Another selfie of a wound already? Yesterday afternoon I was in the backyard cutting down some overgrown brush. This morning I noticed something on my side. It felt strange, so I went to the bathroom to see what it was. A tick! I grabbed my fine-point tweezers and grabbed the little sucker. It was latched on tight, but I pulled him out with a firm yank and this was the result.
We have deer roaming in the yard every so often. Here’s hoping I don’t contract Lyme Disease.
Put on your headphones, MIH, because here are the Ronettes in glorious S-T-E-R-E-O!
This was taken from a used British LP I bought at Cheapo Records in Central Square, Cambridge, MA for five bucks in the early 80’s. Cheapo is still there, halfway between M.I.T. and Harvard.
Somebody declared May to be Skin Cancer Awareness Month, and in keeping with that I am having a full epidermis check in a couple of weeks. Today has been designated as Melanoma Monday.
As previously reported here, I was diagnosed with melanoma on my scalp, adding injury to the insult of being bald since my 20’s. In January the cancer was removed by a dermatologist who performed a procedure called “Slow Mohs.” If I were John Oliver I would say, “That’s what you see when watching the last movies made by the Three Stooges.”
I will spare you the horror of seeing how the wound looked at its worst. Here’s a picture of what it looks like now, four months later.
That small yellowish spot was the center of the cancer, where the deepest cut was made. It’s been getting smaller, but was still open until just yesterday. Only today is it finally starting to close up.
The stubble shows how far the plastic surgeon had to pull up the skin to repair the wound, making the hairline uneven compared to the other side of my head. I’ve been shaving it, not that anybody sees me in public anymore without a cap.
So beware of the Sun! It is essential for life, but like those other necessities, air and water, it can also be destructive.
“Rhapsody in Rivets” – Released December 6, 1941 (yes, the day before Pearl Harbor). A Leon Schlesinger Merrie Melodies cartoon, directed by Isadore “Friz” Freleng, with musical direction by Carl Stalling. Nominated for an Academy Award.
The first few months after starting this blog, I spent a lot of time and effort figuring out how to post video. Keep in mind that was in 2006, before YouTube took over. In fact, Google bought YouTube only one month after I began blogging. Adobe had purchased Macromedia and its Flash technology just 18 months before then. Flash video, with its .FLV files, was the only way to post video, but since the introduction of HTML 5 it’s fallen into disfavor, although not quite into disuse. The last time I checked, the BBC was still using Flash.
Thanks to YouTube, it’s rare for me to capture, edit, and post a video clip. But being the old retired guy that I now am, I have a new video capture setup, and I thought I’d play around a bit. Editing is still a pain, but otherwise there’s nothing to doing video compared to the bad old days.
This is from a first-generation Roku player, almost 10 years old.
This is from a DVD, with the opening to an outstanding, mostly forgotten, film called “The Red House.” Julie London at 20!
I considered attending this weekend’s Star Trek Tour, featuring none other than William Shatner. For several reasons, a lack of nearby hotel accommodations being one of them, I decided to sit this one out. But here’s some video of James T. Kirk sitting in the captain’s chair. I’ll get to Ticonderoga this summer, on a regular weekend, when there’s a room available at the Best Western.
