oh, myyyy!!” /George Takei 😀
Yeah, I’m a prude, what can I say?
Well, so am I, in general; but doctorsare different.
I just got the results of my biopsies, I have a clean bill of health. The dermatologist is happy that I checked with him on these two moles. I’ll see him again in a year.
“Come to our wedding in Millinocket and share our happy day!” So far 140 traceable Covid cases, 3 dead. Sheesh! What an anniversary to have. Well, 50% of Americans are below average!
…and 50% are above average. There are no average people?
Except for Lake Wobegon, where “all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average.” 🙂
“It was an accident!” Who cares whether it’s a boy or a girl, it’s a multi-million dollar fine for starting a wildfire because you had to use a smoke-bomb at your “gender reveal party”, not in your backyard but out in a nature park in the foothills of Southern California in high summer. 8,600A, 3,000 evacuees, as of Monday, only 7% contained. Don’t suppose those evacuees will be happy to see you around town–I’d move!
Give that family some credit: they tried to put it out (water bottles were in car) and then called 911 (wrong order, but right action). They also gave a copy of the video (being done for the rest of the invitees: they were doing that right, also) to the authorities.
For those waiting, Divergence has just dropped at Amazon and at my public library. No sign of an Audible version yet.
Thank You! I wasn’t aware there’s a new book. Ordered the HC instantly 🙂
Yay, thanks for the reminder, I just bought the ebook!
Now I need to practise my patience and do my job until this evening.
And totally off topic, just for the few people here who enjoy the Dutch approach to systematic traffic safety and cycling for transport, the (full length) film/movie “Why we cycle” is up on Vimeo, free to watch until September 10th. It’s at least half spoken in English, and half in Dutch, but the Dutch bits are subtitled in English.
https://mobile.twitter.com/Cycling_Embassy/status/1302924781919109121
It looks not just at the cycling as a transport option, but also at the effects it has on people and society. It provides inspiration for people who want to promote more active transport but have never seen it in practise on a society-wide scale.
spent yesterday readign it, and now I wonder what’s going to happen next.
Oh, the day is here YAY! Kindle and hardback for me.
Is there an release date for the new Alliance book? One is hoping for January!
I’ll be reading this after my mother’s funeral on Saturday, too busy now.
Oh Spence, those are very mixed feelings this week. I’m glad your biopsy results are good, but sorry to hear your mother has died. My condolences.
Oh, I’m so sorry to hear of the loss of your mother— condolences, HRHSpence.
I’ll be spending time this weekend with a close friend who suddenly lost her husband.
Didn’t know a new, Foreigner book had come out. I’ll order it from our local, Sci-Fi book store, Pandemonium. I don’t know when I’ll get a chance to read it; I’m teaching 3 evening courses a week this semester… all on Zoom—just started this evening with astronomy.
My copy came today!
HRHSpence, Condolences and Congratulations in the same posts; I’m so sorry to hear you are grieving the loss of your mother. So excited to download a new Foreigner book; what a treat!!! I too look forward to a new Alliance Rising book hopefully in the near future. We made doctors rounds today for hubby; cardiologist is very pleased, neurology PA removed all stitches and staples, cheered at his progress. Showed us his admittance CT scan … even to a lay person, terrifying. He’s doing great. I’m glad to be in company with others who don’t “get” gender reveals 🙂 Stay safe, and stay well, all.
Seriously, is CJ ok?
i had in mind the fires….
@Linda B, if you are on Facebook you might look for her there. I’ve heard from others that she posts stuff there, more regularly than here.
From what I’ve gathered they are in the town of Spokane itself, not in an outlying area where the danger is greater.
The ladies have been very busy, and I guess putting a quick remark on Facebook takes less time and effort than writing something to post here.
I’ve asked twice for a link to her Facebook page, but nobody has posted one yet, so you’ll have to search and try to figure out which is the real one.
https://www.facebook.com/C-J-Cherryh-93705365153
https://www.facebook.com/CJ-Cherryhs-Books-Questions-106696991055059
https://www.facebook.com/cj.cherryh
She’s got three
Thanks, Spence.
At the first link I see two posts from May 2019, and then about two a year (or less) going back from there. Nothing recent.
At the middle link I see one from August 4th (a reposting from Nasa about solar flares); then one about the Prometheus Award in July, and a few about details regarding her books from July, June, and further back. This is more recent, but at the start CJ says this thread is only for her books, and she clearly doesn’t post her general updates there.
The third link requires me to log into Facebook; without a Facebook account I can’t see it. This is probably the current, protected page. I’ll just have to resign myself to hearing the updates through others here, who are also on Facebook.
