I've always said that it was impossible, but I continued to jump into the future.  The bad thing is that I lose the past days that I skipped and sometimes I have a vague recollection of what happened on those days.  Actually, I now only believe that time travel is impossible to go "back", not "forward".  How else could I get so far in the future without certain days?

Moron!

If you say that anyone that does [insert action] is a moron, the you have just insulted anyone and everyone that does that  [insert action], especially those that do [insert action] and have heard or read what you just said.  "Anybody that watches Scrubs is a moron!"  I heard that the other day and the guy wasn't speaking to me, but I did say "hi" and shake his hand.  I introduced myself as Dave Moron!  From his reactions, he seemed taken back like someone was going to physically hurt him, but I didn't.  Though I don't like expressions like that, since it classifies EVERYONE that does a certain thing into one category, I'm still not a violent person.  Violent person?  Well... that's a different classification and heading.

Violent Person

I define a violent person as someone that looks for opportunities to do physcial or mental harm.  I do not go around and look for physical or mental fights.  That in no way means that I'm a pacifist.  I will defend myself when that time is called upon.  Yes, I'm the one that decides when that time is called upon.  The physical part is easy:  touch me or make me go into a defensive mode with the intent to harm me, and you'll find that I will fight.  Been there and done that, too often, and I carry scars from those that would abuse (but they lost).  Now the mental part is a little harder since I can defend without doing much hurt, like laughing it off.  Or maybe a verbal beating is needed, but the recipient only goes away with their pride hurt, none have gone to the hospital.  I've always assumed that none have gone to seek psychological help.

So that was just said to say that I won't classify someone or a group of someones as a moron(s) because of frivolent things, like watching a soap opera (which I can't stand).  I will call someone a moron when they ride on your butt with their headlights on the high beams and it's pooring down the rain, just for an example (generally speaking I call them an "idgit" which is slightly higher than an "idiot").  And when they show me that they're number one (you know the signal of them raising one finger, the middle one, high in the air to symbolize their superiority), then I raise my number 2 signal with my upraised "v" symbol, you know, like victory...I mean "Peace", the number 2.  So most of those have been morons, but they were still number one and me number two.  And with that, I again say that I'm not in the violent class; I don't chase 'em down and make 'em pay!  Road rage anyone?

Even the shrink that I had to go to after the car wreck said I was, I can't remember the name....like an aggravated depressant, but I'm not violent.  He told me it was what the postal guy had when he went in and killed some fellow workers, but he told me that I had everything under control.  I started to call him a moron and break his nose, but I don't think that would have done well for me and my future.  However, I did tell him that I would go "chemical", not "postal" because of the chemical plant where I had worked.  He thought that was a clever joke.  Gee.

What brought that on?  Maybe it was the guy that jumped out of his car screaming that I had slammed his car with my door when I got out of mine after parking beside him.  I calmly told him that I was sorry that I had gently bumped his door and there were no marks or anything.  He insisted that I had slammed it and almost destroyed his car.  When he was within about 5 feet of me, I could smell the alcohol.  I apologized again and assured him that there was no damage.  He was yelling about my slamming, along with some profanities.  I not so calmly, and kinda' loudly, asked him what he wanted.  He just wanted to be loud and obnoxious, and he was succeeding.  At about 4 feet away, I told him not to come any closer to me because he was going to get hurt.  He just shut up and walked across the street into the gym to watch a basketball game.....same place I was going.  After he went in, I moved my vehicle around the block and went inside.  Even inside he was complaining and making all kinds of gestures in my direction, but he was complaining to a friend of mine.  Of course, I walked over to greet my friend and he told me that this guy was a dumb a** and had a drinking problem.  I told him that he was about to have a walking problem, and we both laughed.  You know, the drinker didn't have any fun during any of those games.  I don't understand the mentality to get there, but I can understand the addiction that keeps one there.

In this state, we're still behind the times compared to other states.  For example, the violent crime rate, et al, are much lower than other states.  However, this state is in the top number of states that have firearms per capita (did I use that correctly?).  You know, there's more guns than there are people.  With that in mind, is it really smart to want to get out of your car and start a fight?  One of those things that make you go hmmmm....

