If anyone is interested, I have a second blog weaverjohn  where I'm detailing my weaving education and projects.  Please stop by and say hi if you are interested in weaving or spinning.

John/Omar

Today I was at COSTCO and got stuck behind to people who were clustered around one of the sample stands.

First lady was hand feeding her three children (est. ages, 11, 10, and 9).  Second gentleman watched his two daughters strip the tray of salmon on rice crackers, three times.  I finally cleared my throat and made a shooing gesture and the ( Read more... )

I had ANOTHER Doctor's appointment today, with my pulmonologist of all people, and we got into over whether or not to medicate my mild depression.  The more I think about our discussion the more pissed I get, so behind the cut is the rant, read on at your own risk.

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Well, as I said in my last post, my attention span has been suffering due to chemo, side effects and other things.  But I'm going to try to post more now.

For those who haven't heard, I've been cancer free for 3 months now.

So let's recap the time line:

( April May 2009 )

On April 6 I had my annual physical, where my MD finally agreed that there was something wrong with my right testicle.  I've been saying this for two years, but now that it had grown to about 3x the size of the other one, he finally agreed ( Read more... )

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The first five people to comment in this post get to request a sketch of a character of their choosing from me. In return, they have to post this in their journal, regardless of their drawing ability level. If you absolutely can't draw, I don't see why you wouldn't be able to offer drabbles or icons or something instead.

Got home from Pennsic yesterday and jumped right back into work today.  I sometime think that it isn't worth taking vacations because of the amount of work that awaits you when you get back to your office.

For some reason I agreed to be part of the MDA Executive Lock-up this year.  I will get even with the person who gave then my name because he ( Read more... )

The next few days I"ll be blogging for the Council meetings of the American Library Association.  Council is the 180+ group that represents the membership and actually runs the 60,000+ American Library Association.  OK I guess the Executive Board acutally run things but Council is the major policy setting group.

Sunday (today) is the Council/ ( Read more... )