I had my third chemo session yesterday. It was pretty uneventful. The doctor said after two more he'll order some new scans to see how the cancer is responding and then we'll meet to decide where to go from there. I'm praying of course for a miracle that shows no cancer then, or at least a providential answer to prayer showing the cancer significantly shrinking.
At any rate, I was going to post here Phillipians 1:20-22 from the New Living Translation. It perfectly expresses my thoughts right now on my present prospects of life and death. Then I'd have probably said something borderline profound about the passage.
Unfortunately those thoughts have all been driven completely out of my head by a self-induced technological crisis. I got this hair-brained idea to try to install Linux on our family desktop PC. Linux is an operating system like Windows or Mac, only it's free and is supposed to be fast, virus-free and never freezes up. I had hoped to have what's called a dual-boot system where I could start the PC in Linux while Karen and Jake would still be able to start it in Windows with everything just like it has been, until I got everything set up for them in Linux. Then I would try to lure them over so we could get rid of Microsoft altogether.
I discovered that all those reviews that told me how easy and consumer friendly Linux is were written by Linux geeks who wouldn't know easy if they tripped over it.
I got Linux installed, but wiped out Windows in the process, so no dual-booting. That wouldn't have been too terrible because I have all our data backed up. The problem is Linux doesn't recognize my wireless card so I can't get on the internet anymore, which is 90% of the value of a PC for us.
I hope to have some nice Linux geek rescue me within the next few days, but until then I'll be a little slower in answering e-mails and in updating www.choosing2live.com and this blog.
While you're praying big prayers for my healing, maybe you could pray a little one for my stupid computer's healing, and for Karen and Jake to forgive my poor ridiculous self who lives in that tragic netherworld of people who aren't competent enough to qualify as geeks but are too curious and proficient to just leave the PC alone and settle for word processing and e-mail.
In the meantime, let this be a lesson to the rest of you. We are Microsoft. You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile.
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Well that just goes to show you that if you have your health you still don't necessarily have everything. You just gotta be connected.
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