A typical nothing Larry note.

 

My body has been dutifully carrying me around for 78 years 6 months 6 days. For some time now I’ve noticed a few things that make me think it is getting tired of my many stupid and thoughtless demands.

 

This fact came to me slowly over time so I missed most of the signs for a pretty long time. But now it’s pretty much indisputable with all the unbelievable flat refusals to follow my wishes on so many activities that once were done without any plan at all. And unlike many animals it does not respond to special treats.

 

Bodily selfish things like putting food it it’s mouth is not a problem at all but come to several little simple things a plan is helpful. For example, just to put my left arm into a coat sleeve requires extra thought to lessen the painful objection of my shoulder to fulfill my demand. It was pretty hard to pick an example of the many many choices but my mind, which is also one of the problems, didn’t want to look very hard at all.

 

Mutiny on many fronts I tell you! My hearing, my eye sight even my hair are all saying, screw this, “I’m outta here”

 

One aggravating hanger on is the darn skin. I know that it has been taught by, like most that have lost weight many times over the years only to put it back on later. So, the skin hangs around waiting.

 

Great, but kinda sad is the fact that recently and on purpose I’ve lost quite a bit of weight and have no plans to replace it. That is the good but sad is the huge amount of skin that refuses to ignore it’s years of teachings and still hangs around.

 

I’m quitting this now with these final words. “Life is what you make of it and I’ve surly got a terrible lot of skin in the game.”

 

What? You expected something from a nothing note? Pray tell. I’m assuming you read it so it’s probable you must have expected something.

October 3

The doctor lessened our worry yesterday but didn't do anything for Dory's pain. He says Dory has tendonitis in the shoulder and tendonitis called tennis elbow in the lower arm. Back to Eldon for therapy come Monday. The doctor was unable to feel the thyroid gland so we happily assume it has not grown back.

In fact to stay alive is a constant struggle and as old age slips in it does it's best, a little here and a little there, to make one more acutely aware of the life. It seems when younger, one tends to take life as a given and most tiny pains are short lived, mostly ignored and it's passing usually isn't even noticed. Older age screams, LIFE IS IMPORTANT, PAY ATTENTION!

Old age does make a few changes that make sense. Like, because old requires a bit more rest during and between activities it causes a huge increase in the size of the bodies seat part in a great many of us people, so as to make the resting more comfortable. Well, it works for me!

You'll find as you grow older that you weren't born such a great while ago after all. The time shortens up.~William Dean Howells

4-18-2014 NOTE

Lost seems like a good word to describe my mental capabilities this morning as well as most other mornings but it is a little bit worse right now. When I try to think, think is the only word I see. If you can't get past think, Katy bar the door and look for the straitjacket.

You Can If You Think You Can~Dr. Norman Vincent Peale. I think I can, I think I can. I don't believe this is working. Always been told that crap just flowed out of this mouth like a calf with scours but the problem this morning is leaving me with the thought that I'm suffering from some sort of oral constipation.

Guess I'll quit while the quitting is good. Would have been more good sooner but I missed the mark due to being so engrossed in my think thought.

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I used to be a heavy gambler. But now I just make mental bets. That's how I lost my mind. ~Steve Al

4-20-2014 note

There are many instants that come to my mind where something is nothing and the first one to roll out the head is this daily note. If I keep doing it there continues the possibility that one of these days I'll stumble across a way to put the agglomeration of thoughts into a more interesting manner. Something at least that might be of more interest than the usual quotes tacked onto the bottom of said messages.

You know you're going to have a good day when........You wake up and mentally realize that you still are and it makes you happy. Happy is a very good way to start every day! Happiness begets happiness! A lot of folks have problems realizing they have been blessed and just take another new day for granted. That attitude seems to skip happy somewhere along the way and an ugly grump can result. Count your blessings!

HAPPY EASTER  (Christ died for our sins then he was raised from the dead on the 3rd day)

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Those who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try nothing and succeed~.Lloyd Jones

5-3-note

It is not true that all fat people are jolly! Matter of fact a real good laugh can set the mound and hangers on to jiggling and may continue long after the funny is gone. Too much jiggle, shaking all that excess around, can create an uncomfortable soreness in the area that might last for a day or more. With a little chuckle somewhere along the line it could last even longer. Fat folks might make a smile but the memory of the results of a good laugh pretty well suppresses those belly laughing spasms.

