after thoughts

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  • Things I learned in Florida

    —   There’s a huge, huge, HUGE, difference between 24h and 48h deodorant.  In Indiana, I was using Dove 48h.   When I went to Florida, I started using Lady Speed Stick 24h protection.  Yeah… after about half a day outside, I started smelling pretty ripe and it wasn’t even that hot outside. —  A Starbucks mocha… Read more

  • We haven’t changed the calendar. It doesn’t seem like a priority although we’re some 18 days into 2018. We’ve talked about it.   Commented.   I even looked amount the 60% calendars while taking a gym in Pokémon Go, but no.  Didn’t buy one and 2017 is still pinned to the wall. In a way, I’m okay… Read more

  • Disney – A 21st century fox

    Foxes are generally considered cunning animals. Think of the fox from Zootopia.  Somewhere, under all that bravo, he had a good heart, but he usually acted on impulses of greed.  Other animals where easy and unwitting prey.  I suppose another soft-balled adaptation would be Disney’s Robin Hood.  That fox was hunted, cunning, and fairly prideful.… Read more

  • Family Ashes

    I can’t really say that I’ve been to a funeral quite like my aunt’s. There were multiple people I didn’t know, but that’s okay.    I generally don’t know anyone during family gatherings, but I really didn’t know anyone in this one.   It mostly comprised of my aunt’s co-workers and a few people from her deceased… Read more

  • Withering of a branch

    Growing up, my dad didn’t have a lot of things. He was raised in an orphanage, beaten by nuns, and abandoned by his father. One thing he did have was two sisters, dad being the oldest, and a strong desire for the family that he never had. One sister, my favorite aunt, died some 35… Read more

  • Selfish prayer

    I stay in correspondence with one of my House sisters from last year.  She was with partially with me during my three month intensive stay and I like to think that we’ve grown closer after our ordeal than what we were during.   This woman is probably one of the most nice and devout Christians that… Read more

  • Binging

    Monday was the operation. I was kicked out of the hospital on Tuesday. Two weeks until I know if I’m 100% cancer free. —  I have a pretty good feeling about it.  I think I am. I’m just kind of owie right now.  The scar hurts.  The puncture wounds from the operation are tender and… Read more

  • Florida and me

    I was uprooted from Florida because of well, because of reasons.   Apparently, there were a lot of reasons that I didn’t acknowledge or ever care about.  I can’t claim that I was the master of my domain, no matter how I tried, because I was falling into mental and physical decay.  It was frustrating.  I… Read more

  • This day is a bit of a bust.

    I had planned in my little head that I was going to the gym around 7am.  Hang out until 11ish.   Get something to eat and then catch Murder on the Orient Express.  The truck keys and Propel where right next to the door so I wouldn’t forget.   The movie started at 1:50. I consider this… Read more

  • 503:: NeoGaf | Believe |

    NeoGaf was… is a gaming forum. Yeah, so what, right? Well, this one was (is) kind of like the granddaddy of all gaming forums.  It was pre-Reddit.  Pre Twitter.   Pre-just about everything.  NeoGaf was  place for people ‘in the know’ to seek harbor when there was no where else to go.   It was a place… Read more