re-tweet

I just saw this video on Geninnes's blog. It's so lovely I had to share!!

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Geeklist Wednesday

Not actually a wishlist wednesday, but here's just one wishlist item to keep you going.

I'm in geek heaven though.
I have finally managed to have only one set of data which exists on my desktop PC, my laptop, my iPaq, my phone, and in my Google account.

Brilliant. And they all synchronise with each other.

To start with, I moved my email from Outlook to Gmail, and imported all of my outlook contacts. I spent a while editing and updating them all, getting rid of duplicates and all that, so that I had one clean set.

Next step was to get my iPaq to sync with Gmail instead of Outlook, so I signed up with nuevasync.com who let me (an many others) use their exchange server, in order to allow Active Sync sync with google instead of outlook. If you have your own exchange server you wouldn't need nuevasync, you could just do it yourself.

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Earth to number 4

Well I wasn't actually overwhelmed with entries in my recent giveaway, but I do know that of all the people who did enter, any one of them would have been thrilled to win.

I made the random number thing choose between 1 and 4 because even there were only three comments another person did follow me and therefore qualify herself.

Anyway.... I used random.org, which chose me the number

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Celebration

Well, my last chemo treatment is now three days behind me. I'm on my way to starting to feel better. Give me a week, and I should be raring to go!

Let's have a party!!

There are recipes or links to the recipes for these on their flick pages.

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Turning Japanese

Jay, at Finki is running a monthly design challenge. This months theme is Turning Japanese. This is my interpretation of it.

The E of earth is formed by the Kanji symbol for Earth, and the Earth is turning on it's axis.
A bit of bamboo adds a little decoration to the zen simplicity.

Would you like the originial? I'm giving it away.

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Tattoo Day

spirax by ~suk-uzu on deviantART

I feel incredibly calm about today. Despite the fact that I'll be getting tattooed and having a CT scan, I don't feel anxious about it. I wonder if that's because they've already done so much to me that this pales in comparison and seems like not much at all.

I have a follow up appointment with my surgeon on Thursday morning - pretty lucky timing that my Oncologist is on holidays so I don't have to have an appointment with him before chemo. I'm going to ask him about my port.

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Chemo #last-4

That's four days to go until my last chemo.

One day until my radiation planning appointment. The one where I'm going to be CT scanned to locate my organs, and where I'm going to be tattooed so they know where to zap me.

This whole cancer treatment thing seems so barbaric! It's not even as if I'm saying that because Bones says things like that in Star Trek (although he does), but because I'm living it. I'm being poisoned, I have strange devices implanted in my body to facilitate the poisoning, and I'm going to be irradiated.

Right now though, these are the best things I can do. These are the things which give me the most chance at having no recurrence of cancer. The things I have to do in order to do my utmost to ensure that I'm around to see my great grandchildren.

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Not a review of last year

In the past I've sometimes written a review of the year just ended, and included photos from each month.
I don't think I wrote seriously consistently enough to do that now, for last year, and last year too, seems to be overshadowed by one huge theme - breast cancer.

I don't feel the need to go over that all again. I'm really wanting to be to the point where I can put it all behind me. I have a little way to go for that yet, but I'm getting there.

I only have one more chemo session to have - in 18 days, according to the countdown on my facebook profile.

I have to see my radio-oncologist on the 12th Jan, which I believe is called a planning session, for setting up the schedule for my radiation, which is to be five days a week for five weeks, and I think it usually starts about three weeks after chemo ends, so around the middle of February. Maybe in that case, I'll be done by the end of March. Here's hoping.

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Dread

I've gotten to where I dread my next chemo session. Not for any particular reason - other than the one bad one, they're pretty much nothing to write home about, but... I just don't like them.

I think it's more to do with the emotional cost than the physical cost, which my body seems to have adapted to. I barely feel any nausea these days, and even my bones don't hurt as much. The poo effects are the only ones that really still persist.

The next cycle starts tomorrow with my day-before-chemo blood test. I only have to do that two more times. Tomorrow, and then in another three weeks. I have to get a new blood test order form on Thursday. This week will use up the last of my multi-use card thing they give you at the start.
I don't have to go to the oncology building on Thursday, they're closed. I have to go straight to the 10th floor and I'll see the Dr there. I wonder if he'll be there on time.

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Can someone help me please?

I'm playing with wordpress in my journal. The one I don't update anymore. But I have imported my entries and comments, and I'm not exactly duplicating my design, but I'm sort of similarising it.

http://the-onion.net/j/

The main index page is fine.
The entry page is fine.
But if you click an archive link from the sidebar, the resulting page is not. I have no idea why. It's using the exact same code as the index page. I copied my archives.php from my index.php. I even deleted that and used the index page for the archive page, and the same thing happened.

Ignore the sidebar please - I haven't got that far yet, but that's not going to be my final version, obviously.

ta :)