Where To, Bud?

Did that word give you a bit of trouble? It's the word statistics re-invented by me. I do that a lot. Make up words, I mean. I think it's also a sign of my dementia, that I do..... One day at work I couldn't think of the word disposable , so I came up with my own word: throw-a-way-able . I wonder how many other Alzheimer's "sufferers" do this? Here's a sufferer: That guy's really "suffering", isn't he? You can tell, right? But with Alzheimer's, it isn't so easy to tell, Kiddos! Why? Because we look and (sometimes) act "normal". If you were to see me at the grocery store you'd say to yourself, "That guy sure is ugly. but he looks normal!" Okay, okay. I didn't mean to give you remedial Alzheimer's Education, just needed to make that point, thank you> What I mean by "Statistifications" is that I just wanted y'all to know that this site averages 57 hits a day and we've raised cl...

....... and it was like music to my ears, since I have found it very difficult to smile with any amount of sincerety lately. It was my friend Beth from Ohio who calls me on a regular basis to make sure I'm okay, and here's what made her laugh: (wasn't funny to me at the time, but I used to love making people laugh, so it was kinda like deja vu for me). Okay, went to the bank this morning to make a deposit and decided to stop at the convenience store to pick up some diet drinks. I had to park the car around the side of the store at a sort of incline and since my car has a manual transmission I put it in neutral, got out and started for the store, when an elderly gentleman said "Car's rollin'". I looked, and sure enough, I had forgotten to pull up the emergency brake and it was rolling straight for another car! Okay, now y'all have to picture this: I have some Earth Shoe openbacked sandals that I like to wear when the weather's warm, but they're...

As y'all know, until recently, I've been a volunteer animal welfare advocate for my local shelter. We badly need a new shelter here in Paulding County and you can help in 2 ways : 1. Go the site below and vote. You can vote once per day and the more votes the higher the chances of winning . Please also link your friends and ask them to help me help the critters. http://www.theanimalrescuesite.com/clickToGive/shelterchallenge.faces Or click the paw icon at the bottom of this entry! When you go to the site, you'll be asked to click once to provide food (no need to register) and when you finish that you'll be able to vote for our shelter. If you have more than one computer you can also use the other one as well - so that means 2 votes per day. The shelter you are supporting is Paulding Humane Society, inc. located in Dallas, GA 30132. (You'll need to do a search on the page) Also, if you're a certain schoolteacher friend of mine from Australia and you're readi...

Those of you who are readers of science fiction, will know him as the author of the Discworld series. I would like you to watch this 2 part speech, and try to keep in mind that this man has Early Onset Alzheimer's Disease. Please pay particular attention to his symptoms, and how frustrating it is for him to be able to buy crack (if he wanted to), but yet The National Health will not provide the Aricept that he and other British subjects need in order to function. Sound familiar? What's it going to take? My "idea" of us colonizing and being self-sufficient was meant as satire, but if our government continues to spend our money on wars rather than its own citizens' health, what's left? Terry Pratchett doesn't want to die. Bill Craig, who is nowhere near as famous as Sir Terry doesn't want to die. None of us want to die, but no one seems to be listening. No one wants to believe.

It is with great regret that I say goodbye to a friend I have never met. His name was Skip and on the Straight Dope he was known as "BarnOwl" Skip passed away last Friday from lung cancer and emphysema, but before he left he made sure I'd be "okay", because I had mentioned on the Dope that I'd like to get back into painting, but wasn't sure how much I could do "free-hand" since I now have developed a Parkinsonian tremor. Skip recommended a book and a device known as a Camera Lucida which is nothing but a set of mirrors placed in such a way that they will reflect a particular image on a canvas or paper and one can then proceed to sketch the outlines and then paint in the rest. http://www.camera-obscura-lucida-shop.com/new-hardwood-camera-lucida.html Would it surprise you to know that many of the greatest painters used this technique? Do you think of that as "cheating"? Skip (BarnOwl) is one of many people I have met on the internet, b...