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  1. I seriously eat the same thing every day. Tuna sandwiches, carrots, raisin bran, coffee, bananas. The guys here at work go out to lunch like every other day. Who the f*ck has the money for that?  :wacko:

    That's what's in the little metal pale that ISIS gives its prisoners the night before, well, ya know...

  2. Yes. Get those spots checked. ABCD. Asymmetry, border, color and diameter. I had a pretty normal looking mole on my foot, but it had gradually grown over the years to more than the diameter of a pencil eraser. Had it removed and the biopsy report came back benign but showing a 10% lifetime risk of turning into cancer.

  3. Gonna get more personal than I like to online, but this one is eating at me.

     

    About 10 years ago Dad had a pretty aggressive melanoma removed from his chest.  It wasn't a small deal.  it had started to spread.  Dad is/was a chronic sunburner.  We are of northern European lineage, and accordingly light skinned.  I've had my share of sunburns too.  So..... around mid July something popped up on the back of the base of my neck.  Didn't think much of it at the time.  I did manage to scratch it open at one point.  But when it "healed" it healed funny.  Kept it on watch for a couple weeks.  Last week I called my doctor to get it looked at.  Saw him on Monday.  He said it may be nothing, but being there for 2 months now it needs to get evaluated.  So..... calling dermatologist offices to get this thing biopsied.  the absolute earliest appointment I could get in the entire Buffalo AND Rochester areas is November 30.  2 more frigging months.   The place nearest me can't see me until JANUARY!  I have told every person that I spoke with that this is a cancer evaluation, not a cosmetic issue.  Best I can get is put on a waiting list if people cancel their appointments.

     

    You gotta be kidding me.  Needless to say, there is a good bit of worry at the Weave house until this thing gets looked at.  We both know how quickly skin cancer moves.  it's difficult to not get dramatic about this.

     

    Is this health care in America now?  ###### this.

    Sorry. Dermatologist are notoriously had to get in to see. There's one in Olean, holy cow. It's like what George Costanza said about good parking spots in Manhattan, people never pull out. Getting on the waiting list never seems to work.

     

    I don't suppose if you went to the ER with some phony dramatic symptoms that would do any good?

  4. If we can get our club certified without any problems, we have tentative plans to take a "field trip" of sorts down to Cherry Springs, hopefully while I'm still here. I've never been but my friends and I keep making plans to go and having them fall through. I cannot wait for when I can finally go. And I think I can handle Pennsyltucky, I live in Wyoming County after all ;)

    NY, I assume. There's one in PA too.

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    Beautiful night to get back out to the observatory on campus. Saw Saturn for my first time!

    Ever come down to Cherry Springs State Park in northern PA? It's said to have the darkest skies in the eastern U.S., and it's an International Dark Sky Park. Occasionally they have star parties. Astronomers flock there. It would be a bit of a haul, probably almost three hours. You'd be in the middle of nowhere in Pennsyltucky — I wouldn't recommend any canoeing with that perty mouth of yers. But you'd pass through Coudersport and could flip the bird at the memory of John Rigas if you are so inclined.

  6. Kind of a funky, powerful sausage, with the strong taste coming from the meat and not the spice. It's tough to describe, like trying to describe "pork" to a vegetarian.

    I'm in midseason perv form.

    Must be an eastern PA thing. The first time if ever heard that description was in this thread.

    I always assumed it was a "down home" Pennsylvania term. Down home is sort of an indefinable geographic area in and around central and southern PA. When people moved north to work in the oil fields around Titusville and Bradford, they talked about being from "down home." My mum said she had to "red up the table" after dinner and warned us boys to not "go rammin' around" the neighborhood.

  7. Her content and methodology are intense. On Twitter, she does a nice job of connecting #fancystats to a normal fan's enjoyment of, frustration with his/her favourite team.

     

    All self-taught, too, IIRC.

    Self-taught? You don't say. That would be the only way to learn something they're making up as they go, no?

  8. That's because we are all afraid we're going to end up in a North Korean prison in a cell next to Yuri.

    Nah. I took a shot at Dear Father Pegula last night and I'm still here. Hold on, a dark sedan just pulled up in front of the house.

  9. Agree, mjd. This feels like a year to just sit back, relax and be a fan again. It's going to take time. Why stress? And so much crud has been washed away — Lindy, Darcy, Leino, Hodgson, Miller, the shield-licker (forget his name, sorry), Stafford, Battista, Black. I know I'm forgetting some. Vanek maybe? Myers? Our long national nightmare is over. Even Terry is surely spending 80% of his time at One Bills Drive. Reset time. It feels good.

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