USMB Coffee Shop IV

[Ringel05]

Hey! How's everyone doing? Been busy and when I've been on the USMB been de-stressing in the FZ.........
The wife had a rough week but is doing much better, still not much in the way of energy but has helped unbox books and place them on the bookshelves.
I was trying to build a new desktop but ran into a couple of problems so it's been put aside for now. Was doing that and a couple of other computer related things that have been extremely frustrating in between reorganizing the "storage room" (extra bedroom), unboxing and putting things away or setting them aside to get rid of. Had a large, overstuffed chair and ottoman and a motorized recliner picked up, we donated them, too big for this house. Of course in between all of this comes the cleaning, sweeping, mopping, dusting, cooking, dishes and laundry......, and occasional sleeping........
A house husband's work is never done........
Tomorrow is errand day, the rental deposit check showed up today so off to the bank tomorrow, need more coffee so that's a stop at World Market, have some items I didn't use when we put down the floor, hope Lumber Liquidators will take them back and refund my money. Finally have to stop at Super Wally World.
Right now I have the swamp cooler on and the wife is wrapped up in a blanket, I'm just comfortable........

Aren't these current treatments 'platinum based'.....where the hair falls out & makes ya sick? Kinda sounds like it. If so, how many does she have left to get?? I think that type of chemo, only 6 treatments are allowed. At that point either your treatment is over, or they change to a 'maintainance' chemo. Will she be getting that type as well?


(sorry if you've posted this and I missed it)

This is her third different chemo since December with a few missed weeks in between. The first was two different chemo drugs and she lost ALL her hair within a couple of cycles, when they changed to another chemo her hair started growing back, now she looks 'butch".......

 

[JustAnotherNut]

Hey! How's everyone doing? Been busy and when I've been on the USMB been de-stressing in the FZ.........
The wife had a rough week but is doing much better, still not much in the way of energy but has helped unbox books and place them on the bookshelves.
I was trying to build a new desktop but ran into a couple of problems so it's been put aside for now. Was doing that and a couple of other computer related things that have been extremely frustrating in between reorganizing the "storage room" (extra bedroom), unboxing and putting things away or setting them aside to get rid of. Had a large, overstuffed chair and ottoman and a motorized recliner picked up, we donated them, too big for this house. Of course in between all of this comes the cleaning, sweeping, mopping, dusting, cooking, dishes and laundry......, and occasional sleeping........
A house husband's work is never done........
Tomorrow is errand day, the rental deposit check showed up today so off to the bank tomorrow, need more coffee so that's a stop at World Market, have some items I didn't use when we put down the floor, hope Lumber Liquidators will take them back and refund my money. Finally have to stop at Super Wally World.
Right now I have the swamp cooler on and the wife is wrapped up in a blanket, I'm just comfortable........

Aren't these current treatments 'platinum based'.....where the hair falls out & makes ya sick? Kinda sounds like it. If so, how many does she have left to get?? I think that type of chemo, only 6 treatments are allowed. At that point either your treatment is over, or they change to a 'maintainance' chemo. Will she be getting that type as well?


(sorry if you've posted this and I missed it)

This is her third different chemo since December with a few missed weeks in between. The first was two different chemo drugs and she lost ALL her hair within a couple of cycles, when they changed to another chemo her hair started growing back, now she looks 'butch".......

How long does she have to have chemo then? Indefinately?

 

[Ringel05]

Hey! How's everyone doing? Been busy and when I've been on the USMB been de-stressing in the FZ.........
The wife had a rough week but is doing much better, still not much in the way of energy but has helped unbox books and place them on the bookshelves.
I was trying to build a new desktop but ran into a couple of problems so it's been put aside for now. Was doing that and a couple of other computer related things that have been extremely frustrating in between reorganizing the "storage room" (extra bedroom), unboxing and putting things away or setting them aside to get rid of. Had a large, overstuffed chair and ottoman and a motorized recliner picked up, we donated them, too big for this house. Of course in between all of this comes the cleaning, sweeping, mopping, dusting, cooking, dishes and laundry......, and occasional sleeping........
A house husband's work is never done........
Tomorrow is errand day, the rental deposit check showed up today so off to the bank tomorrow, need more coffee so that's a stop at World Market, have some items I didn't use when we put down the floor, hope Lumber Liquidators will take them back and refund my money. Finally have to stop at Super Wally World.
Right now I have the swamp cooler on and the wife is wrapped up in a blanket, I'm just comfortable........

