Well, Rory's dialysis went surprisingly well. High flow rates, and no major alarms. He was still hurting pretty good from the surgery, but he dealt with it in his usual style.

For the interested, here is a picture of what one of those catheters looks like:

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And here is the Patient Information Guide (which we never get, ironically).

Rory had surgery again today. His hemodialysis catheter began to come out, so he was scheduled for surgery to replace it. This morning... it popped out altogether... (at least it worked yesterday). Surgery went well, and the surgeon was reasonable confident it would work... we'll see on Wed.

Time To Track Santa! NORAD has set up http://www.noradsanta.org/ for all kiddies, young and old, to track where Santa is around the world. Take a look!

OK, for those of you who are into wierd and unusual stuff, here are a few Christmas oddballs:

Snow Globe(shake it to see what happens)

Santa Tossing (catapaulting, actually)

Find any others? Email them to me and I may post them!

mp3.com ceases to exist in a few minutes. At 12:00pm PST, CNET will take down this great resource, and ostensibly replace it with music.download.com sometime next year. mp3.com has been a wonderful resource on the 'net, especially for the independent artists who could not afford to have a high powered ad firm promote their product. A plea from an mp3.com customer: DON'T DO IT! Leave it up until you can replace it with your "new" site. Anyone at CNET.com listenening? Doubt it...