Sometime artists do things that no one else is doing.  Sophie was one of those artists.  Rest In Peace.  They (yup that is the gender pronoun that Sophie preferred), were only 34.  

Just got out of my MRI.  They gave me some kind of dye injection so that they can get a better view of my insides.  The machine gets pretty loud, but the strange part is that you are in a machine with a pretty low ceiling.  There was a light right above me in the machine, which kind of made it a little better, and they give you an "emergency ball" to squeeze if you need to get out of there.  

Anyway, my friend from work released a new video.  He is very classy and fun, and his voice sounds just like he does in the music when you talk to him in real life.  

An unpleasant encounter with a really heavy box may have saved my life.

So it turns out that I didn't have acute angina as I thought (it was actually some swelling of my myrcchodial tissue or something like that).  When I went to get checked out for that,  they noticed something else in my liver, so I went to get an ultrasound of this "cyst".

I got a call yesterday that they want to do further tests of these abnormalities.   I don't know what "abnormalities" could be, but they want me to get an MRI.  

I am hoping for benign findings, but who knows, maybe the boxes that scraped against my chest which caused unpleasantness at the time will actually save my life, because I wouldn't have gotten any tests done otherwise and they wouldn't have found the abnormalities in my liver.  

 It reminds me of what happened recently with Caris LaVert getting traded to the Pacers from the Nets.  He needed a physical exam  for the trade to clear.  They found cancer on his kidney.  He is expected to have surgery and recover, but the trade probably saved his life.  

 

New Tune-Yards.  Love this artist.

 Bad news.  There are abnormalities in my liver, I have just been informed.  I need to get an MRI.  Friends, please keep me in your thoughts.  

I went back to work, told my friends that I am in good health, then this happens :(  And I don't even drink...

One of my favorite songs of the past year.  This guy is just amazing.  

Somehow these two made a song together.  

Re-united for the first time in 22 years to play for Joe Biden.

 "Politics doesn't have to be a raging fire destroying everything in its path.  Every disagreement doesn't have to be a cause for total war."

-Joe Biden