We are actually having what we call a frog strangler here. It is raining so hard it would strangle a frog that looked up... Natives slow down a little when driving but people from other parts of the country put on flashers and either slow way down or pull off the road. Windshield wipers are overwhelmed. I am not driving today, happily, but we have ( Read more... )

I have been unable to come up with words, forgetting stuff, and wondering if I am losing my mind, so I went to Neuropsych at Shands Hospital (University of Florida) and had myself tested. The results: I am a "cognitive superstar" to quote the report. I feel a lot of relief.
I am finally reading Pain Free by Pete Egoscue, instead of just looking up ( Read more... )

I just went on LJ for the first time in a long while and I still like it better than FB, so why do I waste hours on FB? Gotta work on that ( Read more... )

I finally finished my taxes, on time, and am feeling liberated. I have been having Orthobionomy treatments at the UF Ortho center and they are helping. I lie on the table and Kalpesh Patel slides his hands under me and waits. Gradually frozen muscles wake up. It is so weird. One time I felt as if my clothing were moving on its own, but it was a ( Read more... )

I just put the apple pie in the oven at 9:30 PM so I will be up for a while... Haha ( Read more... )

I have been doing mostly Facebook where I get very unsettled because of the tons of veteran friends I have who think research and independant thinking mean listening to Faux News and going to right wing websites, where they tell the TRUTH that the media keeps from us ( Read more... )

Unbelievably  someone actually plagiarized Bob's memoir, Chickenhawk! Word for word in most places except when this idiot doesn't make any of the mistakes Bob did and does all the heroic things Bob's buddies did. He also adds a lot of exploits at LZ X-Ray probably lifted from some other book. You can read an article about this guy, Dennis Surrendi ( Read more... )

So I am getting my knee arthroscopically surgeried on January 2. It went back to hurting like a sonofawhatever. They can also inject your knee with some goop made from rhino horns or rooster combs or slime or something, but I'll try that if this doesn't give me relief ( Read more... )

I haven't been posting but I have been reading posts kind of randomly ( Read more... )

I am slow to get things done, so I am pretty happy to say I got together a selection of reviews for Woodland Litter Critters ABC and Bob is making a flyer to mail to bookstores and libraries. I also managed to put the Kirkus review and several others on Amazon ( Read more... )