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1 December 2002
I noticed that the local Food Lion has employed an anti theft system for their shopping carts.
They have locks on the wheels that activate when they pass over a yellow
line in the parking lot. More power to em. It has always
pissed me off when I see a cart at the end of a street or in a creek and
I have just paid higher grocery prices to pay for it.
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4 December 2002
Burrr... My folks are on vacation in Tennessee . I hope
they make it home OK. It hasn't been that long ago that it
wouldn't have phased me that they were out in all this. Today I
think about such things. Payback for when my mom used to wait up
for me at night when I was a kid.
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8 December 2002
Some very chili days have past since my last entry. The power
went out shortly after my last update and just came on this
morning. After spending Wednesday and Thursday night in the cold,
we split and went to Duncan's sister's house for some warmth. The
temperature dropped to 45 degrees inside the house. Most of my
fish died and the yard is full of broken limbs but the landlord is
coming tomorrow with a chain saw to shed us of that problem.
Currently we have no cable and therefore, no internet connection so I
may not even publish this update but Duncan is currently rigging the
line to get a temporary fix. The cable line is currently lying in
the street along with a lot of other debris that may take a while to
pick up. Friday night when I came home from work, I went to check
the mail. It was so dark, I was standing beside the mailbox and
could not see it. Most of the area was without power and it was 15
degrees Friday night. I parked my Jeep in the street to insure no
limbs would fall on it Thursday night. My neighbor backed out of
her driveway and hit it. Different neighbor and different driveway
than this by the way. This one will need
to be fixed. Duncan's dad was also in and out of the hospital this
past week. He looked much better when I saw him Friday at home as
opposed to how he looked in the hospital Wednesday. Duncan's dad
is pretty cool.
On the good side, I have finished my Christmas shopping. And
thank you Beth for putting up with us. And we now have an internet
connection thanks to Duncan. And now, A
Charlie Brown Christmas.
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11 December 2002
Not much to say. I came home early today from work because I
have felt really bad this week. My job involves a lot of talking
and I just couldn't handle it today, sore throat and such. I did
get some estimates on my Jeep on the way home and it's running between
nine hundred and a thousand bucks. Body work is expensive. The
house is nice and toasty but there are still broken limbs in the yard
that need to be chain sawed and our cable line is still in the
street. The good stuff is my Christmas shopping is done.
It's the first time in a long time it has been done so early so now I
can just sit back, maybe put up some decorations this weekend.
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13 December 2002
 
 
Here are some pics from the backyard after the ice storm last
week. All the limbs have been chain sawed and brought to the curb
for pick up though it may be many weeks before they are gone.
Being the warmest day we've had in a while yesterday, both of us decided
we were in the Christmas spirit. After work, I stopped and bought
a million lights and Duncan went and got a tree and a million
lights. Together we have created our own Christmas Vacation house. Today
it is raining and the weekend is supposed to be beautiful. Now, if
I could get over this crappy cold.
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15 December 2002
Early morning sunshine, oh yea.
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19 December 2002
 
I am finally feeling so much better and I am so happy. Even
better, a girl at work who got sick on the same day last week is still
sick. Just call me evil. Also, our cable line is now out of
the street and back in the air where it should be. Work is very
slow so I have gotten home just about every day this week so I have had
a change to work on my Raleigh pages. Maybe I'll finish them
before we leave for Albany. The pictures have long since been
taken, I just need to edit them and put them together. Maybe it'll
be as cool as this.
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20 December 2002
Sometimes I wonder why life can be so hard. I found myself
watching a story about Charlton
Heston this morning. I am not a fan of his but he has just
announced that he has Alzheimer's and he was asked if he was
scared. I wonder if my dad is scared. He would never admit
it if he was. I found myself crying because it doesn't seem fair
that a person should have to go through something like that. My
dad has worked so hard to overcome some many obstacles and has
sacrificed so much for me when I was young. I hate the fact that I
may not be there for him if he needs me. All I can say is that I
have to do what he would want me to do. Improve myself the best I
can, be the best person I can be, and a phone call wouldn't be so bad
either.
Duncan is also spending a lot of time with his great aunt in the
hospital lately who is having a bout with leukemia. Since I have
known Duncan he has talked about how much he loves this woman. A
second mom or grand mom in fact. She has finished her chemotherapy
and now must recover from that. I see it is bothering him more
than he lets on.
And fry bitch.
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24 December 2002
Merry Christmas
Dammit
and many, many more...
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27 December 2002
I know this is what you've all been waiting on. The spectacular
grand opening event of my Raleigh
Exposition. I've been taking pictures for the almost two years
we've been up here and since we'll be Albany bound soon, I decided to hurry it up and put these pages together. It's a
little like this, but not a lot.
And thank you everybody for all the goodies we received for
Christmas.
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30 December 2002
Interesting thing. It was 10 years ago tonight that I found
myself in the emergency room thinking I was having a heart attack.
I just negotiated an offer to buy my first
house and I was scared silly. The day went on and I started
having pains. I went to bed that night and in the middle of the
night, I got up and went to the emergency room thinking I may be having
chest pains. After some x-rays, a few hours, and several hundred
dollars, it was decided I had some gas buildup, probably from
stress. The doctor gave me a prescription and I went to the all
night pharmacy. After a few days, I still felt no relief so one of
my friend's aunts told me about Gas-X. Let's just say the results
were immediate. One year ago tomorrow, we just arrived home from San Francisco and I
looked down and saw a bulge coming out of my lower gut. After a
couple of hours of wondering and researching the internet, we were off
to the emergency room to bring in the new year
to find out I had a hernia.
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