Aren't these current treatments 'platinum based'.....where the hair falls out & makes ya sick? Kinda sounds like it. If so, how many does she have left to get?? I think that type of chemo, only 6 treatments are allowed. At that point either your treatment is over, or they change to a 'maintainance' chemo. Will she be getting that type as well?


(sorry if you've posted this and I missed it)

This is her third different chemo since December with a few missed weeks in between. The first was two different chemo drugs and she lost ALL her hair within a couple of cycles, when they changed to another chemo her hair started growing back, now she looks 'butch".......

How long does she have to have chemo then? Indefinately?

We'll have to see, right now the one she's on really isn't considered chemo, it's targeted towards the renal system. With masses in three different areas and a new one on her liver this is going to be a tough haul for her. If we can get the renal masses to stop or even shrink then they can do targeted radiation on the remainder. If not.........

 

[SFC Ollie]

Hey! How's everyone doing? Been busy and when I've been on the USMB been de-stressing in the FZ.........
The wife had a rough week but is doing much better, still not much in the way of energy but has helped unbox books and place them on the bookshelves.
I was trying to build a new desktop but ran into a couple of problems so it's been put aside for now. Was doing that and a couple of other computer related things that have been extremely frustrating in between reorganizing the "storage room" (extra bedroom), unboxing and putting things away or setting them aside to get rid of. Had a large, overstuffed chair and ottoman and a motorized recliner picked up, we donated them, too big for this house. Of course in between all of this comes the cleaning, sweeping, mopping, dusting, cooking, dishes and laundry......, and occasional sleeping........
A house husband's work is never done........
Tomorrow is errand day, the rental deposit check showed up today so off to the bank tomorrow, need more coffee so that's a stop at World Market, have some items I didn't use when we put down the floor, hope Lumber Liquidators will take them back and refund my money. Finally have to stop at Super Wally World.
Right now I have the swamp cooler on and the wife is wrapped up in a blanket, I'm just comfortable........

You are building a new desktop ? I used to build mine but there have been so many changes in the compatibility of boards I had my last one build for me. It only cost £60 labour charge, and that included installing windows and its updates. So it was worth the money. That was a couple of years ago ,and my computer is now too slow to run the latest PC games, but I am not going to have a new one built until this one goes catastrophically wrong. That is to say if it develops faults that would cost a lot to repair. It is fast enough to stream videos from the Internet. and there are not many games for PC around. Gamers have moved over to consoles like PlayStation and xbox.

PC gamers make up the largest slice of the gamer pie by a loooooong shot with about 1.2 billion world wide. Console gamers only comprise a mere 638 million. Mobile devices (smartphones and pads) are expected to take over the global games market in 2020.

I used to have some great games on my PC... I miss them...

Me too. i still have Civilization and Rise of Nations on my computer, Zuma, and Hoyle card games and Hoyle Casino, but the pickings are really slim any more. The games writers are now focued on smart phones, Xbox and such.

Mostly I play "Age of Empires"...

 

[Ringel05]

Hey! How's everyone doing? Been busy and when I've been on the USMB been de-stressing in the FZ.........
The wife had a rough week but is doing much better, still not much in the way of energy but has helped unbox books and place them on the bookshelves.
I was trying to build a new desktop but ran into a couple of problems so it's been put aside for now. Was doing that and a couple of other computer related things that have been extremely frustrating in between reorganizing the "storage room" (extra bedroom), unboxing and putting things away or setting them aside to get rid of. Had a large, overstuffed chair and ottoman and a motorized recliner picked up, we donated them, too big for this house. Of course in between all of this comes the cleaning, sweeping, mopping, dusting, cooking, dishes and laundry......, and occasional sleeping........
A house husband's work is never done........
Tomorrow is errand day, the rental deposit check showed up today so off to the bank tomorrow, need more coffee so that's a stop at World Market, have some items I didn't use when we put down the floor, hope Lumber Liquidators will take them back and refund my money. Finally have to stop at Super Wally World.
Right now I have the swamp cooler on and the wife is wrapped up in a blanket, I'm just comfortable........

