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Kids came back from camping.  They said they had fun.  The weather was really good for them.  No rain and the temperature was not too bad.  Maeghan even got to take her kayak out.  Don't know for how long but she said it was tiring.  She fell out of it when she got back near the shore and ran into the sand. She said it tipped over but she did not get wet.  At least they came back in one piece.

They are back in school now.  Not sure if that is a good thing or not.  I think they like it but it is hard getting back into the routine.  They both come home really tired.

The weather turned hot that last couple of days.  It is supposed to get back to cold again tomorrow but for now, it is very hot, about 30 degrees here which is unusually warm for this time of year.  Tassie normally only had a hand full of days that are that warm and that is not until around Christmas time or late in the summer.  I have considered turning on the air conditioner but have managed to avoid it up until now.  Maeghan wants it on but since this is the last day of it being hot, I think I can leave it off until the next time.  Power bill is really high in this place so I try to avoid using it whenever I can get away with it.

The kids stay with me now, after school.  Juanita is working her new job and I pick the kids up from school and bring them here.  I take them back home most days to their house around 7 so they can be there when their mother gets home.  Since she has just started and it is a physical job, cleaning a school, she comes home exhausted so they don't get to interact with her all that much.

They normally stay at my house on Tuesdays, Maeghan has scouts, but I think they might be staying more than the one night a week from now on.  It might just be too hard to drive them home each night.  It is good now because we stop and get a frozen coke on the way but I think it will be easier to stay here a couple of times a week.

Juanita is still looking for a new house.  The one she is in is going to be renovated and they will raise the rent.  She cannot afford it now so she has to move. That is the main reason she has gotten a job.  With the loss of income from Sydney, she can no longer afford the expensive places she has been living.  Even my place would be too expensive for her so she is looking for something cheaper.

The problem is, there are no places cheaper.  None at all.  All the rents have gone up and there are no longer cheap places to rent.  Plus, it has apparently hit lots of people the same way.  Each house she looks at and applies for has 50 other applicants for it and so far, she has not been chosen for any of them.  I think it will be too hard for a single parent with little income to get an approval from most landlords but she has to keep trying.  A couple of new places opened up this week and she will apply for them as soon as they are available.  They are close to me so that will be good.  She has the added problem in that in order to get her pension, she is limited to the number of hours she can work.  Too complicated to go into here but she has to stay within thirty minutes of her work in order to qualify for carer pension for Maeghan.

I have offered to let them stay here so they can look for a place they want instead of taking the first place that accepts them.  I don't know if she will do that but it is an option for her.  She can't move back with her parents as they would lose their pensions or carer packages and it is too far from her work.  Another option would be for the kids to live with me and she stays with her sister but that causes problems as well.  Just all a bit too complicate for me but it is how she has to do things to allow her to receive her payments.

My job keeps getting weirder and weirder but that is how is supposed to be since it has been that way for 14 years now.  Can't say what is happening as I don't really know anymore but it keeps changing and I keep getting lost in the shuffle.  Don't have a boss or anyone to report to so no one takes any responsibility for what I do.  At times, hard to work that way but I live with it and have gotten used to it I suppose.  The Australians have no idea if they have a job from one day to another.  A lot of their jobs have moved to Melbourne or oversees so they are just waiting for the hammer to fall.  I have no idea what that will mean for me as they sign my paychecks but we will see.

Maeghan had to chose her classes for next year.  They are no offering some of the classes she wanted as not enough people showed an interest but she has most of what she wants.  She chose IT work over drama this time.  I hope it is not because of me.  She loves doing the drama but she was afraid she would miss out on IT if she chose drama and then they did not have it, which I think they are not going to have it so she would have been without a class if she had gone there.

We ran into the guy who does the plays here in Huonville.  Maeghan has been in one, was supposed to be in two and missed out on the last one.  He says they will be starting a new one soon but he does not know when or what it will be.  He will notify everyone on the mailing list when they decide.  She missed out on the current one because they had 150 people apply and only 60 parts were available.  Her friend did not make it either but she will try for the next one when it comes.

Going to have to go now.  Have to take the kids home and make Juanita's dinner.  She gets home around 8 although I think it is flexible.  It is whenever they get done which usually takes about 3 hours and she starts at 4:30 after all the teachers have left school.  Hope things turn for the better soon.

