This is not much of a post. It’s been a bit since I whined about my medical problems so I thought I would give y’all a small update. I’ve been languishing in an oxymoronic purgatory, waiting to get worse so I can get better. I had to make another change in medical professionals treating me. I am still seeing the same liver doctor but I changed to a different nurse practitioner. The NP does most of the hands on interaction…
Nope, I’m not talking about Thanksgiving meal leftovers. I’ll tell you what I’m talking about in a minute. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday of the year for reasons you’ll find out if you haven’t already been around this small cog for awhile. Definitely better than Christmas. This year, however, it’s just going to be my wife, the dogs, and I. No other family at all. I can’t even remember the last…
This isn’t really a post. It’s more of an update. I’ve been absent from the blogosphere the last few weeks. Both in posting on mine and reading my favorites. Mostly because “real” life has gotten in the way. The J-O-B has been demanding my time. The nerve of them! Don’t they know I’m a blogger and an aspiring writer? Can’t they just keep paying me without expecting results? My son just got out of the Navy and decided to hang out…
I had intended to write a post for Halloween but seeing as how this is the fifth of November, I’m sure you pretty much figured out I didn’t. At first I was going to write something about the ongoing efforts to move Halloween to the last Saturday of October. But when I went to get the latest information I saw this! After I gave up my attempt at a petition, which I started first by the way, and threw my…
My blogging buddy Kristine at Adulting In Progress recently did a post about guilty pleasures. Her’s were reality TV shows. I don’t watch a lot of reality TV shows but it got me thinking about the ones I do watch. The BIG THREE are Survivor, Big Brother, and Amazing Race. I cut my teeth on Survivor when I started watching the second season. I haven’t missed a season since and even bought the DVDs of the first season so I…
What does the year 1920 have to do with this post? That’s when Prohibition started in the United States. My own little prohibition started a bit later. It was a year ago this month that a preliminary test suggested I might have a liver disease. I made the conscious decision to abstain from alcohol until a more thorough diagnosis could be made. If you’ve been following, you know that several months later it was confirmed and I could never drink…
Holy shit snacks! I won a major award! No, it’s not a leg lamp. Nothing as fragelay as that. It’s a Liebster Award! What’s a Liebster? Good question. Sounds close to lobster, which is funny because the person who nominated me for it can’t even eat lobster. It’s not a lobster though. Here, this might help explain. The Liebster Award is an award that exists only on the internet and is given to bloggers by other bloggers. The earliest case…
This isn’t really much of a post. We stayed in our favorite cabin up in the mountains during the Labor Day long weekend. Normally I would have taken that time to do some hiking. However, my health situation is still preventing me from doing that. So, we did the next best thing and did a little off-roading in the jeep. Thought I would share some of the Go Pro video I shot during the ride. Fair warning – if you…
Did you watch the series Breaking Bad? If not, stop reading. If you are reading this on your phone on the toilet, stop, er well, OK, finish up but then go straight to Netflix and binge all five seasons of it, then come back here. Myself and all the others who have already seen it will wait for you. Done? Cool. Wasn’t that THE BEST show you have ever seen? I rank it as my #1 TV drama series of…
I already posted about the first time I wrote a story. This is about the second time I tried that. In my younger days I was enamored with Stephen King and his books. I loved them and read them all. I wanted to write like Stephen King and tell his kind of stories. I attempted to do that on several occasions but the tales never materialized the way I thought they would and I eventually abandoned them. In 1987 when…