Radiation by the numbers

9 - number of radiation sessions remaining

0 - number of sessions of chemotherapy remaining in this session

10 - approximate number of minutes in each daily radiation session

21 - number of hours those 10 minutes caused me to sleep last Tuesday

0% - how much I believe in the viability of Discovery Channel's new show "Amish Mafia"

14 - number of times, on average, I have to tell someone my birthday during a visit to the cancer center

1871 - what I've changed my birth year to when answering the "What's your birth date" question, just to see if anyone notices

65% - the chance that, at any given time, "Casino Royale" is on TV since I got cancer

4 - the number of feet, sideways, our cat jumps if you startle her. She moves like a rook

Chemotherapy music reviews

LED ZEPPELIN - CELEBRATION DAY:

I admit, I was not expecting big things from the long-awaited document of their recent one-off reunion concert, but it's pretty good. The biggest surprise is that the star of the show is Jason Bonham, son of the late Zeppelin drummer John Bonham.

Three doses of chemotherapy

THE BOB DYLAN PROJECT (continued)

My journey through Bob Dylan's entire catalog, in order, continues...

And then, finally, we get a band. Well, if not a band, at least session musicians. And electricity! Dylan followed up his career-starting string of one-man-band albums with two of his most heralded records, both largely including a legion of session musicians: "Bringing it All  Back Home" and "Highway 61 Revisited."

What you learn on these records is that Bob Dylan is angry. Or, at least, extremely confrontational. Both records extend the middle finger to the coffeehouse set who'd prefer Dylan never plug in or get too big. Both include huge kiss-offs to anyone within arm's length: old girlfriends, the press, etc.

In fact, if you were unfortunate enough to have dated Bob Dylan during his heyday, he probably wrote a song about how much he now dislikes you. Think of him as the rich man's Taylor Swift.