notes on life 2010

 Ok.  An hour and a half at Mt. Tabor and 160 photographs.  It will likely take longer than 90 minutes to edit them, but I'm home and coffee's on, and it is my mission to post some pictures of the reservoirs at Mt. Tabor. I can't remember exactly when I went there last time -…

 Ok, here it is, the last day of 2010.  It is Clear and Cold outside this morning; a rime of frost coats the cars in the lot downstairs.  It's 27 degrees F - below zero C. Wow, what a year that was.  S t r e s s f u l. This summer, when K*…

3 entries back is a piece on brain injuries and links, and my personal experiences. The links are to wikipedia posts.  This diary was written AFTER my brain injury; it possibly may describe years of my coping with the brain injury, as I don't often go back years later to edit my pieces....

I had a car wreck in April of 1998 and when I woke up and could really understand what happened, they told me I hit my head so hard (the seatbelt broke) that my brain was split in 3 pieces and I was put into a coma.  To repair this damage, I was kept comatose for…

 I have been using sitemeter since an Australian reader told me about it in 2006.  I was bitching about having no readers, and she gave me the link to sitemeter,  It turns out that I have a lot of readers, just not a lot of noters. It makes my day, lol, to have a lot…

 115 miles, round trip, to Aumsville, on time and in time for a 2 and a half hour visit with the kid. He looks good and healthy, and was grateful to have visitors on this day.  We made good time down, but I was running on the Fill Tank light by the time we got…

  Friendly Holiday Advice Please, take care of yourself this Christmas. A recent joint study conducted by the Department of Health and the Department of Motor Vehicles indicates that 23% of traffic accidents are alcohol related. This means that the remaining 77% are caused by assholes who ju...

 Today, I had to get up early and take my friend A to court downtown in Portland - a different county than he lives in, and about 22 miles over all. Given that I put 71 miles on the car today, I'll need to get more gas money from him for the next run, on…

 I've only bought one Christmas tree ever.  I grew up with big ol' trees laden with tinsel and ornements and the expediton to pick the right tree out - mom was really into Christmas.  There'd be a stack of Christmas records on the phonograph all day, and wonderful smells from the k...

 Christmas was lookin' kinda... doesn't seem to fit... kinda dead.  Anyway, I had no plans for Saturday.  There is no Christmas in this apartment.  No tree (I never buy christmas trees.  Well, I did once, in 1984, for my brother, but I've never bought a tree for myself).&...