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mellicious I finally started radiation treatments yesterday. I'm kind of fascinated by the equipment - it has all these pieces that move around and paint laser targets on you and stuff. The clinic where I go is brand-new so I'm sure it's the most state of the art equipment - I keep wanting to ask a bunch of questions but they make a big deal about getting you in & out of there in half an hour or so, so you can go about your life. And I grant that that's important, so I can't really demand a full tour or anything. And you're supposed to stay very still - of course - but I keep wanting to look around. (You can't really do that much, either, though.)
So far the main symptom has been a slight sunburn. But I'm only on #2 of 20. We'll see how it goes.
In other news, we had a little fun a couple of weeks ago when Houston got all that rain. We work 'til midnight, remember - and we drove home in pouring rain, and then when we got to the freeway exit everything was flooded. We drove carefully around for a while trying to see if we could get where we needed to go, and basically we couldn't. After some time, the feeder roads cleared up, and we got a little further along. But then the road home was completely flooded - they were fishing cars out of it. They said it was only passable with a very large truck, which we definitely do not have. The emergency people that were out in the road, whoever they were, showed us a place where it was high ground and said we could wait it out if we wanted to. And we tried that for a while. I even fell asleep for a while, and when I woke up it was 2am and Rob was watching the road and it pretty clearly wasn't cleared yet. And Rob had to be back at 1pm on Friday. So I said, "I wonder if we can get back on the freeway," and it turned out we could - and we drove back to Galveston and checked into a hotel. We still didn't get a whole lot of sleep but we got some, and we got a shower and breakfast. And our local city government's e-mail list announced later in the morning that the roads were clear and that (amazingly) no houses had flooded.
And the only other thing I have to say is that I did drag Rob back to Endgame this past weekend, so that's three times now. Actually I noticed a lot of stuff this time that I'd missed in the overload the first two times. (I told Rob, "Thank you for giving this nine hours of your life.")
So far the main symptom has been a slight sunburn. But I'm only on #2 of 20. We'll see how it goes.
In other news, we had a little fun a couple of weeks ago when Houston got all that rain. We work 'til midnight, remember - and we drove home in pouring rain, and then when we got to the freeway exit everything was flooded. We drove carefully around for a while trying to see if we could get where we needed to go, and basically we couldn't. After some time, the feeder roads cleared up, and we got a little further along. But then the road home was completely flooded - they were fishing cars out of it. They said it was only passable with a very large truck, which we definitely do not have. The emergency people that were out in the road, whoever they were, showed us a place where it was high ground and said we could wait it out if we wanted to. And we tried that for a while. I even fell asleep for a while, and when I woke up it was 2am and Rob was watching the road and it pretty clearly wasn't cleared yet. And Rob had to be back at 1pm on Friday. So I said, "I wonder if we can get back on the freeway," and it turned out we could - and we drove back to Galveston and checked into a hotel. We still didn't get a whole lot of sleep but we got some, and we got a shower and breakfast. And our local city government's e-mail list announced later in the morning that the roads were clear and that (amazingly) no houses had flooded.
And the only other thing I have to say is that I did drag Rob back to Endgame this past weekend, so that's three times now. Actually I noticed a lot of stuff this time that I'd missed in the overload the first two times. (I told Rob, "Thank you for giving this nine hours of your life.")
Movies seen in 2019:
1. Bumblebee
2. Into the Spider-verse (second time at this one)
3. Lego Movie 2
4. Captain Marvel (twice)
5. Shazam!
6. Avengers: Endgame (three times)
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