treatnum=(treatmax*0.5)-1

In other words we are one treatment short of being 50% complete. I have two daughters and a wife that make a living involving computers so I thought it would be fun to send them an equation today. I have also been reading that geeks are becoming cool, so along with blogging I are doing what I can.

Actually I thought of this equation this morning while I had my treatment, as I was trying to think of anything that would distract me. It was a bit of adventure as there were computer problems after I was locked down. There is a fan like mechanism that you can hear spin up to speed just before the protons begin to flow. Today the fan was running for a long time and then it stopped. It made me flash back to the approaches to EAT that are aborted and you go back to Seattle. It seemed like quite a while before they came in to tell me to lay still, they had to replace a power supply. It took another 15 minutes or so for the fan to start again, and then the "beeps" that signify radiation beam flow were very slow. They have told me before they have metering devices that sum the dosage and that some days there is a lower "flow" rate. By the time I got out I was heading to a restroom with great haste. They want you to have a full bladder when you go in for treatment, so any significant delay makes you uncomfortable to say the least. There is a story that makes the rounds of someone that laid there for 2 hours before receiving treatment. I personally think it is folk lore, as anything over 45 minutes and I would be calling for mission abort.

There are no treatments until Tuesday, so a long weekend of rain (really) and then back to the pod.

Hope everyone has a great New Year.