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It had been at least two years since I’d been on the bike. I know two years for sure because I lost 2022 to shoulder surgery and 2023 to cancer treatment. How long before that? I just don’t know. But long enough to have the same feeling I had when I started playing saxophone with the Wilshire Winds after a 25-year break: I didn’t realize how much I missed it. I didn’t realize how much I needed it.
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There’s an old saying, attributed to Benjamin Franklin, that nothing is certain in life except death and taxes. Monday afternoon LeAnn and I ran some errands that danced all around that thought and then some.
First, we went to Texas Oncology at Medical City to drop off a disk of my most recent scans from UT Southwestern. We hadn’t been to Texas Oncology in two months, but after being there weekly through the spring and summer last year, going back felt familiar. As we walked in, I looked over my right shoulder to see the ever-present Christmas tree, always decked out for whatever season or holiday is coming, which in this case was St. Patrick’s Day. But familiarity came mostly from the kindness of the staff, who we realize deal with patients who are rarely “living their best life now,” to quote a more contemporary saying.
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Life sometimes seems like an endless chain of reboots. Or, if you want to join me in some alliteration: repairs, rebirths, renewals, replenishments, rejuvenations. But I’ll go with reboot because it’s so 21st century.
Such as last week when I went to my mother’s house to reboot her dishwasher. On a couple of occasions she has pressed the start button and it beeps and the lights flash but it doesn’t run. After one repairman said he could fix it and then declined to even try, a phone call to another repairman resulted in a simple fix: reboot the washer’s computer by cutting off the power at the breaker box and turning it back on. Voila!, that did the trick. Meanwhile, over at LeAnn’s mother’s house, her desktop computer started acting up and the solution was the same: reboot it by pulling the plug and restoring power.
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