January was a bust, in every sense of the word, so for me on this day of Feb.1, 2009, I'm declaring this as my New Year, and will start all over again, there's no doubt that it'll be better.  Plenty has happened, the good, the bad, and the ugly.  One of the good thing...

Hard to believe. I have always thought that getting back your own stem cells hardly qualifies as a "transplant", but that's what they call it. Officially, it's an "Autologous" stem cell transplant when they give back your own, previously harvested stem cells. When y...

  Success!  Yesterday we got a new computer, after having the same one for well over 6 years and working with the same old programs, this has been----let's say "challenging".  I've had a few other words for it, but if I can make this post and add photo...

  For the last 2 years, I've tried to get a photo of a crow, but they don't sit still long enough around here to let that happen.  But on Thanksgiving Day, as gray as it was, I did it!  Not perfect, but I'll take it.  As grateful as I am for that picture, th...

1. Sick even unto death. Not 'cancel Thanksgiving' sick, but 'drink lots of herbal tea' -- yes, I am DRINKING HERBAL TEA, clearly I must be dying -- and 'sloth around Kate and GP's place in my pajamas' and 'wish for death' levels of sick. 2. Apparently, the fevered mind copes with its situation by w...

  This morning we woke up to our first snowfall of the season, and it suddenly felt much colder than what it really is.  But we have a nice toasty warm house to stay in, so I can't complain.  In fact, it's something to celebrate-yes, even though I haven't been posting d...

* MEDICAL: I still have back problems. This really shouldn’t be news to anyone who’s been here for more than fifteen minutes. On the plus side, we’ve got me on some new medications that seem to be working very, very well. Well enough, in fact, that my focus has been shot for the past several d...

  Doesn't look like much, does it?  It's the stack of papers that Gary & I worked on last week, that I talked about in the previous post.  Believe it or not, there's 71 pieces of paper, and if it hadn't frozen last night I'd love to do at least that many mor...

Another sad situation as the ex-Yankee player and broadcaster has died of brain cancer after a two year struggle. Murcer joined the Yanks in the late 1960's, touted as the successor to Mickey Mantle - they were even both from Oklahoma. While never achieving Mantle's level, he had an excellent career...

While I have no time at all for Ted Kennedy's phony progressive politics, I am sorry that he's now faced with a terrible struggle with brain cancer. And of course it effects his whole family. The Washington Post has an in-depth feature on his wife Vicki, and their relationship. The Steadfast...