Interesting. My brother has stage 4 bone cancer. My brother and I weren't in touch with each other. My father never told me. Looking back, it must have been diagnosed after my sister died. My sister-in-law (separated 14 years, couldn't accomplish a legal divorce by the time COVID hit by the time couldn't divorce her child's father because he needed health insurance, he just received Medicare, and they are finally getting a divorce...) told me people with his type of cancer usually die of co-morbidities like infections I didn't tell her this but I think she hasn't interpreted his heath situation exactly right. My brother refuses to talk about the details other than he did have a 5 day chemotherapy treatment during a 7 day NY hospital visit so I don't know them. I know by definition the cancer has spread to distant organs. Of course he could die with co-morbidities but the proximate cause of death will be cancer sadly. I love my brother even if he wasn't always good to my sister and me. He had a serious accident and traumatic brain injury including a 6 month coma when he was 16 or I think he would have been more sensitive and caring to his loved ones. I'm really hoping for him that he can and will improve his quality of life with his share of our inheritance. I want for him what I want for myself. No different.

Is there a synopsis? :leaving:

Customer: "I want a refund please, HAL." HAL: "I'm sorry. I can't do that."

Yes, I'm ok. I'm walking a little every day and the pain is becoming less. I'm treating the wounds over and over so I don't get an infection. It's impossible to tell if the pain will go away completely. I have "aches and pains" from many times it didn't. I doubt I did any permanent damage. The real problem is there's something wrong with my right hip. I'm really lucky I didn't seriously injure myself. It was a close call. Thanks for asking, SK!

Very nice!

@Daniel thank you! The thing that’s hard is that I feel like I don’t have enough information — like, how likely is the surgery to be successful, as defied by “pain free” or full return to movement etc. Another thing that’s frustrating is that I feel like the doctors are minimizing the post-op recovery. So it’s very hard to evaluate and make decisions…

I have nothing good to say so I'm going to say nothing.

"U.S. birth rate continues to fall" https://www.npr.org/2026/04/09/nx-s1-5779627/birthrate-united-states-babies-immigration 710,000 fewer babies were born last year in U.S. compared with two decades ago The U.S. fertility rate continued its slide to historic levels, due to plunging teen pregnancies and far more women delaying motherhood into their 30s and 40s. In 2007: 4.2 million babies were born In 2024: 3.6 million babies were born

Wow!

A tucan was photographed in a tree in downtown Saint Petersburg yesterday. I randomly saw the post and the picture on FB today. I've never seen one. This is the first time I've heard of anyone seeing one.

Nicely done!

I found an ad I felt great about finding. The phone number was hidden in code. I'm calling tomorrow to have two washers and one dryer taken away for free per out 5th (!) carport rule violation notice. How many of these messed did I make? None. You are to be evicted per Florida Statute upon receiving a 3rd such notice. Well, the manager gets furious every time, but we have a good working relationship, including of course good communication. She doesn't want to evict. Not to put too fine a point on it but she notorized my legal paperwork after rounding up the head of the HOA and the maintenance manager to be my witnesses. We're playing the long game. I don't know what RM is doing. I think he's lost in his own reality. I've lost the ability to care about it. Now that I'm walking with a limp, I have no choice but to double bag the garbage and pile it up to the kitchen ceiling. RM walks all over creation with is his little push carts. He can take it. Or not.