She should pay for all cost associated with trying to find her

Jennifer Wilbanks should pay for all the cost of trying to find her. Her finance' said it might be a hell of a case of cold feet. Yeh, well it might be a hell of a cost to the citizens of Diluth Ga as well and he/she should pay for all of it. In every picture I saw of her, you could see the whites of her eyes all the way around the pupil. Does anyone know when this usually occurs? that's right, uppers........could be over the counter, but uppers none the less. Oh well, I am slightly cynical....No? Oh and by the way, I am totally happy she did not turn out to be abducted. I don't want to hear about anymore of those kind of cases, how about you?

Politics leave me cold

Where are all the good Orators. Neither the President's speech nor the rebuttals did anything for me. It has been some time since I felt enthusiasm for a politicial point of view. I always feel someone is trying to pull the wool over my eyes but they don't know how. Are they nuts or are we? I want a person who can lead and keep me routing for him at the same time. I like Bush but he leaves me cold. There is no excitement in his voice. It's almost as if he is not sure of what he is saying but he wants us to believe it. Why all the him'n and hoahing and stopping and starting? Doesn't he practice his speeches before hand? I believe I could have delivered that speech better than he did. And I believe I have more enthusiasm for the changes in Social Security than he has. And as for those who asked how is it going to be paid for? What a dumb question. Isn't that the reason for the changes in the program in the first place. The government broke it's fudiciary responsibility with the collections so far and there is no money to pay the benefits. If we put the money into Private Retirement Accounts the government can't get it's hands into our cookie jar. And the earning have a chance of being big enough to afford a proper retirement.

Does anybody know what time it is?. Does anybody really care?

Well yesterday came and went and I feel only slightly more informed. Actually, it was mostly anti-climatic. I will be starting my Radiation therapy on Monday and as we all knew it will last for about 33 sessions. Yesterday was mainly spent in marking me up for use on Monday before my first treatment. They now use a 3 dimensional computer generated type of treatment which is said to be much more accurate. My doctor was a low key fellow and he asked a lot of questions that I had hoped he would have had answer for from my other doctors. None the less I have good confidence in him and he is not without humor. I was able to jibe him and he took it pretty well. I don't know why I always seem to do that with everyone I meet (jibe) must be left over from my early days with my dad. He never could talk without pulling your leg and never being totally serious about anything. I think my dad was affraid he might be quoted and he always wanted to make the excuse that he was only kidding. I feel pretty good. I have good energy and I am not depressed at all. I have stayed close to home for nearly a week and I am due to get out more and I need to stay busier than this. There seems to be some confusion amongst the doctors as to the treatment for my heart. Such as, will I be able to undergo open-heart later, or how long from now will it be. I am a little confused myself. I think they are going to confer about this issue and I will be informed eventually. Right now, I simply want to start my Radiation and see what happens. This doctor did say that upon completion there could still be a dark spot where the cancer was but it may just be a callous and that it would take months to make that determination. In fact he said, they will not be able to do cat scans or pet scans for a few months because they would get false readings. He also added that there is a danger of doing some damage to the lung where they have applied the radiation and that could be a problem. They will keep a look out for matastisation afterward as that is the biggest concern. Spreading

Treatments begin Wednesday

I was notified that my radiation treatments will begin on this coming Wednesday. Can't get started any too quickly for me. I will post on Wednesday for sure if they tell me anything worth passing on. I believe the treatment will last about 30-35 days. I will receive a treatment 5 times a week for 6-7 weeks. If they get it all I would like to have my heart surgery in the fall.

I corrected the video file for Bobby. It wouldn't open and it was my fault.

New changes

Well I keep making changes to my blog thanks to the help of Chris. Please click on the Video files I think you will enjoy them. I will add more as time goes by.

I don't believe what I read most of the time

So, starving to death is “euphoric” (according to the Los Angeles Times)? Then North Korea must be the happiest nation on earth

These liberal rags must go......

What say you

This is Frightening…..The Ice-Women cometh……I sure hope Condi wants this challenge

Irish Expressions

An Irishmans conscience does not prevent him from sinning; it merely prevents him from enjoying it.

