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  No surprises today in that we went shopping. We only went to get some cinnamon buns to use for my birthday but ended up going to half a dozen shops and getting some other things. One of the best things about this shopping trip? Knowing that there is a Lego shop going to open in the mall we went to. Exciting news, well at least for me.

  This morning also involved cleaning up the path around the pool. It has been a while (in the four years or so kind of while) that it has been completely cleaned of leaves and debris. I used our big blower/sucker thing and ended up with something like 7 bags full of stuff. At the end of though I had a nice dust tan all over. Incredibly messy work to say the least with that much stuff being sucked up and blown around. At least you can easily walk all the way around the pool again now with not too much crap in the way.

  One other important thing to note. For lunch both my wife and I had a cookie. Yes one cookie (each). We didn't want much and saw a nice cookie shop in the mall. The one I had was a chocolate fudge dipped one. The icing it was dipped in ended up being thicker than the actual cookie, it was hard work towards the end biting through that much basically pure sugar.

  Less than 2 weeks until I become an official old man and must declare myself middle aged for sure. Still feels so weird knowing I'm going to be that old, you never feel like your age in the end. All it is is you as you always were (near enough) but with more experience and a little less physical ability.

  Oh, one final piece of important and good news. My old school friend who is undergoing chemo had some news this week. He had a PET scan to look at how things are going. They basically could not find the tumours anymore on the scan. The difference in the scans is quite striking. They are going to have to do a biopsy to try and find anything cancerous. Brilliant news really. He only needs to finish his 4th through 6th chemos and if it is still clear then they are going to declare complete remission and treatment success. I'm very happy for him.