From the monthly archives:

November 2005

Kingdom of Heaven

November 29, 2005

Just saw this movie. It was B-O-R-I-N-G… Heh, but ya know the jerk who becomes king and shortly thereafter gets captured by Saladin, then is paraded around sitting backwards on a donkey? Well, I’m descended from him. Yay me!

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Back in the Commonwealth

November 27, 2005

I arrived back in Virginia on Thursday afternoon. It turns out my grandfather has stage IV cancer that has spread to the local lymph nodes. I plan on staying here for the next month to help care for him. It’s been a bit stressful so far and my back is killing me from all the [...]

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Some People Suck Big Time

November 17, 2005

We’ve been finding bones, sausages, and meat around our apartment. At first, it occurred rarely, so we were suspicious, but didn’t think too much about it. Now, we’ve found stuff three times in the last week. Two of these times the stuff was found in our fenced in garden. We don’t know for sure, but [...]

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Update

November 10, 2005

The doctors believe my grandpa has stage II esophagael cancer, with a 10cm diameter tumor encircling (and constricting) the lower section of his esophagus. It appears that it was caused by genetic predisposition and chronic GERD (smoking can also be a cause, but my grandfather’s never smoked a cigarette in his life). He’s going to [...]

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La Dee Dah

November 6, 2005

I haven’t been much in the mood for posting recently (obviously). My grandfather hasn’t been feeling well and it turns out he has esophageal cancer. My aunt has also been having some problems and her doctor is currently running tests on her. My plan was to spend Christmas with Rainer and his family this year, [...]

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