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This is probably it for blogging today. It’s biopsy day for me, and unfortunately this is up in LA, so it’s going to wipe out most of the day. The good news is that this is the last of the tests for now, and in a week or two we’ll know for sure how well I responded to the second-round chemo up at City of Hope. Whether that turns out to be good news or bad is the million-dollar question.

In the meantime, I’m feeling pretty good. I bought myself a Surface 3 yesterday as part of my tablet collection hobby. It’s my fourth in four years. I now have an iPad, an Android tab, and two Windows tabs. Since I don’t spend a lot of money on anything else, I figure it’s actually a fairly harmless and cheap hobby.

Seems to be OK so far with a few odd quirks. But I’ve not yet been able to answer my key question: how well does Firefox work? Their servers appear to have been down for maintenance since last night, so I’m unable to sync the new tablet. Until then, it’s basically a brick since Firefox is about half of what I do with it. Maybe the Mozilla folks will have their servers back up and running by the time I get home.

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