Apparently, when a bunch of people (at least, guitarists) start jamming together, their brain waves start to look alike.

Imagine that. :)

I worked from home today so I could mind the kids while daisy_knotwise had a follow-up exam with her oncologist. Everything looks good so far. They did a bit of lab work just to check things out, but there's no reason to think that they'll see anything troublesome.

And that's a wonderful thing to hear.

I was digging through and cleaning out old e-mail, when I found this little bit from around the time of my last colonoscopy. Apparently, I came up with the first two lines when the tech told me that many people try to schedule their colonoscopy around a holiday so that they don't have to take time off from work. This somewhat boggled me, at which point I came up with the first two lines of the little ditty below.

Sadly, I came up with a few more lines over dinner.

So to the tune of "I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas":

I want a colonoscopy for Christmas.
A colonoscopy is all I want.
Don't want a truck or a pole for catching bass.
All I want's a doctor who will --

And Gretchen said, "Thank you, dear!"

Via Instapundit, this interesting article about a researcher who may have figured out that, at the core of every cancer, there's a cancerous stem-cell that's the source.