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Fourteen years ago, Rachal and I got married in a pretty cool ceremony in south Texas. Today ...we're going to see an opthalmologist, then a pain doctor. And we may have lunch at Luby's, which has become a tradition of sorts ever since they served me a fresh juicy caterpillar with my broccoli a few anniversaries back.

In other news, we watched snippets of an episode of "Bible Man" last night, which leads me to offer a bit of unsolicited advice to Willie Aames:

Dude, when _Zapped!_ isn't the cheesiest piece on your résumé, it's time to reassess your choice of careers.

How many times has someone on your friends list posted about something and you were really confused, but you didn't want to ask because you knew you should know? How many times have you felt "guilty" asking a close LJ friend a question that should be "obvious?"

Well, here's your chance.

If you've missed a few things, missed an entry or are just generally confused, ask me anything, even something extremely basic. I'm not allowed to get even slightly irritated at any of the questions; we've all missed things before.

(edit: I'm leaving this post public, and may choose to answer with a private e-mail rather than a post).

Things are going pretty well, by which I mean I'm not urping from stress. I'm actually kind of enjoying the whole job scene, but Rachal will be jittery until I find something permanent, I think.

The day I got fired, I landed at another store of the same name, doing freelance work for the former owner of my ex-company. His computer operator had a funeral to go to, so I'm working there at least 'til Tuesday, and maybe longer. (Since my once and current boss wants two computer operators at his new store, my occasional jaunts to doctors' offices wouldn't be the catastrophe they were at the store I was so recently working. Clear so far?) I'm delaying my unemployment claim with each day worked, but also padding the time I can keep searching, so it's all coming out in the wash.

Plus I'm keeping my fingers crossed for a temp assignment to come through that would handily pad our bank account. I should learn more Monday: it'd last several weeks, for fifty-plus hours a week ... at twenty-three dollars per hour. If the hypothetically permanent offer at the sign shop I've been at can wait for that long, I'd prefer to stack those jobs in order ... which would make getting fired an ultimately profitable enterprise.

More later.

Any of you folks local to Dallas are invited to see an art show by Katie Gardner, who works with me at a sign shop to be named later.

The show's being held here:

http://www.360dallas.com/MedicalAndDental/HiberniaDentalArts.html

...and you can preview some of her other work online:

http://www.katatonica.com/

Her show's being held this Friday evening, March 10th, from 6:30 to 9:00, and the actual street address for the gallery is 2701 Hibernia, Dallas TX.

It's a bad month to be a Salsbury. Mom just called to let me know that my father's brother Tom had a major heart attack, and died after being taken to the hospital.
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Got back on Tuesday from my father's memorial service. It's been about two weeks since I was told he was going back in the hospital with lung cancer and a staph infection; he'd been in recovery from his (nominally) successful throat cancer treatments.

I'll post this in three parts, so you may pick and choose what you wanna read. If you have issues with cancer, death, or hospitals, skip this post. I'm serious.

I intend to write two more sections: one with other details about my father's final week, then a separate Plaque post. This first one is the only one that should have any triggering/yucky details, so consider yourselves warned.
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My father's gone; my sister just called from the hospital forty-five minutes ago. More later.

Anyone know of any health insurance companies (either local to Texas or nationwide) who might be willing to start up a new policyholder with myriad health problems? (Diabetes, bipolar disorder, migraines...)

My experience so far has been not that most companies say, "Certainly we'll insure you ....with astronomical premiums", but instead, "We won't take on such a policy at any price."

If someone could prove me wrong, I'd be most grateful.

After years of describing myself as looking like the third Blues Brother, I've finally figured out which actor I most resemble.

Except for the nose, I seem to be the spitting image of Alexei Sayle.

Dammit :>

Anyone else think they favor one particular celebrity or another?

In a fit of foolishness and hubris, I find I have little bits of time on my hands, and am willing to whomp up some LJ icons for them as wants them. I may not get to your request anytime soon, if ever, but please reply here if there's always been some idea you wanted to appear on your posts, but lacked the graphic resources to produce.

[bracing for impact]