My father got an appendectomy for Father’s Day. I hope your father got something better.
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BooMan
Martin Longman a contributing editor at the Washington Monthly. He is also the founder of Booman Tribune and Progress Pond. He has a degree in philosophy from Western Michigan University.
Hoping that your dad is okay, BooMan.
Cruising around the ‘Net, saw this on Common Dreams, thought you all in the Pond might be interested.
They are debating the extensive surveillance of the British public, the degradation of civil liberties, and a Tory and Labor members supporting each other, with the public behind them!
We need this here!
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/06/14/9634/
maybe in the future:
http://www.vetvoice.com/showDiary.do;jsessionid=90345F57AEEE5C2C6030FAFD77E67A51?diaryId=1443
Brandon’s getting hitched, guess the military didn’t teach him anything.
Hurts like hell but hopefully recovery will be swift.
Hope your dad has a smooth recovery.
Mine lives several hundred miles away, but he had a nice Father’s Day with my brother and my mom.
It was too hot to cook, so I went out and “foraged” breakfast for Demetrius. Meaning, of course, that I got take-out, but I’m awarding myself extra point just for going out in the first place when I was tired and the car didn’t have air conditioning.
Right now he’s playing the new Portal game we got him.
We had a nice little one day trip to Put-in-Bay on Wednesday. Little island off the (heh) “north coast of Ohio”. Thursday I started a new project at work, so I’m glad we took the opportunity to go somewhere, and that the weather cooperated.
Here’s Demetrius teaching the kids how to skip stones.
I’d better turn in now. Scoring high school science tests tomorrow, so I’ll be needing my brain. 😉
A couple of my nieces work on Put-in-Bay again this summer. Forty years of living on the North Coast and I only went there once, and, not being a drinker, wasn’t sure what the charm was. 🙂
Perhaps look into what probiotics he’s willing to eat?
Losing the appendix loses your warehouse for replenishing probiotics:
http://www.cnn.com/2007/HEALTH/10/05/appendix.purpose.ap/index.html
Good ones:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sauerkraut
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yogurt
The list goes on: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pickled
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Probiotics
I wish your dad a full and complete recovery, and a long lifetime of good health.
I drove my kid home from a bluegrass festival to canada. It was a long drive and featured hours of construction on I-476.
I hit the highway north at 11:00 AM. I got home around 1:30.
I’m beat!
Yikes, that’s a long time on the road…I shudder to think of the cost of all the gas.
Did you have a nice visit with him?
yeah, good times all around. the gas wasn’t that bad, since I got rid of the van and bought a 4-cylinder subaru wagon.
Hey, Boo Man, I hope your Dad is ok. Thank goodness, they got it out in time cuz an appendix gone bad can be very nasty. Sending positive thoughts and energy his way.
My father’s been gone for twenty-five years. He loved music. He had tens of thousands of old 78s and LPs. He passed right around the advent of the CD. If he were still around I’m sure he’d have an iPod.
Me, I spent the day making mix CDs of the Anglophile side of my tastes. Then my girlfriend cooked up some steaks and potato wedges and I had mine with a bottle of Anchor Steam summer ale and followed with some Jameson’s.
A full day and evening.