Why I didn’t bother updating today:

Enough about eyeballs. Let’s talk about me. First of all, the pain is improved from my disc problem. In its place, I’m starting to get transient numbness/pins and needles. This is like the hypoesthesia I experienced back in ’96 or ’97 or whenever the heck my neck went out the last time. The prednisone seems…

If one is tuned to the Soft Rock “Sounds of the Season” station on cable, is one watching television, or listening to music? It hardly matters; the sound track sucks either way. I’m sitting here staring at the little factoid slide-show that Music Choice scrolls through while playing music by musicians I would never listen…

Years ago I read “Tuesdays with Morrie”, Mitch Albom’s small book recording his final conversations with his old teacher and mentor, Morrie Schwartz, who was dying slowly from ALS. I later purchased “Morrie: In His Own Words” from a bargain book table, which contained Morrie’s own observations about the process of dying and how he…

The site is in French, so I don’t know the history. A friend forwarded this to me. I will warn you that this is extremely upsetting to watch. Un chat essaie de réveiller sa femelle morte – Le Matin Video Un chat essaie de réveiller sa femelle morte Mots-clés : chat réveiller femelle morte massage…

I walked into work this morning, and found I’d stumbled into the middle of same debate that The Minion and I had yesterday. This time it was The Minion vs. The Mouth. In the face of all that transpired yesterday, I found this amusing. And, in the face of what transpired yesterday, I proved I…

Since my early twenties, I have been prey to a peculiar variety of migraine. Called “acephalgic migraines”, they involve no pain whatsoever, but result in diminished vision for a period of twenty minutes. Rarely, they can render me effectively blind for a short period of time, but more often they simply constrict the field of…