It has become harder and harder to post here. Though I would love to hold my breath until changes come I suspect I am going to have to find a new place to post my stupid and inane thoughts. I will continue to come here to post on B.B. & Survivor (though some nights I have to back out and try again two or three times) and I will still pop on my ( Read more... )

Super busy and super tired as of late (too many days over 115) so I have not been posting a lot... but I sure have been watching a lot of TV (right in front of two large fans).

The Bachelorette , arrrrgh ! I cannot stand Michael. His very face and voice and everything just repulse the hell out of me. It really seems like the producers went for ( Read more... )

According to the weatherheads we are going to be hitting somewhere around the 118° F mark in the next two days. No, I am not looking forward to it LOL. Today I was spraying some of the canned spray-on rubber to try to stop a leak... the stuff was literally too liquid, when it hit the pipe I needed to seal, to stick, so I will have to try again ( Read more... )

I tend to be much better at imagining dealing with my fears than I am at dealing with them. One of my fears, as a non-swimmer who has nearly drowned on a couple of occasions, is getting in or real near any water (pool, lake, ocean... whatever). It terrifies me. Today I decided to take a dip in a pool. Easy, yes ? No. I sat for a few minutes with my ( Read more... )

Probably not everyone will get wishing a happy 70th birthday to a deceased friend. But, I am odd that way. My memory is frazzled but certain dates do stand out. I had planned on doing a J & B on the Rocks (his favorite Scotch Whisky to drink and his former Citizen's Band (C.B. radio) handle, but the budget could only afford a cheaper type of J.B ( Read more... )

This has been one of those weeks where a bunch of little things has just left me in a miserable mood. First a favorite website, which I have been a member of since it started in 2003, folded. Mind you it has been pretty much dead for a bit, but I hate seeing it go. (Another site... the first poetry site I ever posted on... is joining it). Then a ( Read more... )

Fifty years ago today (June 11, 1963) Buddhist monk Thich Quang Duc etched himself into the minds of so many when he sat in an intersection in Saigon and self-immolated in protest of the South Vietnamese government's treatment of Buddhists. The images of him burning, sitting peacefully in perfect repose until he gently toppled over dead, won ( Read more... )

This week has been a kind of mediocre mess. From the time of my migraine last week I still have a significant amount of tenderness / soreness. That is unusual for me as they seldom hurt this way more than a couple days. Then, Friday, I lost my dial-up connection because of some e-mail I ignored (I asked advice from a computer guy and he said it ( Read more... )

I am trying some stuff on HTML ... just in case.

So let us go through hell.

And try out some HTML.

And hope that this "crap" does not smell.

Well, while watching America's Got Talent last night (liked the 10-year-old girl singer... she had poise way beyond her years... also liked Special Head... but fear he might be a one-trick pony) I noticed an aura, then it got brighter and nastier.. and voila, the dreaded migraine. I decided to post the foods / stressors for the day in hope that ( Read more... )