A while back, James McNally introduced me to a group called the Sojourners. They are a rare breed of evangelical Christians who are actually trying to live according to Jesus’ standard rather than their own self-aggrandizing agendas. The beliefs that poverty is a serious socio-economic issue, and that war is a serious global/moral issue, and […]

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The veggie garden is officially growing. I planted broccoli, cauliflower, cherry tomatoes, roma tomatoes, and peppers in a little terrarium on Monday night. I know I’m a little behind the curve by starting them from seed this late - I should have started them in late December, early January - but I’m going to stick […]

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Severe Gallbladder Disease. That’s the way the doctor put it just now on the phone. My ejection fraction is only 5%. A healthy gallbladder ejects about 35% of its contents after a fatty meal. Mine only ejects 5%. And so when I eat a fatty meal and my gallbladder tries to squeeze out bile, it […]

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Did you know I’m planning to have a vegetable garden this year? I am. I made this decision around last October. I’ve got plenty of space for it, considering there’s a whole nother plot of land to the south of us that happens to belong to us. We’re lucky that way. We got lemon of […]

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Well, frig. The ultrasound for my gallstones came back normal. Meaning, no stones showed up on the ultrasound. So the doctor has ordered a NUCLEAR test (or Nuke-u-lar, if you’re the leader of the only-free-if-you’re-a-Republican-fundamentalist-Christian world). It’s called a HIDA scan with CCK. The HIDA part is where they inject radioactive substance into my system […]

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I came across a Dio tribute album the other day, Awaken the Demon. I’ve never heard of any of the bands on that album. My guess is they’re all local heroes who got record deals after years of struggling, or selling their souls, whichever came first. The thing that disappoints me is that all the […]

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So. I just got back from 3 days in Albuquerque. My dad’s birthday. My step-mom arranged for me to fly out as a surprise for him. It worked. It was fun. I’ll post pictures when I can.
And now it’s Ari’s turn to fly away, although for less felicitous reasons. She’s leaving for Phoenix this afternoon […]

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Well, I got hacked. Fortunately, they seem to have disrupted only a small portion of this site. I hope they didn’t screw up others through mine, but they probably did. Crap. For any fledgling php coder out there, please note: do not ever allow a filename to be passed through the browser as variable for […]

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Orale ese, happy new year. Lot of stuff happening at home, some happy, some sad. On the happy side, this was our first debt-free Christmas in a long time. I’m pretty darned proud of that. On the sad side, Ari’s father was diagnosed with lung cancer on Dec. 23. He’s 68 and has always had […]

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