Origin of family name

"O'Connor, with its variants Connor, Conner, Connors etc., comes from the Irish Conchobhair, from the personal name Conchobhar, perhaps meaning 'lover of hounds' or 'wolf-lover'. This was one of the most favoured of early Irish names, and gave rise to the surname in at least five distinct areas, in Connacht (O'Conor Don), in Offaly (O'Conor Faly), in north Clare (O'Conor of Corcomroe), in Keenaght in Co Derry, and in Kerry (O'Connor Kerry). The Offaly family take their name from Conchobhar (d.979), who claimed descent from Cathaoir Mor, a second-century king of Ireland. They remained powerful in their original homeland until the sixteenth century, when they were dispossessed of their lands.

The O'Connor Kerry were chiefs of a large territory in north Kerry, displaced further northwards by the Norman invasion to the Limerick borders, where they retained much of their power down to the seventeenth century. Today, the descendants of these O'Connors are far and away the most numerous, with the majority of all the many O'Connors in Ireland concentrated in the Kerry/Limerick/Cork area.

However, the most famous of all the O'Connor families is that which arose in Connacht. The ancestor from whom they take surname was Conchobhar, King of Connacht (d.971), and direct ancestor of the last two High Kings of Ireland, Turlough O'Connor and Roderick O'Connor, who ruled through the twelfth century. Unlike the vast majority of the rest of the old Gaelic aristocracy, the O'Conors of Connacht managed to retain a large measure of their property and influence through all the calamities from the seventeenth century on. The line of descent from the last Chief of the Name is also intact; the current 'O Conor Don', recognized as such by the Chief Herald of Ireland, is Denis O Conor. The family seat remains in the ancestral homeland, in Castlerea, Co Roscommon."Thanks to : Eolas na hEireann

I am sure some of you have come across our name spelled in gaelic, but for those who havent; heres how the name looks in Gaelic (at least in the west Dingle [Munster] version of Irish) :
O'Connor = Ó Conchúir

There are six distinct septs of the name. The first are the OConnors of Connacht-the main branches being OConor Don, OConor Roe and OConor Sligo. They are descended from Conchobhar, King of Connacht(d.970) and claim the last two Kings of Ireland, Turlough OConnor(1088-1156) and Roderick OConnor(1116-1198). Their direct descendant is the present OConnor Don: Denis OConnor. It should be noted that this important family consistently maintained its position AND remained inflexibly Catholic.The O'Connor Kerry derive their name from a different Conchobhar who was Lord of an extensive area of Northern Kerry, but after the Anglo-Norman invasion of 1170, they were pushed northward toward Shannon. The OConnor Kerry sept is the most numerous sept. Estimates put the number of this sept in Ireland today at 30, 000. Some members of this sept changed their name to Conner.The OConnors of Corcomroe, a barony in North Clare, are descended from Conchbhar, lord of Corcomroe(d. 1002) The OConnors of Offlay are descended from OConnor Faly, who in turn was descended of Cathaoir Mor, King of Ireland in the second century.
"Our name, in Irish Gaelic, is Ó Conchubhair. Today this is pronounced owe-kru-who-ear. In other pronounciations it ranges from owe-con-ear to owe-con-coo-ear.The spelling of the surname varies from sept to sept - mine, above, is O'Connor Kerry - and there are regional adaptions and other approximations such as Conaire (Conroy).

Not in bed yet

Can't sleep. I am going to have to do something about this staying up half the night. I will need more and more sleep while I am on Radiation therapy. I hope I am not boring all of you with my dribble.

Yes it's me again

Sometimes I simply don’t feel like talking or doing anything. These past few days I have been lazy. Today my car is getting front disk brakes. Tim is coming over when he gets out of work. Chris has been running me around today because I had no car. Found out when and where my Radiation therapy will happen. It starts ext Wednesday at 10: am. I am anxious to get started. I will post the news as I learn for my self. I suppose it will be 6-7 weeks at 5 days per week.

The biggest complaint I hear about the treatments is that they leave you tired and listless even for several weeks after the sessions are finished. Some people don’t have that reaction maybe I’ll be one of them.

