Random Thoughts X (The 9th Regeneration)

[VeloClone]

Sorry this is so long but this definitely made me think of CG and her meow friend.

Mews Release
Contact: Jordan Gilgenbach, 612-673-2148

Felines take over City Hall for Minneapolis Kitty Hall June 27

June 21, 2017 (MINNEAPOLIS) Kittens and cats from Minneapolis Animal Care and Control will litter-ally take over City Hall from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Tuesday, June 27 for Minneapolis Kitty Hall. All of the cats and kittens will be available fur adoption.

Kitty Hall, held in the City Hall Rotunda, 350 S. Fifth St., features 18 pawsitively adorable, cuddly kittens. Six ambitious adult cats will run for elected pawsitions: three cat-idates for Kitty of Minneapolis meow-or, and three cat-idates for Kitty Council president. Minneapolis Mayor Betsy Hodges will present the election winners at the event.

“Kitty Hall is a perfect opportunity to talk about the awesome work Minneapolis Animal Care and Control does every day,” said Mayor Betsy Hodges. “I look forward to welcoming families from throughout the city for this event and I look forward to seeing many of them take home one of the adorable kittens that will be up for adoption. It will be a fun day.”

Vote fur your favorite cat-idate online or in-purrson at the event. Each cat-idate’s purr-litical platforms are available on the City’s website.

Attendees of Kitty Hall will be able to pounce on the op-purr-tunity to adopt any of the cats and kittens featured. And, most importantly, take pictures with these adorable felines and make all their Instagram followers jealous (using #kittyhallmpls).

All cats and kittens featured are available for adoption. Those who adopt a cat or kitten can pick them up at the end of the event or at Minneapolis Animal Care and Control, 212 17th Ave. N., Minneapolis by close of business Wednesday, June 28.


Kitty Hall is an effort to increase pet adoptions and pet licensing, and to highlight the work and services offered by Minneapolis Animal Care and Control.

Purr more infurmation on Kitty Hall, the cat-idates and to vote in the Kitty Hall election, visit http://www.minneapolismn.gov/kittyhall.

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[carvers4math]

Should I be concerned that I caught the Schwan guy kissing my dog on the mouth?

 

[WooBadger18]

And what sentence was handed down? Wearing a bikini to DMV?

That would have been more fun. It was a drunk driving case so it was one year of jail and 2 years of extended supervision

 

[cmjh10]

Random question, whatever happened to BDK?

 

[Cyclones_R_GR8]

Random question, whatever happened to BDK?

The last time he posted was Monday afternoon.

We all agreed that Playboi Carti was BDK correct?

 

[CarlHungus]

I've had the Hershey squirt blues for the past 12+ hours. Damn you Denver Airport food.

Oh mama, could this really be the end? To be stuck inside of Denver with the Hershey squirt blues again.

 

[coolerifyoudid]

Well, this page had a little bit of everything, didn't it?

 

[ImJustKCClone]

That would have been more fun. It was a drunk driving case so it was one year of jail and 2 years of extended supervision

I got called for jury duty for late July & early August. I'll probably end up serving. Every freaking time I've been called (once in California, and this will be the fourth time in Iowa) I've been selected for the jury. I must have one of those faces.

 

[ImJustKCClone]

The last time he posted was Monday afternoon.

We all agreed that Playboi Carti was BDK correct?

I take full credit for being the one to ferret it out this time.

 

[coolerifyoudid]

Should I be concerned that I caught the Schwan guy kissing my dog on the mouth?

Unless he pulled your dog out of the pool and was trying to resuscitate him, the answer is yes.

 

[CyArob]

I've had the Hershey squirt blues for the past 12+ hours. Damn you Denver Airport food.

Oh mama, could this really be the end? To be stuck inside of Denver with the Hershey squirt blues again.

 

[BoxsterCy]

Well, this page had a little bit of everything, didn't it?

Needs space launch UFO Thailand fireworks!

Wait for it.....

