Message 359

I forgot to mention earlier that I got a call from PAMF that all three of my skin biopsies came out negative, in other words none were cancer. That is nice. Now I will not have to go back for the surgery. The doctor did ask that I come back in May so she can freeze the one below my lip.

Yester I did my usual Tuesday routine with Beech. We had lunch at Burger King. He saw the Star Trek movie and knew that they are giving out toys based on that movie. Afterward I took him to his gymnastics class. When I took him home he said I did not need to walk him to the door. He thinks he is big enough now to do it by himself. Vanessa had a couple of Mexicans there working on her lawn and garden.

Last night I watched a DVD of the movie Sex Drive. It is a teenage road comedy. As a new twist it had a funny encounter with an Amish community. I give it three stars.

Today I am getting the house ready for Orlindo's cleaning crew to come in at 2 PM

Message 358

Yesterday I finished reading The Economist. Before noon I went to Nealon Park with Vanessa and the kids. She had mad sandwiches and other stuff for lunch. Annie loves to swing. After pushing her for a while, I ask her if she would not like to go play with Beech or go down the slide, but she always says MORE SWING. Sometimes Beech helps with the pushing. I am the only one who does much eating. The kids and Vanessa mostly nibble small amounts, but I always eat and drink all of mine. Vanessa always stops at Starbucks and gets coffee for us and chocolate milk boxes for the kids.

Last night Joshua came over to watch 24 with me. Next week is a two-hour last show of the season. Because jack is being set up to die from inhaling a lethal gas that takes a day to work, this may be the end of the program too.

Charlie Rose was good last night again. He had two women that I had never heard of on different segments that were impressive, especially the Harvard law professor that is monitoring the banks' compliance with the TARP contracts.

Message 357

Yesterday I forgot to mention that it was my Boniva day. Once a month is better than once a week, but it is still a drag. Yesterday I helped Joshua take the Camry to the auto wrecking yard down near San Jose. He had gotten the papers from the DMV so they would give him a check for $1000 whit the idea that they want to get clunkers off the road. It had nearly a quarter of a million miles on it, so is had been the best car I was ever connected to. It still ran good, but it had a leak in the radiator that Josh was told it would take over a thousand dollars to fix. The problem was that it had to be driven to the wrecking yard to collect the money, and it overheated whenever driven. We finally solved this problem by borrowing a couple of five gallon empty water jugs from his work, along with an oven glove to open the hot radiator cap. Then whenever it heated up Josh would pull over. I was following in my Sienna so I would pull over with him. After a couple of times of pouring new water into the radiator, I managed to fold up a couple of pieces of a McDonald's Happy Meal box to stick in the main holes in the radiator, which slowed down the lead enough that we could go three or four miles between pullovers instead of one mile. The wrecking yard gave him the check and told him the car would be crushed first thing this morning. This adventure reminded me of what my life used to be like in Alaska.

When I got home, I read some more of The Economist and watched Masterpiece Mystery on PBS.

Message 356

Yesterday afternoon I watched a DVD of the Indian movie Lamhe. It is by the same director (Yash Chopra) and has the same female lead as the movie Chandni that I reviewed a couple of days ago. The two movies are similar in many ways. They are each over three hours long. They are both musicals with a lot of singing and dancing The photography is beautiful and it is filmed both in India and Europe (England in this case instead of Switzerland). I think Lamhe is even better than Chandni, so I give it five stars.

Last night I picked up Julian, Vanessa, and the kids at SFO on their return from Kona. They all had a wonderful time, but seemed glad to be home. I also got started on reading the new Economist.

Message 355

I just got back from having coffee with Helen and Jim, and picking up my prescription refills at CVS and doing my weekly grocery shopping.

Last night I watched a DVD of the movie Pineapple Express. It was a stoner farce, but not very good in my opinion, so I give it only two stars. I only laughed once during the whole movie.

Message 354

I just got back from PAMF where I went to refill my prescription for my bladder antibiotic. Last night Joshua came over and went to The Dutch Goose with me for burgers. I do not know for sure, but it seemed the burger was not as good last night as it has been in the past. I hope this situation does not persist or I will have to start going to The Oasis again instead.

Last night I watched a DVD of the movie August evening. It was a movie by people I never heard of, but it was quite good. I give it five stars. It was beautifully filmed and very slow paced, but it gave a very powerful presentation of the lives of Mexican immigrants in the United States. The only drawback was having to read the subtitles.

Message 353

Yesterday noon I had an appointment with my dermatologist at PAMF. She was very good and gave me a body scan with liquid Nitrogen sprays where needed as well as doing biopsies on three sites that might be cancerous. If the results show cancer, she will refer me to surgeons at PAMF who do Mohs (SP?) surgery to get rid of them.

Last night I watched a DVD of the Indian movie Chandini. It was about three hours long very good. It was mostly singing and dancing, and it was beautifully filmed both in India and in Switzerland. It also had a kind of triangle love story, but it was most memorable because of the style. I give it four stars.

I am late getting this message off today because I went out to have my van washed this morning. I am gambling that the rains are finished for the