Until next time

MWNews 123

Another day, another dollar.  I think I have used that intro before.  Can't be bothered to go back and look and since no one reads this anyway, I suppose it doesn't matter.

Been a whole day since my last entry.  Man, has a lot happened since then.  I played video games, I watched TV, and I slept.  Oh, and I also walked to the shops, without the dog.  I had coffee and got rolls for my beef stew.  It's a full life and not a lot of time for meandering.

Kids get back today.  I think they are staying the night with me.  Not sure what I am going to feed them.  I am having one of my special dishes that no one likes but me.  Onion, bacon and cabbage.  All fried together with a few other things thrown in.  The special ingredient that makes the dish is caraway seeds.  I add a lot of those and it seems to bring what otherwise would be a bland dish with no real taste into something I really like.  Gives me gas but I love it.  I sometimes serve it over rice, which I will probably do this time as Maeghan doesn't like the dish but she loves rice.  I'll make her something else to go with her rice.  William will probably have either chips and gravy from the chicken shop or macaroni and cheese.  Might make him a pie and sausage rolls.  I have enough for one of them but not both.

I did buy some rolls and I have a lot left over.  I will need to make something to go with them for tomorrow night.  Not sure what yet, maybe I will make the corned beef I have in the freezer.  William doesn't like that either but he loves the rolls.  I have some cauliflower I need to cook soon so I might add that to something.  I already added it to my breakfast omelet this morning.  Just bacon, cauliflower and eggs but it was good.

I have a lot of work to do but I can't really be bothered to do it.  Nothing important but I need to get back into the swing of it and doing more work instead of playing video games.  The problem with the video games is that I am re-playing Fallout 4 on survival mode and I bought some DLC for it that I have not used.  Since I am back at the beginning, I have to get to a certain level before I can use it so I am replaying the whole thing.  Since I spent 15 days game play time on the first run through, it will be a while before I can get to that level again.  And, if I do not play at least a couple of times a week, I forget what I was doing and how the controllers work.  Can't go play other games because it messes with me in knowing which buttons do what.

Which brings up another thing about me and not about the kids, which is what I should be doing.  I think I am losing my mind, and I mean that seriously.  I don't know if it is the beginning of Alzheimer's, or just old age or what it might be but I cannot concentrate anymore.  I know, it is probably just my imagination, but it is getting serious.  I cannot work for very long and things I used to be able to do when programming I can no longer do.  I have to write everything down and cannot remember what I did 10 minutes ago.  It is serious.

I have not told anyone yet but maybe they have noticed and are not saying anything.  I don't think so.  Since I do not talk a lot and never have, they may not notice that I am just a little quieter that I used to be and it is mainly because I cannot remember from one moment to the next what they are talking about and I can't remember any thoughts I might have had on any subject they might be talking about.  Since I have never really commented on what others are saying it doesn't really have an impact on the conversation if I don't say anything but now, I have noticed I think of something I need to add and then I forget it by the time someone else has said something else. It has a lot to do with why I cannot write in here like I want to.  I just can't remember what it is I have to say but I know there was a lot I wanted to say.

Now I have forgotten where I was headed with this, not that you would ever know, but I do forget why am doing something or why I have gone somewhere or even why I stood up at times.  I know, that is what everyone goes through and maybe it is what I am going through but it is really bad at times.  I will think of something, get up to do it and not remember why I stood up.  I have begun to mention it a lot to others but they just think it is funny and have not put together that it happens a lot lately.

I mention it here because I am scared.  I have always been if not the smartest person in the room then one of the smartest.  I know that sounds conceited and full of myself but that doesn't make it not true.  It is just something that is.  I have known a few people who are smarter than I am and there are a lot of things that others know more about than I do.  But it has rarely been the case where I do not know something about anything that is being discussed and most of the time, I can see where other people are getting things wrong.  I have always tried to not interfere with others beliefs or their interpretation of the facts but I have not always succeeded and have made my self seem arrogant and condescending.  Maybe I am and more likely probably I am but now, I am scared because it is not that I have lost that but that I am afraid I am losing it.  Could be a good thing and maybe I won't even notice it when it happens but I am noticing it now.

My life has always been about the ability to think. Not that I have a lot of information, although I seem to have a lot according to others, but I have always had the ability to think through something and figure it out.  Now, it is hard.  It does not come easily to me and I am afraid I am losing my mind or my ability to figure things out.  It has gotten to the point where I notice it everyday.  It is not nice but I am too young to have this kind of problem, which is why I am afraid that if it is happening now, then what will it be like in ten years.  I don't know and it scares me.  My kids need me.

