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Lisa is coming into town this Friday. She’s been trying to get out here to see old friends for a while now. She did manage to come to the Prairie Dogs CD release party in February, but she was here and gone so quickly that it was like it never happened. Friday is also the day our neighbors get their new puppy. Corlis came by and helped me get the old oil tank out of the trailer and into the back yard. Now things are really looking white-trash around here Itellyouwhat. I have no idea what the hell to do with it now that it’s out on the lawn, but I figure better outside than in. I parked it next to the old broken dryer. After the yard sale Sweetie called the city and scheduled a junk pick up, courtesy of our municipal government. Earl tried to get me to help him put their old cast-iron potbelly along side our junk, but there’s no way I was gonna move that heavy piece of crap. City wouldn’t take it anyway even if we did make it to the road and he’s already got enough garb...

The trailer park had a swap meet/garage sale on Saturday where everyone put their stuff out and we posted signs out on the highway and everything. The rain held off for the most part and though the sale got off to a slow start, by the early afternoon things were really hopping and the money flying. Sweetie and I won the prize for most money made bringing in $130 bucks and two bottles of wine. The wine having been traded in by Dewy and Ham in exchange for a painted chair we no longer wanted and that they thought would go nicely in their guest bedroom. It was all crap that we sold. Crap that had been cluttering up the back closets and storage shed since we moved here right before the youngest boy was born. Boxes of books, an old Mac monitor, air filter, CD towers, playpen, torn green leather chair, small bookcase, small beat up dresser. My sale of the day was made when I sold a paper shredder for $2 as a toy to a woman with kids. She hadn’t even been looking at it, I just s...

Where have I been lately? I know it seems like forever since I last updated this page, if by forever you mean over a week. Sure the last update wasn’t much, so if you want to say that it’s been over two weeks since I had a decent update of this site far be if from me to argue. Last night I put the finishing touches on a project I started Saturday afternoon. I decided to take the old PII 400 chip in my computer at home and replace it, the motherboard and the case, with state of the art. I put an AMD 2500 Barton in it and WOW is it fast! These are the best kind of upgrades to make, the ones that take you from that slow and pokey computer sludge, straight into the modern age of light travel. I’ve never done anything like that before -- doing a total swap-out of parts all by myself. I usually don’t think I’m all that technically minded about that sort of thing, but apparently I’ve played just enough Dungeons and Dragons and watched the minimum amount of Star Trek hours to qu...

It was a pretty quiet week around the park. Last Tuesday we took Ike up to Children’s Hospital to the spasticity clinic for a round of examinations. It was near the top of our list of things we’re not looking forward too all that much, so it came as a pleasant surprise that we thought they did a nice job. Smart people with some good ideas, plus Ike was beyond pleasant and entertaining. Though he is, for the most part, a very good natured boy doctors tend to have things like Evil Stethoscopes hanging from their necks or Small Rubber Hammers of Torture. Once Ike’s neurologist rang a Small Dinner Bell, a crime so cruel that he wasn’t forgiven for the next several visits. After we talked to the PT about Botox injections on his ankle and to the OT about thumb splints for his hands we decided to head out to see if we could drum up some of our old friends who we used to spend time with to stave off making ourselves a pain ass with the white coats. We found Ike’s old nutritionist, ...