You bastards!

I've been dealing with cancer for the last four years and honestly the impact on my mental health has been similar.

Done with chemo! For... good? That'd be nice. Until recurrence at least, which might be never. Here's hoping!

Neuropathy recovery continues, though it is by no means a reset to what it was like before. My level of guitar ability is adequate for my ensemble, at least! And playing is fun again.

Grats on the new job!

Isn't it toe-ham at that point?

My condolences.

My ability to ward off strangers from talking to me in any scenario remains on point.

Information gained (or influenced) by congressfolk is explicitly does not result insider trading, according to the law (but not the simple meaning of the words).

"Fools Rushing In", by... me! Played by people I don't know!! In South Africa?!?

These four are all way better at guitar than I am. They sound stupendous. Hope that Dillon Davies (on the right) posts the whole thing on YouTube so I can show off the whole thing!

My thumbs have recovered enough (from neuropathy) that I was able to use chopsticks to eat sushi for the first time in almost a year! The recovery is slow, but it's real.

The past couple weeks I've been seeing some of the life return to my left pinky, which is fairly important for guitar. These days, when rested, I can usually do a full two-octave scale up and down twice before that finger totally gives up. Progress!

Halfway done with a gemzar/carboplatin regimen, and it's kicking my ass. Feel like shit for 11 days out of every 21. On day 12 today, feeling some approximation of my normal self.

I continue to regain strength/coordination, being off Padcev since April. No regrets, including my decision to stop.

So far so good, signatera test days negative for tumor DNA, which means it's very likely I have no active cancer in my body. There can still be dormant micro-metastases, so I'm doing an adjuvant therapy to increase my odds of avoiding a recurrence long term (forever?).

This would just keep people capable of self-reflection out of power.

I'm trying to imagine the right wind outrage at attempting such a change today.

The mask issue was surprising enough. But getting people to stop doing something enjoy wherever the fuck they feel like it? Right out.

Accusing a nerd of confusion star wars and star trek is a pretty damning insult.

Started a new therapy last week. Four months / 12 infusions. But then... never again! Until recurrence which is admittedly likely (but not certain).

Predictably, I don't feel good.

I haven't seen the finale yet, but I've hated 3 so far, mostly because of how far removed the mule and the robot are from their book representations.

I really enjoyed season 1 and 2, minus the stuff about 2nd foundation which, again, seemed miles away.

The dynasty is great though.

It was astoundingly clear from the video that the wound was not survivable.

Haze Dance Download and print in PDF or MIDI free sheet music for Guitar (Mixed Trio)

For three guitars. In particular, those that belong to Jeff, Marty, and Larry (Hudson's Crossing): musescore.com/user/1004914...

The solution is simple: use an LLM to review.

"Hey Google, reject this code review but make it look like I read everyone carefully"

TS is migrating to federated repos :/ it feels misguided to me but alas.

Napster baaaaayybyyy

I joined Google on a Monday. That Friday, they killed reader. I was devastated.

I hate the idea that we should roll over on whatever cultural wedge Fox News pushes for a given cycle. It will ALWAYS be something. SOME "othered" group will be targeted because that's how they rally. That's literally all they do. That and protect business interests. We need to protect PEOPLE.

ART OF THE FOLD........

@n1ckthecat.bsky.social maybe next year?

first complete draft musescore.com/user/1004914...

At some point you have to realize that the game is you, making the game.

Are there any stories related to religious traditions that aren't apocryphal?

This seems fairly off topic and unrelated to anything I was saying. I'm going to stop engaging.