Monthly Archives: October 2008

mixed messages

22 Wednesday Oct 2008

Posted by in cancer, health & happiness, hospitals, life stuff

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So I had two hospital appointments yesterday morning with the two different surgeons (colon and liver) as a check up and revision thing. You will no doubt recall that when I saw the oncologist a couple of weeks ago for my updated prognosis she told me that there wouldn’t be any more surgery and that whatever chemo they put me on next would only be a way of slowing things down and not a cure. And when I asked her to give me a survival time frame if I chose not to have chemo treatment she said it would be more or less a year. So imagine my surprise when I got this news …

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google chrome

21 Tuesday Oct 2008

Posted by in computers, geekiness, internet

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Back in March I started using Safari as my back-up browser. But over the months I’ve been very frustrated at how very very s-l-o-w it is and so the other day I checked out Google Chrome. And I love it! It’s fast fast fast and has lots of coolisimo features. And casa az looks good on it too.

I still prefer Firefox and will continue to use it as my primary browser, but it’s fun having other options and set-ups.

Is there anybody out there still using IE?

the plan is … there is no plan

20 Monday Oct 2008

Posted by in food & drink, friends, holidays, life stuff, photos, trips

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Road trip (part II) – Saturday 18th October

The next morning we both woke up around 7am, very surprised (and pleased) that we hadn’t woken up during the night … turns out that neither Susan or I sleep a lot.  As it was still early and the sun hadn’t come up yet, we enjoyed more time just chatting in the dark … man, I loved that! But eventually it got light and we were in serious need of coffee, so we got up and headed out in search of brekky…

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what is this plan of which you speak?

20 Monday Oct 2008

Posted by in food & drink, friends, holidays, life stuff, photos, trips

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Road trip (part I) – Friday 17th October

The only plan for the entire trip was that at some point we had to get to Gibraltar so I could stock up on underwear and socks at Marks & Spencer. Other than that, Susan and I were free agents.  Though we also had to consider the weather. The forecast said it was going to be sunny on Friday and rainy on Saturday, so we weren’t sure if it might be better to do shopping and fish & chip eating as rainy day activities. . .

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