Archive for June, 2003

Eclipse lyric

June 13th, 2003

I wrote this little ditty in 1999 when there was a total eclipse that tracked over Europe. The recent interest in the annular eclipse in Scotland reminded me that it was lurking on my PowerBook hard drive. The appearance of Brian May on The Sky at Night show in the UK and Brian’s thoughts about [...]

Orchiectomy follow up

June 4th, 2003

I had my first appointment with my oncologist this morning to discuss follow-up treatment after my orchiectomy on May 12th. During the appointment I had a very long detailed discussion about what I should do next. It was confirmed that I had a Stage 1 seminoma that had some vascular invasion. The option of surveillance [...]

Complete short stories – H. G. Wells

June 2nd, 2003

800+ pages of excellence. After recently re-reading Wells’ “War of the Worlds” and seeing the Hallmark produced mini series based on some of Wells’ short stories on the UK Sci-Fi channel I ordered a copy of his complete short stories. I’ve only read about 10 of them so far, out of the 84 it contains. [...]