Trip Cancelled. Movies & BBQ instead.

It's New Year's Eve and damn if my private jet isn't having maintenance so I have to forfeit my Paris trip. I'll slide over to my sisters instead and munch on BBQ, slaw, & chips perhaps down a beer or two and watch Harry Potter.  Paris would've been nice but time with family and Cerberus.  Priceless.

Another one bites the dust

goodbye 2009.  Damn that decade went by quick.

Dallas Fort Worth Snow

Doc rearranged the cardio meds again and when I came out of his office big puffy snowflakes were falling out of the sky.  Beautiful.  Wet roads weren't slippery so I could enjoy the ride.  Went right to Diana's and let Cerberus, her Doberman out so he could frolic which he did.  Diana got off early and brought Sonic burgers.  I love North Texas snow!

Back to the Grind (thank you God)

It's so very nice to have a day job to go back to even though I'd love to have another week off to play.  My boss didn't have such a great holiday and hurt his back and had to leave early today and may not be in tomorrow.  I have such empathy for him as I've a herniated L5 and bulging L4 and am on a pain management regiment myself.  Boss called (he had taken a couple of codeine and was feeling no pain , his words).  Not to busy in any case I told him to rest easy.

2009 Christmas

It will be a Christmas to remember until the end of my time.  Despite having some major health issues, Ma and Pa were in pretty good shape this holiday season.  Diana planned and executed the entire holiday menu to perfection.  The house was beautiful.  All of us were there and we understand this might not happen again.  And knowing that, we all reveled in fellowship.   The ride home was a trip to remember also but that's another story for another day.  But probably not.

NYT The Music They Made

NY Times Magazine Today



The Lives They Lived, 2009
A look at some notable people whose lives were worthy of appreciation this year. Audio Slide Show: The Music They Made

Rebel with a Straw Stetson

Diana, my sister, was tired of looking at my old wore out straw so she replaced it this year for Christmas.  I've worn a Stetson Blackberry  for years and tend to wear em past their prime.  I was thrilled to get it.  Mark bought me a snazzy new hat band to go on it.  They both wanted to buy me a felt because it's bad form to wear a straw in winter.  In pissy Dallas your in danger of getting a ticket from the fashion police if you don't doff it after Labor Day.  But it's easy to see by just looking at me that I'm not one to follow fashion edicts.  Isn't it great to get gifts from people who know you well?  Thanks Diana and Mark for a well thought out gift.  Merry Chrstmas everyone.  Hope ya'll are as lucky.

Christmas Eve

Some kind of North Pole Cold front is making it's way across Texas.  Forecast even mentions snow, imagine that.  The ground is too warm for snow to stick, isn't it?  We celebrate Christmas on it's Eve.  Well soon be sitting down to a wonderful seafood  feast(a new family tradition) before gathering around the tree to open gifts.  No kiddos in the family.  Wish there was.  But I shouldn't lament because it's great to have another Christmas with Ma and Pa relatively healthy.


Merry Christmas!

Christmas Eve Eve

My older brother David and his wife and daughter Sarah and my older sister Diana and her two boys Mark and Jeffery are here in E. TX  at Ma and Pa's.  Most everyone is around the television playing Wii tennis.  My brother David opened his Wii present early so we could get the sports on.  Fun.  I suck at bowling.  Great fun though.  Fun.

GOP NOW concerned about Debt?

Much has been said by the Republicans about President Obama and the Democrates saddling the country with debt and the weight of a bloated and overly intrusive government.  But wait.  Let's look back fifteen months .  As of September 2008 the national debt had grown by more than $4 trillion during George W. Bush's presidency.  It's the biggest increase under any presidency in U.S. history.  On the day President Bush took office, the national debt stood at 5.727 trillion.  By September 2008  the debt stood at more than $9.849 trillion.  Instead of paying down the debt with a budget surplus in 2000, the Republican's had championed a tax break to give it back to the American people. Then came the Afghanistan and Iraqi wars.  Did the Republican's ask tax payers to make a public sacrifice with higher taxes to pay for these wars so as not to burden future generations with debt.  No they did not.  Where was their concern with saddling the country with trillions in debt then?  They had no such concern.  They championed further cuts.   Republicans were once the party of fiscal conservatism, but their own recent governance shows their monetary concerns under the current administration are nothing more than political maneuvering and their words are hollow indeed.

Bad Cold Good Dream

I still feel like crap with this cold but last night's rest was far better than the night before.  As a matter of fact I got up only once for benadryl and ibuprofin.  I dream every night and remember my dreams.  Last night I was in a boat on the lake catching huge catfish.  These cats would swim right up to the boat and I'd stick my line in the water and they take of with it.  And my line never broke.  

I'm on my way now to pick up some breakfast.  Wanna join me? 

Common Cold

It was bound to happen.  I had skated through October and November without the hint of a sniffle while my friends and family blew their way through gigantic mounds of Kleenex Tissues.  I knew better than to gloat. My immune system hasn't been all that exemplary in recent winters past.  And good thing too as  I this minute find myself with bodily fluids flowing out of my eyes and nose in a deluge.  I feel like crap.  I've taken my ibuprofin and benadryl tablet and I'm waiting for them to kick in.  Ugh.

Wonderful Muse (today)

Ltely, I've been puttering around with a few chords on the keyboard trying to find a song.  Today I added a few more chords and a chorus of  lyrics and what is emerging is my first Christmas carol.  It's very beautiful (I tend to love the song I'm working on the best of all my songs).  I am not a very prolific songwriter so when one comes along it's very exciting.  No name yet.  But I'm hoping the inspiration continues.

It's a Groin Ache, Nothing but a Groin Ache.

My cardio cath procedure went well today.  I was the first in line so I was prepped in plenty of time and everything went like clock work.  No plaque has broken off or plugged a cardio artery but there are a couple of places where the narrowing of the heart vessel when constricted causes the angina.  Doc changed my med regimentation to help with keeping the blood/oxygen flowing as needed.  Only residual problem right now is the groin aches.  Yikes.

It's a heartache, nothing but a heartache.

Saw the cardiologist on Friday.  He scheduled a heart cath first thing Monday morning to see what
s going on with unstable angina.  Some people say I'll do anything for a Monday off.

Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let it...Damn

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Storm Watch

Blizzard conditions around the Great Lakes

The major winter storm will depart into Canada but cold winds will howl over the Great Lakes resulting in heavy snow.Storm Watch.
Dramatic pictures of cars in ditches and people with snow shovels and a landscape under a blanket of snow, makes me so glad I'm in N. Texas.  I miss the seasons here.  I miss them very much.  But I turn into a paranoid schizophrenic mad man behind the wheel driving in ice.   

Interview with Steven Fedrick [fedrick] on Whohub

Interview with Steven Fedrick [fedrick] on Whohub

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