What happened?

For those who looked at the blog today, you found a blank entry with a "bing" advertisement. I think I know what happened.

The blog is an open blog and if you read the header, there is an email address to send a message directly to the blog. Well, someone addressed an email, put a topic in the subject line and then hit send--viola! a blank entry with an advertisement for "bing". Whoever you are, you are certainly welcome to try again.

Ingrid drove today and, of course, the schedule went out the window. First, the radiation techs were half an hour late to take Mary into good ol' LA9. Then, after radiation they decided she should see the nutrition/food nurse which hasn't happened this week. Of course, that meant waiting until the nurse was free. Did they tell Ingrid? No! So I start getting SMS messages, "Mary hasn't re-emerged and perhaps something is wrong!" Anyway, after a few exchanges Mary emerged about 2PM (an hour late, so figure a 30 min late start with 30 min waiting and seeing the food nurse.

Ingrid brought Mary home and they sat and had lunch together. Ingrid then left for work. Mary felt pretty good all day today and was even able to Mary avoid napping so we can go to bed earlier than normal. We have to be at Stanford at 7:45 or so, give 45 minute commute for rush hour so that makes the alarm very early. Mary has radiation at 8AM and a follow up with the surgeon at 8:30. The Oncologist made it clear that Mary is now under his care so we assume the visit is just a "quick check" on the part of the surgeon.

Idjit dawg hasn't been bothered by the wild animals roaming around the bedroom since yesterday so things are a bit quieter. And, fortunately, the ball point pen she confused with a chew stick didn't release its ink all over the floor before we found various bits and pieces and confiscated them from her. Mary and I are still wondering how she got a hold of a ballpoint pen. It is one of the cheap ones we have around the house--we have dozens and dozens of this particular type because of brilliant impulse purchasing in a checkout line on my part about five years ago. And we haven't even opened the second box I bought!

Mary says she worries every time I go to Frye's and run the gauntlet. For those who don't know Frye's, its our local version of Best Buy only more techie and far larger selection--with better prices. And, the checkout process has you march down a long aisle with all sorts of tech goodies, junk food and other highly desirable impulse items. We call that long aisle the gauntlet. Hence, the purchase of two boxes of ballpoint pens and two boxes of mechanical pencils. At our current consumption rate, all five of the grandkids can each have a large handfuls of each as part of our legacy!

In the interest of full disclosure, I did buy the two hundred pens and pencils in a check out line but at Office Depot, not Frye's. Turns out all of our big box stores around here are emulating the Frye's gauntlet.