The standards of death taken down by surprise

[sovay]

I saw the neurosurgeon this afternoon and no longer need to stick my head annually in a magnetic noise machine. This is great news.

The wood of what remains of the sugar maple smells cold and sweet. I am told it may turn into planks. Behind it may be seen Rosabella the late-blooming dogwood and the as yet nameless infant elm.



P.S. I don't know what happened with the international mail, but my late-breaking parental Christmas present of Fiona Moore's The Black Archive #43: The Robots of Death (2020) just arrived along with a beautiful art-enclosing solstice card from radiantfracture, so I don't begrudge it in the slightest.

Comments

[gwynnega]

Congratulations re: the noise machine!

[sovay]

Congratulations re: the noise machine!

Thank you! I have never had a problem with the confined space of an MRI, but traditionally my ears hurt for two or three days after the fact, as a result of which I hate them.

[sholio]

I'm very glad to hear about the noise machine!

The picture is pretty. I love the smell of fresh-cut wood.

[sovay]

I'm very glad to hear about the noise machine!

Thank you!

The picture is pretty. I love the smell of fresh-cut wood.

My mother is lamenting as we speak that she didn't ask my brother to bring a chainsaw.

[asakiyume]

Any sap welling up from the stump?

Very good news about the MRI. I take it things are looking stable in a good way!

[sovay]

Any sap welling up from the stump?

Not after three days including snow, but it's still distinctive.

Very good news about the MRI. I take it things are looking stable in a good way!

Yes. Thank you!

[rachelmanija]

That is GREAT!

[sovay]

That is GREAT!

I'm really pleased!

[yhlee]

Yayyyy! re: noise machine.

[sovay]

Yayyyy! re: noise machine.

Thank you!

[hyarrowen]

Congratulations on not having to go into the noise machine again. One point in their favour - at least you get to lie down?

Rosabella sounds delightful - dogwoods are so pretty!

[sovay]

Congratulations on not having to go into the noise machine again. One point in their favour - at least you get to lie down?

It's too loud to be worth it!

(Thank you.)

Rosabella sounds delightful - dogwoods are so pretty!

She is four years younger than I am and she is a beautiful tree. I will try to obtain some pictures for you this spring.

[moon_custafer]

Glad you’ll have to put up with fewer MRIs.

[sovay]

Glad you’ll have to put up with fewer MRIs.

Thank you!

[oracne]

Yay for evading the noise-machine!

[sovay]

Yay for evading the noise-machine!

Thank you! My nemesis!

(Ironically I quite like industrial music, but I can control the volume.)

[thistleingrey]

This is great news.

It really is! I'm glad.

[sovay]

It really is! I'm glad.

Thank you!

[umadoshi]

I saw the neurosurgeon this afternoon and no longer need to stick my head annually in a magnetic noise machine.

So much yay! *^^*

[sovay]

So much yay!

Thank you!

[pameladean]

Oh, hooray for your escape from the noise machine!

I salute your fallen tree, which did good service while it lived.

That's a lovely mildish winter photo.

P.

[sovay]

Oh, hooray for your escape from the noise machine!

Thank you!

I salute your fallen tree, which did good service while it lived.

My niece climbed it, too.

That's a lovely mildish winter photo.

I love the light around this time of year. I was trying to photograph some telephone wires around midday because of the color of the sky.

[genarti]

Wonderful news! I'm so glad to hear you no longer have an annually looming appointment with a noise tunnel.

[sovay]

Wonderful news! I'm so glad to hear you no longer have an annually looming appointment with a noise tunnel.

Thank you! I am not a fan of the noise tunnel.

[thawrecka]

Yay for no longer having to stick your head in a magnetic noise machine!

[sovay]

Yay for no longer having to stick your head in a magnetic noise machine!

Thank you!

[nineweaving]

How wonderful! I am so glad that you need not suffer tumult and hope this means that the reason for that tumult is resolving.

I hope your tree will become a bookcase.

Nine

[sovay]

How wonderful! I am so glad that you need not suffer tumult and hope this means that the reason for that tumult is resolving.

Thank you!

I hope your tree will become a bookcase.

I don't know if it will have the opportunity, but I would treasure it if it did.

[thisbluespirit]

Aw, congratulations! That is a good thing. <3

And, talking of good things, you'll have to let me know how the RoD book is!

[sovay]

Aw, congratulations! That is a good thing.

Thank you!

And, talking of good things, you'll have to let me know how the RoD book is!

I am enjoying the chapters I have read so far! Discussion of background and production includes comparison of script drafts, which is a very neat thing to have access to. I was actually going to post about a piece of the chapter on influences last night, but became distracted by writing about something completely different (and then taking Hestia to the dentist this morning; she is fine and curled up in the bed as we speak).

[kenjari]

Yay for fewer MRIs in your life!

[sovay]

Yay for fewer MRIs in your life!

Thank you!

[choco_frosh]

Yay fewer MRIs, and I hope this heralds good news about health in general.

(Also that the maple can be used for something better than firewood.)

[sovay]

Yay fewer MRIs, and I hope this heralds good news about health in general.

Thank you!

(Also that the maple can be used for something better than firewood.)

I want to turn it into sculpture, but apparently it first has to be turned into differently sized chunks of maple, which is where things break down.

[radiantfracture]

Ah, I'm glad the card made it! We had several days of total postal freeze.

Also: hurrah no more weirdly bangy medical thing.

[sovay]

Ah, I'm glad the card made it! We had several days of total postal freeze.

I am glad it thawed! It was a wonderful small parcel to receive.

Also: hurrah no more weirdly bangy medical thing.

Thank you!