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RIP George Lowe, voice actor of Space Ghost.

I suggest this standard for all future lens tests.

I hope Revenge of the Needs starts right after the current administration leaves.

Take #173 transcode.mp4

For the appendectomy there was no eating after dinner the day before, a few things like milk were allowed up to six hours before and then clear liquids ceased when leaving for hospital (which was about 2.5 hours from surgery). And Rob this whole process was different than I expected, but a co-workers in-law went through the same steps a couple of months prior.

In January? Mostly a diverse diet of nothing to clear liquids, expanding slightly on last couple days (and what we snuck in). The drain was monitored until leakage greatly slowed (~10mg) and then an ultrasound to verify condition before release. Then a week of additional antibiotics at home (and as mentioned above we repeated after some pain). No pizza leaking into gut. Yesterday without appendix and with titanium staple? Water and three lime popsicles before release and the dinner choices we made later.

The common contemporary treatment seems to be if not caught and removed before rupture, eliminate the infection and leaked fluid through drain and antibiotics, then a bit of a race with waiting up to 6-8 weeks for the majority of inflammation to decrease, including rupture point self-healing, then removing laparoscopically, before the slowly climbing rates of possible obstruction reoccurrence. In our case had to go back on antibiotics for a week between. I’ll just say, we’re only twelve hours after the latter step, but it was outpatient, Esmé had solid food last night, sleeping soundly now, and we’re just on alternating regular doses of Motrin and Tylenol. Such a huge difference from the multiple hospitals, days without eating, week long stay, crazy January experience.

Vanished an appendix from the world

Okay, this made waves five years ago, but I've only recently heard. Its not perfect and certainly has it's own bias (which shows increasingly near end), but is amazingly successful on accomplishing a nearly impossible task - sympathetically setting the social context on why people would join the Peoples Temple and follow Jim Jones to Guyana and the Kool-Aid. It might just be the most compassionate series I've ever heard and even in the prologue you sense it's the podcast you didn't know you needed. Heavy diversions into the worldwide Communist struggle, SDS, Weather Underground, Black Panthers, etc. GOD’S SOCIALIST: THE RISE AND FALL OF PEOPLES’ TEMPLE https://www.martyrmade.com/featured-podcasts/gods-socialist-the-rise-and-fall-of-peoples-temple Start: https://www.martyrmade.com/podcast-parts/11-gods-socialist-prologue or https://content.blubrry.com/martyrmade_podcast/Jonestown1.mp3 Apple: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-martyrmade-podcast/id978322714?mt=2 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6bVxCGj6FBEVSmIzdzer3K&ved=2ahUKEwjFwpDK7OmLAxXBCjQIHcf_BP0QFnoECBcQAQ&usg=AOvVaw3Onl3v7ol4q1Q3SxXGwQQB

Sorry to hear Todd, but glad there was an opportunity for goodbyes. I know the near future is going to be very tough for you and Andrew so don't hesitate to reach out to us.

Hope it’s a great one.

Not likely for anyone here, but…

Saturday was either clean the house or watch TV, so the entire season of Hijack.

^ Arnold, nearby Mercer Caves and Moaning Caverns, and Murphy's wine tasting were our semi hide from the pandemic trips. Hope you all have a blast.

Been rainy here, but trying to record the rapidly disintegrating, once great Alviso next door (I've mentioned before). Almost no remaining connection to the surrounding Silicon Valley (Polycom and TiVo once had their HQs there), except the tech bros/brogrammers who visit the TopGolf near the town border. This time with a Hassy 500cm, II 50c back and Zeiss F4 Distagon CF T*.

Good start to the season, even with Posey’s accent.

Went to The Museum of American Heritage (MOAH) in downtown Palo Alto. Easy to miss, and well, you probably want to miss, but there is a small Just for the Record: Classic Players & Phonographs! exhibit for a few more weeks (Open October 18, 2024 to March 2, 2025). Again small, but if you happen to find yourself in Palo Alto.

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Slightly less explicit here.

Let's Do It Again soundtrack by The Staple Singers and Curtis Mayfield Ex.

Watching some cool old ladies rocking