Another successful sortie into the gaping maw of Post-Thanksgiving Hell. . .
So another Thanksgiving has come and gone, leaving me a year older and a year wiser. This year was like so many recent ones. Leave work at noon on Wednesday, make the mad scramble in the annual T-Day Death Race through the wilds and not so wilds of North Cackalackey to my home hamlet of Roanoke Virginia.
Thursday was as it always is. An annual American celebration of the great things that Native Americans gave to the White Man back in the day. Things like corn, tobacco, local farming techniques, fishing techniques, survival skills, beads and artwork and so forth. It is also a celebration of what the White Man gave back to the Native Americans in return for their generosity: Smallpox, rape, death, forced relocation, firearms and the near destruction of their race and culture. read more »
Much happenings...
Well, there are much happenings here that I haven't taken the time to write about. I know... I am a lazy cow... sigh
First, a website update. I added a wishlist to the site for anyone who wants to waste their money buying me schwag. Its the link on the menu at the top of the page that says ... wait for it... wait for it... wishlist!!! Can you dig it?
Next, I had Physical Therapy on Tuesday, and have it twice a week for a couple more weeks. Seems that at some point over the last few weeks I messed my shoulder up. Now I am not supposed to lift more than 5 lbs with my left arm. Do you know how hard that is?? Not the lifting 5 lbs part... I can lift much much more than that, but the act of NOT lifting more than 5 lbs. It's the same as being told to not walk for three weeks. I can't do that either. I have to be up and moving around. I am like a shark. If I stop moving, I'll drown. I'm a loner, Dotty, a rebel... read more »
The Art of Massage
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D and I went out to North Hills yesterday to get a massage... Oooooo so very very nice.
Actually, it was a gift from Kyle and Andrea that we have been trying to use for some time now. It seems that we never had a free weekend, and when we did, we had other things that needed to be taken care of... no time to relax for us, ya know?
So finally, we were able to go (THANKS KYLE AND ANDREA!!!) and it was just freakin awesome. First of all, the place was really nice and relaxing. Then we got our massage which was actually a 90 minute lesson in how to give a massage. Nothing fancy, just the basics, but it was amazing. read more »
Vindication
My score on The Nerd? Geek? or Dork? Test:
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Outcast Genius
(65 % Nerd, 82% Geek, 52% Dork)
"For The Record:
A Nerd is someone who is passionate about learning/being smart/academia.
A Geek is someone who is passionate about some particular area or subject, often an obscure or difficult one.
A Dork is someone who has difficulty with common social expectations/interactions.
You scored better than half in all three, earning you the title of: Outcast Genius.
Outcast geniuses usually are bright enough to understand what society wants of them, and they just don't care! They are highly intelligent and passionate about the things they know are *truly* important in the world. Typically, this does not include sports, cars or make-up, but it can on occassion (and if it does then they know more than all of their friends combined in that subject). read more »
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