You are building a new desktop ? I used to build mine but there have been so many changes in the compatibility of boards I had my last one build for me. It only cost £60 labour charge, and that included installing windows and its updates. So it was worth the money. That was a couple of years ago ,and my computer is now too slow to run the latest PC games, but I am not going to have a new one built until this one goes catastrophically wrong. That is to say if it develops faults that would cost a lot to repair. It is fast enough to stream videos from the Internet. and there are not many games for PC around. Gamers have moved over to consoles like PlayStation and xbox.

PC gamers make up the largest slice of the gamer pie by a loooooong shot with about 1.2 billion world wide. Console gamers only comprise a mere 638 million. Mobile devices (smartphones and pads) are expected to take over the global games market in 2020.

I used to have some great games on my PC... I miss them...

Me too. i still have Civilization and Rise of Nations on my computer, Zuma, and Hoyle card games and Hoyle Casino, but the pickings are really slim any more. The games writers are now focued on smart phones, Xbox and such.

Mostly I play "Age of Empires"...

My old favorites were Blitzkrieg I & II

I have an old pre-XP game called Operation Blockade that amazingly still works on Win 10.........

This is the start of the game, as the game progresses your weapons get better......., so does the enemy's.........

 

[Ridgerunner]

Links - The Challenge Of Golf ...

I believe the year was 1990 and a friend gave me the game above on a

I was not and still am not all that computer savvy... I slipped the disc in and poof something happened... Now there was no external way to play the game, only the keyboard... Well I am catching on just a little and punching keys and holding down the space bar just having a jolly old time... Graphics are for the time period are a 5 out of a scale of 10... All of a sudden the damn thing blurts out "Look like you hit the tree, Jim"... I wet myself... My name is Jim... I wanted to know how in the hell this damn game knew my name... It took a little while and some detective work to solve the mystery...
Jim Nantz worked for CBS Sports and done the color commentary for PGA coverage and he announced the Masters also...



I really enjoyed that game and played it for several years but finally lost it during the shameful years of Windows Vista...

Please don't tell anyone my name is Jim, after all this is the interweb...

 

[beautress]

Hey! How's everyone doing? Been busy and when I've been on the USMB been de-stressing in the FZ.........
The wife had a rough week but is doing much better, still not much in the way of energy but has helped unbox books and place them on the bookshelves.
I was trying to build a new desktop but ran into a couple of problems so it's been put aside for now. Was doing that and a couple of other computer related things that have been extremely frustrating in between reorganizing the "storage room" (extra bedroom), unboxing and putting things away or setting them aside to get rid of. Had a large, overstuffed chair and ottoman and a motorized recliner picked up, we donated them, too big for this house. Of course in between all of this comes the cleaning, sweeping, mopping, dusting, cooking, dishes and laundry......, and occasional sleeping........
A house husband's work is never done........
Tomorrow is errand day, the rental deposit check showed up today so off to the bank tomorrow, need more coffee so that's a stop at World Market, have some items I didn't use when we put down the floor, hope Lumber Liquidators will take them back and refund my money. Finally have to stop at Super Wally World.
Right now I have the swamp cooler on and the wife is wrapped up in a blanket, I'm just comfortable........

Aren't these current treatments 'platinum based'.....where the hair falls out & makes ya sick? Kinda sounds like it. If so, how many does she have left to get?? I think that type of chemo, only 6 treatments are allowed. At that point either your treatment is over, or they change to a 'maintainance' chemo. Will she be getting that type as well?


(sorry if you've posted this and I missed it)

This is her third different chemo since December with a few missed weeks in between. The first was two different chemo drugs and she lost ALL her hair within a couple of cycles, when they changed to another chemo her hair started growing back, now she looks 'butch".......

How long does she have to have chemo then? Indefinately?

