i nearly forgot i had this thing....here it is almost 2006...i turn 48 next month...that's pushing 50 for those out there that didn't pass math....whatever...didn't someone say "every year above the ground is a good one"?..... 2005 was a weird year....i got hospitalized for pneumonia....gave up drugs....started taking drugs again....gave 'em up again, mostly cuz i want to detox so i can get a different job...my gig at the state bores the crap out of me...spent a lot of time swapping guitar...

Yesterday I finally got up the gumption to get my sick ass off the couch and go to an emergent care clinic and get something to get this horrible crud outta my body…ears and throat hurt, coughing up rubber cement, can’t breathe laying down, so can’t sleep, and so on…if you haven’t had it yet, good for you…anyway, he gives me stuff for my nose (nasonex), stuff to kill stuff (biaxin), and an rx for a cough medicine I’ve never heard of before….this crap has 10mg of time realease hydrocodone in ...

i, like millions of other people, commute back and forth, to and fro, 5 days a week, to a job that i'd quit in a heartbeat if i could, but this isn't about that....this is about the commute itself, 25 miles one way, with people who tailgate, and speed, and zip in and out, and basically endanger me and everyone else on the road just because they're too selfish and rude to have even the most basic of good manners....usually, i'm pretty zen about it, but sometimes it just gets to me, and this mo...

Doug’s Chili 1 lb. ground chuck 1 large white onion ½ large green bell pepper 1 tsp. roasted garlic chili powder to taste salt to taste black pepper to taste ½ tsp cinnamon 1 tsp instant coffee 1 tsp Hershey’s chocolate syrup or Nestles Quick 1 cup catsup ½ cup hickory barbecue sauce 2 tbsp worcestershire sauce 1 tsp celery salt 1 tsp steak seasoning 4 cans chili hot beans 1 can italian stewed tomatoes 1 can diced tomatoes with jalapenos 2 cups water Brown ground...

Tonite after work, i gather together the few remaining odds/ends, and hit the road bound for Bushnell/Marietta Illinois, just slightly west of the proverbial Middle Of Nowhere, my purpose being to spend the 4th of July weekend at the Cornerstone Music and Art Festival, sometimes called "The Christian Woodstock".....somewhere around 150 bands will be there, playing nearly every sort of music you can name, as well as tons of other fun things to do.....our church's elder youth group left yesterd...

I've been busy....it's the same stock excuse i used in those dozen or so diaries that i started and never kept up with in years past...."been too busy to write", and then i'd forget all about it...i suppose it's valid, because if you actually have a life, full of better things to do than write in a blank book, or type crapola onto a web page, then you're spending your time in a better fashion than you would be...at least that's my opinion, and frankly dear reader, i couldn't care less whether...

...until Christmas, and I have to work a 12 hour day that day, and I'd like to whine about it, but I won't....we at our house decided to celebrate the Event this past Saturday, and we had snow, and it was good.....Charles got his long-awaited Ninteno Game Cube with Zelda Disk, and has not been seen since...Scott got the Asian-theme comforter he was wanting, and some CDs...... We are playing at the church for 3 Christmas eve services, all acoustic stuff...I am still not sure whether or not I'l...

120903 i have a new hobby, and i'll log the info here just on the off chance someone wants to get in on it....create your own red meat comic at http://www.monkeydyne.com/rmcs ......what a hoot!....i've been using these to rag on people. and for therapy, and fishwrap, and all sorts of cool stuff.... we had practice last nite for the concert on friday, and n8's pushing pretty hard...things were not helped by the fact that we were supposed to start at 1930, and did not actually get going unti...

today is 120803....1 day after Pearl Harbour Day, which is the anniversary of a day that pretty much sucked for a lot of people in Hawaii....naughty, bad Japan....didn't your mama teach you that it's not nice to sucker punch part of the U.S. pacific fleet?....guess those big ol' bombs showed you a thing or two, huh?....betcha won't do that again...... last nite was the last ExTreme at church for this calendar year...i really like playing at this function the best of all the stuff that happens...

this is a word?.....just another sure sign that even in our society, where we have more time on our hands than anyone else on the planet, we're still in too big of a hurry to actually say complete words....it's not like no one has the time to say "web log".....are we lazy?.....are we very impatient?.....what's our deal?....there's an entire "sub-langauge" that's grown up with the internet (and rap music) that defies definition.....language is supposed to be about communication...even the slang c...