Basketball is Violent

Yep, my youngest son got elbowed in the side of the head when going for a reboung.  Once down the floor and back to that end and he got elbowed in the same spot.  The second time we saw blood.  So the officials had to stop the game and substitute him out because of the blood.  We did a small cleaning and bandaging and he was back in the game.  He was also the high scorer on his team with 34 points (he gave it all for bb, whoa!).  At the hospital, they said they could put 3 or 4 stitches in there, or let Dad help him clean it up and take care of it.  He elected for the second one; it was way cheaper!  Since it was in his hair, I didn't superglue him like my last cuts.  LoL!

I can believe that I've gone on like I have, but the barometer is dropping (slowly) and I'm starting to feel better than normal.  Like just a #4 migraine.  Nice.

In Like March

Remember an ol' saying about how March comes in?  Like if it comes in like a lion, it goes out like a lamb.  Right now I could care less about March, but I hope the new year is like that.  I've not had a good time since my last post....well, not having a good time now.  I am surviving!  So if 2007 comes in like a lion, will it go out like a lamb?

I ended up back in the hospital around December 27th due to a killer migraine.  The Stadol Cocktail worked again, but I came home and my computer was screwed up.  My AV was off with a server failure.  My malware protection was turned off and I couldn't update it.  Sign of a trojan, huh?  I don't know how my defenses went down, but I think it was due to someone coming in here when I wasn't up and about and doing something, or going somewhere, they shouldn't have.  Maybe it was me when all drugged up.  I can tell you that if you read a message in Hotmail, don't delete it while reading because it will automatically open the next message in line.  If that message has something bad in it, you just got it.  Thanks Hotmail and McAfee!  I might become a Linux and Ubuntu user yet (I know that there's vulnerabilities in every system, but none have as many as Windows.).  Anyway, back to the story...

The water heater went out around 8pm on December 31st.  I broked the dryer vent and exterior hood while replacing the water heater on January 2nd.  The migraine started beating me up again the day I came home, and then my oldest son came home with some bug that now has me coughing up some blood again (bronchitis).  The cortizone shot in my shoulder lasted about 2 weeks and it's hurting again.  My doctor appointment yesterday got me scheduled for surgery on my rotator cuff on the 18th.

Did I say that my head is killing me?  It's got to start going uphill, but maybe that will be near the end of the year....you know, like near the end of March thing.  I don't know if anyone will understand that, but there you go.

Meat Tenderizer

A good thing that happened is that we got to try out my new meat tenderizer.  We processed our last two deer by only making burger and boneless tenderized steaks; even tenderized the finger steaks out of the tenderloin.  My Hunni has already cooked some up (twice since then) and it's been delicious.  The tenderizer earned its place in our small butcher shop.  I'll have to blog about our shop someday...we have some nice ways of doing up meat that most butchers won't do for their clients without lots of extra charges (like tenderizing all the boneless steaks), but since we do it for ourselves, then we'll do all that extra stuff (even vacuum pack everything and increase the freezer life and prevent freezer burn).

2007 Microsoft MVP Award

I received notice that I won the 2007 Microsoft MVP Award on January 1st.  Okay, so maybe the thread about going to Linux was idle.  The award was for my Windows - PC Gaming technical support.  I've got alot more stuff to learn about the award and its benefits, but really pleased with that. Visit here to learn more about it.

I'm kinda' pround of my newest accomplishment: getting video on my digital camera and then getting it downloaded onto my computer and then uploaded to Google!  With that in mind, look at the post before this one.

BTW, that's Monaghan and it's a little dark with the natural light of the bathroom.

Happy Holidays!

I hope everyone has a great holiday.  May the New Year be happy, and those that follow!

I just wish people wouldn't tell me how bad I am for not celebrating this holiday like most of those around me.  Come on!  Everyone is entitled to their own ridiculous opinion, including me.  So, I'm different....don't most people know that by now?  Geemyknee!

The FogWalker is hoping for the migraine to lessen....the pain is intense....

This might not look the best 'cause it is my first time.  But it's cool, none the less.

The FogWalker is going to seek oblivion...the migraine is winning....

The upcoming holidays have brought our classes and volleyball to a halt until next year.  That doesn't mean to NOT practive until next year; it does mean that we won't meet together for the practice.  The next two Sundays are Eves and the Mondays are "the" days.  So, the Tuesdays and Thursdays are just given as "adjoining" days and we've got a few days off from everything.

