11/25 Wed Update, from Joe

[Joe Haldeman]

Nothing of great import to report.  Went to the hospital and had a CAT scan,
which will guide the doctor[s] in moving the tube that I think runs over the
top of the pancreas (and then out through a hole in the upper abdomen to a vacuum
receptacle).  That will be day after tomorrow.

Another schedule shake-up, keeping us in Cincinnati some days more.  (Not a
big problem, since I'm not yet physically up to a thousand + mile car trip.)
 Going to have the little "procedure" Friday on the abdominal tube, requiring
sedation but no serious surgery.  Then a week from Friday I'll finally see the
original doctor, out of town for a week, and perhaps get a travel verdict. 
Maybe have the tube removed.

Made a pretty good dinner, all vegetarian, almost all from Becca's garden. 
She and Gay dug up all kinds of root vegetables.  Then Gay cleaned them and
I prepared sweet potatoes and carrots as "oven fries," cutting them like oversized
French fries and tossing them with olive oil and cinnamon, then baking; on top
of the stove I did a big bunch of fresh Swiss chard, just wilted in olive oil
with a squeeze of lemon.  Avocado and tomato from somewhere south of Ohio. 
My customers thought it was all great.

Read a fascinating graphic novel, _Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth_, a 300+
page biography of Bertrand Russell and his friends and enemies, wives and lovers.
 With a bit of propositional calculus thrown in for spice.  Well drawn and written.
(Authors Apostolos Doxiadis and Christos Papadimitriou; art by Alecos Papadatos
and Annie Di Donna.)

Wishing everybody a happy T-day.  (Tryptophan?)  I may be offline for a couple
of days, though so far they don't plan to keep me in the hospital.

Joe