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I took the train up to the O.C. after work. Definitely the most civilized way for travel, but now there's a policy where certain passengers get flagged to have to show ID when the conductor gets their ticket. Guess who was the lucky winner? At least I didn't get frisked like the last time I got racially profiled. (For those unfamiliar with my features, I have dark hair and eyes and a distinctly Semitic nose.) There was a teenaged marine in the other row, just back from Iraq, and I thought, "This is what you were fighting for."

BTW, U.S. casualties are up to 1500 and counting. Way to go, Dubya!

Steve got me at the train station and we went to see Pop. He's in good spirits in his hospital of choice, which is the Garden Grove. Nice staff, good-looking hospital, and he has a TV on an arm that swings so he can place it exactly where he wants it. Dialysis starts tomorrow. One of the women I am working with says that this happened to her own mother in law, but that dialysis can indeed jump-start the kidneys, It just takes a while, which is what I told him. Pop actually wants to get better, so that's the important mindset.

Steve and I have gone out to get brekkie, but he's gone back to bed. More later.

Kinda good news

They've pinpointed what caused Pop's kidney failure. It's what they call a "grand negative" infection in his blood. What that means is that it's not strep or staph, and they're liking E-Coli for it. He's been treated with antibiotics and had dialysis last night.

He's peeing a bit, which means there's some function, and he's joking with visitors and staff. He's very cheered by the fact that this isn't something that happened because he's old, but something that could just as easily have gotten me or Steve.

He likes his TV, a lot. This morning when we visited he looked at me and said, "What's that Japanese cartoons you watch?"

"What about 'em?" I asked

"Do they show a bunch of 'em for teenagers on Friday nights?"

"Yeah."

"I saw some of 'em. God almighty!"

I got a good laugh out of that. Sounds like he tuned into .hack/sign.