I am through talking about that.  Just that abruptly, I will stop.  My problem, my issue, I will figure it out.  Or not.

I am going to work now.  Have to create some document that I use to keep information about a system.  I tried to introduce this to every system back when I ran that project but I was voted down but the rest of the team.  Must have been about the time I stopped consulting the team.  Not that there is anyone left but I will not go into job issues again today.

The kids will be home sometime this afternoon.  I am going to make them brownies.  Maeghan has been asking for them for a while now.

A quick note about the kids so this is not all about me, but Maeghan says she wants to cook and is taking courses at school.  I don't think she really wants to but I think we are going to start working on things with my end goal to start catering for people.  We need to come up with things that are repeatable and cost effective so we can offer them to others, mostly family and friends at first but maybe a way to make money later, when I lose my job.  I don't think she understands what is involved, I don't understand what is involved, but everyone tells me I should do it and I think it is about time I got started.  I have ulterior motives but I will not go into that now.  Just say we are going to work on it.  Might even get William involved but I need to start playing sports with him.  He has had no one to do that with and I used to be good at it so I will try to do something to improve his coordination and help him make more friends  at school.

On that note, I am going to go now,

Until next time

MWNews 122

I keep getting ready to type a new entry but then I never have the time.  As you can see, I am making the time now.  Not that I can remember all the things I wanted to talk about but at least I can ramble along as they come back to me.

The kids are away camping for one day.  Not sure why they would only go for one day but I had to work and it is school holidays and they were promised to go camping, so their mother took them.

Way down south of here, almost to the artic circle.  It will be very cold but they went anyway.  A place called Cockle Creek.  It is on the ocean, not sure why it is called Cockle Creek but it is about as far south as you can go in Tasmania and since Tasmania is already pretty far south, it just gets closed to the bottom of the world.

They come back tomorrow.  If they are not back by the afternoon, I am supposed to go looking for them.  We are not sure if they will have phone service down there.  I have no idea who they are going to go a whole day without the phones, iPads, and electronic toys.  William will go crazy.

They took along one of Maeghan's friends.  William's friend wanted to go also but he was supposed to have another of his friends over so he could not come.  I am not sure they understood where they were going or how cold it is going to be.  Maeghan has her kayak with her and she expects to go kayaking.  I believe the water will be close to freezing so I don't think they will be going in the water.  It takes up most of the car and if very heavy so I am hoping they do not drop it at any time.  Normally I do it but Juanita said she could do it by herself and could not be talked out of taking it.

Anyway, they will be back tomorrow.  I have the kids here for the rest of the holidays.  Juanita starts a new job on Friday.  Another long story I will probably never go into but she lost a lot of money when she stopped taking care of Sydney so she has gotten a cleaning job at one of the schools.  It is afternoons, after school, so I will have the kids from school and they will stay with me until Juanita gets off work.  I am sure they will end up staying most of the time at my place but the plan is for Juanita to pick them up on her way home.

Speaking of home, Juanita is having to move again.  The house she is in is being renovated, while she is still living there, and they want to almost double the rent.  The are charging too little now for where it is but with the improvements, they can get as much as they want to ask.  Juanita cannot afford that so she has to move.

The problem is, there are no houses available anywhere in this area.  She has to stay in this area because the kids have to go to the same school.  Next year is Maeghan's last year so it would not be good to have her move schools again.  William has made some friends at his school so we would prefer he not move either.  But there are no houses, or there are no houses that are affordable.  Only two have become available that Juanita can actually afford and they are not that close and when she has looked them there have been 20 to 30 other people looking at the same time.  So she has little hope of getting either one of them.  She has to be out of her other house at the end of November so at this point, I have no idea what she is going to do.  When she gets back, I will discuss her options with her but none of them are really good options.  As she has no choice, she might have to do something does not want to do.  We will see how it goes.

Now that I have all the downer messages in here, maybe I should talk about something that is uplifting and better.  Can't think of anything.

I do have a dog now.  Not that I wanted a dog and technically, I am not allowed to have him but Juanita's parents can no longer take care of their dog so I have inherited it.  For a while, it was staying at Juanita's but she is not allowed to have a dog either, so I asked my landlord if I could keep the dog on a temporary basis and they said it was ok, as long as it is temporary.  Having no plans or idea on what I will do with the dog I am sure I will be in trouble when they find out it is here permanently.

