it is time for bed ，here
um good morning ：）

I saw that documentary (I think I told you) about Barton Springs and the building going up around Austin. Water. It's frigging finite! That's a cause worth supporting.

I'd like to make it down for that one day. Bucket list.

Just hanging in there, trying anyway.

How's the new abode? Did you get a new pup?

austin ain't too bad. i go there every so often for shows. i couldn't ever live there due to a certain group of inhabitants and the fact that i'd probably be out every night and that would ruin any kind of real job. kettle bells are no joke. i want to get a few for the house.

damn, just noticed you left a comment almost a year ago and i didn't respond (i know, i'm an asshole). i'm doing good and living up in arlington. recently quit smoking and hit the gym hardcore. how are you and where are you?

Thanks for asking. She's doing well. She has to keep up with the rehab at home but she walks a lot, still doesn't like to sit, the key is getting her to increase the angle of the knee bend. Getting it to 90 is a like marching. not her usual gait.

She IS a Duke fan. Should I be paying attention? It's not even close to March Madness. Actually....I guess it is! Wow. January is really going by quickly.

Can't be soon enough. Tonight, 16F overnight. Tomorrow night, 9. NINE DEGREES SSG. What the hell. That's just crazy. Stinks.

I was thinking of you a couple days ago. I watched a movie with Jack Black called "Bernie." It was a true story presented in documentary style by Linklater. The part that cracked me up was a guy (who I thought was one of the locals but he was an actor) describing the different "states" , regions, of Texas.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JREkqCvLzSo

It's a good movie.

Christmas Eve today. I'll be over at my mom's while Danny goes out delivering eggnog like an inebriated Santa. Seriously, the trick is to deliver all the bottles without getting toasted himself. He doesn't have a magic sleigh. It's a car.

Anyways, Merry Christmas and have a great 2013.

Christmas Eve today. I'll be over at my mom's while Danny goes out delivering eggnog like an inebriated Santa. Seriously, the trick is to deliver all the bottles without getting toasted himself. He doesn't have a magic sleigh. It's a car.

Anyways, Merry Christmas and have a great 2013.

Oops, the world didn't end. Hope not too many people sold all their worldly possessions and pissed away their money. Or does that just happen on sitcoms?

I can't believe people take that stuff seriously.

How are you spending your holiday M? Any family around? Lover? Well, I hope someone gives you a big Christmas smootch. Hugs to you.

Thanks for asking. She's doing great. Had her to a physical therapy practice today and the doc said....take her home and keep doing what you're doing. Three weeks out and she's doing great. If we took her to PT it'd only be to torture her, unnecessarily, according to him! He said, I'll take your money if you want but just keep her walking and moving. I don't think my sister will listen, and she'll insist on taking her elsewhere but it was good to hear him give her a big thumbs up.

Wow. WTF. Sorry to hear about your mom. Damn. Maybe they can still work things out. You and she should just have a nice visit, let her clear her head, and figure stuff out. This is why I stay alone, with my cats. Batty maybe, but they don't screw me over.

Got back from our appointment, finally, and mom and I are sitting here watching Diners, Drive Ins and Dive and they just visited Dough Pizzeria Napoletana, San Antonio, TX. Holy hell. Everything looked amazingly delicious....and superexpensive too. But he made his own delicious sausage just to cut a few pieces on the top of a pizza. OMG. Every one of the pizzas looked awesome.

Over and out.

It's 4 a.m. and I'm just getting up to get my mom down to Philadelphia for some preadmission testing for surgery at the end of the month. We finally found someone who'll do a knee replacement on her at her age (91). Why not? She's in good shape and likes to walk and did so all her life. The docs around here were like "she's so old, why put her through it?" I say, because she deserves it. She's kept herself in good shape and God bless her, I think she has at least another decade to go. She's getting a new version of the knee resplacement surgery called "quadricep sparing minimally invasive" surgery. It's less painful, less rehab time, but only a few docs are up on it. OK, gotta go and get her a bath. She's gonna be pissed when I wake her up!

That's what I'm doing, today. And you? How's the new abode?

Get your computer working SSG. I miss your voice when you're not around.

Hope it all went smoothly. You'll be unpacking for decades or are you more committed than that?

No, it's because she trips, falls and drops things a lot. haha Honestly, before her dementia I don't remember her using the "whoosie" statement. But you're right. She is super cool. 91 and still kicking? Hell yeah.

I didn't know that. Fo some reason, I thought you worked on displays in a school district or uni setting. Which science museum? That is so interesting.

Haha! I do have a washing machine repairman coming tomorrow morning which cannot get here soon enough! I've got about 10 days of laundry built up! I do, however, have some plumbing projects: 2 dripping faucets, one outdoor faucet that totally needs to be replaced (circa 1970 & painted to the pipe...oy!) & new pipes to another outdoor faucet located in my shed need assembling. What time do you want me to pick you up from the SeaTac airport? :D

What? Why are you working? I thought you worked at a school which I would have assumed meant you would be out over the weekend and holiday. What gives?

I've cut back a lot working I mean.For now I can just kick back and get paid for the jobs I put together. But there are some I have to be at because they request me.

Hey, man! The pain is severe, and I'm on medication that knocks me out for at least ten hours a pop. I just try my hardest to ignore it most of the time though. I'm relying on my training.

Thanks for asking.

Today I took my mom out all day to an outlet shopping mall in old factories in Reading. Didn't walk that far but my bloody knees are killing me. I think I figured out how to "run" using the front of my foot but I don't think the adaptation of the style to walking is quite figured out. I looked at some of the supposed "barefoot" shoes out there. They're crap. The only things I'd consider using are the shoes used in creeks, maybe kayaking, etc. They're very thin soled and flexible only they have a top which, in my case, would probably trap cinders. I think the Invisible Shoe is the way to go.

Hope the rest of your day went well. Are the temps going down? We should have a nice week here, low 80s.