Monthly Archives: January 2009

Surgeons and Partials and Pills, Oh My!

Did you ever notice that there are times when everything comes together at once? Well, Tuesday turned out to be one of those days indeed. Okay, maybe it’s not exactly a day I’d want to call the local newspaper about but it certainly wasn’t bad.
First the mail arrives with a letter from the Boston VA Surgery Clinic [...]

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To the Pain

I must have this innate desire to bring pain unto myself. I’m getting to the point where I’m certain this is true. Why do I feel this way you ask?
Oh…you didn’t?
Well that’s okay ‘cos I’m going to tell you anyway. I let myself run out of pain killers.
Yes, I have to take pain killers now [...]

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So How’s the Sick Cat?

Time for a post about our sick cat I think. I was down to the VA on Wednesday and completely dragged out from the  trip yesterday hence the delay on his status.
Good news folks, Churchill now appears to be on the road to recovery although the road looks like it’s going to be a few [...]

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A New Era Sworn In

I just watched the swearing in and inaugural speech of Barack Obama and I decided to quickly post on my initial reaction while it was still fresh.
There was a bit of stumbling at first during the swearing in but it was smoothed out quickly enough. Makes me wonder how many will take up on that [...]

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Cat On the Mend?

Although we’re still keeping a close eye on on our very sick cat, Churchill, he appears to be on the mend albeit very slowly. Two days ago he started licking baby food off of Laurie’s finger in the morning and was licking the same off of a proffered spoon by the evening. This was great [...]

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Update on Churchy the Unwell Cat

Well, it’s been another day with the sick cat. We had to drag him out from under the bed this morning in order to dribble some antibitoics down his throat (he just loves that) and then some water to clear the taste. He also appears to have forgotten how to drink so the water is rather essential at [...]

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Waiting on a Pork Chop | An Observation

The fine old gas stove that cooked so many meals since we moved into this house since 3 years ago, a top of the line model built back 60’s, failed it’s carbon monoxide test when the State of Vermont inspected our dwelling prior to the week long weatherization that was done back in December. Of [...]

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Another test post just to help out.

Here‘s another test post for your viewing pleasure in hopes that I and a certain plugin author can find out why’s and wherefores of a problem that’s affecting some folks after a new upgrade (like me).
I know these type of posts aren’t very enlightening and all that but troubleshooting is troubleshooting and sometimes has to [...]

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