Aspie at Pooh Corner

Thomas Wolfe said, “You can’t go home again.” And if you don’t know who that is, go read a book.   Actually read a lot of books.   Wolfe, Steinbeck, Hemingway, Heinlein, Burroughs, Twain and O. Henry… and those are just SOME of the Americans.   Don’t forget to read Dickens, Doyle, Wells, Dumas, Sartre, oh hell I could keep going for a year…   I swear, the ignorance today that passes for ‘sophisticated’…   Never mind… Where was I? Oh, yeah… Wolfe… going home….you can’t get there from here…but it’s the old same place…..oh, the same old place, it’s out back, I’ll get the key… Sounds like a job for Nick Danger, Third Eye. What?   You people don’t know THAT one either?   *sigh* Barbarians. Old Wolfie wasn’t talking about going to your parent’s house, even if it is still the same one you grew up in.   No, he’s talking about revisiting a part of your life that’s passed into history.   You can try, but no ...

Things are getting very tough all over, and a lot of different groups are pitching in to help others…. Did you hear about the Zen food drive? Yeah, it’s called “Om nom nom nom…” Aspie On, Y’all Master Aspie Dave

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...