Happy Monday Greetings from the King of the Nerds!

Just back from my yearly appointment with the GI specialist to discuss my esophagus. Thrilling, I know.

This year's upper endoscopy (still) shows no pre-cancerous cells. But this year there was no inflammation - and no dysplasia! Truthfully, I still haven't bothered researching "dysplasia" - but last year's endoscopy showed mild dysplasia - and "none" is better than "mild".

More importantly it's just nice to see something improve. With the liver stupidity, arthritis, creeping high blood pressure (which, oddly, they didn't take today)(I was curious if Obama + no caffeine might have prompted a slight drop), etc. etc. etc. ... finally some good news! Plus I've been so much lately about not eating within a couple of hours before going to bed and it's made a huge difference in the frequency of acid reflux (except for election night).

Enough icky medical stuff.

Last night I finished the Thanksgiving shopping list/spreadsheet! And I was crowned King of the Nerds!
I didn't realize there was a contest going on - evidently my spreadsheet submitted itself and my name for consideration. It's quite a piece of work. Four days - each day a separate sheet - with fields for quantity - ingredient - recipe name - cookbook - and page number. I listed every ingredient - every 1/8 tsp of salt or pinch of cayenne. And there's a page where I sorted the ingredients and combined the quantities.
Thanks to my spreadsheet, I know, for instance, that I need to buy 48 oz of cream cheese, 18 serrano chilies, and 20 cloves of garlic.

I tried to post the spreadsheet here - but it turns out that only pictures and video can be posted. But if you're interested, post a comment and I'll email it to you!

King of the Nerds, signing out.