What Did She do?
What she did was have a hiatal hernia that needed repair. That’s a hernia (reminds me of this song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8Ow1nlafOg ) in her diaphragm. Her stomach and pancreas were already pushing their way up into her left lung area. The danger was if part of her intestine got caught up […]
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Set Sail for One Piece
I’ve been a One Piece fan for years. Maybe not as long as it has been around, it has over 1,050 episodes, but at least for twelve or thirteen years when it started airing on Cartoon Network’s Toonami block. Kris and I recently watched the first of eight live-action episodes […]
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Back to the Pond
Considering Kris is writing her novels, “The Dragonfly Temple Chronicles”, it’s not surprising that we ventured off to CSUN (California State University Northridge) to see dragonflies. CSUN has a meandering stream that starts at a man-made waterfall and ends in a duck pond. And for you Whovians, yes, we […]
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60 Years of the Captain?
60 Years? How can that be? I remember when I was little, we lived in the city of Bell, California. One day we got a small box of cereal in the mail. You know, one of those boxes that come in nine or ten variety packs at the grocery store? […]
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Pizza! Pizza!
Yesterday Kris and I went to Redlands to visit our niece, Annie. She recently finished her dental residency at the V.A. and will soon be starting a new job out there. For those of you who are not familiar, Redlands is east of Los Angeles. It takes us about two […]
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Paths of Writing
With Kris being out of work (see last week’s blog), she has been pursuing other means of income. One of them is writing in various forms. She is using her Patreon account to pursue her love of writing and generally creative, fannish insanity she (and we) have done together over […]
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My Wife’s Second Husband
Last week’s blog was sort of a non-blog. Too many things had happened that week, predominantly, the death of a close friend of ours, Frank J. Waller. He was a friend and also Kris’ caregiving client. So, we lost a friend and Kris lost her job. Two traumas for the […]
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What a Week I’m Having
It’s been a tough week+. Among several things, losing a friend on Tuesday, Frank Waller, and burying him today. More details next week. Dennis 174th blog (if you can call it that) completed. First Steampunk novel: 74406 words. ß Past 74,000. Goal: 80,000. Second Steampunk novel: 783 words. Second […]
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The Three Worst Ways to Lose Weight
If you follow my quarterly goal reviews, you know one of my goals is to lose weight. A pound a month until I’m down to 190 pounds at the end of the year. I generally just watch what I eat during the week and ease up to enjoy the weekends. […]
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The Changing Face of Television
The way we watch television has changed a lot, even in the past two or three years. That’s pretty much what the writer’s strike is all about. But that’s not what I’m talking about here. I’m talking about TV from the consumers’ end. Growing up in Los Angeles, we had […]
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