However, 7 January 2007 starts my routine back again.  Sunday is Tai Chi Chuan and Sanuces Ryu; Monday is Volleyball, Tuesday is Sanuces Ryu, and Thursday is Moo Duk Kwan.  That's my main activities are getting my movement in.  If I don't move around some, I set up like concrete.  :p

The Family

Everyone seems to be doning well.  Both my son and my Hunni and back to normal.  Don't ask what normal is!  Hehehe!  Right now, and for the last two days, we've had a rain that has set in and I'm feeling pretty decent with the migraine.  It's had some really low numbers.

My problem is still the OC and lack of sleep.  I'm taking Requip for the restless leg syndrome and that's doing fairly well now.  My sugar is under control and I'm taking Bios Life 2 for that and cholesterol.  But my mind is still going one zillion mph and I can't sleep.  The Ambien should help with that.  And to end the bronchitis, I'm taking the cough syrup to keep me from coughing and that will help the throat and bronchial "stuff" not to be inflamed.

Who says that I need to be alert?

Extended Antlerless Season

I was just told that instead of 2 days of an extended season for antlerless deer with a firearm, we now have 4 days.  I had planned on driving over each day and driving back home each day for 2 days, but not for 4.  However, I'm thinking that information is incorrect and that there's only 2 more days for that season.  I think the 2 days in front of that season are for youth ony.  Time to check it out!

I really didn't want to get my tents out again until spring, but then again, I like setting up my tent and staying in it.  Nice!  As a matter of fact, I plan on doing two upgrades to my tent for next season.  One, there is a wood-burning stove for it that could help make it toasty.  Two, there is a new propane heater with a blowere that I thought about getting to help with those really cold days!  That's all next year stuff...hmm, next year is just around the corner!

Pics

I got a lot of pics taken with my DiMage, but I took them with the highest resolution and the largest size.  Even at that, it will hold around 1000 pics.  When I downloaded them, I realized that having a pic 3000+ pixels wide is just tooooooo big!  Geemyknee!  So, I set the resolution down quite a bit for the next pics, and I'm going to downsize the ones that I have now.

My Hunni is back from the hospital and even working.  She's not only doing lots better, but she's just plain tough!  I wish I was that tough.  My two sons are doing well, too.  I'm really thankful that they're all doing so well!

Though they are doing well, I'm still having a rough time.  I'm just not tough like my Hunni.  I am getting over the sinus infection (cleared up) and mostly over the bronchitis.  I still have a cough that keeps the bronchial stuff inflamed.  So the doc gave me some cough syrup (with codine, of course).  And since I've not been sleeping, he's also give me some meds to make me sleep.  And being the OC person that I am, and since I've tried doing a zillion things in the last week or two (regardless of day or night), I'm taking some chill pills.  I'm not going to mention the valium for the flair up of my Meniere's.  So, I've got a bad migraine, I'm taking stuff that makes me sleepy and keeps me dopey all day, and I'm dizzy with the Meniere's..... sometimes life is hard.

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I left last Wednesday morning for another excursion into the wilds of wonderful, Almost Heaven West Virginia.  And I had planned on writing all about it on Saturday morning when I got back, but things just didn't go as planned.  I would have been on here sooner, but my Hunni was getting really sick, but she didn't feel sick enough to go to the hospital.

Sunday morning arrived and my Hunni had not eaten, had drank some little amounts of water due to my insistence, and she was getting sicker.  We went to church, and I would have been in here sooner, but I had to bring her home because she was sick.  She still didn't want to go to the hospital, just relax at home.

But there was no relaxation and I took her to the hospital around 3pm.  I would have been on here sooner, but it took until 10pm before they had determined that she was very sick and was being admitted into the hospital.

Another hour and a half and I was on my way home.  I would have been on sooner, but I had a #9 migraine and I should have gotten it taken care of at the hospital...though I didn't.

I got up Monday and would have been on here sooner, but I had to get over to see my Hunni.  It wasn't until 4:30pm that they finally determined that her pain level was really high and gave her something for pain.  I had complained to every nurse in the hospital and anyone else that would listen, but it took a long time for the doc to say okay.  She still had not eaten since Saturday breakfast, which was like a piece of toast.

So, my oldest son gets off work and I take him home.  I chewed him out for NOT doing some of the things that I had requested when I left.  An hour after that, he walks in the house and tells me he is not seeing well (that's his aura for a seizure).  I got him seated and we talked as long as we could before he had a full blown seizure.  I would have been on sooner, but I needed to take care of him.  I finally got him in bed.  He has migraines after seizures, and I think the stress of the days had made mine even worse.

