America's North Shore Journal

I’m 54. I’m spending the day at the Finger Lakes Track casino, spending my Ad Sense check from Google. Click on an ad to help me celebrate. … Read entire article »

Today is my fourteenth wedding anniversary. At the age of 40, I married for the first time. I didn’t know what to expect. In reality, I had never given a thought to what being married would be like, children, spending my life with another person. I met the lovely wife on-line, after joining a listserv that interested me. I was working at a small two year college, and the listserv seemed to have a lot of people on it that worked in education. There were a number of single women that I corresponded with directly. In August 1994, the lovely wife wrote me for the first time. She was a very engaging person, and we were soon writing many e-mails a day. That graduated to phone calls, and we exchanged videos we … Read entire article »

Hard drive crashed late last night. Staples has to send the CPU to Dell for repairs. I bought a cheap $300 CPU from emachines to work on. … Read entire article »

Went to see Dr. Cutey this morning to follow up on the blood work. As a reminder, she is an adorable 30 something MD, who smells delightful, and is filled with joy. Thus Dr. Cutey. Sodium was slightly high but otherwise, all was very normal. Improvements from last blood work, in fact. She grabbed the results of the GI series and all they did was perplex me even more. I have a mild hiatal hernia, which explains the awful GERD before Prilosec. However, the area suspected of ileitis was normal. So, now I have a CAT scan showing a retrosecal inflamed appendix from four years ago. A CAT scan from late January showing signs of ileitis, thickened intestinal wall and a normal appendix. And now, the x-rays showing a normal small bowel. WTF? It would appear … Read entire article »