Tom's Cat Scans, etc.

The hard thing about today's sophisticated CAT scans is that they can pick up bits and pieces of things that are not supposed to be in the "Ideal" profile of a body.  But the things may be odd but utterly benign, or something else.  We have the technology now to be very puzzled.
 Tom's CAT scan showed that his head, neck & abdomen look as expected.  But there are some tiny spots in his lungs.  These may be basically nothing - left over scars from childhood pneumonia, perhaps (though Tom doesn't remember having peneumonia) or asbestos calcifications or who knows what that is inconsequential.  We don't know if any previous scan ever went down that low, so there are no comparables.  He will get scanned again in 6 months to see if there is any change.  The spots are far to small to try to biopsy.

In other news, we are back to making cheese.  A friend is milking a cow and I've made my first 4 gallons of cow milk into cheese.  Cow milk behaves very differently than goat milk because of the way the fat behaves.  Goat milk just comes naturally homogenized, but cow milk, of course, separates and that is a new experience for me.  It may take a couple of batches before I have it figured out.

And the saddest, dumbest thing I heard today - a non-native English speaker (who had just been hollered at by the guys trying to unload the ferry that had just docked in Woods Hole because she had driven right up the the ferry dock and blocked the ferry ramp) went in to talk to the Steamship Authority ticket agents and asked how much it would cost to take her and her car, by ferry, to New York.  With a straight face, the agent said the ferry didn't go to New York.  And he didn't crack up until the woman was out of the building.