i don’t know if anybody still reads this thing or not .. *shrugs*

the trip i mentioned in the last entry was back home to help my mom turn 65 ~ saw my relatives, finally met my nephew and even got together with most of me ol peeps .. stayed over at me brudda’s new place for a few days too ~ my housewarming gift being a ten-pound sledgehammer, ( Read more... )

gone for fourteen days ..

~ ten pairs of socks and underwear;
~ ten t-shirts, two longsleeve t-shirts, two collared shirts, a brown zip-up cardigan, a dri-tec night shirt;
~ camo-print bombers shorts, khaki trouser shorts, trousers n belt, pyjama pants;
~ the camo-print hightop chucks i got for the trip to the retreat a couple summers ago and my ( Read more... )

so .. i worked that thursday night with my finger in a temporary splint, and although i was a bit gimped i could still get by. in the evening i got a call from the hospital ~ they had a spot available for the surgery, if i wanted it, on friday morning, may the 9th. i mentioned that i had to work at 3pm and so they said they’d give me the first ( Read more... )

they had been predicting overcast skies, winds and chilly temperatures, and they were right, sort of ~ it did clear up by 7, but there was a pretty good wind coming across the field, all of us bombers wished we had brought another layer or two ..

we were up against the pirates ~ not everyone on their team showed up, so we had a little practice ( Read more... )

it’s been months now that i have been on the evening shift at work ~ originally it was 12:30 p.m. til 9, and that got moved ahead to 3 p.m. til 11. when it came time to figure out what’s going to happen when softball season starts, we discussed a series of options until finally deciding on the contour ( Read more... )

once again, this journal has gone stale ( Read more... )

once again, this journal has gone stale. *blushes* the first story to tell ( Read more... )

here’s a list of people whose passing in 2007 i noted *holds hand over heart*~ Stephen Krantz (january 4 ( Read more... )

so .. first day back to work after christmas today ..

before i left home i did my usual news-weather-sports roundup on the internet and was both surprised and disappointed to find out about benazir bhutto’s assassination in pakistan. i was hoping that her return would be the start of better things to come, and now .. *shakes head*

my li’l ( Read more... )

i received these pictures by email ~ m. uses puppets in her preschool classes in japan .. she made one of herself, and s. of course, as well as this one, which is named after me. i’m told it’s the kids’ favourite .. *big grin*


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