If you missed my update yesterday, the lymph node biopsy was negative! Best news I've had in weeks. We need a chuckle, so please read below the sponsor's announcement!
As you can see by Itzl's concerned look, this group is for us to check in at to let people know we are alive, doing OK, and not affected by such things as heat, blizzards, floods, wild fires, hurricanes, tornadoes, power outages, earthquakes, or other such things that could keep us off DKos. It's also so we can find other Kossacks nearby for in-person checks when other methods of communication fail - a buddy system. Members come here to check in. If you're not here, or anywhere else on DKos, and there are adverse conditions in your area (floods, heatwaves, hurricanes, earthquakes etc.), we and your buddy are going to check up on you. If you are going to be away from your computer for a day or a week, let us know here. We care!
IAN is a great group to join, and a good place to learn to write diaries. Drop one of us a PM to be added to the Itzl Alert Network anytime! We all share the publishing duties, and we welcome everyone who reads IAN to write diaries for the group! Every member is an editor, so anyone can take a turn when they have something to say, photos and music to share, a cause to promote or news!
Ok, we do have a diary schedule. But, when you are ready to write that diary, either post in thread or send FloridaSNMOM a Kosmail with the date. If you need someone to fill in, ditto. FloridaSNMOM is here on and off through the day usually from around 9:30 or 10 am eastern to around 11 pm eastern.
Monday:
BadKitties
Tuesday:
ejoanna
Wednesday:
Caedy
Thursday:
art ah zen
Friday:
FloridaSNMOM
Saturday:
Most Awesome Nana
Sunday:
loggersbrat
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!"
(Hunter S. Thompson)
[This is my son's Philosophy of Life, and he follows it to the letter (although often with added profanity).]
My barmie noodle's working prime.
(Robert Burns)
Do you think my mind has matured late, or simply rotted early?
(Ogden Nash)
May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.
(George Carlin)
Basic research is what I am doing when I don't know what I am doing.
(Werner von Braun)
To be truly weird requires character; and a wanton disregard for the mores of the day.
(Ralph Stedman)
In cooking you've got to have a what-the-hell attitude.
(Julia Child)
To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you're overdoing it.
(Josh Jenkins)
Murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner.
(Oscar Wilde)
And one very apropos for the current times:
You don't have to fool all the people all of the time; you just have to fool enough to get elected.
(Gerald Barzan)
Our totally gratuitous picture - cause we can always use a little "awwww":
Thank you from the bottom of my heart for all your support, prayers and good thoughts.
Happy and Healthy New Year to one and all!