I have not had many people leave comments on this blog and I wonder if they are shy or the blog is simply not of interest to them. I wish are were a bit wittier or had an ax to grind but that is not my bag. I was going to leave some of those types of entries but, I
thought better about it. Who would give a dam about my politics anyway?

I will tell you again that if you want to make a comment simply click on the word comment below each entry. And Oh,.. by the way if you click on left side of the page under pictures there is a file which you might enjoy. I will be adding others as time goes by.

Back home again

Had breakfast and I'm full of coffee and ready to go. No eggs, bacon or sausage. French toast and coffee w/grits. Read the paper and except for local news everything is the same as TV. I am so full of news I can't stand it anymore.

Looking forward to my trip to Ireland with Tim and Chris and the visit to my grandparents birthplaces. It is more expensive than what I had checked out a year or so ago. The Euro has gone up but they quote their prices both in USD and Euros. Round trip airfare seems to be about $1,000 each and the daily room and board will be anywhere from $50 to $150 depending on the city we are visiting i.e., Killarney or Dublin. My grandfather is from a very little town called Cahirciveen on the Ring of Kerry and my grandmother was from Cork. We have problems as to what her last name really was,.... so we will need to confirm that before we go.

Hope everybody paid their taxes on time. So glad to be out of that loop.

Be good and have a happy day.

Wow I am up early today

Hey y'all look how early I am up today. And to be totally honest I never went to bed until 1:30am. Who knows why but up... I am. This will give me a good start on the day. Later today I will watch my grand daughters while the parent are out doing something by themselves. I always look forward to being with the girls alone because I can give them my complete attention and they have more time for me. They are quite a pair. Emily is only 5 and she can read very well. She can read books that children in the 3rd grade read. She has a special talent but I think it's mom and Dad's extra effort. Courtney the oldest has special talent two. She is in advance classes at least one day a week. It's so obvious they have my gene's....don't you guys think?

I am going to go up to a local resturant and have breakfast and come back. I don't feel like preparing my own. I can read the paper and drink a coffee. I have tried to use the spell check on these entries but it doesn't seem to work that well. At least it has not caught some of my typos and I have to go back in and correct which sometimes... I do not do. Forgive them if you will.

Upside Down

These past 2 days I have been awake all night and went to bed in the early am. That happens to me often and so far there is no real consequence. However, I believe it would be healthier for me to sleep during the night and stay awake during the daylight hours. I have read that somewhere that it's unhealthy and right now I need to do what is right for the healing process and the imune system. So begining today I will not go to sleep at all and wait to sleep until Friday night. I went looking at other blogs and the mixture is quite interesting. I just click on the (next blog) button up in the upper right hand. Of course I understand that there are literally millions of blogs and you would be looking all day to find one of interest.

Phone call from my doctor

Just received a phone call from my doctor to inform me of the results of the xrays of the ribs (negative) and the brain scan (negative). She is arranging for me to receive Radiation therpy and it will be done by an organization outside of the VA. She said, they (the radiation therpy organization) would be calling me to begin the radiation but it may be as much as a month away. That is hard for me to believe but they must not be to concerned if they wait that long. Just like me I am always looking for little signs. I can't tell you how happy this all is making me. Just talked with Chris and he said that we will go ahead with our plans to go to Ireland in the middle of June.

Another slow start

I did go out yesterday and I am sure it was good for me. However, once again today I am not very chipper. I mean, I feel under the weather. No strength and an unwillness to get out and about. I appreciate the comments I have been getting from friends and family. Good to hear from you, that's for sure. I like this blog idea. I have to credit Chris with the idea. He worries about me and my activity level. I think he has taken over the role of the DAd's these days. Today I will read some and listen to music. If I go out I may only go to the park to sit in the sun. I love classical music but still listen to blues and other genre as well. I am reading several books at the same time. I am reading Newt's book Winning into the future, and I am reading Collapse. I don't think I like collapse that well. To me he is a bleeding hard liberal tree hugger.

