Moving on

Thanks  for all the wonderful  notes, cards, and emails about Miriam.

It deeply helped me and my family through a rough time.

Now I am working on a comic speech on leukemia for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Conference in Niagara Falls.

As usual I have left things to the last moment, and  no surprise here: It is not easy to be funny about cancer.

But it is possible.

I feel a bit schitzy as I am torn between trying to go for the patients' and doctors' heart and teach others what I have learned, and trying to go for the audience's funny bones and have some fun at my own expense. And while I'm at it, throw a few good natured barbs at the CLL experts.

Well, back to work.

"It won't be long" The Beatles

My hard drive is really on its way to the graveyard, and my warranty runs out real soon, so I have back up everything and printed out my plans for the next week. Tomorrow I will take my MAC to the not so Genius Bar at the Apple Store to get a new platter.

My son's old EMAC, after great trouble getting going (reminds me of an aging arthritic) finally booted up and will provide some access to email for the next week, but the blog will be a quiet for a day or two.

My book is moving along.  My research for my medical group is progressing. And my plans are tightening up for my "third opinion".  The letter to JAMA is on the back burner.

Tomorrow evening is a holistic comedy workshop with Melanie Chartoff (remember Fridays in the early 80s). If I am not signed by a major studio or offered my own sitcom or late night talk show, then I will return. Actually I am going to be cured, not famous.

Heck, I would return anyway.  I know nothing of TV (I still use bunny ears that don't get any stations well, but it doesn't matter cuz  I watch nothing ever). I feel more at home here on the internet, with readers who can write back. The scale is more human and more direct, even if the interface is a bit too digital for my liking.