Thanks for the update, Cash. I'm so happy for the good trendlines with work and school, and I also have issues with this timeline.

Tep, that's fucking stupid.

We're alternating between cold and overcast and sunny yet cool days, and frankly it's been a little early for the fog to move in on the summertime. (Usually it's a late July/August thing.) Anyway, blue skies for Wednesday. Because I know you want a SF weather report every damn day!

My niece, Crystal, is coming out next Tuesday for a week's visit. Looking forward to having her here over my birthday week.

Okay, it took them over a fucking hour to call me, but it's scheduled for noon, which is kind of awesome, since my first one was like 7:30 a.m. Now I can sleep until a reasonable hour, have a leisurely breakfast, and go get my hand fixed.

Yay, Tep!

It's a workshop about how to engage in "effective conversation in a polarized world."

I was thinking I read something like this recently. It was yesterday. On your FB. It sounds cool if I didn't say so there.

Hope looms eternal, I guess.

Indeed.

So, Tim has a weird lump on his neck that showed up in April. When it didn’t go away, his primary-care doctor had him get a CT scan, and the CT scan conclusion was “Yes, that sure is a lump.” Based on the density and size of the lump, it could just be inflammation of a lymph node from an infection or from his rheumatoid arthritis, or it could be a necrotic lymph node (which is apparently not as horrible as it sounds), or it could be a weird benign cyst like a sebaceous cyst, or it could be a lump of doom. It’s exceedingly likely to be just a benign weird thing, but we don’t know. He has an appointment with an ENT tomorrow, who might poke it once, say “Yup, benign weird thing,” and send him on his way, or the ENT might have the lump biopsied.

Anyway, I am tired of Tim having medical issues and am asking for all the lump~ma for a benign weird lump. (“Benign and weird” really is his personal brand.)

I'm hardly thinking about my carpal tunnel surgery. Mostly I’m trying and failing to not obsess about Tim’s weird lump. Humans do get lumpier as we get older, that's for sure.

A world of lump~ma. Yes, we certainly do get lumpier with age. Mine are the sebaceous cyst variety. Very annoying.

All the lump ~ma Tim's way.

I was thinking I read something like this recently. It was yesterday. On your FB.

Ha, ha! I've had that very same experience with things here that are also there.

Mine are the sebaceous cyst variety.

I have a sebaceous cyst on my head, right above my hairline; since my hair covers it, I haven't been motivated to have it removed. But its existence (and size and texture) is why I'm not freaked out by Tim's weird lump, because it's sure similar to mine. But no matter how I try to talk myself out of worrying about it, I know I won't stop worrying until he has an actual diagnosis.

Yay for the sleeping in friendly scheduling, Tep! Benign weird ~ma!

CCL sounds cool, I hope it's a good group

It's hot here. Hot enough that when I looked at my phone to check if it will be this hot tomorrow (not supposed to be) I was gratified to see in numbers how hot it is (92, which does count as proper hot in my mind). And yet, cat keeps needing to sit on me for some reason. I will be retreating to the darkened bedroom with a fan pointed right at me as soon as is compatible with this stupid working for a living thing I seem to be stuck with. Ooh, might be a good time to play the cut out early since tomorrow is a holiday card....

It's hot here.

Cincinnati is right in the OMG Worst Humidity part of the weather map for the heat/humidity wave, so my surgery recovery plan involves my beloved central air, a stack of books, my Netflix queue, and lots of cold beverages.

Crazy stormy here today but yesterday was 92. Apparently the weekend and into next week are going to be beastly all over.

and the CT scan conclusion was “Yes, that sure is a lump.”

I had a lump pop up on my thigh and when I told my doctor that I figured it was a benign fatty lump because it was just like the ones that dogs get, she gave me a funny look but confirmed my diagnosis. Hopefully Tim’s goes roughly the same way.