Milestones

Congratulations to our grandson, Eric, who graduated from Pacific U this morning with a degree in History. He plans to teach high school and coach baseball after he gets his teaching certification from the local Concordia University. That will take one more year. The graduation ceremony was nice, if a bit early (9:30 am) complete with band and bagpipes for the processions in and out of the stadium. Pretty neat. Years ago I completed my degree requirements at the end of a summer and so didn't have a formal ceremony. I marched down to the mail box and back when my degree arrived.
 Pomp and Circumstance.

Yesterday was the step-daughters last day at her job, finally. They had asked her to extend her final day for several weeks to help with her final "Month End" closing of the books and to train her replacement. But that's all done now and she should be arriving in Boise this evening. She's already exploring job leads and is ready to look at houses. She will be staying with her daughter, son-in-law and granddaughter until those details are worked out.
 The beginning of a new chapter.

In other news:
I went through nivolumab treatment 3 of 26 last week. Once again no side effects. We met with the oncology RN the day before. She wanted to know about our experience so far and assess my health to see if any adjustment were necessary. Not this time. We'll see her every couple of months. I will also get another PET scan in early July to make sure no more "hyper-metabolic" sites have sprung up. The CT Scan to check on the kidney tumor growth/no growth will be in early August.

In the mean time its "Steady As She Goes!"