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"I never exaggerate. I just remember big." - Chi Chi Rodriguez

Great way to start!

I’m of the opinion that a violation of ones body can be called an intimate relation depending on if a person wants to view a happening with a positive of negative attitude.

 

Anyway, yesterday in Columbia, my kinky wife allowed a young lady to have an intimate relation with me as she gleefully watched. Thankfully, it was consummated with lots of lubricant and a good prophylactics device which covered all four of her fingers, all of which I think she used at the same time.

 

Of course Dory had said she would read a magazine and not watch but I know as soon as I turned my back, dropped my pants and assumed the position she put the magazine down.

 

My prayers and faith came to pass tho a tugging six week worry might indicate I need to spend more time working on my faith.

 

The young lady left to report to the doctor her feelings and thoughts about the invasion which must have been good because shortly the doctor came in and his words expressed my blessing.

 

I don’t know how they are going to do it but he said, at my way past young age, we need to keep an eye on it and scheduled me back in six months to take a look.

 

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Here are a few commas and periods that some I know I failed to use or failed to use properly. ,,,,,,,,,,,, ......... Put them where you want.

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A great beginning of the new year and we’re wishing more of the same to you and yours! Only double-- HAPPY HAPPY NEW YEAR.

There was a time that I might have been a little aggravated about sleeping past the regular getup time but those days are long gone. Now I'm able to see some blessings that have always been there but I guess were taken for granted. It is a great blessing to be given another day no matter what time it starts. How can so many of us not realize the greatness of retaining enough mobility to rise and face the new day with only a few pains and aches to groan past. Even if the mobility isn't, there is enough joy to find in the mind to still be classified as one of the truly great and wonderful blessings that none of us could live without. 

If a person took the time to really think only about all the blessings received they wouldn't be able to do it in their lifetime. And I'm not going to say that if that was all a person ever thought of he probably wouldn't live long anyway. The multi-million thoughts that one has everyday, some are what puts food in their mouths and possible happiness in their minds... This note could go on and on too but it won't because some new thoughts have made themselves known and the possibility of something more exciting than this can't be very hard to happen.
Q: As people age, do they sleep more soundly? A: Yes, but usually in the afternoon.

1/24/11

Not a lot new going on around here. Well, I guess we do have quite a bit of new carbon dioxide being made. Now, as well as while I slept, my lungs continued to suck in oxygen and blow out new carbon dioxide into the environment. In every twenty four hour period of regular living, a person sucks and blows on an average, more than 28,800 times. Most without any effort or thought. Amazing isn't it. I'm thinking about it now and I'm just as thankful as I can be for all the friends and relatives out there who are still sucking and blowing. A few of them are like me and have the ability to blow way more than they suck. Even typing can be a form of blowing, or so I've been told.

We're all still taking it in and blowing it out, doing our part in helping the trees grow. To show us their thankfulness they return the favor by kicking back to us new oxygen. It seems everything runs in a cycle of some sort.

The average adult at rest inhales and exhales something like about one-fourth of a cubic foot of air per minute. That totals around 2,800 cubic feet in a day.
The air that is inhaled is about 20-percent oxygen, unless you're in or near a nasty city, and the air that is exhaled is about 15-percent oxygen, so about 5-percent of the volume of air is consumed in each breath and converted to carbon dioxide. Therefore, a human being uses about 150 cubic feet of pure oxygen per day.

It’s a simple and indisputable Fact that Oxygen is necessary to sustain a Healthy life! Clinical studies show that a human being can live for days without water, and weeks without food but without Oxygen biological death begins to occur within three minutes. Oxygen is the miraculous element that permits life to exist and flourish on earth!

You do know that trees grow twice as fast in or very near a nasty city? I guess there is a lot more people sucking and blowing there. Lots of automobiles and the like contribute too, I suspect.

I don't know where I got all this stuff so don't know who or what to credit. I doubt that has caused anyone too worry much?

