Service Mark has been published.

Findings consistent with a left vestibular schwannoma,
unchanged in appearance since 11/06/2024.

Even though my perception of hearing continues to decline, and I’m starting to feel a few facial ticks, the tumor is unchanged in terms of visual assessment via MRI.

The symptoms are making it clear that imaging can’t tell the full story, but it’s the best outcome - since it’s benign, if I can wait to treat it for as long as possible, I can maximize the remaining hearing in my left ear and prolong the unknown treatment and recovery time.

Here’s a snapshot of an upcoming week.

I still have a LOT to learn about building my plan, but for now I’m excited for the opportunity to dial things in for my life and schedule - and to automate it where I can.

The world has shrunk, its borders frayed,
By forces I can’t bend or sway.
The tide of time, the weight of fear,
The walls close in, the paths unclear.

A silence falls where voices sang,
Connections lost, the echoes hang.
The children grow, their paths diverge,
Their laughter now a distant surge.

Eyes once bright, now look away,
The warmth of love, a fleeting stay.
And news rains down, a storm of stone,
The world turns colder, I’m left alone.

But as it shrinks, my sky unfolds,
A vastness deeper, rich, and bold.
For every door that time has sealed,
A boundless inner space revealed.

The shrinking world, a quiet plea,
To grow the universe in me.
What I can’t change, I will transcend,
And let this shrinking world extend.

— ChatGPT

Words don’t do justice to how dissapointed I am in my fellow citizens.

I fear for many, but in particular, for my immigrant wife and non-white children.

America elected the first convicted felon to serve as president of the United
States. Trump - the twice-impeached, multiply indicted, once-defeated former
president overcame 34 felony convictions, 88 criminal charges, accusations of
insurrection as part of his attempt to overturn the 2020 election, civil
lawsuit judgments totaling more than a half-billion dollars, allegations by his
entire first-term cabinet that he's unfit to serve, his openly fascist
intentions, the overturning of Roe v. Wade, his failed response to the Covid-19
pandemic that led to more than 400,000 deaths from a virus he repeatedly
claimed was going to disappear, his repeated overt acts of racism, at least 26
public accusations of rape, kissing, and groping without consent, his promises
to prosecute his political opponents, and the threats encapsulated by the
Project 2025 agenda - to become the nation's 47th president. Trump is the
second president - and the first since Grover Cleveland in the 19th century -
to retake the White House after a reelection defeat. And, at the age of 78,
Trump is the oldest man ever elected president - breaking a record held by
Biden, whose mental competence Trump repeatedly savaged.

Source: https://whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com/2024/11/06/day-1387