We'll have to see, right now the one she's on really isn't considered chemo, it's targeted towards the renal system. With masses in three different areas and a new one on her liver this is going to be a tough haul for her. If we can get the renal masses to stop or even shrink then they can do targeted radiation on the remainder. If not.........

Prayers up for you, Mrs. Ringel and your extended family.

 

[beautress]

Ridgerunner, that's a attractive rendition of a golf course on your game.

 

[Foxfyre]

Good night darlinks. I really do love you guys.
And we continue to pray and/or send good vibes and/or positive thoughts and/or keep vigil for:

Harper
Pogo’s friend Pat and special comfort for Pogo,
Wellness for Foxfyre's sister and Hombre's sister
Montrovant for continued progress in his transition.
JustAnotherNut for strength and wisdom dealing with challenges.
Gracie & Mr. G in difficult transition and for positive trend to continue.
Seagal and Mr. Seagal.
Peach for healing
Beautress for wellness
Kat for wellness
Mrs. Ringel05 for good results and comfort with new meds.
Gallantwarrior for strength, patience, healing, comfort in his challenge with caring for Rod and Rod's healing.
All those we love and care about who aren't on the list.

And we keep the porch light on so that those who have been away can find their way back.

 

[beautress]

It's melon season in the Pineywoods/Prairie of Walker County
Leaving some of the bounty for you guys. Hope you have a stellar day.

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[beautress]

 

[beautress]

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[Ringel05]

It's melon season in the Pineywoods/Prairie of Walker County
Leaving some of the bounty for you guys. Hope you have a stellar day.

​

Melon season?


Yup, looks like it.

 

[Foxfyre]

It's melon season in the Pineywoods/Prairie of Walker County
Leaving some of the bounty for you guys. Hope you have a stellar day.

​

Melon season?


Yup, looks like it.

Okay that's bad. Funny. But bad.

I do love watermelon though. One of my favorite summer things.

 

[Dajjal]

 

[gallantwarrior]

It's melon season in the Pineywoods/Prairie of Walker County
Leaving some of the bounty for you guys. Hope you have a stellar day.

​

Melon season?


Yup, looks like it.

Yup! Those certainly are nice melons.

 

[Ringel05]

It's melon season in the Pineywoods/Prairie of Walker County
Leaving some of the bounty for you guys. Hope you have a stellar day.

​

Melon season?


Yup, looks like it.

Okay that's bad. Funny. But bad.

I do love watermelon though. One of my favorite summer things.

What's bad about a woman holding two watermelons?

 

[Foxfyre]

It's melon season in the Pineywoods/Prairie of Walker County
Leaving some of the bounty for you guys. Hope you have a stellar day.

​

Melon season?


Yup, looks like it.

Okay that's bad. Funny. But bad.

I do love watermelon though. One of my favorite summer things.

What's bad about a woman holding two watermelons?

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[Nosmo King]

Summer is waning. I know it's still mid August, but the nights are cooler, the mornings are cooler, back to school season is at high tide, the last county fairs are up and running with the big Canfield Fair going off on Labor Day.

Sweet corn is at its height and it was a bumper crop. The rain this summer and the resulting lack of clear, hot days has put a finger in the eye of home gardners so far as their tomatoes go. Usually by this point in the summer, you cannot visit a friend with a vegetable garden without carrying away a big brown paper bag of tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers and zucchini. Low yields means fewer vegetables to get rid of.

On our evening walk in Thompson Park Daisy the Mutt and I watched the preparations for the East Liverpool's Got Talent festival. It's due to kick off tomorrow with food, craft vendors and local musical acts.

Now, they call it East Liverpool's Got Talent. I am waiting for evidence of that statement. You could go to the park and sit and listen to the performers and think to yourself 'why?'. High school band members get together and decide what tunes they want to perform, but forget to practice. Grizzled old men perch on a stool with a banjo or guitar and scratch out Merle Haggard covers. A local girls dance group gets all gussied up and twirl barons, waggle flags and step a half beat behind their music.

But everybody has a good time, no one gets hurt and the funnel cakes are drenched in powdered sugar, so life is good at the ebb of summer.

 

[Ridgerunner]

One of the best character actors who was on the screen, and had the best eye roll as is well noted in this photo...