Our Microblogvember prompt for Nov 2 is appropriate. Today is known as the Feast of All Souls.

Can I say that we all feast on roast beast? Maybe that’s in another month. I do love my roast beast. :)

I haven’t skated in years. There is no way I could do a figure eight now. Of course, I couldn’t do it even when I was skating.

I wake up and realize that OMG it’s almost Microblogvember!

Ann has COVID. We think she got it at the Dublin airport, but no way to be sure of course. Could have been the plane, a restaurant, or a cab just as easily. I’m still negative and testing every so often.

A bit of falconry at Ashford Castle!

Doonagore castle. View from our vacation rental in Doolin Ireland.

The Ross-Errilly Friary outside of Headford Ireland.

A nice lunch stop in Maynooth on the way to our B&B in Kilbeggan.

Arriving in Ireland on Wednesday. Hope to post from there over the next two weeks.

Ireland in 18 days. COVID stay away.

Finished “Simply Gödel”. Brought back memories of studying computability theory in grad school. I might dig out the old books.

Finishing up cardiac rehab today. Feeling great!

Starting Simply Gödel by Richard Tieszen. It’ll be interesting to see how it works as an audiobook. 📚

Finished Silent Spring by Rachel Carson. I had never read it before. Though dated I’m not sure it’s possible to overstate its importance. 📚

Current reading: Allow Me to Retort (Elie Mystal - hardcover), Hidden Figures (Margot Lee Shetterly - paper), Silent Spring (Rachel Carson - audiobook), and The Plantagenets (Dan Jones - ebook).

WHERE WE ARE NOW

So here we are. Ann is doing really well. She is heading to PT this week with the goal of getting her knee back in shape. She’s in the final week of radiation treatment for the cancer. Her prognosis is excellent. There is one wrinkle in all of this which I won’t get into, but the prognosis for that is very good as well. Ann is going to be OK.

HEART ATTACK!

The Monday after Easter I had a heart attack. It was just after dinner. Ann and I were watching TV. We had just gotten back that noon from visiting my son in San Antonio for Easter and were catching up on some shows when I could not get comfortable. A mild pain in my upper chest had reached about mid way down my upper arms. It was not severe but was getting worse.

KNEE FRACTURE!

The proposed breast cancer treatment was pretty routine and the prognosis was really good. However, Ann was having issues with her knee after a misstep during a workout so she had an MRI. We had scheduled a cruise to Alaska’s Inside Passage for early May and all the docs said “go”. We went. The day we hit Juneau (and reliable cell service) Ann got a note that her ortho folks were recommending that she be non-weight-bearing due to a knee fracture and meniscus tear.

BREAST CANCER!

The day after I was released from the hospital for the heart attack, Ann got a call from our primary physician. Her last mammogram showed a tumor in her left breast. It was small, caught early. More diagnosis needed. More appointments scheduled.

I’ve been absent for quite a while. Although I’ve been a faithful reader of my timeline, a lot has been going on. So much that I haven’t even been able to write in my daily journal which was unbroken for three years. Deets to follow.

Ann and I are heading to Seattle to cruise the Inside Passage up to Alaska and back. Hope to post some pictures when I can.

Dead slash pine in the Jay B. Starkey Wilderness west-central Florida.

📚 Today’s reading: One chapter of Le Guin’s interpretation of the Tao Te Ching, the latest Science News, skimming IBM i Security: Administration and Compliance, an article from the Tampa Bay Times on the death trends for pedestrians on Pinellas county roads.

If I stopped playing so much iPhone solitaire I’d have finished my plan for world domination by now.