Interlude and Induction Chemotherapy

 "How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world." - Anne Frank

Blogger image issue

 Hi all, 

I have many further posts in the works, but I am experiencing some serious difficulties uploading images to these posts.  Blogger simply won't let me add images, and I'm still trying to figure out what is preventing this!   Hopefully I'll figure it out soon and get those posts up.

UPDATE:  It isn't fixed, but I found a work-around.  I've installed the Opera web browser just to do Blogger posts.  I could not figure out how to make the Firefox browser to allow the images to upload.

Leukemia :(

 "If you're lonely when you are alone - you are in bad company" - Jean-Paul Sartre

Happy Birthday, dear blog!

 Today this blog turns 20 years old!  May it another 20 years :)

I will return to blogging within a few more months, and at that time I will share the happenings and cause for the interregnum.  Meanwhile, as Mr. Spock would say, "Peace and prosperity" to readers everywhere.

Still here, part two!

 "Man is nothing but what he makes of himself." - Jean Paul Sartre

Dear readers - and anyone else who happens to find their way here:  Apologies for the lack of consistent posting.  I'm dealing with a health issue right now that is taking a lot of time and focus, and having to research how best to deal with it, given the US healthcare system.  

Between not feeling well beforehand, getting dumped into a medical administrative rat-maze, and the nature of the medical treatment, it's best to set aside blogging and sharing ideas for the moment.  Tackling a car repair and sharing that in a blog post is out of the question right now.

With that out there, hopefully you can check out some older posts!  The most-read ones are on the sidebar to the right.  I *should* be back to routine posting toward the end of summer, assuming things go well with treatment.  One must always acknowledge the reality that things don't always go to plan :)

Mark  

Still here!

 Happy belated 2026!

 I am still around, just "focusing on my health" - as disgraced politicians always say when they slink off!!!!!

Celestron Ultima C8

"We learn not in the school, but in life" - Lucius Annaeus Seneca 

October 2025 Update

 "Floods will rob of us of one thing, fire of another.  These are conditions of our existence which we cannot change.  What we can do is adopt a noble spirit, such a spirit that befits a good person, so that we may bear up bravely under all that fortune sends us and bring our wills into tune with nature's." - Seneca

Half a million page views!

 Hi All, 

 Yes I'm still here and wondering where I will find inspiration for the next post.  It'll come at some point, and yes I'll do the nuclear fusion post at some point :) 

In the meantime I'd like to thank everyone who has ever stopped by to read anything and extra special thanks to those that comment - the insights and long-distance friendships have been very rewarding!

So while I wasn't looking, the stats now say that there have been well over 500,000 page views.  522,585 to be precise at this moment.  I'm humbled, and thanks again for having a look!

 

Road Trip Revisited

 "The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous." - Frederick Douglass