No snow yesterday despite the forecast and warnings. The forecasters 80% chance of snow used the other 20% of his forecast that he didn't mention. Does that mean, tho he didn't mention it, that his forecast was correct.

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There is a way that nature speaks, that land speaks. Most of the time we are simply not patient enough, quiet enough, to pay attention to the story.~Linda Hogan

5-4-note

Meanwhile back here in the jungle I'm just sitting around waiting. Not waiting for old age because it already found me a few years back. I'm not really waiting for the Grim Reaper either tho I know he'll be around one of these days to whack my life away with that scary looking scythe he carries. Scratch the, 'one of these days'. I rather hope it will be one of what ever you'd call a day way, way out there in the future.

I am, as I live and breath and thank the Lord for the blessing.

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Enjoy the present hour, be thankful for the past, And neither fear nor wish th' approaches of the last. ~Abraham Cowley

8/16

Hello:

 

It seems that lately my life has been getting more complicated, and I want to thank those of you who are brave enough to still associate with me regardless of what I have become. The following is a recap of my current identity:

 

I was born a white male, which makes me a racist. I am a fiscal and moral conservative, which makes me a fascist. I am heterosexual, which makes me a homophobe. I am non-union, which makes me a traitor to the working class and an ally of big business. I am a Christian, which makes me an infidel. I am older than 65 and retired, which makes me a useless old man. I think and I reason; therefore I doubt much that the main stream media tells me, which makes me a reactionary. I am proud of my heritage and our inclusive American culture, which makes me a xenophobe. I value my safety and that of my family; therefore I appreciate the police, the legal system, and my right to bear arms, which makes me a right-wing extremist. I believe in hard work, fair play, and fair compensation according to each individual's merits, which makes me anti-socialist. I acquired a good education without student loans and no debt at graduation, which makes me some kind of odd underachiever. I believe in the defense and protection of the homeland by all citizens, which makes me a militarist.

 

Newest problem – I'm not sure which bathroom I should use?

4-10-2014

Another great day has slipped right upon us and now it's up to us to make it a something of a day to remember. I fail at that so often! Right now I can't remember exactly what all we did yesterday. I'm sure I enjoyed it anyway. I'm sorry to have stretched the truth there a little but I'd be hard put to tell you what we did Monday.

Isn't it great to wake up with the realization that God has granted you another day? Mornings are just about my favorite time of day. My two favorite happy times are going to bed, I really like that, and getting up. In between that the times are good too, but for some reason it doesn't very often produce near the thrill.

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…a man should say to his soul every morning, "God has given thee twenty-four treasures; take heed lest thou lose anyone of them, for thou wilt not be able to endure the regret that will follow such loss." -Al-Ghazzali

Old

I’ve been carried through to OLD and I thank God for every minute of it.  I have learned many things over the years and still remember a few of them but NEVER are you too old to learn more.

 

One of the things I remember, that younger folks may not know :  A sack can be called a poke, a mule can be called an ass and a poke in the ass is called a goose.

 

Just recently I learned that it can also be called foreplay if you are gay.  GO FIGURE!

After I wake, open my eyes and prior to arising, I blink a few times while the realization that the good Lord has granted me another day soaks into my still muddied mind. While still lying there I say a small prayer with 'THANK YOU GOD' being the hub. After accomplishing the getting up feat I usually feel the need to pause for an addendum to the prayer and ask for His help in enabling my old, over used, overweight, creaky and achy body to carry me thru the fine day that He has seen fit to bless me with. Grunts and groans, partly caused by the bones, will never be what kills me.

Gotta

Have plans to mow today sometime but it may be in the afternoon before on the dew dries off the grass. Thant is okay tho, because it looks like I'll be spending a good amount of time this morning trying to figure out why this laptop is so slow. Hopefully I can get it back up to speed some way. It is an internal slowdown that doesn't seem to be an on-line problem but on-line does get slow at times too. I'm using a wireless connection on the laptop and suspect there may be another computer slipping in and using it too.

Got to creep along out of here now and seek a cure for the computer ills..... What did we ever do before computers?

Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.Joseph Campbell

A sneeze is for sure a nothing to scoff at. This semi-autonomous, convulsive expulsion of air from the lungs through the nose and mouth can affect your knees when you are walking around with a broken rib.  The knees sometimes fail you and down you go.  That is bad but good too because the pain is extreme and makes you beak out in prayer and there you are in a perfect position to do that..  When the pain passes the next smaller pain comes as you begin the transition  back to your feet.

 

I’m also going to say that I believe under the right circumstances one of those super sneezes by a constipated person with a broken rib could relieve the problem faster than any laxative known to man.

 

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After all is said and done, more is said than done. ~Unknown

10-9

As I was saying........As one ages many of the abilities begin to fade and I can’t figure out if it is because you slow down or you slow down because of it.  ‘Use it or lose it’ comes to mind.

 

Right now I’m thinking of some things I said while talking to a few folks last night.  A couple fades for me are the eyesight and hearing.  Don’t know what all the hearing loss has caused me to miss but found one several days ago of the eyesight.

 

Out of the shower I looked into the mirror and wasn’t impressed at what I saw but then my eyes got to my hair.  Wow!  What is that stuff in my hair?  After a closer examination I discovered it was my scalp.  Gee, my hair sure was thinning out!  The fading memory surprisingly flashed back to years past when during hair cuts the barber would ask if I would like him to thin it out.

 

No need for that stuff now as the hair seems to realize the old ship is sinking and like a bunch of rats they are deserting the poor OLD thing right and left.  This is creating a problem for me as the sun is seeing some places to shine on that it hadn’t seen before.... Burn, Georgia, burn...

 

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Many, but one idea led to and reinforced theories that lack of hair was caused by mental activity or high intelligence. (I liked this one)

10-10-2014

After yesterday’s wetting and looking out the window this morning doesn’t leave much of a dilemma for todays choice, “talk the talk or walk the walk”.

So many years of experience collected under my belt or hanging over my belt, (It must be stored there because I sure there is too much accumulated for head storage). Anyway, I’ve learned how to speak thunder. Well, maybe not speak it but understand what it says at least

Yesterday with about a mile of my walk to go and near a half mile from home going the wrong way, thunder said, “hey stupid, don’t you know that mother sends bolts of lighting somewhere which causes me to speak a warning to you that a bolt could be coming your way plus telling you rain is in the plan.”

My fear of lightning and not wanting to become unsweetened I turned and headed for home. I didn’t quite make it.

You know how water dissolves sugar resulting in a sweet liquid and not knowing how to retain that I quickly ducked into the neighbors shed on the hill. Wet enough to think some of my sweetness had already been converted and not wanting to attract bees and ants to the house as they followed the drippings of the liquid, I accepted an offer from Glenda to come pick me up.

Thankfully I hadn’t lost all of my sweet because I was able to share the wonderful feelings with her that I felt of her thoughtful act in a nice way.

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WORDY, WORDY---wordy, diffuse, long-winded, prolix, verbose. These adjectives mean given to using or marked by the use of an excessive number of words especially in an uninteresting spiel.

4-21-2014

Each day of life a person is fraught with influencers.  A huge load comes from the television and the internet but many can come during a normal conversation with anyone.  Based on our up bringing and what we are now, most get handled without conscious thought or very little thought.  No big deal, some you buy and some you don’t.

 

Too, there are also some huge life changing influencers that come to you as you go along.  Some thought should be required and the determination as to buy or not will rely on what you have become. The good on one side and the bad on the other should be considered.

 

All of us, at one time or another, has ignored the good and just hopped on to ride with the bad.  It’s possible that the bad is reinforced as time passes bringing the mind to wrongly think there was never any good there at all.

 

Sadly, without any effort to dismount that ride, there will always be an unhappy aspect in ones life.  Live with it or change shouldn’t be a very hard choice tho I guess for some it is very hard to do.

 

Each is the sole proprietor to the results of all their decisions, good or bad, no other person can make them for you.  Of course we can always blame another for a bad decision but that is absolutely wrong even if it might relieve your conscience somewhat.

 

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"A man's life is what his thoughts make of it."~Marcus Aurelius