He is a good dog, well trained in going outside.  He does get bored and will go crazy every time he thinks he is going out the front but I have to keep him in the back since there is a fence there and he cannot get out.  Plus, he was always running away at the parents house so they had to keep him chained up all the time.  Since I don't do that, he thinks he is free to run anywhere when he is outside and if I let him, he will run away as soon as he can.  Actually, I only think he will run away, he keeps pretty close to me when we are out so he might not but since I live in town, there is good chance for him to run out into the road and I can't let that happen.  I have taken him to the shops with me before but he is not well behaved when he gets there and if there are any other dogs, he goes crazy trying to get to them so I don't take him very often.  Maybe this situation will work itself out soon and we can find a new home for him.

I can smell my lunch burning so I am going to have to go.  I didn't say a lot of positive things but I meant to.  Just got lost in the problems and issues so I never got around to it.  Be a good excuse to try again tomorrow.  Like that will ever happen.

It's been fun and I will get back to this soon but I have to go take my pie out of the oven.  Never thought I would be saying that but I am having a meat pie for lunch.

Until next time

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Hey look, two posts in one week. Don't get the idea that this is a trend just a lucky coincidence.  One thing I am finding is that I do not have a lot of pictures of Maeghan and William together, or I don't have a lot of them on this computer.  That is something I need to figure out.  I have pictures backed up to several different places.  I need something that will take all those pictures, compare them, and then store them all in the same place.  Right now, they are just everywhere. My phone, this computer, Juanita's computer and several online places.  I don't know which pictures are where.  I think we have over 10,000 pictures across all the different locations. Another one of those things I will eventually get around to.

I don't remember what it was I said I was going to talk about in the next post and I don't want to go back and read it to find out, so I will just jump in like I never said anything before this.  Probably repeat myself a lot and leave somethings hanging that I should explain, but hey, I am tired of writing this already.  Actually not tired of it but tired of the inability to type I seem to have developed.  Lots of going back and correcting misspelled words or erroneous characters.  It is really annoying.

William is getting a lot better at reading, not really proficient at it but he can sound out most words and read them.  He does it a lot lately so I am hoping that means he is trying and has not given up on it.  He gets discouraged a lot with not being able to do things but as long as he keeps trying, that is what I want for him.  It's a hard balance between helping him and criticizing him.  Not that we are criticizing but he sees it that way sometimes when we try to help and he just shuts down and stops trying.  With his total lack of patience with anything and his need to make sure he gets to say what he wants to say, his reactions to things are hard to judge and difficult to anticipate.  He has taken to yelling at people when they do not listen to or act the way he wants them to.  He has always talked loud and has to be told to not speak so loudly but lately, he does it when he is frustrated and feels he is being ignored.  Of course, he feels he is being ignored when you do not give him your full attention and are doing something else when he is talking to you.  It is just a difficult situation with his condition and his understanding of things around him.

I think it all comes down to his ability to read and understand and if he can master that, everything else will start to fall in place.  But it is hard and we keep working on it.  As I said, he seems to be getting better and better so maybe once he gets over that frustration, I can start to teach him how to deal with other people so they do not bug him so much.  He just wants to be friends with everyone and be part of what everyone else is doing all the time.  He is the best boy as far as manors and caring for others goes, he just has a hard time expressing it in a way that does not put others off or crowding into their space to try to be closer to others. Hard to explain without seeing him everyday and understanding what it is I mean by all this.  But I know we will get there.

Maeghan is getting closer to a time we need to make some decisions.  Decisions about what she is going to do with her life and what it is she can and may not be able to do.  She is typical in that she is interested in a lot of things but with her size and condition, there just might be things she will not be able to do.  Off hand, I can't think of any but we have to start thinking about it.

Thinking about it now, I just don't want to think about it now, so I am going to move on to something else.

Maeghan is doing really well in school.  Not great but better than most of her class, which is amazing since she misses so much school with doctors and things.  She does really well on tests and gets all her homework done on time, even when she misses most of the classes where they would explain things for her.  She just figures it out or helps her friends and they help her.

