A woman from Jacksonville Animal Care & Control called today to confirm that I will be able to attend a volunteers meeting on Saturday morning. I said I would be there. She was so happy and bubbly, it's really hard for me to believe she was calling from JACC. She asked me if I had heard that they are actually going to be building a new shelter ( Read more... )

I don't lie. I just find it to be too much work and not very useful in general. I am able to leave information out, but lying just isn't my style. So, when I called my father back on Tuesday and he asked about my doctor's visit, I just gave him the facts. The MRI I had showed that I have some inflammation in my brain and now I have to go for ( Read more... )

I've been going to a lot of doctors and having a lot of testing done over the past couple of months. My visit with the neurologist today has led to even more testing and the suspicion of MS. Of course, I need to get a whole bunch of bloodwork done and another MRI, so I don't actually have a diagnosis yet ( Read more... )

My car often became inundated with empty bottles and cans that I'd just leave in there rather than take with me when I got out. When I'd pull into the parking lot of a store or something and found someone going through the trash looking for these things, I'd give them all of the bottles and cans that were in my car. Whew, they'd be thrilled to ( Read more... )

Spent the weekend in Ruskin, FL just outside Tampa for Jim's family reunion. It was a nice place and a good time. It was also good to get a break from work. I'd been working so much last week. Basically, if I wasn't sleeping, I was working. This week won't be a whole lot different either ( Read more... )

And the particular design flaw I'm annoyed by today is the sensitivity of the "funny bone."

Elbows are designed to stick out and have lots of range. Yet, right at the part that sticks out the most is this ultra-senstive area that causes great pain even in response to a slight tap. What sense does that make?

So, I've decided to quit smoking again. Yeah, I did that 6 month stint and then went back. STUPID, STUPID, STUPID! So, I'll likely be somewhat miserable for the next few weeks, but it's the right thing to do. Why can't someone just invent a healthy cigarette? =P

Jim was one of the guys putting out this fire at World Golf Village this morning. The house belongs to the guy, Peter O'Neill, who painted this picture after 9/11.

Luckily, no one was hurt. Still tough to see all of someone's belongings go up in flames.

The night before I left for Las Vegas, I had a call with my company. Apparently they have decided to discontinue offering the product that I manage. I wasn't really surprised by the decision. I knew the revenues were not enough and sales wasn't doing jack shit to sell the product. I was, however, surprised by the timing. They just invested ( Read more... )

So, as I said, I've been reading more lately...

If you want to know how the hell the American operation in Iraq got so fucked up, just read Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone by Rajiv Chandrasekaran. If it wasn't such an unbelievably serious issue, it would be a very funny account of bumbling idiots who don't have a clue ( Read more... )