There are really only two and no discussion,
We have something started on
https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=167669084957849&id=106696991055059&comment_id=167671504957607¬if_id=1599765949719087¬if_t=feed_comment
Yes, they are somewhere in the middle of the city. The red bridges are visible on google maps, if you know where to start searching 🙂
https://www.google.de/maps/@47.6895255,-117.4353268,922m/data=!3m1!1e3
I don’t want to be more precise here, as the street address isn’t public knowledge.
I’m not on facebook myself, and haven’t been able to locate recent public postings there. I obviously can’t know about (semi-)private ones.
Yes! CJ’s red bridges are visible from space! 🙂
To be sure “spy satellites” have long had the ability to count the number of people sitting at a picnic table, and who’s got food, but such images are “classified”. (The company I used to work for, TRW, made many of them. ref: “The Falcon and the Snowman”. ) There are commercial satellite imagers. But not all aerial images, especially those of cities, come from so far. Satellite images are “sexy”, but many more in use are just common aerial images from airplanes.
Yes, I think these are simple aerial images. If you look at the shadows of trees east and west of the corner of Glass and Cedar, you can tell that the west side images were taken later in the day, presumably as the plane was on a different transect. Were it a satellite image the field of view would be so large as to all be at the same time. This is discounting a slight difference in hue.
Ho-ho! I may never be able to attend a Shejicon in person, but I have seen the famouse red bridges!!
I see a unexpected name there, Drumheller! East of Calgary in Alberta is the town of Drumheller, home of the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology. I’ve been there because my father was from the area. I, OTOH, was born & raised in LA, home of the La Brea Tar Pits and adjacent George C. Page Museum. The Tyrrell is smaller, or was when I was there, what I found most interesting wasn’t the skeletons, but a photo. Having seen it, on the way out of the coulee I was able to identify on the sides the thin black line of the no-good, very bad, horrible day that made us possible. THAT I found impressive, and for which I can heartily recommend a visit. A mounted skeleton of Albertasaurus? Meh! A discoloration in the dirt? Oh yeah!
I was at Royal Tyrell a couple of years ago and it is now a large up-to-date museum. The most memorable display for me was a very complete member of the ankylosaur family that had some skin and innards included. He looked as if he’d just been flattened in a landslide and dug out umpteen million years later. But if the KT Layer and more paleontological ephemera are your cup of tea more than the megafauna, I would recommend the Cambrian invertibrates in places like the Burgess Shale. I was up there after the last Shejicon and had a fascinating time, although the actual guided hikes up to the fossil quarries were plainly too strenuous for me so I had to be content with the museum in Field, BC. [in Yoho National Park, nearest town with a motel, Golden] Recently more quarries have opened up and there have been many exciting discoveries [Nature of Things episode “First Animals”]
Thanks, Cathy and Hanneke, for the kind words.
I posted a cover photo. B CJ has not posted on FB about it. I cannot find any discussion except on Elizabeth Moon’s page because she is reading it today and wowed by the beginning. The beginning does grab you! I have finished it, but keeping mum.
Something started in her FB books and questions page
CJ it seems does have Multiple Facebook pages. these are named as Cj Cherryh ( thumbnail image of Red Bridge and a White Post ) ; CJ Cherryh`s Books and Questions ( thumbnail image of her as side view looking across lake, trees at lake edge, and skyline ) ; CJ Cherryh ( thumbnail image of , well looks like a windswept face painting, has a word above Rusalka ) ; and finally, C. J. Cherryh ( thumbnail image of head looking to to left and turned to look at viewer, it’s a younger appearing face from the other one )
Those are the Facebook pages that I’ve come across, of them all , I would say that only the first listed one is used All the time. She posts multiple times a day there, usually links to various news stories, where assorted followers will comment ( and CJ will respond too ). I’ve commented on a number of those posts, but some of them will run to hundreds of comments.
I haven’t posted links here for a couple of reasons. My password for posting here is on my Kindle ( remembered by the machine not me ) but I can’t access Facebook on it, I need to use my Samsung Tablet for that. Now, got to fly as battery is getting low, and I should be sleeping anyway.
Thanks, Deesha.
The first, active one for Cj Cherryh doesn’t show up when I search for it (Cj Cherryh facebook). Facebook shows me a list of profiles for people “named Cj Cherryh” (though most of them aren’t), which contains one of the inactive accounts (CJ Cherryh), but it doesn’t show that one. It’s probably set so only logged-in Facebook users can see it.
So the only ones I can see, or find through outside means, are the three inactive ones.
If sometime later you could post a link to the right profile, I’d like to see if following the link directly will let me see it. I think it’d be safe to post it somewhere deep in these comments; it’s not likely any trolls will find it here.
That’s what happens with the private YouTube films my employers post with management reports for the employees – if you have the direct URL which they post on our intranet you can paste it into YouTube and see the director reporting on the new working-under-Covid measures. Without the URL, looking for it on YouTube doesn’t get you anything.