 

[Cybirdy]

Trying to decide whether to watch baseball or softball tonight. Will be third consecutive game starting for my son and coach always benches him after three games. Daughter is starting to work in the varsity team, DH'd last game and talk of her playing both ways tonight. Do I miss my daughter's first full varsity start or my son's probable last start of the season? I am thinking of leaning baseball.

So what did you watch? We both skipped tonight's away game, I think one of us has been at every other game. After last night's horrible game hubby witnessed, he bowed out of tonight.

Our team will barely be limping across the finish line. We started the season with multiple girls out for the season with injuries. On Monday one of our 8th graders that gets pulled up to varsity if a starter is missing/pinch runs came with a torn rotator cuff from a basketball injury. Then today I find out our 8th grade starting center fielder broke her wrist/hand and is out for 4-8 weeks. She also plays volleyball and will miss club nationals next week. So next in is an 8th grader who quit last year because "Coach played his favorites" (aka my daughter) and her mom was complaining that she wasn't even getting JV playing time.

So we get a team ranked 2nd in our class for regionals.

 

[ImJustKCClone]

So, over the last three weeks, we have met 5 new doctors in 4 new specialties, all because of a routine physical. One CT scan, one PET scan, one nuclear renal scan, several gallons of blood tests and two biopsies (one of a lymph node under the left arm and one from the right lung) later, and we finally have a series of diagnoses (plural) that we can live with...literally. Routine CT monitoring early signs of emphysema found a "cavitary lesion" in PapaLew's lung. Went for a PET scan, which showed not just the lung lesion but a swollen lymph node and a flamed out kidney.

All kinds of possibilities run through your minds, and at our age, few are good. We met a bunch of new doctors (hematology oncologist, pulmonologist, pathologist, radiologist, infectious diseases specialist) who gave us multiple possibilities.

Net results:
The kidney stone comes out on 3 July (everyone cross your legs, cause they're going up the old waterway to get to it).
The cavitary lesion is NOT cancerous, either malignant or benign. It is a byproduct of a fungal infection called Histoplasmosis. He will have to take an anti-fungal for the next year (takes a long time for this crap to grow, and an equally long time to kill it.
The lymph node is from CLL (Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia, stage zero). It's a very slow growing cancer that is basically just "there" - just a bunch of extra malformed lymphocytes hanging out in the lymph node. It's not doing anything, it's not causing any symptoms, so they don't treat it unless it decides to "get busy". They just monitor it to make sure there are no changes. Blood test every 3-6 months for the rest of his life, which should be quite long!

We can now breathe again! I'm not even sure why I'm sharing this. Partly relief. Partly because I am very lucky to have a partner like PapaLew in my life, and I get to keep him by my side for many years to come! And partly because of the fact that I am so VERY grateful for the wonderful specialists at McFarland, and the way that they took us through this process so very quickly and competently. We are fortunate to have a facility like this clinic here in Ames.

 

[BoxsterCy]

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Guessing this is why married guys outlive their single counterparts. They have wives that make them go to the doctors from time to time!

 

[BoxsterCy]

Parental sports updates lack the drama and intrigue of @cowgirl836 kickball and dodgeball summaries. Just sayin'.

 

[cowgirl836]

News talking to people in a neighborhood trying to address crime

Lady: "this neighborhood has done a complete 360"

Ummmmmmmm

 

[ImJustKCClone]

Should I be concerned that I caught the Schwan guy kissing my dog on the mouth?

Was there tongue involved?

 

[GTO]

Was there tongue involved?

Swann guy rounding second base... Carvers with the throw...

 

[Cybirdy]

Parental sports updates lack the drama and intrigue of @cowgirl836 kickball and dodgeball summaries. Just sayin'.

No one can recap quite like CG. Half the time I get my info second hand, so not quite like her "in the action" updates. I did find out that daughter could have had a triple last night on JV if the base runner in front of her knew how to run the bases. She got a single. Next hit daughter takes off and the other girl stays on her base. She ends up going around her to score but got called out for passing her. The girl did feel bad, she admits she doesn't know how to run bases.