Here’s my journal as a graph courtesy of the defunct Web sites as graphs.
What do the colors mean?
blue: for links (the A tag)
red: for tables (TABLE, TR and TD tags)
green: for the DIV tag
violet: for images (the IMG tag)
yellow: for forms (FORM, INPUT, TEXTAREA, SELECT and OPTION tags)
orange: for linebreaks and blockquotes (BR, P, and BLOCKQUOTE tags)
black: the HTML tag, the root node
gray: all other tags
Yesterday, there was the tiniest sliver of the moon at the bottom illuminated in the hour and a half before dawn. You could see, very dimly, the outline of the rest of the moon’s face. Meanwhile, higher in the sky and more southward, shone a very bright Venus.
This morning — just clouds.
For those who read my earlier entries about my hearing loss, here’s a brief update:
I visited the ENT Thursday, September 2, after four weeks had passed since the previous visit. I still have fluid “sloshing around” in my right ear, as he put it. After telling me that I wasn’t going to like what he was going to do, he probed up (down?) my right nostril with an endoscope (a procedure I highly recommend for anyone who enjoys discomfort and pain), adding, “You know, this doesn’t hurt me one bit, so you have to speak up if it hurts you.” He also gave me a cursory look up the left side, which had not been anesthetized.
He said I have a couple, “well, three” things going on:
Wednesday, I’m to have outpatient surgery for a biopsy. Since I will be “asleep” for that, he’ll take advantage of that to put a tube in my ear to drain the fluid. So on Wednesday I should experience relief from the fullness and discomfort (not to mention near-complete deafness) in my right ear. I’m also thinking this will help me gauge the practical impact of the sensorineural loss a little better, as my hearing now is too one-sided to judge. I also think, although the audiologist and ENT may not agree, that my right ear might not be as bad.
As for the biopsy, I’m trying not to be too concerned about that.
I had a CT scan Thursday; on some of the films my head looks like that of an alien. This could explain much.
Last night, the moon was still at 85 percent illumination, and at 10 p.m. it was casting a beam across Lake Michigan and across my living room floor and wall, so after I’d changed into a nightshirt, I took it off and danced in the moonbeam. Well, for a minute or two.
Next best thing to a grove of trees.
I think I have seen the most gorgeous thing possible — a nearly full moon (seven hours past) rising over water (Lake Michigan). At first, it was a discreet orange-red sliver that might have passed for urban glow. But it soon became apparent that it was Old Man Moon, but quite discreet, nothing like the sun, which screams even at 3:20 a.m. (astronomical twilight), “I’m coming!” Just a quiet orange-red sliver. Now it is about my thumb’s length above the horizon and growing an ever-paler orange-red. Can I catch it in the act of becoming silver?
Maybe I can witness it again tomorrow . . .