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Friday, November 11th, 201111/11/11 I’m back in a Veterans Administration hospital. And, today is Veterans Day. I don’t think I’ll forget this one. I can’t remember the last time anybody cared that I was a veteran.
At a VA Hospital
Friday, October 21st, 2011I’ve never been in a VA hospital before. I got here on the 19th. ————- 11/5/2011 ————- Follow-up: 5 nights in the hospital. It was the first time I had ever had an I.V. I didn’t care for that. At the same time I had the heart monitor going 24×7. It made walking to the [...]
Garage Logic
Monday, April 25th, 2011Cookie and I got to spend about 6 weeks sleeping in this garage: It was nice. It was heated to about 60 degrees. I could have slept in a bedroom in the house, but my sister is allergic to animals, so I slept in the garage with Cookie. It was nice. It was a bit [...]
A Year Ago
Friday, June 18th, 2010It was about a year ago that the person I loved and trusted more than anyone else in the world turned on me and stabbed me in the back. I would have expected it from her father or her mother or her sister. For some stupid reason, I thought she was above that. For some reason [...]
A Dry Heat
Thursday, June 10th, 2010In the last month, there have only been 5 nights that we haven’t slept in the truck. In some ways I wish I could just live in the truck with the dog permanantly. It simplifies some things. Sometimes it gets cold in the truck at night. Last week I found a good place to camp. [...]
Indiana
Saturday, June 5th, 2010About 3 1/2 weeks ago I left Minnesota for Indiana. My niece got married 3 weeks ago today. The picture was taken in Carmel, Indiana and just happens to be a few blocks from the headquarters of a company I used to work for. I seriously considered trying to relocate there. But, I really aspire [...]
A Change of Latitude
Thursday, May 20th, 2010I haven’t used my computer for a week. That doesn’t happen very often. The latitude of Minneapolis is approximately 45 °. Hawaii is at approximately 20 ° latitude. I thought it might be easiest to just go back to Minneapolis and find a job there, just to get things going again. I couldn’t bring myself [...]
Christmas
Saturday, December 26th, 2009Well, it’s still Christmas here for a few more minutes. I’m at Namakani Paio, a campground in Volcanos National Park, again. I was here the night my grandfather died in November. I’m writing this post with my iPhone. It’s cold here tonight. The campground is at 4000 feet at is always cold at night. The [...]
Double Chicken Loco
Sunday, October 11th, 2009In a previous post about a food place called Verna’s, I mentioned that the menu is classic Hawaiian fare, but as guy from Minnesota I wasn’t really sure what everything was. I had been ordering cheeseburgers. The other night, while I was waiting for my burgers, I was talking to one of the locals. I [...]
A Care Package From Art, and Catch-22
Sunday, October 11th, 2009I had some dreams about moving to Hawaii someday. If you don’t like the cold and you live in Minnesota, you have to aspire to something else. I was hoping I could get back here on a regular basis. Maybe a week a year, then two weeks a year, then three weeks, … I was [...]
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