Where To, Bud?

Click on the title link to read more about this. A couple of weeks ago, Suzette and Becks and now a friend of mine from SDMB, Oakminster, have sent me this link, and I have not mentioned it here until now for a number of reasons. Pretty much everyone who's been kind enough to send me this link has advised me to get in touch with my attorneys and tell them of it to see if they can expedite the approval of my SSDI. As I have mentioned before, I am represented by Binder&Binder, and as y'all may know, they don't get paid until I get approved, and although I have been told by them that if Social Security approves me without their help, they'll gladly "drop out", I can't imagine them contacting SS on my behalf and asking them to give me this approval without them being more "involved" in the appeals process. (Read that as they want that 25% which they'll get off the top of any back pay SSDI gives me, and it isn't to their advantage if I ge...

Okay, I alluded to this in a previous entry, but since we've now had two organizational meetings, I'll let the cat out of the bag (so to speak) officially. Two years ago, some of you may remember, I rode my bicycle 800 miles from Dallas TX back to Dallas, GA to support my (then) local humane society and the national Humane Society's "Spay, Neuter and Adopt" educational project. Well, I'm doing it again this year, in September, this time from Carrollton TX back here to Carrollton, GA (again about 800 miles). Y'all, I'm slowly going crazy (ier) just sitting here stagnating, and I have GOT to do something useful, and, as I can still pedal my bicycle, I'm going to do that. For the animals. Anyone who knows me, knows I am passionate about animal welfare, and since this could very well be the last time I can do this, I WANT to do it very badly, so I will. We'll be launching a website for The Carrollton To Carrollton Ride To Care soon. I'll let y...

Had a bad day with the shrink today. For some reason he decided to turn hostile when I couldn't answer some questions as to whether I thought the Namenda (or the recently added Aricept) were helping me. I was being as honest as possible when I told him I didn't know , because the short term memory loss is still a major problem, so if they were supposed to HELP that, then no. He had written the refills scrips for both meds, and then proceeded to tear them up. When I asked "what's going to happen if I suddenly stop taking them because I don't have refills he simply said, "I don't know", which to me meant "I don't care !" So fuck it, let's have some laughs. This is from the 80's, and is no longer really PC, but still funny as hell. Enjoy! Thanks Bill

People have always told me I have no "common sense". I don't take offense at this, because for the most part, I agree with them. What I do (or did) have, is a knack for having ideas and problem-solving. I accomplish this by looking at what needs to be done and then methodically applying the solution (s) until there's no longer a problem. Granted, I have never been good at doing this at a "split-second's" notice, but given enough time to do some research/detective work, I can usually come through. Lately, though, I have noticed a kind of "barrier", which is slowing me down a little. For example, last night D and I were talking about washing clothes and she was telling me about a new type of fabric softener "bar" (not sheet or liquid) which attaches to the side of the tub , and softens the clothes that way. For some reason ("reason", get it?) my mind locked onto the word "tub", and I kept "seeing" a bathtu...

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For about two months now, due to some mistakes I made here with passwords and usernames and such, I have been unable to blog and communicate with y'all. Now, due to Becks and her Bill (in Scotland) I am once again able to publish, and in the next few days will catch you up on all things "Bud". In an earlier post (now in the archives), I started writing some of my memoirs (growing up in Germany, etc) and I plan on continuing this now that the blog is up and running again. While you wait (not long, promise), here's a little bit of musical "Bill Memorabilia": A resurrected tape of the first band I was ever in called The Watchmen. This tape is 46 years old and was in surprisingly good shape when we listened back to it after uploading it to YouTube. If you decide to listen, keep several things in mind: 1. It's a raw , live performance with mistakes 2. There will be places where there's a bad splice and where the music seems to drop out 3. The music isn...

Ol' Blue Eyes is back!!!!!!! Thanks, to my friend in Scotland, Bill and my friend Becks, for all your headaches and patience in dealing with me! Back soon! Bill

Hi all Posting here on behalf of Bill. Now write down your password and keep it in a safe place :-) DEB