What a long strange trip it's been....
Bringing this more up to date: here I am "almost 60", still alive (sort of), no longer a professional anything, unless "pain in the ass" counts, and still have a terminal condition. Honestly, I'm shocked I've lived this long and so are some of my doctors. In this train wreck of my life after 8 years of dialysis treatment, I've almost died from pneumonia, and had a heart attack (for those who ACTUALLY know me, yes there is a heart in there, no matter what you may have heard.) So I thought I would continue this a bit, repost some of my old thoughts that had been deleted once upon a time, and add a few new ones, if I can manage to have any... So.... Here I am again. For better or worse, poorer (who gets richer?), and death do us part (all too soon, my pretties). I haven't done this in awhile, and I think I still have some old posts lingering around in my hard drive, so they may appear here, from time to time. So, let's be about it, shall...