I will do better tonight and tomorrow, though.

Not a strong beginning to this process, but that is okay. I am focusing on a gradual improvement, and that is what it will be ( Read more... )

As opposed to much smaller chunks thus far. ;-)

I am going to turn the focus of this diary over to my attempts to get healthier and happier. I am about to embark on a 27-month program designed to get me ready to turn 50.

That is right: I am counting down the months to the BIG 5-0Now, this may seem sorta early to start thinking about turning 50. ( Read more... )

'DOWNHILL BATTLE -- DJ Danger Mouse's recent Grey Album, which remixes Jay-Z's The Black Album and the Beatles White Album, has been hailed as a innovative hip-hop triumph. Despite that and the fact that only 3,000 copies of the album are in circulation, EMI sent cease and desist letters yesterday to Danger Mouse and the handful of stores that were ( Read more... )

http://www.litrix.com/A online reading room filled with many classic tales, from a variety of genres: Jules Verne, H.G Wells, Philip José Farmer, and Edgar Rice Burroughs in the Sci-Fi Room, while such writers as Mark Twain, O' Henry, Bram Stoker, Edgar Allan Poe, Oscar Wilde, Zane Grey, Plato, William Shakespeare, Aldous Huxley, Arthur Conan Doyle ( Read more... )

Okay, just getting into a bit of my family genealogy. Seems I am one of the 79,000 (!) descendants of one Andreas Killian who was born in Germany in 1702, but moved to Lancaster County, Pennsylvania at age 31. He was a literate and fairly successful pioneer. He moved to NC after only a year or so in Pennsylvania, and there died at the ripe old age ( Read more... )

Well, back in the journal, at least. I am again going to try to post something daily, at least. Or maybe shorter posts more than once a day ( Read more... )

Yay! My heart is sound, with no significant defects. No word yet on my mind, although the voices tell me it is fine.

This means I get to stop yet another med, in this case coumadin. I am on my way to drug-free by 2005.

Oh, and I have new boss at work now. Big changes are afoot, and I hope to benefit from them in the long run.

Rumors of my demise are premature. Though perhaps not greatly so, since I will go in for a procedure requiring General Anesthesia tomorrow. For those of you unfamiliar with the military, General Anesthesia has two assistants, known as Major Pain and Major Trauma. These guys used to work alongside of my head instructor in school, Corporal Punishment ( Read more... )

mdsmaddog called me last night, and invited me to join his group on a trek down to Atlanta for a party watching the Daytona 500. I was, of course, delighted by the chance. I get way too few chances to really have a good time with great friends. Since drinking is pretty much a thing of the past for me, I have volunteered to be the designated driver for the ( Read more... )