My Poppi just died. A short struggle in ICU and I asked for something to make him comfortable. It wasn't much longer and he was calm. That's all I wanted for him ( Read more... )

My trip home to southern Illinois has been extended, as it seems the case each time I come ( Read more... )

I'm sitting on what I hope is the right train to my friends' house in Chicago. Its past 230a and I've been drinking with some fantastically funny firefighters from all over ( Read more... )

Floorboards done. Thank goodness work did not get in the way of me working! Sometimes my job is amazing. And when I can get a major undertaking like this completed it's just that...amazing ( Read more... )

Today I learned to use a plasma cutter. Which might I say is a fabulous thing! I loved it! I used it to cut out the rusty floorboards in Buellah. It was time. I figure if I'm going to put in a rebuilt engine sometime (since I just took that completely apart) I should finally put in those floorboards ( Read more... )

'It was meant for is to find each other' he said as we sat in my backyard drinking tecate (yes it was a bad diet day for krump) and shooting the shit. 'Two southern raised folks finding ourselves living the life here in san fran ( Read more... )

I'm sitting outside a coffee shop on divisedero sipping a mocha and wishing I had a book. I've decided to go out on a limb and do something I have not done in ages. I'm going to a concert all by myself ( Read more... )

As Rae got ready to bail out to go to a bar with some of her friends, she stuck her head in my room. A gentle invite, without saying the words, and I declineds. Lack of funds. I have the dog ( Read more... )

So I got a message from my Background Investigator. I should get a letter within the month ( Read more... )

Yesterday I learned what supreme disappointment felt like. It's crushing. It is like a severe sucker punch right in the gut. Sucked the wind out of me. For all that I put into this and the rug got pulled out from under my feet ( Read more... )