Telling an eighty-year-old woman to "check the portal" for serious biopsy results is cruelty disguised as digital efficiency. My 82-year-old aunt had a lung biopsy done two weeks ago. The doctor told her they’d have the pathology report ready within five business days. Friday afternoon rolled around. No call. She dialed the clinic’s main desk, her voice shaking with anxiety. The receptionist cut her off before she could finish explaining: “Doctor doesn’t give results over the phone anymore. All lab findings are automatically released to your MyChart patient portal.” My aunt said, “Sweetheart, I don’t have a computer. I have a landline on my kitchen wall. Can the doctor just tell me if I have cancer?” The receptionist sighed into the receiver: “It’s hospital network policy. We can’t bypass the portal. You’ll have to have a family member create an account and view the file.” My aunt spent an entire seventy-two-hour weekend sitting in her recliner, gripping her reading glasses, convinced she was dying. I drove out to her house on Monday morning, set up a profile on my laptop, and pulled up the records. The result was benign. The pathology report had been uploaded four days earlier. A doctor spent three minutes clicking an upload button, and an elderly woman endured four days of sheer psychological terror because the hospital decided a phone call was too expensive. Since when did delivering medical news become a self-service task?

Let’s have some @Padres Game 4 magic!!!

Baseball is the best because there’s no clock to run out at the end of the game, you can’t take a knee, you can’t play it safe and not throw the ball. You want the win? You have to throw the pitches and get all 27 outs, you have to face the batters, take the risks, get to the end

Well Mars Attacked and somehow @Topps let one box slip through for me even after they restricted my access in the middle of checking out. Getting the email was the only way I knew. What a mess!!!!

Do not go gentle into that good night. Sunset, Winchester, CA, 10/5/2026

My old daily commute to work, none better.

Interesting week. Looks like only the Sapphire drops are EQL so I'm going to expect a bot fest.

Synchronized the @Padres TV broadcast to @973TheFanSD so I can enjoy the broadcast and don’t have to listen to stupid babble about nothing

I love this!!!

Buried in this bill Gavin signed is a big "fuck you" to the Palisades. We are suing LADWP for draining our reservoir (which was built for fire protection), and leaving us with dry hydrants. This bill now says LADWP doesn't have to provide water for firefighting AT ALL. And when their negligence leaves us with no water to fight fire, Gavin is prohibiting any accountability for the water utility for leaving people to die, precluding fire victims from recovering losses from a catastrophic wildfire. At EVERY turn, this scumbag finds ways to block fire victims from being made whole by incompetent, negligent, and corrupt bureaucrats and big utility providers when they routinely destroy entire towns.

Card collectors, does your desk look like the “before”? Keep your sleeves, top loaders, card savers and tools together with the Card Caddy Daddy. Swipe to hear from other collectors, then build your setup.

REPOST for a chance to win an autographed Munetaka Murakami baseball.

Want to watch the Wildcard Games, do this.

Added a bunch of cards to my eBay store. Lots of wrestling but a mix of everything. Mostly low start 7 day auctions. Rts appreciated! ebay.io/m/OejGXO

The NFL has released footage of the proper technique Chop Robinson should have used to hit Patrick Mahomes.

REPOST for a chance to win an autographed Munetaka Murakami hat.

I am selling the complete 20 @alexpardee P70 set. If you are interested please DM. Last sold on eBay was 9/13 for $625. Deal here I’d do $565 shipped.

Seen 2 of these today. @PSAcard stop with FedEx. Trash company. Also, change the name on the return address.

Benihana has a lunch special going for $16 On UberEats there is a thing where you get 20% back in uber credit if you make a reservation at a restaurant and Benihana is one of them . So it seems like this would be like getting the lunch special for $12.80 .. plus tax and tip