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Master cleanse. If I say master cleanse, do you know what I'm talking about. The wife is doing it to get clean, I'm joining in for at least a couple days as kind of a science experiment. I'm curious of what happens, but I'm not sure I've got the commitment for a ten day stretch. Whoever said that you don't get hungry is a liar....
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It's been over a week since I've updated. I'm not sure where the last week has gone. Overnight sleep study. New meds (happy pills for my unhappy brain chemistry). Watched some movies. Read Cormac McCarthy's new book The Road. New set from my friend Annika. More bad news from my friend Holdin. Go give her some love. She deserves it. Painting the...
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So the trip to Niagra was a little disappointing. Already exhausted from the visit from my sister-in-law and her husband and one and half year old, when we got to the Niagra area and met up wit my folks, I ended up coming down with some sort of strange stomach flu sort of thing. We never even saw the falls. Ended up cutting the trip...
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Ugh. Helped friends move yesterday. Why do always have friends that own heavy furniture. Feeling a little sluggish in the muscles today. And to make it all the more fun, my sister-in-law and her husband and baby are coming to visit today. They will be here from Wed. to Sat. and they are not exactly nice people. But I have a long list of cleaning...
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So over the weekend we went to the most extravagant wedding I have ever been to. Holy Nuptials, Batman! To begin as a gesture just to give an idea, the ceremony was outside in a little enclosed yard area with the chairs set up in front of a wrought iron gazebo type structure. The isle leading up to the gazebo was about 4 feet by...
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Somewhere between sleep deprivation and heat exhaustion and being unemployed lies the latest bought with depression. It is just so hard to motivate myself to do anything. I have been painting some at the house and I've been helping an artist friend with her mural some. But it is hard get started with anything. I'm on here at 4:00 in the afternoon on a Friday....
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The rains have come and forced me to put the doors back on the jeep. But it has also brought the temperature down. It's a nice change of pace. Too bad it hasn't helped me to sleep at all. Maybe the 80 oz. of Olde English was the problem? Maybe it's the sunburn? Maybe it's just the fact that I still suck at sleeping. But...
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It's too hot to be spackelling and sanding and installing trim boards and painting. This jobs aren't as much fun as the outdoor mural. Maybe I'll go back out there tomorrow. And the weather is supposed to break to. I feel like I've melted a bit inside.

Happy anniversary to me. Today is our third wedding anniversary. Got a big gift card as a thank you present and we're going to go blow it on wine and appetizers and dessert! Whoohoo!

Not much else to report. Stephanie's been studying all day and I've been doing odds and ends and reading The Tipping Point.

It's hot today. Real hot. I have too much of the Scottish Highland blood. I don't deal well with heat. I don't deal well with much when there is heat. Even if we had AC in the house it wouldn't be in the budget to run it. I hope I don't melt.

The mural is coming along nicely. The artist seems to be happy with...
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No Train To Stockholm

One night Johnny sang the truth to me
on an unknown bound train from Tennessee.
Taught me all the letters in alone
Singing freedom is what you think it is,
but there ain't no train to Stockholm.
Received your invitation to the war.
I sent it back, so please don't send no more.
I'd rather lie in some jail all alone....
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I'm becoming a muralist! In my struggle to combat all of the things that eat at my mind and make me freak out about my current life and commitment, I've been volunteer a lot of time working on a mural that a friend of mine was commissioned to do on a community center in a near by town. It's a 20x50 wall so it is...
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