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It’s become such a recurring non-event that it didn’t really occur to me to post here about it until now. Yesterday, I visited my oncologist for my regular 6 month check-up. As I’d expected, everything was normal, which puts me at 3 years, 3 months in remission. He said that my cancer was very aggressive, and that if I was going to experience a relapse, it would probably have happened by now. ie, he thinks I’m cured. Obviously, we’ll still keep a close eye on it, and I’m always watching for symptoms, but they’ve scheduled my next check-up for a year instead of 6 months.. so, uh, yeah. Wahoo, eh?

For those that like to keep track of such things, Seattle is still well on pace to shatter the all-time wettest month record ever, which currently stands at 12.92″ of rain in January of 1953.

As of early Sunday morning, we were at 10.00 inches of rain for November, with plenty of storms to go. We are also working on an 11-day consecutive rain streak.

(Source: Komo).

Yeah, Seattle is renowned for its rain, but not like this.. The incessant nagging drizzle which usually delivers an inch of rain over the period of a week? I’d love to see that right now. Ordinarily, I wouldn’t care about heavy rain.. but now I own a house it’s a different story. The ground is saturated – the water has nowhere else to go. As a result, it’s flowing into the only place left: My crawlspace. Right now it’s about 3 inches from coming over the top of the foundation and into the basement, and rising at a rate of about an inch an hour (give or take). We have a sump pump, but I think it’s been there since the house was built in 1967, and I can’t get the damn thing working. So, next best choice is to spend the night filling buckets and moving the water manually.

Gah!