I guess my blood is getting sweeter cause this time it took them ONE day to call me (I dont think they were open on the 4th when I became eligible).  I guess I am eligible.  After all, the blood my doctor has been sucking down does not count. But one day after I am eligible? I am wanted! (actually my wife hates my snoring, but then when I am not.......) I hate the process, but do it because I can, and my blood type is needed.  I wish more could or would give.  I...

More than a friend actually.  When I was at my lowest, she was there.  Many a night we chatted and talked well into the wee hours of the mourning.  I bared my soul to her, and she laughed it off.  We were a continent apart.  But she was my friend. SHe had heart problems. I knew it.  Yet I loved her anyway.  But love was not enough.  And her heart gave out.  I have not talked to her in many months.  Her life got busy as did mine.  So we lo...

Yea, this is going to be one!  Of independence from weeds and low lying tree limbs!  My son is down and our Governor, Ted Matthews, has give us a 4 day weekend.  So what started out innocently enough - sculpturing the deck and the back 40, has turned into trimming the trees to allow sunlight for the ne'er do wells! (well, I kind of like that little spruce tree).  But with temps hovering in the 100s and humidity to soak a sun, it is not pretty! But we are bound and determin...

Gideon wrote an excellent article on the Liberal Bloggers he likes. https://forums.joeuser.com/Forums.aspx?ForumID=16&AID=122304#948891 And I contributed my 2 cents.  We still have some.  Albeit they are a dying breed.  It seems that the Australian liberals have a much better time.  Only one has been kicked off, and that was for his incessant desire to pick nits more than his views.  Still, I do miss him even if he never wrote an article.  But the rest ...

Many of us here at JU are Baby Boomers.  Others are Gen X, and Gen Y.  With the exception of Stevendedalus (and others less frequent members perhaps?), that Pretty much encompasses all of us (Steven is the Greatest Generation).  So what defines each generation?  Well, for Steven it is easy.  The Great Depression and WWII.  Nothing can top those 2 for defining their generation, and the rest of us still are in awe at their sacrifice and tenacity in the face of ove...

I have had this credit card for over 10 years.  Closer to 15.  It was one of those unsolicited things you get, but the name grabbed my attention.  Harris Bank.  Why the name?  My boss at the time was named Cam Harris, and she is unquestionably one of the best I have ever had.  So it became my favorite one. Over the years, the card limit was bumped and bumped and bumped.  Until it is one of those platinum cards with lots of credit.  But something happene...

Ah yea!  Mason is headed there.  Actually, I was there but 4 years ago (briefly - flying along on I 5). Oceanside California!  Home of the 1st Marine Division in Camp Pendleton!  What a town (not much anymore as it is typical SoCal!).  But a place I spent more than a few years of my youth, and where I learned to surf. Ever see "The Summer of 42"?  Ok, not that great (but only by a gnats whisker!).  But it was Summer all year round.  I was early teens...

5 Embarrassing moments, eh.  I wish I could be as amusing as Locamama.  But mine are just normal things kids do and then go "oops" afterwards. 1. We use to live in the hills east of San Diego.  That's all there was really, just hills.  Very little flat space.  So our house was built on a plateau on a hill.  Hill below the house, and a hill above it.  All the guys would always 'gallop' down the hill, like they were riding a horse.  So I decided I was goi...

Ever have them?  The ones that just wont let go and have to constantly harp on an irrelevant point?  You know, the ones that constantly remind you that you are A personality.  Or that at one time you actually {shock} voted for Carter or such? They are kind of like the Penguin in Batman the Movie.  you know the Harp from hell?  But they exist. They just cannot let sleeping dogs lie.  SO they constantly harp from hell!  SO what do we do?  We ignore them. ...

With thanks to Adventure Dude who showed me that I have been doing things all wrong, I bring you the latest News. Stay away from me! Yes, my Doctor has me on a low Cholesterol diet.  WHat does that mean?  If it tastes good and does not swim, it is off limits!  No Pasta Alfredo!  No Fried Chicken, no prime rib (we went to Outback over the weekend and I order the Tilapia!), no butter, no cheese, no eggs! (I dream of eggs!), no sausage, no fun! for the last month+, I ha...

So my son asks!  He is quite the connoisseur of ribs and Buffalo wings!  But tonight he had some from Outback  (Hey!  They serve fosters!  So they must be Aussie!). And he refuses to finish them!  The raccoons will get them. So I told him tongue in cheek, "what do Aussies know about Buffalo wings?".  That stumped him.  But it got me thinking.  Does Australia have Buffalo wings?  And if they are like the Outback kind, sorry sir!  I know Bu...

There has been a lot of talk lately about illegal immigration (sometimes mis-labeled just immigration), and how things are so bad in Mexico (by far the source of most of the illegal immigration, but not all of it). But for all the talk of doom and gloom, Mexico is doing some things right.  They are shooting lawyers. Just kidding.  But they do seem to have a dearth of them, which is good for business and in connection good for us.  Why? I recently chipped a tooth.  No bi...

Ever seen the commercial where the vegged out guy is sitting in front of the TV, and his non-vegged out friends are trying to get him involved?  I watch so little commercial TV, that when there is a clever one I do catch (I did see the Superbowl and those - even the lame ones) one, I remember it.  Truth be told, I dont remember the product they are selling (in this case I think it was potato chips, but dont quote me). Well, sad to say as I have gotten older, and my brain more fuller...

You are naive if you are worried about the government!  They got more problems than your corns!  The simple truth is that your life is already an open book!  And the ID thieves have got you dead to rights.  The only reason you have not been hijacked is that you are not interesting enoigh yet. Worry about the fricking government?  After I am dead maybe!  The sad fact that so many area 51 nuts fail to realize is that there is TOO much information for anyone to give...