She is wanting to drive soon.  I am not sure how we are going to arrange that as she needs special modifications to any car she will drive.  I think she can get help from the government in modifying a car but I am not really sure how that will work.  If we can find out what needs to be done, I think her uncle Craig can modify a car to work for her.  Maybe my little Focus can be used, although I am not sure she likes that car and it is kind of old now.  But if we can, it would be good for her.  We still have a year and a half, when she turns 16, so we have some time to figure it out but she is hinting at it now.  I will probably have traded in the Focus by then so I might need to make sure the next car is capable of allowing her to drive it.  Again, we will see.

This entry has not had a lot of optimism about it or really good tidings for anything.  Just a reaction to how things are going lately, or for about the last year or more.  Just can't seem to get over the hump and allow us to start enjoying life again. Not that it has been bad but it has definitely not been great and there are very few times when we can say everything is going our way.  With my job, yes it is still an ongoing drama but if you can imagine it, it has gotten a thousand times worse.  The issues with Juanita's parents, the problems with Sydney leaving us and numerous other things I have not even mentioned, it has just not been a good time for us in a very long while.

Now we are dealing with Juanita losing her job and having to downsize, my greatly increased job situation and the need to spend more money on the kids as they get older, it just does not feel like we are approaching anything close to a stable situation.

But I tire of that and I am sure I do not need to put that in this blog.  So get behind me and leave me alone.

Some might ask how you can have chili on a diet but I am going to make the case for that right now.

As far as a diet goes, I am just trying to cut down on bread and I have eliminated as much sugar as I can from what I eat.  It means no pasta, no bread, no rice or anything like that.  We know how hard it is for me to give up pasta, I love my spaghetti, but I am doing ok so far.  Been about four weeks now.

On the case for chili, it is just meat, tomatoes, and chilies. Plus some spices and some meat broth.  If it wasn't for the tomatoes, which contain a lot of sugar, it would be perfect.  I add some greens on the side and I am all set.  And it is filling.  My biggest problem has always been how much I eat and not what I eat.  I generally eat healthy foods but I tend to eat a lot of them so they become unhealthy because of the volume.  I can eat a whole salad bowl of salad, which doesn't fill me up.  It just has always been a problem but I am getting old and I want to try to eliminate a lot of things that are making me feel uncomfortable and this is the biggest one.

I have been diagnosed with diabetes and I think losing weight will eliminate that, plus it will help with my heart and my sore joints and legs.  I think all of my problems stem from my weight so that is what I am trying to work on.  I'll let you know how that goes.

Again, I rolled into maudlin talk and have not entered anything upbeat and lively into this blog.  So I am going to end it now before I get into everything else that is wrong lately.  Sorry for the sad entry.  I will get better.  But that assumes I will type another entry soon and we all know how that goes.

Until next time

MWNews 120

I'm going to try this again, mainly because I am bored but mostly because I need to do something to get back into doing things I like to do. I'd like to start playing sports again but I am old and falling apart so that is probably not a good idea. Guess I'll talk about the kids because that is always fun and profitable. Or maybe profitable is the wrong word. Seems I should be able to get paid for this as I am doing it instead of working but I am not sure I can convince anyone to do that. Really just a matter of time but probably won't happen until I leave this as my legacy to the kids. Not that they will ever read it but now that they can actually get on the internet they might be interested. I could give them the link to these. Some of them are actually entertaining but making myself laugh is easy.

Ok, back to the kids. Long story that I might tell at some point but we no longer care for Sydney.  I feel sure I have mentioned her before but if not, then I guess you can skip that part. It's not a good story and does not end well for anyone but that is enough about that for now.

In case you have not heard, Maeghan is in high school now, or what they call secondary school here.  Guess they call it that over there too but they do not have high school here, only secondary.  Amazingly enough, she will graduate next year.  School only officially goes to 10th grade here.  You can go to 11 and 12 but there is no requirement to do so and most schools do not even offer 11 and 12th grade.  They go straight to UNI, which is what they call college over here.  It's not really what I would call college, more of a vocational school in that you learn a specific trade or course.  It does not really lead to a degree, just a certification in whatever you choose to apply for.  Not a bad system but to get what I would normally call a degree in something, you have to go to an actual college which I do not really understand how that works over here.  Maeghan can figure it out.

William is in sixth grade.  He still has a lot of trouble reading but has much improved in the past year.  He does a lot of things at school that he is praised for, like teaching the younger kids or reading them stories.  It not only helps them but he gets a chance to read so it is good for him also.  I don't know if he is still doing that or not.  I have a meeting to discuss him learning abilities soon and I will ask if that can be started again to help him.

