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I did a bathroom for this old lady down in Grosse Pointe a couple of years ago. She was a doctor. I asked her for her cell phone number and she told me she only had a land line and an answering machine - I said "God bless you, Madame". I bet she was a good doctor too...white anyhow.

So anyway they found cancer tumors in my esophagus when they did the endoscopy yesterday. Fortunately hasn't spread and caught them VERY EARLY so looks like I got lucky.

I don't know why I've become obsessed with getting old...maybe because I'm there. The biological aspects aside, there is a life's worth of accumulated sorrow as most of the people you ever knew or cared about have died. It adds up. Every friend, family member, pet that dies takes a chunk out of you. And when you die, the world goes on without you. There will be no one left to notice except one or two people. You come to the realization that everything you spent your life chasing is meaningless.   For me, the most important thing now is to die before my wife...but not for a while.

 Turks have a weird obsession with feeding stray cats and dogs. That is perhaps their only redeeming quality.

Bulgaria wins Eurovision.
https://youtu.be/Cgu6QuMrwKI?si=joXRFWQTeOzPvjxl

Emma even turns the answering machine off. Hates technology.

I love technology, but I turn my phone off and leave it on the table. I figure if my family wants to call me because someone died, they’ll be still dead in the morning.

"Patients range from infants as young as 19 months to adults in their 80s. Officials also report that many affected individuals speak Spanish, Mandarin, Russian, Ukrainian, Mam and Mixteco (Mayans), highlighting the role of multilingual outreach in prevention efforts.

Health experts said some poisonings may stem from traditional foraging practices brought from other countries, where similar looking mushrooms may be edible."

...once again, they are eating fungus....neither plant nor animal.