Saturday 09/13/2025
The production of Cabaret was excellent, great dancers and music. With the 8pm curtain it was 11pm before I got to bed. Still got downstairs what I thought was early in the morning, to see Joanne off on her trip but she was already gone.
I did an inventory of my balcony garden. I had thought to go to the nursery and buy one or more additional plants, but in the end, decided not. I did some maintenance and repotted one plant, but I have enough now.
I did go out shopping, to IKEA, to buy a new pillow. My current pillow was from IKEA in 2019, when I moved in to CH, and its stuffing was pretty degraded. On a whim I also went to a liquor store and stocked up on my favorite beer. I have enough Rogue Dead Guy Ale to keep me for months, at the usual rate of one can with dinner every couple of weeks. Heavy drinker here.
Funny thing: I also bought an IKEA pillow and some Dead Guy Ale four years ago, on Day 2.235.
Did some music practice, alone and then with Susan on our performance of Supercalli.
Talked to Dr. Margaret about my renal cysts. The report from the ultrasound on Friday said the one big one is 15 x 16 centimeters, which is, um, large? Imagine a rubber ball the size of a large grapefruit, full of pee, tucked up under your ribcage on the left side. Certainly have to do something, at the least, drain it as I did 4 years ago, Day 2.238. But I’d like to discuss doing something more permanent. That would be some fashion of laparoscopic surgery to physically reduce the cyst. But maybe not; the draining process is simple enough that I could go on repeating it, perhaps annually, forever. Why risk any kind of surgery, even laparoscopic?
Anyway I had now crossed off every item on a long list I started a few days ago. Yay me.
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