Rob's dad is doing ok – he's out of ICU. They took a lower lobe of his lung, some lymph nodes, and apparently part of a rib. The nodes were clear, and they think they got all of the cancer. Many thanks to all of you for your thoughts and prayers.

Well Rob's off to his folks now. It's about a five hour drive. His dad goes in to surgery tomorrow, then will be in ICU for a couple of days, and then still in the hospital for a week or so. Hopefully all will go well and Rob will be home by Monday or so. Ugh – I wish I could have gone with him, but we don't have a short-notice plan for the beasts. Three cats, a 65 pound dog, and two adults… in a Camaro. Yeah, that's not happening. =0

Got a phone call tonight from 's folks. Turns out the docs found a spot on his dad's lung – he's going in for surgery to remove half a lung(!) on Friday. It may be malignant. This is not good.

I'm reading one of the paperbacks we picked up at the Half-Price tent sale the other day. Every few pages I get this (not overpowering but not faint either) whiff of patchouli. Ugh – how can women wear that crap?? It's overwhelming and just smells bad. Bleh.