markusooi

If You Grew Up In Rural Wisconsin :

* You know how to polka, but never tried it sober.

* You know what knee-high by the Fourth of July means.

* You know it is traditional for the bride and groom to go bar hopping between the reception and wedding dance.

* You know the difference between 'Green' and 'Red' farm machinery, and would fight...
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Fire Line Road

My name is Alice Walker, they never told me why
I'm not named for anybody, it's a name out of the sky
They thought it was pretty I guess, way back when
I'll change it some day
I like to pretend, I'm Just a visitor here
Like on one of those shows
In a house full of people I don't hardly know...
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Things really have changed for me, i never realized it, but i have been changing much in the last few years. I really liked going out and seeing my old friends and making new ones. We don't have a great night life were i live but we have some and i once in a while, i would head down to Madison or Milwaukee and hang...
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Yesterday was a picture perfect september day in central wisconsin. I did what i normally do this time of year and head for the woods. Put up one of my tree stands, as bow season starts already next weekend. Then i went for about a 3 mile hike. The clouds burned off and the sky turned blue and the forest came alive, many small animals...
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Still struggling through my situation, but i am feeling a little better. I have a weekend project just about done and that is great. Not sure how many more I will beable to accomplish before winter sets in. So it is a quite weekend and that is good, next weekned traveling to milwaukee to see my brother and his family. should prove interesting.

To day just about put me in a hole. My doctor put me on some new meds for my condition and wow they don't sit well with me. Tired and muscle aches, not sure what is next. I have been going to bed last couple of nights by 8pm and waking up more tired than i when i went to bed. shit is not good....
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I am still coming to grips with my condition and what will happen in the future to me, and it makes me wonder how someone who is an atheist would face the situation that people at the end of there lives face. Is there a last minute conversion, some hope of an afterlife? I myself find it easy to be believe that it is possible...
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Ruby and Carlos

Chapter one

Ruby said you're getting us in a world of hurt
Down below the Mason dumbass line the food gets worse
I can't go back to Tennessee, that Nascar country's not for me
Go on if you think you must.

Carlos packed his drums up in the dark of night,
Ruby's standing just outside the front porch light.
Chain smoking Camel...
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Bare with me please, if anyone should read this. I am trying to reinvent myself, which is something i seem to do every 6 years or so, don't know why. This time however, i have good reason, I seemed to befaced with my own mortality. You see, a while ago I found out that i have a acute and chronic illness, that is not affecting...
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