Audio Blog - The Thunderstorm

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This was posted on August 30, but the audio file was recorded on August 29.

This is what my front yard looks like now (well, except that it's dark outside right now, but the limb is still there.)


K-LOVE is a Christian radio station that broadcasts nationwide. If you don't have a local station broadcasting K-LOVE in your area, you can listen from their website. You'll find their website here.

Video of Mom's neighborhood in CA

I've uploaded a new video to my YouTube account. It shows the neighborhood where my mom lives, and where I want to live. Alas, I'm too poor to live in a place where the homes cost a half a million dollars. (They were only 20 thousand when mom bought her house.) My YouTube account is here.

DVD Home Movies

I hooked up my new DVR yesterday, and began transferring my "home movies" from video tape to DVD. I've uploaded the first one to my YouTube account, which is also called "wacvet." It came out better than expected.

As I wrote earilier, when I went to Stonehenge I had a weird experience with some metal rods. This is in the movie, although there's much less of it than I thought there would be. First you can see me walking with the rods. Then my friend doing the same.

I'll apologize in advance for the boring parts. For some reason I taped much longer than I should have!

Go watch. It's at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0TehbXGEz8 .

The Week

I've been extremely tired this past week. Don't know why. Usually when I start the week tired, I stay tired all week. It's not until my days off that I can catch up on my sleep, which I seem to need a LOT. Anyway, I've been dealing with the puppy, and doing something for a friend, and other general stuff. Got a lot of drugs from the VA Hospital as a result of my last appointment. Three types of pain medication! Two in pill form, and some liniment! Didn't know they still made liniment! I'm pretty sure it's just a liquid form of Ben Gay. Smells the same. They sent me four bottles of acetaminophen (aka Tylenol), and two bottles of etodolac (an anti-inflammatory)! That's a lot of pain meds! I still need to go back to the VA and have some X-rays and tests. Until I can get down there and get a blood test I won't be able to find out what's making me so tired. But when I have time to go, I'm usually too tired. It sucks.

Got my Economic Stimulus Payment (ESP). The only frivolous thing I bought was a DVR (digital video recorder). I want to transfer my "vacation" videos to DVD so that I can upload them to the web. Of course I'll post here when I do that. I went to London twice. One of the trips included a side trip to Stonehenge. That was freaky!! There was a guy there with two metal rods shaped like the letter L. I don't know what kind of metal. He let me hold them and walk around Stonehenge. I held them loosely by the short ends, with the long ends facing forward, and there were four places where the rods would move by themselves. It was a very strange feeling! I have that on tape and it's the one I want to transfer and upload first.

The rest of my ESP went to pay bills. Dammit. I really want to get an HDTV. It doesn't have to be a big, expensive one. Since Wal-Mart cut out their layaway department it's hard for me to buy a "big-ticket" item. I'm going to check with Sears to see if they have layaway. I could go to Aarons, but then I would end up paying $1,000 for a $600 TV.

Okay, so.... I wasn't planning to write so much. I only wanted to explain why I hadn't posted for awhile! Now I'm going to go to bed.