Tuesday Bits and Pieces

[kybearfuzz]

• I had a doctor's appointment today. It was to discuss with my doctor whether or not I could stop taking the warfarin pills. It's been a year since my less-than-fun hospitalization due to blood clots. All tests, even the genetic ones, suggest that there was no inherited cause for them. The pulmonologist stated that the likely cause was my trans-Atlantic flight the previous month. My regular physician said that he wanted me to stay on the pills for a year at least. So, given all this data, my doctor said I could stop taking the warfarin. Since I'm going to be traveling a bit in March, we agreed that I would stay on them through the end of March just as a precaution. I'm happy to give these pills up.
  
  
• As I'm driving home, I came up to an intersection at a red light where a guy in a burnt orange Camero was hoping to be allowed into the lane from a parking lot. So I motioned him in. I followed him up to the entrance ramp to the interstate. We were coming up to a split to the interstate or another exit and I held back because I wasn't sure he was coming over into my lane again or not. He veered into the exit lane. As I passed, the driver stuck his middle finger up at me. I guess good deeds don't always illicit the response you would expect.
  
  
• While eating a late lunch, I watched Being Human, the North American version (it's filmed in Canada). I DVR'd last night's new episode. For those of you who haven't seen it, it's about a ghost, a werewolf, and a vampire who share a home in Boston. It has both comedy, horror, and drama. The acting is good, the cast is attractive (but not in that teeny-bopper sort of way), and the writing definitely throws some serious curves. This episode has the ghost of the house (Sally) going back in time to the moment where she is killed by her abusive boyfriend. She possesses her past self and prevents her death, leading to a new timeline where she lives and then finds her vampire and werewolf friends to make their lives better, with some disastrous results. I do love the show, but I found out online that it's been canceled and the series finale will air in April. While there are FB pages to rescue the show, the stars have already appeared in videos saying their cheery, heart-felt good-byes to the show, so I suspect there is no saving it. Sad.