11/19 Thurs update, from Joe

[Joe Haldeman]

We've lost WiFi, because the folks we were slaving off had the gall to move. Got up one morning and there was a moving van down the street and no "linksys" on the computer. So this will go out whenever Gay finds a node.

I've been doing comfort food. Chicken and dumplings, meatloaf. A culinary nesting instinct, perhaps. But yesterday Gay got me a tin of garam masala (from an Indian salesman at the huge grocery store Jungle Jim's); I'll do up some tangy Indian fish or chicken.

Still improving physically. I can walk without the walker for several minutes. Various pains are decreasing; I can stand upright without discomfort, which I couldn't have done a week ago. Going to see the surgeon this morning for a checkup.

Spent six hours over three evenings trying to make sense of _The Prisoner_. Very diverting if confusing. Otherwise we've been mostly watching old movies on Turner, without commercials.

Writing on the novel almost every morning and some afternoons. Still low on energy, but I don't think it shows in the writing. I haven't put any characters in the hospital or had a pancreas give out.

Joe