William does not do sports.  Mostly my fault as I do not follow any of the Australian sports so I cannot teach him how to play or play with him.  I really regret that and I should get him doing something but I don't want to force him.  I think it would be good but he has to want to do it and that has always been an issue in the past.  He loses interest fairly quickly and is not willing to put in the work necessary to learn how to play and have fun at it. I say I will get around to it but I never seem to do it.  Another reason to start back into this as typing this out may motivate me to actually start doing something to help him.

In case it has not come up, Juanita and I still do not live together.  Not sure if that will ever happen again but I am going to put it in here that I really want it to at some point.  We basically live the same lives but just not in the same house.  Maybe it works out better that way.  I am not going to discuss it yet.  Just letting you know that situation has not changed.

Have to get back to work soon.  Juanita is coming over at some point to trade cars so she can take the parents somewhere.  I need to be finished so we can spend some time together without the kids. Not that I want that so much as I really enjoy all of us going out together but William is always restless and Maeghan is not doing well with her condition so it is sometimes good for just the two of us to get a little time together.

I will try to go into Maeghan and her physical issue at some point, assuming this is not just another failed attempt to get back into this blog, but not right now.  She is doing ok but is getting worse in that she cannot walk for long periods and gets tired a lot. I do not agree with the doctors or her physical therapy but I did not agree with it from the beginning and now we are seeing the results of those decisions that were made way back when. But, as I say, that will be another blog.\

Speaking of another blog, I did start a religious blog sometime ago but I stopped doing that almost as soon as I started it.  Not to get into it too much here but going back and reading some of those posts, they are badly written and I am not sure they get my point across but if you are interested, look it up.  If not, I will try not to mention it here again.  I am going to try to make that one better though as I am told I have a lot to say.

Enough for now.  Might be another six months or a year before I get back to this again and I left a lot of questions unanswered but I am tired of typing now.  Not that I am going to complain about my keyboard again but this is really hard to do, or I have lost the ability to type and it hurts my back to hunch over this and type.

I have also noticed that I have not said anything about food, which as we all know is the real reason for this blog.  I will say I have been on a diet for a while so not a lot of cooking involved but I have added homemade chili to my diet and I am trying to create one that is good and good for you at the same time.  Plus, it was really just an excuse to eat something different instead of what I am allowed to eat. I do have a beard and mustache now but that really has nothing to do with anything.  Only that it really needs to be trimmed and it is bothering me as I type.  And, I hate my hair cut but Maeghan says it looks good so I have kept it, but it goes next week as I can't stand it so long and getting in my eyes.

That's it.  I can't type anymore.  Have to get back to work.  I would end this but I can't remember how I always ended them.  Not that you will know about it but I need to save this and read how I do that before I actually end it.  You'll never know I did that.  For you, it will just end but in keeping with my random thinking when I do these, I thought you should know there was a pause.

Apparently it was just this.  Thought I had some cleaver line or ending for these but I don't see one.

Until next time

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Does this blog still exist? Strange to still find it here after all these years. Must have been twenty years since I posted on this thing. Not sure if I will continue to post but I thought one more time couldn't hurt.

Seems there is a problem with the photos. Using the iPhone, I get moving images and they do not seem to post correctly.  Maybe they will, maybe they won't.  If I figure it out, I will let someone know.

Lots and lots of things have changed since my last post.  Going back to reread them, it seems I was a good writer at some point.  The last posts seem to have a dark nature.  I seem to recall it was a very rough time.  Let's just say things got better.

I am not going to post a lot. Was just surprised to see this still exists.  Need to figure out what has changed.  One thing that is very annoying is that it does not correct my spelling anymore, or maybe it never did, but I am spending a lot of time retyping things that are misspelled.  Going to have to figure that one out as this is really annoying.  Or maybe I am just old now and I can no longer type.

Anyway, Juanita and I worked things out.  We still do not live together but we are still 'together'.  We might work it out someday but for now and for a while, it has been good between us.

I will have to decide if I add Sydney to the comments and pictures.  Hard not to at this point but she is Juanita's foster child.  Soon, to be my foster child too but I will go into more about that if I ever post to this again after today.

Going to go now.  I have a lot to say after two years of not posting but the phone rang and I lost my momentum. I'll get back to it soon.  I remember typing that phrase a lot in the past.  Seems like old times, I suppose.

Until next time