Category Archives: Personal

Camera and screen condensation

This morning my HTC Incredible got wet. Long story. Anyway, it’s working now. Except that there is some condensation inside the camera and around the edges of the screen. Anyone have tips for fixing this?

Mother’s Day bouquet

This arrangement I got for Angela is very interesting. I particularly like the purple leaves. Can anyone tell me what that plant is?

Thank you, Jeff and Nicole

For my last two birthdays, Jeff and Nicole gave me a gift certificate to Belmont Station. The first one took me several months to redeem. The most recent one took even longer. I had a good excuse this time, though. Here is what I got.

I love Portland

August napping in Puerto Vallarta

Happy new year!

There were some good parts to 2010. But mostly it was very difficult. I’m glad it’s over.

Cancer Free

This is a quick update on my health for those of you who don’t follow me on Twitter. I don’t really want to go into the details of the last three months because they’re mostly boring, painful, frustrating, and disgusting. About six weeks ago, blood tests indicated that my cancer was dead. Last week’s CT [...]

Chemotherapy

The last two weeks have been a whirlwind of appointments, tests, work, celebrations, and stress. It’s impossible to sum it all up in a reasonable amount of time, so I’ll just keep it short. No tumors were detectable in the CT scan. The tumor marker in my blood, while rising, is still at a relatively [...]

…and some not-so-positive news

My doctor called this morning with the results from my most recent blood tests: There is still some cancer in my body. Based on what I’ve read, I expected this to happen. Still, the news left me almost speechless. I was hoping to be able to celebrate victory over cancer and my birthday at the [...]

Cancer update: A little positive news

I got off the phone with my doctor a few minutes ago. The tissue he removed did contain cancer. The good news is that there were no masses detected in my chest x-ray. The cough that’s taking forever to go away does seem to be due to the bronchitis I had a couple months ago. [...]