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We talked to my brother last night. He is doing as well as you would expect. My sister in law has started chemotherapy and had her bone marrow checked. They still don’t know how aggressive they need to be with treatment, they will wait until after this round of chemo to make that determination. I can only imagine what Tom, Diane and my niece are going through.

Because of this my niece has decided to postpone her wedding until Nov 22. So we are scrambling around to change flights and hotel rooms and paying the stupid fees to the airlines to do this. I can’t say it is unexpected, I would have been very surprised if the wedding was not postponed. Right now we are leaning toward keeping the flight to KC on the 18th then driving to the wedding in November. The airlines want way too much money to change flights.

I got a call Monday night from my sister Jan informing me that my sister-in-law was just diagnosed with leukemia. This is devastating to the whole Anderson family. Tom, my brother, told our parents face to face, I am glad about that. Mom does not handle this type of information well.

I talked to Mom last night and she told me that Diane was admitted to the hospital and would be there for the next month. That was a surprise that they would admit her so soon and for such a long time. This is putting all too much pressure on my brother’s family because my niece’s wedding is just 3-4 weeks away. Right now, everything is up in the air.

These Olympics games have been awesome. I loved watching the swimming, the opening ceremony was spectacular, to watch athletes putting in their best effort in being the fastest or strongest has just be incredible. Incredible until today… I Turn on NBC to see what is going on at the Bejing Olympics.. and I see what looks like Synchronized Team Rope Dancing AKA Gymnastics Rhythmic.

Are you Serious?!?!? A bunch of Girls/Women dancing around the gymnastic floor with ropes. UGH!!!! They are talking about this being Baseball and Softball’s last year in the Olympics.. but they keep this crap??? Has anyone ever heard of this except in the Olympics? This is almost a made up event. It is bad enough we have badmitton as a event, but seriously add events people really want to see.

Just got done with a IM session with a friend of mine

it’s like October 2007 all over again!
the rumors are really wild this time
everything from closing down MTC and DTC
to whacking all of SI and IPE’s

I was through that mess once.. I really feel for my friends back at AOL. The current management, Randy Falco and Ron Grant, have really screwed that company. And my friends will suffer for their stupidity.

The rumors also say that performance bonuses will be stopped and the layoffs will be smaller. Mainly because they got burned last year by the “widespread-edness of the october layoff”. That means they can have smaller “focused” layoff and offer smaller layoff packages.

Nice…