Random Thoughts 17: Here we go again.

[NWICY]

Was just thinking about you two after I got home and was looking around the backyard. No naked ladies in sight. Yet.

Yo let BC know when they show up
Yeah know your talking about flowers but you posted it in a way that you knew someone would take a swing at it.

 

[ImJustKCClone]

Was just thinking about you two after I got home and was looking around the backyard. No naked ladies in sight. Yet.

Ours are about 8 inches tall, but they look like they had a hard night out on the town after the hail a few nights ago.

 

[BCClone]

Yo let BC know when they show up
Yeah know your talking about flowers but you posted it in a way that you knew someone would take a swing at it.

Better than naked dudes.

 

[ImJustKCClone]

Our back deck after the hail:

 

[BCClone]

Our back deck after the hail:

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That last night?

 

[Ms3r4ISU]

Better than naked dudes.

That’s your opinion.

 

[BCClone]

That’s your opinion.

 

[ImJustKCClone]

That last night?

Nope - last Thursday.

 

[wxman1]

Our Madison friends started a new era today.

 

[CloneLawman]

And the ship went out into the High Sea and passed into the West, until at last on a night of rain Frodo smelled a sweet fragrance on the air and heard the sound of singing that came over the water. And then it seemed to him that as in his dream in the house of Bombadil, the grey rain-curtain turned all to silver glass and was rolled back, and he beheld white shores and beyond them a far green country under a swift sunrise."

-My mentor JRR

 

[Donqluione]

And the ship went out into the High Sea and passed into the West, until at last on a night of rain Frodo smelled a sweet fragrance on the air and heard the sound of singing that came over the water. And then it seemed to him that as in his dream in the house of Bombadil, the grey rain-curtain turned all to silver glass and was rolled back, and he beheld white shores and beyond them a far green country under a swift sunrise."

-My mentor JRR

It sounds like Frodo too had completed all of the tax filings for the season.

 

[CloneLawman]

It sounds like Frodo too had completed all of the tax filings for the season.

That and more. He'd carried his burden through the hellscape of Mordor to Orodruin and cast down the Dark Lord/IRS.

When they made the movies (about which I have mixed feelings), they borrowed this snippet of narrative and gave it to Gandalf for a little speech (which is resonating with me right now).

 

[Rabbuk]

I always love how they handwave the eagles not just flying frodo into mordor by saying they don't like being ridden.

 

[VeloClone]

I always love how they handwave the eagles not just flying frodo into mordor by saying they don't like being ridden.

The only chance they had to destroy the ring was through stealth. And a flight of giant eagles flying into Mordor would be about as unstealthy as it could get. The nine as well as the powers of Sauron would be too much for the eagles and that isn't even mentioning hordes of orcs, men and even trolls launching a hail of projectiles at them over the leagues between the borders of Mordor and Orodruin.

I didn't have too much problem with the small liberties they took to bring the trilogy to the screen. I could have done without totally deleting Tom Bombadil. Also the cleansing of the Shire brought the message of how no one really totally wins in a war, all lands lose something and that message gets lost.

But the hack job he did on the Hobbit makes me cringe.

 

[Rabbuk]

The only chance they had to destroy the ring was through stealth. And a flight of giant eagles flying into Mordor would be about as unstealthy as it could get. The nine as well as the powers of Sauron would be too much for the eagles and that isn't even mentioning hordes of orcs, men and even trolls launching a hail of projectiles at them over the leagues between the borders of Mordor and Orodruin.

I didn't have too much problem with the small liberties they took to bring the trilogy to the screen. I could have done without totally deleting Tom Bombadil. Also the cleansing of the Shire brought the message of how no one really totally wins in a war, all lands lose something and that gets lost.

But the hack job he did on the Hobbit makes me cringe.

Just have an eagle wear the ring the last 2 blocks.

 

[VeloClone]

Just have an eagle wear the ring the last 2 blocks.

So Sauron can be replaced with an eagle despot. Sounds great. One of the messages of the ring is that it was absolute power and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

 

[NWICY]

That and more. He'd carried his burden through the hellscape of Mordor to Orodruin and cast down the Dark Lord/IRS.

When they made the movies (about which I have mixed feelings), they borrowed this snippet of narrative and gave it to Gandalf for a little speech (which is resonating with me right now).

I believe the curly haired person is Elijah Woods unluckily I did not know that Saturday night.

 

[wxman1]

Buncha nerds in here today.

 

[jcyclonee]

Update on Lew as we discussed the results of the biopsy with the doc today. It is NOT histo again. It is a "small lymphoma consistent with his CLL". Next step is a bone marrow biopsy to get a base-line concentration of CLL in the marrow. After that, we discuss treatment options. It doesn't appear that heavy-duty chemo or radiation are in the near future (thank God). More likely, it will be a choice between a fixed term monthly pill + infusion for a year, or a different pill that, once on it, will have to take for the rest of his life. Since the lesion is related to his CLL, surgery is off the list of options. Mostly because it would be an unnecessary invasive procedure. Either of the pill treatments involved will basically "melt the lesion away", as the doc worded it.
Biopsy is next Tuesday, doc appt to discuss options is the following Tuesday.

Think good thoughts for him, m'kay?

My thoughts and prayers are with Lew and yourself,.

 

[BCClone]

Buncha nerds in here today.