I am in full denial mode. Mr C is going to be fine – for the next couple of years – IF – BIG IF – he does the radiation thing. Denial is good.
One of Carlton’s friends dropped off 3 baked sweet potatoes this morning. A very unusual – but tasty – get well remembrance. The sweet potato is a folk remedy for asthma, bug bites, burns, catarrh, ciguatera, convalescence, diarrhea, dyslactea, fever, nausea, renosis, splenosis, stomach distress, tumors, and whitlows (Duke, J.A. and Wain, K.K. 1981. Medicinal plants of the world).
Think I need some major retail therapy. Possibilities:
Smartphone.
iPad Mini.
Used Fujifilm X100.
I could have a Nexus smartphone and an iPad mini for the cost of a used X100. But, I sort of like all of the lovely Apple-ish togetherness business. OTOH – I like my gmail. New iPads tomorrow. New Nexus phones soon. And, I don’t exactly need another camera – especially a quirky fixed length one.
The sweet potato also is popular in The South Beach diet because it doesn’t spike blood sugar during digestion like regular potato. Unless it has brown sugar on it which sadly is my preference from childhood.
Best wishes Carlton – feel good. I always think of us in line for pay checks at the bank. Despite having a hefty retirement account on the side I still live darn close to pay check to pay check on my salary. Which made the shut down a little annoying (thankfully it was over fast) as my ‘safety pad’ is nowhere near 3 months. Ha – so much for living wiser in my fifties, more like I’m still in my twenties – just with teenagers and an ex.
Dave
Quick PS – You know most of an Ipad (can’t remeber if you’ve had one) from your IPod touch. If you haven’t played with Android yet I’d say that will hold the most ‘new’ excitement.
Well, Dave – I always said I didn’t need or want an iPad. They really are just big iPod’s. But, at my volunteer job, I injected 3 iPad Mini’s into our workflow – and did some beta testing of the apps for our software vendor. I sort of fell in techno lust with the little things.
One of the biggest problems I had was getting the nurses to remember to plug them in when they went home in the afternoon. (I try to leave at noon.) Finally, I picked the least techno savvy nurse – I told her that these iPad Mini’s were premature iPads and she had to plug them into “life support” every night. And she had to be sure that “life support” was working. Which is to say – the power strip had to be turned on. Or the little iPads would die during the night. Since – every morning when I come in – the little iPads are all lined up – and charged up – hooked up the iPad “life support” system.