6 Comments
Sep 2Liked by Mark Finn

All's well that ends well! I'm on again off again anemic, and this was all handled as routine by my GP, the Starfleet -level Dr. Jessica. Why was an endocrinologist needed?

Best to the both of you?

Expand full comment
author

Why an endocrinologist? It's a "complicated plumbing" issue, isn't it? Glands, hormones, etc. I don't mean to sound cavalier, but honestly, the difference between men and women in this respect is that men are like a rain gutter, running in one direction, with nothing touching the sides. Women are like a Pachinko machine, with bumpers and bells and spinners and oh god, it's too much. I don't know how they do it.

Expand full comment

I am so glad to read the resolution with Janice and you, and I sympathize completely. A good portion of my last two weeks have involved taking my girlfriend in for surgery (day surgery, but still…), and we had a nearly identical scary moment when getting the results from a biopsy. Solidarity, kemo sabe.

Expand full comment
author

Indeed. Glad it was only a scare. Y'all take care.

Expand full comment
Aug 31Liked by Mark Finn

As we have discussed in the past, I've been on the same bus with my wife, albeit with a slightly different engine, if you'll permit me to torture the metaphor a bit. Cancer killed her mother, as it did my grandmother and my nephew, so it is never very far from our thoughts. Love is a constant shifting between joy and terror, and as we live, so we love.

I stuck with Ted Lasso in no small part because of Hannah Waddingham, but like you I grew to appreciate the more that sense of creating a family, a community out of a climate of apathy and despair. I liked and continue to like Reynolds, though I suspect we'd eventually fall out is we were stuck together on an elevator for any length of time but thankfully, those odd fantasies never play out in reality. ;) Not sure if I can convince Judy to give Welcome to Wrexham a shot, but we might.

BLINK TWICE sounds interesting, even if it leans more toward psychological gymnastics than supernatural horror. (but the TZ reference has me leaning foreward.) Always good to hear from you, and remember I'm always a DM away. Enjoy Armadillocon this year, and say hi to Nikki Drayden if you see her.

Expand full comment
author

I will pass along well wishes to Nicky for you. Thanks for weighing in and sharing. If you liked the family-building parts of Ted Lasso, that’s the kind of thing they do a lot of in Wrexham. It’s a really sweet, if profanity-laden, show.

Expand full comment