"A Brown LA Haze"

I am not moving to quickly this morning. Somedays I don't move fast and I have to be awake for a while before I am clearly focused. Actually in my case focused is not the word.... awake would be better. I seem to walk around in a "Brown Clearwater Haze" I'll be better much later today. I am going to go out and force myself to do some things that will get me going.

Thanks to all for the witty comments

I hope you will add your comments to my daily entries if you want to. For those of you who already have......thanks...I enjoy the humor. Laughter is good for the body. Today was pretty normal, nothing exciting going on. Cleaning lady was here and I was called out by Chris who had a battery go dead in his car. They gave him a new one at the Lexus dealer because it was under warranty. My cleaning lady is complaining about my vacumm because it squeeks when she uses it. Oh well what the hell. Maybe I'll get a new one soon. Hope everyone is fine.

Sunday Morning Coming Down

Had a brain scan this AM and the tech said he could not even find the normal 10% brain waves that most people use. Now we know why I act the way I do. Tim went with me and we were home by10 AM. I will return to the doctor on the 21st (she is out of town for a week) for the final analysis for treatment purpose.

LOL LOL ROF

CHINESE SICK LEAVE

I NOT COME WORK TODAY!!!

Hung Chow calls in to work and says, "Hey, boss I not come work today, I really sick. I got headache, stomach ache and my legs hurt. I not come>work." The boss says, "You know Hung Chow, I really need you today. When I feel like this I go to my wife and tell her, give me SEX!! That makes everything better and I go to work. You try that." Two hours later Hung Chow calls again: "Boss, I do what you say and I feel great. I be at work soon. You got nice house."

I didn't visit my friend Bridd

I never went to my friend Bridd's office but rather stayed at home and relaxed. Hell it's the weekend anyway.

I sent out 2nd notices to friends and family telling them about my blog site. I hope they will visit and even make comments of their own. Why don't you give it a try.

Up early and feeling great

It's not my habit these past months to be up and out early but this past week I have been up and out fairly early. I am going out to visit with my friend Bridd again. We have decided on some new things we could do for his company. I am not getting many comments from family members or freinds. All you have to do is click on the word "comment" that appears below each entry. In fact you can go back to any previous post and make a late entry comment. Try it out.

Rays of Sunshine

Well I visited with the Oncologist and SHE gave me a "ray of hope". Apparently the Pulmonary doctor had me as a stage 4 cancer patient because she believed that there had been some metastisation to my rib bones. Once cancer has done this there is very little else the doctor's can do. However, she ( Oncologist) thinks maybe I am only a stage 2 patient (which she will verify) through some additional testing. I went to Radiology for another chest xray and she has ordered a brain scan as well. They did a test of my blood also to see if there has been any effect on my kidneys or liver. She did say that she knew there was no intrusion into the local lymph nodes which is also a good sign. I will be going back to she her in about 2 weeks for further discussion of my treatments. She suggested I would probably only need radiation but that a further consult with both the pulminary doctor and my thorasic surgeon would be necessary because maybe just maybe I might still be a condidate for an operation that would include both the heart and lungs. I must admit I am not holding out much for that as my lungs are very weak and they may not tolerate an operation.

My first visit with the Oncologist

Today will be a real experience for me. I visit with my Oncologist for the first time. He/she will tell me what treatments he/she suggest for the treatment of my lung cancer. He/she will also tell me lots of other things. I will record the meeting here later today.

A book recomendation

Thomas L Friedman's new book "The World is Flat" is a great, great read. He is a fantastic author and I recently watched an interview of him on the Charlie Rose show and it was about this book. It was a good interview and Charlie was his penetrating self. I am recommending this book to Chris for his Book talk Web site. Get it----read it----and we'll talk........

Yet another day

Today I drove out to New Port Ritchey 19 miles and worked again on the advertising pieces for my friend Bridd. Left early and came back home. I have had a soar back since I got up this morning. Must have slept wrong. I will be going to see the Oconolgist on Thursday the 7th for his recommendations for treatment. Chris will be going with me.

Stayed in bed today and it felt good

Since I was up and out at 7:30am 2 days in a row I thought it would be good to stay in bed today. I actually feel tired but after I am awake for a while I'll probably feel better.