Joanie is coming home today from the care facility. We’re hoping that the familiar surroundings will perk her up and help her focus better on where she is and what’s going on. All we can do is try and see what happens. My heart goes out to her and to her family as this is tough on everyone.
I replaced all the burned out bulbs in her house with compact fluorescents. I don’t know if the house has wiring issues or if the bulbs were simply old, but it seems like I’ve had to replace a lot of bulbs in the last few months.
The slugs were ravaging my garden so I was forced to put out snail bait and it seems to have stopped the problem.
I’ve been reading the free stuff from Mass Control and it’s given me a few ideas about reconfiguring my internet marketing efforts so I plan to start working on that today and hope to have most of it in place by the end of this weekend.
The new monitor I ordered for Bob and Pearl tracks for delivery on Friday so it looks like I could have a pretty busy weekend.
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So the extra RAM I ordered for my new system turned out to not be compatible with my Asus motherboard. Who’d a thunk it? I thought RAM compatibility issues went away years ago. Anyway, NewEgg seems to be cool about it and I got an automatic return authorization. Now I’ve got to wait for a sale on the RAM that is compatible for my MB.
It’s always something…
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Ok, I haven’t been blogging lately and I’ve decided that’s a bad thing. It doesn’t matter who reads this blog, it only matters that I make the attempt to be part of society, even if it is only in this weird and limited way.
Joanie is not doing well. She’s withdrawn and won’t feed herself or participate in her recovery. And the biggest problem is not knowing if she won’t participate or can’t participate. There doesn’t seem to be a physical reason with her body as she does a good job of fighting off the physical therapist, but there may be a physical reason in her brain. It’s all very disturbing, but they will keep trying and hope for the best.
My part is keeping the house going. This morning I watered house plants and this weekend I’m going to do a major inventory of what needs to be done on a regular basis and make a checklist.
Life goes on and if anything, Joanie’s situation has reminded me that I need to participate more in my own life.
I’m planning to go to San Diego this weekend to see my friend Chris and I’m hoping Dawn will go with me. Maybe even Melissa too. It should be fun.
Tonight I’m going to help Bob and Pearl with their computer. I got them a new monitor and speakers and webcam so I’ll be hooking them up and helping them use their new system. They are such great people that it is always a pleasure spending time with them.
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I remember back in the early days of dial-up access how excited we all were about the ways the internet was going to change everything. “The only thing it will change is everything” was our mantra.
It’s been a small pleasure of mine to see how true that has become.
In the last couple of years, I’ve become increasingly involved in men’s health issues and I’m excited about how the internet has changed the area of medicine. The biggest change is that people now have access to information that previously was unavailable. A few clicks of my mouse and I can read things like:
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF CLINICAL ENDOCRINOLOGISTS MEDICAL GUIDELINES FOR CLINICAL PRACTICE FOR THE EVALUATION AND TREATMENT OF HYPOGONADISM
IN ADULT MALE PATIENTS
In other words, I have access to the same information my doctor has access to. What is even more exciting is that not only can I read the protocols, I can also tap into forums and blogs of patients going through treatment and get access to the latest cutting edge information – stuff my doctor doesn’t have the time or inclination to deal with. After speaking with my doctor about these issues, there is no doubt that I am actually better informed than he is about the health issues that concern me the most.
This is a good thing for me, but it makes for difficult conversations with a doctor that is used to being the one holding all the cards.
One again, however, the internet makes that problem not so much of a problem because once I decide on a course of treatment, I can simply order the meds I need from an offshore pharmacy and proceed to treat myself.
To quote Humble Pie… “I don’t need no doctor!”
Now I’m not so reckless as to advocate that people start self-medicating willy-nilly just because they can, but in an era when the government has declared a war on testosterone, it’s cool that I can educate myself about the issues and then decide my own course of action.
I think this is increasingly becoming the case with many health issues and I’m all for it.
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I get up every morning determined to both change the world and have one
hell of a good time. Sometimes this makes planning my day difficult.—E.
B. White
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I’ve been blessed in so many ways and I’m grateful for every one of them. I’m also sure that those blessings include things I’m not even aware of and I’m grateful for those things as well. I don’t really have the words to express the depth of wonder and thankfulness I feel for the miracle of the gift of life. Even when I’ve been in the grip of terrible hopelessness and despair, I’m thankful for the gift and blessing of life itself.
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I used to see biochemistry as something outside of my control.
However, in the past few years, I’ve been experimenting with dietary supplements and I’ve learned that my biochemistry is something that I can tinker with. You are what you eat in ways that I previously didn’t imagine.
Very recently, I had a pretty dramatic lesson in biochemistry that really blew me away. I was able to induce and then relieve a very serious bout of depression by tinkering with my biochemistry. The induction of the depression was accidental. The relief was deliberate.
What I found is that my depression is directly related to my testosterone and estrogen levels. I’ve been taking a supplement that lowers estrogen and raises testosterone and things have been going well with it. I decided to experiment with a different product that was supposed to do the same thing but I found out that it didn’t. I found this out because a couple of weeks into the new product, my depression (which I thought was gone forever) came back with a vengeance. Once I figured out that the problem was the new supplement, I went back to the old product and within a few days, my depression lifted.
I’ve learned a number of things from this experience. 1) My biochemistry is not outside of my control. 2) My depression is directly related to my testosterone and estrogen levels. 3) Don’t mess with a good thing.
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Ed Dale has a new Thirty Day Challenge starting next week and since I’m working to learn everything I can about Internet Marketing, I signed up. Pre-season has started and I’m downloading and installing Firefox plugins today. One of the plugins is ScribeFire and this is my first post using it. Web 2.0 here I come!
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“Dood, I need you to unfuck this order that CornNut fucked up.”
I’m always being asked to unfuck things at work that are fucked up. I think unfuck is a good word. I like the word even if the process is usually a pain in the neck.
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