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My non creative adventures as a collection of short and sweet and simple ramblings.
July 16

Hospital Stay

Since Sunday, July 13th, I have been with my brother at Battle Creek Health System. He is suffering from Diabetes & a diabetes related infection which required surgery. I really want him to be a selfish person, in the sense of, putting his health and life ahead of the requests of others that causes him to sacrifice his life for the sake of others. I believe strongly he needs an intervention in which to tell him that we all, friends & family alike, love him and want him to be with us for a long time. There are changes in this world that are coming, and if he is not as strong, healthy both physically and mentally, he may not make it through what is coming. I love my brother. And my sisters. I want him to have the best possible life with out hurting any more. He does not deserve this pain, honestly, I do. He is a great friend, caregiver, chef, sibling and man. I made a lot of mistakes in the relationship I had with our late mother, I will not make those same mistakes again.

I love ya bro. You have to change your health lifestyle. You have to become the person you have always envisioned yourself to be. Enough of the pain, hospital stays, surgeries, heartaches & near death scares. Do right for you. Be selfish, take better care of you. Learn more about you and all that you need in this life. And go after it. Attack it. Make it yours. Get your health solid. If you do not have your health, you do not have anything.

July 14
Hospitals are homes of death. Windows of hope & chance. Gateways of change. Wells for time.
June 26
Tonite @Dr.Grins, join me watchin Corey Hart tell jokes!
June 24

George Carlin, 1934 - 2008.

As a kid, George Carlin was the first comedian I ever saw on HBO. It wasn’t Eddie Murphy, Richard Pryor or Redd Foxx. It was George. He had a wonderful take on Government, golf courses (his rant on the uselessness and over-creation of golf courses and the lack of affordable housing, to this day, is the Number One reason why I hate golf) and the seven words you can’t say on television motivated me to learn to master the more vile words of the King’s language. If he was on television, I wanted to watch and listen to what he had to say. 

George Carlin

Thank you George. I’ll keep hating golf course.

June 18
A great read on Photoshop V. HTML/CSS designing.

Quote from article:

I have advocated in the past that HTML and even CSS are not design tools. They are tools used to implement design. There’s a big difference.
June 10
Starting Atkins hybrid diet Round 2.
June 7

Sensitive

Some of my female friends responded humorously, and yet, noticeably disgusted and concern for my mental stability and abundance of free time, when I shared with them some video of me taking a couple of extreme measures to cleanse my body to help combat some stomach issues and jump start a weight loss plan. One friend in particular, decided to pull away from me because of her own issues regarding male friends and an impending move. So I thought I would just share a link and let you decide for yourself: “cause for alarm” or “that was super gross and funny.”

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