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January 26, 2024

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KC

... that is AMAZING. I am glad you did not have to freak out while drifting out to sea, although I guess if you had, you might have yelled and been retrieved sooner.

And also, yes, a Coast Guard report, including your name, makes sense.

Also I do not know how Jerry managed to rack up as many Extraordinarily Poor Life Decisions as he did. The mind boggles at so many things even just in this story...

AH

Again, I echo a comment I made once before that I would like you to write your own book either instead of, or once you're finished with, the manuscript.

theQueen

KC - No one would have ever heard me. I was way, way out there. And that was not the only fire he accidentally set. I know he was sane when they married, but he must have just belly flopped into mania and alcohol at 35. I am lucky we never saw him again.
AH - I woke up in the middle of the night last week because I realized a flaw in the logic of the book, so the desire to finish the book is bubbling up again, after a year of dormancy. But that is nice of you to say.

KC

(I am in *exceedingly vigorous agreement* with AH, just to note, on the writing thing, although I admit that sometimes different skills and different levels of enjoyment are found for different people in short form vs. long form and fiction vs. biography vs. essay, but also I'd 100% buy a "Short Stories From My Life" book from you even if it was not strongly connected.)

theQueen

KC - but what would there be to read? You have already read all the stories. (However, I was surprised to search the exported blog and find I had never told the floating out to sea story before.)

KC

I can basically guarantee that you have not written all the stories, and also I bet each time you write them, they get refined.

(... okay, also 1. there is a blog gap I have not yet caught up on; when I found your blog, I read the most recent entries and then started in the beginning and I haven't gotten back to where I started yet largely because that tab got sort of lost in an island of things-I-should-read-sometime and the things-I-should-read-sometime are hiding the things-I-actually-want-to-read-sometime, and 2. ... I forget things. So. Some of them would be legitimately new to me, others would be funny again because it has been a while.)(that does remind me that there is a trove of your writing to fish out of my bucket of tabs, though... you can probably expect to see some weird activity on your blog tomorrow, unless my javascript blocker messes with stat recording as well [I have a javascript blocker because I get sick very very fast when I see video motion, like panning/zooming camera, even if it's just 3*2 inches, and the web is *full* of random ambushing video motion, but most of the movement requires javascript, so! there we go, Slightly broken web 2.0, but significantly less motion sickness.])

(anyway! yay! I get to read more of your book tomorrow!)(Tonight I should go to sleeeeep.)

theQueen

KC - Did you hit 2016-2017, the fallow years, when I posted about four times a month? You may have less than you think.

KC

... correction. I did *not* start at the beginning like a sensible person would have done, but apparently was working backwards *AND* because I do not know where I started nor where "page 8" backwards from there would have been, I have no idea now where I was. So. *Now* I'll start at the beginning and presumably stop when things start getting oddly familiar...

TheQueen

KC - I cannot imagine anything more tiresome. I think my affected writer voice would be really annoying all delivered in one big dose.

KC

Well, when I was reading backwards I was enjoying a fairly large chunk per day, so... probably not, but we'll see. :-)

(I do have to limit P.G. Wodehouse intake to some degree; I enjoy the style up until I have just had Too Much of it, but usually that is 3-4 books before I need a break, so... I'm optimistic.)

AH

Well this makes me feel like a creep, but I went through the archives to try and check and I think I have been reading you on and off since 2007?! I started before your mom passed away. Your blog was the first place I learned about post-polio syndrome (my Dad also had polio as a child). Not sure why I wanted to fess up on my internet stalking, but just to say, I've read it (almost) all and I'd still read a book!

theQueen

KC - you arrived on Nov 2018, looking for Toto toilets, and supplanted the previous KC, Kim, who had last visited a week earlier.
AH -Wow! You lurked for years! That delights me.Totally what I would do. Not stalker-y at all.

KC

Sorry to scare off Kim. We never did get a Toto - we did, however, *finally* get a Caroma in November. (upside: it does not plug [has not plugged once so far!], it uses very little water per flush [it has a dual flush]; downside: you aren't supposed to use toilet tank tablets in it because the valves are more expensive and our tap water has pink mold in it so it requires bleaching more frequently)

I guess I could page back 8 pages from 2018 (... wow that tab is old, then), but I have started from the beginning and am being highly entertained, so there is that.

(incidentally, I had a colonoscopy that cleared up my IBS for about a month over a decade ago; the gastroenterologist I saw at the time said she'd never heard of that before, but since then I've learned that's actually theorized to be the average period of time for your previous gut flora to grow back from your appendix after a bulk clean-out/die-off, so I have suspicions in that direction, although presumably the time varies somewhat. Also, guts are responsible for a surprisingly large amount of some of your neurotransmitters; I did not notice anything that direction during my month basically off from IBS, but your... interesting... times might possibly have been related to a slightly-too-good clean-out plus MS plus your body just trying to cope with everything possibly including Versed... maybe. The poor fax machine...)

theQueen

KC - I saw an interesting documentary that said your gut is your second brain. And ... fax machine?

KC

The GI system is way more weird and wild than is generally known, including by local gastroenterologists, sigh. (one of whom said diet doesn't affect IBS; sir, I recognize that 30+ years in your field *is* a lot of experience, but you should consider reading some GI research paper every once in a while and also possibly listening to patients sometimes...) Unfortunately it's a great ground for quacks because of the limits of what's understood (note: do *not* buy probiotics "made by a rocket scientist") and really amazingly effective research results... using things the general public does not yet have access to, some of which are just very specific bacteria. Anyway. *Some* control functions similar to the brain, but I don't want my gut trying to speak any time soon...

You noted that one signal of depression was that you cried at one work location because the fax machine didn't have a table and had to sit on a chair, all lonely, which is honestly just amazing. :-) (as was the percent ratio method for problematic thoughts! Because yes, you can have a small part of your brain telling you to anthropomorphize the fax machine and weep over it, but then you recognize "oh, hi hormones" (or whatever) "shut up now, the fax machine is fine," but if it's 99%, then... there is not much You Brain left to recognize aberrations and fight them.)

theQueen

KC - I had completely forgotten about the fax machine! Poor little fax!

theQueen

KC - Ah yes! The lonely fax machine! I had forgotten him, which is a sad thing to say about a fax machine I connected with.

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