i went for my first drive yesterday ... just a short distance to the store for some needed things and ice cream ... getting there was a slight chore, still painful the hip is ... i enjoyed getting out, even with the usual idiots on the road ... took my time, watching the leaves and trees in a good strong wind and keeping an eye out for silly ( Read more... )

i would be roflol if my hip would allow that ... spent the day trying to find someone to explain the program SS wants me to use to find work/training/whatever !!! i -think- i've found someone ... though trying to parse these bureaucratic documents into plane english -that's 2-D stuff- when i know there are valleys hidden behind that slight rise ( Read more... )

the job hunt begins ... last job i had was driving, a tremendous amount of freedom in the job and i do not mind being alone all that much ... and i want a job i can use the real skills i have -not that driving in CT and surviving it isn't a skill- ... needed is a piece of paper or enough experience to show i can be a bookkeeper, easy enough even ( Read more... )

after observing Yom Kippur, fast and no work along with the task of humbling my soul, i find myself at a loss as to why i even bothered ... all i found in me was a tremendous desire to find a religion i could follow the steps ... i'm -really- good at following steps and procedures ... and receive salvation/forgiveness/eternal life with God and an ( Read more... )

finally sent home Saturday, had developed a urinary tract infection with resulting fever and was told i had to be w/o fever for 24 hrs. ... no one told me they consider a fever 101+ so the order to go home was a surprise. getting home was a joy and a disappointment, all in one ( Read more... )

as i begin to wind up to the imminent cutting of my leg, replacing the hip i am now hobbling about on ( Read more... )

why should i expect anything different? ... installed XP today, thought it odd i did not have the option to install clean (repartition the HDD, format and go from there) until i took a look for my second HDD ... XP didn't see it as a real drive, too large, and dumped the install files to the C: drive and couldn't repartition because of that ( Read more... )

i went visiting today, my son and daughter (new) brought their new child for me to see, and hold, and love, and enjoy ... (not only for that reason, just nice to see it in that manner) ... what a blessing ( Read more... )

in cooking ... today, well, -way early- this morning i decided to clean ... this is a new and disturbing habit i've developed, cleaning when i'm thinking of things which make me angry [and i will -not- get into ranting about roommates] -- not totally a bad thing, just disturbing -- and the freezer was my target ... found a pkg of ground beef i had ( Read more... )

i have run into a quite large collection of ebooks ... a bit of an understatement that ... SF stories from authors A - R minus Q ... well over 8,000 titles, PHEWW! ... included are two brand new titles from authors i dearly love and both the continuation of series i've been following for years ... a tremendous glut of reading material and i don't ( Read more... )