Then my youngest son calls and tells me how he was almost in a car accident moments before his call.  He was okay, and nothing was wrong with the car.  I would have been on here sooner, but I waited for him to make it here so we could talk.

My migraine really went through the roof.  I've got about 2 hours of sleep and too many hours of stress.  I would have been on here sooner, but I think you understand.

I thank God that it's Tuesday and we can begin a new day.  I'm not real thankful for this migraine, but won't today have to be better than the last day?  I certainly hope so.

I can't remember the last time that I slept all night without waking up.  Oh wait, that's a lie, because it was last night.  But, I can't remember the last time before that one.  I don't know if it was because I was exhausted, or I wasn't feeling well because of the migraine, or what.  Whatever it was, it is grand to sleep the whole night through and waking up with my alarm.

Even Monie wasn't in there meowing in my face to wake me before the alarm. 

My Mule

I had taken my Mule to the shop on the fourth.  It had become crippled up and I was afraid that they would put it down.  But after a valve job, change of all fluids, new filters, lift kit in the front, and various other asundry items, Lil' Red is back to normal.  Actually, not back to normal, but better than the past normal.

I get to pick it up today.  It's kinda' interesting that I have a 5x10 trailer and it practically fills that trailer.  I have about 3" clear on both sides and about 10" total clearance in front and back.  That's tight!  It, in the trailer, rides right behind me when pulling it down the road!

Another Excursion

The call of the wild has me again.  I'm leaving in the morning to go back over and camp again.  Though it's supposed to be considerably colder than last time, there's not supposed to be any rain (maybe snow).  That means that I might be able to take my camera out with me this time and take some pics.  I dream of having great pics on my site like Moniet, who always seems to have some good ones!

I'll be taking my smaller tent and less "stuff" this time.  I can keep the smaller tent a little bit warmer when I'm in there, and that may be handy this time.  I won't have to worry about a cooler this time; the great outdoors will be it.

So, I'll be leaving Wednesday morning and coming back on Saturday or Sunday.

Sick

This morning is the best that I've felt in the last month.  My migraine is down to a 4, which is very good.  My sinus infection, along with the bronchitis, seems almost gone.  I can eat again, so the 24 hour whatever stomach virus is gone.  Ahhhhh!

The worse part is that I found out from the orthopedic doctor that carpal tunnel symptoms can come back and I have a numb index finger on my right hand.  The answer was a cortizone shot in the wrist.  I also have this rather large bone spur in my left shoulder, only about the size of a quarter.  The temporary answer to that was a cortizone shot in the shoulder.  Those two shots were really good.  Not!

I guess sometime in 2007, I'll have to have the arthroscopy done on my shoulder to get rid of the bone spur.  Cortizone is hardly the remedy.  Or maybe it will just break off, weave it's way through my body to my sinuses, and I can blow it out on a tissue and throw it away!  Yeah, I do like science fiction!

My Hunni and I went out to eat breakfast at Burger King before church.  It was okay.  But I didn't quite make it to the van when I lost breakfast.  Well, it really wasn't lost, since I know where it is on the parking lot.  We made it to church and I just spotted the back parking lot.  After we got comfortably seated in Sunday School class, I asked her to take me back home.  Besides the bronchitis, sinus infection (which those two are getting better), I added a stomach virus and my migraine exploded today.

So today, my biggest accomplishment was surviving.  I think.

My youngest son got the stomach virus and he's been doing the same thing.  It's really nice how a family can share things.

The FogWalker goes back to oblivion....

I'm not the bloody wreck that I was at the beginning of this week.  And I stayed inside most of the week and didn't finish out the buck season looking for that wall-hanger.  I'm getting better.  No old jokes from me about older and better.  I only have about 4 more days of the prescription where the 4 pills cost around $60 (after insurance).  I'm really glad the doc gave me 6 of them from samples.  I'd hate to think what 10 of those pills would have cost.

Changed Plans

My brother and Dad didn't get to go the remainder of this past week.  So we changed our plans to go back hunting this Wednesday through half a day Saturday.  Monday starts the antlerless season, so we can still get Dad out and try to get him a deer.  Our biggest goal is to help Dad get one.  He's 86 and that would be an accomplishment that would make all of us extremely happy.

The following week is muzzleloading season and we'll probably go the last few days of it, too.  Then, other that two of the last days in December, we're back to bow season.  I love bow hunting, but the deer are extremely skidish after all the "big bang" seasons (4 weeks of 'em).