{"id":547,"date":"2012-01-12T09:50:41","date_gmt":"2012-01-12T14:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bromee.com\/zen\/?p=547"},"modified":"2012-01-12T09:50:41","modified_gmt":"2012-01-12T14:50:41","slug":"welcome-to-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bromee.com\/zen\/?p=547","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to 2012!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good morning!<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s been a while since I\u2019ve written.\u00a0 I\u2019ve been busy.\u00a0 Yeah..taking the kids to school, listening to music, hanging out, and generally goofing off.\u00a0 But then when the kids get home at 3pm\u2026it make up for it with the chaos\u2026so it\u2019s even.<\/p>\n<p>About my heath.\u00a0 I\u2019ve been on Avastin for about 6 months and its proving to be a good thing.\u00a0 The only thing is it there\u2019s nothing else that is \u201cnext\u201d for me.\u00a0 Its Avastin\u2026or whatever they might come up with next.\u00a0 Yes\u2026I\u2019ve embraced the reality.\u00a0 But \u201cget busy living or get busy dying\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>My scooter arrives tomorrow.\u00a0 It\u2019s a \u201cpre-mobility\u201d scooter so it\u2019s sporty\u2026as much as a mobility scooter can be.\u00a0 It\u2019s not that I can\u2019t walk\u2026I do ok with a cool cane for longer walks.\u00a0 But this will get me out and around town.<\/p>\n<p>Oh yeah.\u00a0 I got a tattoo.\u00a0 It says \u201cJEDI\u201d and has the symbol for\u00a0my Jedi organization.\u00a0 My next one will be The Beatles famous picture of Abbey Road.<\/p>\n<p>The wife and kids are doing great (other than the fact that dad has a terminal brain tumor).\u00a0 We\u2019ve talked about it a lot.\u00a0 We enrolled in the TLC center for grieving children here in Portland.\u00a0 This is a great organization that helps families go through something like this\u2026even though my aren\u2019t currently grieving.\u00a0 Hopefully be a long time\u2026but you know.<\/p>\n<p>It snowing out for the first notable time this season.\u00a0 Of course it\u2019s going to rain later so the 3 inches that we have right now will disappear and be a big mud puddle.<\/p>\n<p>I have a HARD time typing.\u00a0 This damn keyboard doesn\u2019t read minds!\u00a0 It took me 3 hours to write this!!\u00a0 (just kidding).\u00a0 But It takes me a lot longer than it would have 2 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019d like\u00a0to thank my folks for everything they\u2019ve done and everything they do. It\u2019s too much to detail so I won\u2019t.\u00a0 I love you Mom &amp; Dad.<\/p>\n<p>So we just keep on truckin\u2019 and look forward to spring.\u00a0 Stay tuned.<\/p>\n<p>Rob<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bromee.com\/zen\/?attachment_id=556\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-556\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-556\" title=\"scooter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bromee.com\/zen\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/scooter1-300x284.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"284\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bromee.com\/zen\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/scooter1-300x284.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.bromee.com\/zen\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/scooter1.jpg 323w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good morning! It\u2019s been a while since I\u2019ve written.\u00a0 I\u2019ve been busy.\u00a0 Yeah..taking the kids to school, listening to music, hanging out, and generally goofing off.\u00a0 But then when the kids get home at 3pm\u2026it make up for it with the chaos\u2026so it\u2019s even. About my heath.\u00a0 I\u2019ve been on Avastin for about 6 months [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-observations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bromee.com\/zen\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bromee.com\/zen\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bromee.com\/zen\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bromee.com\/zen\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bromee.com\/zen\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=547"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"http:\/\/www.bromee.com\/zen\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":568,"href":"http:\/\/www.bromee.com\/zen\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547\/revisions\/568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bromee.com\/zen\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bromee.com\/zen\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bromee.com\/zen\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}