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Come on and Comment

3527813108_9cb66d264a_mThis blog is not new but it is new to the MS blogging community. Who wants to alienate themselves from a much-needed platform? Not I. Sometimes I read and re-read someone’s post but because I have become wary of my own abilities, I do not comment much for fear of making an arse out of myself.  My comprehension skills are in the toilet.

When I was in high school, I was not much of a joiner. I did belong to the choir, a couple of local baseball teams and our church music group performed a lot in the community but other than that, I was kind of a loner. I had friends in each of the typical high school cliques and a few of us nerds hung together mostly for self-preservation :).

Then there is the problem of coming up with the right terminology. While I usually know what I am trying to say, what the meaning of something is, I cannot always recall the terms, the vocabulary words themselves. Somewhat silly since I am the one trying to express myself.  So, I find myself meaning one thing and after writing it realizing that something totally, different came out and it is misunderstood.  Ah!

I am wondering if this is causing some of my misunderstandings when trying to communicate with Dr.’s.  DUH

So,  if you are reading this have mercy on me and drop a comment or two my way – and I will do my best to visit your blog and formulate something that might pass for an intelligent comment.

Photo Credit: Tony J Case

Health Care Again

First in my mind after reading through my newsreader is how challenging any discussion on health care reform has become. It is such a hot topic that many non-political bloggers seem to have away from it.

At this moment, plagued by cognitive deficits common to me because of my MS, my attempt at the subject did resulted in some strange email via the little button in the upper right corner of this blog. (I do not publish emails … they are private IMHO.) Those who commented here – thank you.

As important, as health care is for those of us with a chronic illness I thought I would find more posts on the subject. Those who have shared their thoughts and opinions on the subject – thank you! For or against, whether or not you think reform is never going to happen, it sucks, or if think it the best thing since sliced cheese, your thoughts matter, they help.

All I have today on the issue is :

Health care is too expensive (drugs especially) but I am happy with the care I receive via my HMO Kaiser.

To do a  side by side comparison of the proposals click here.

Remind Me to Never Do That Again

traneYeah the blog is back. Moving hosts is a PITA – big time LOL. I read all the info followed all the instructions and waited till the domain switched over . … I must say that my new host has much better service and help than the old. So I am glad I changed.

That said there is nothing more frustrating  than the nasty little blank white page when things go wonky. I must confess that I have no idea what exactly was wrong but I started over again with a fresh wordpress install, re-uploaded all the plugins and them files and it came back – whew.

The repair/installers are here putting in the new heater/air blower, A/C, and all the mandatory upgrades to bring the stupid stuff to code. Hopefully when the heat goes up next week I will be basking in total A/C comfort. I could have bought a car for what this is costing.

Well more laters, Catfish and Annie are locked in separate bedrooms and from the sound of it all you would think someone was torturing them!

Fussy Feed Fest

apps_errorI am sure you have noticed a new theme around here. Between SBcee/YaWHOOO web hosting not allow writing to the htacess file and the last them having no support for anything built into it, I decided to change.

I should have known better, really, everytime I do this it ends up with me scratching my head and going ugh???

So far the theme itself is working but the rss feed is not doing it’s thing. The main post rss feed here is showing the big red “X”. I have read that it just may do that until I write a new post. Not exactly what I was planning on doing right now. I want to play with the theme a little.

I still am thinking of moving the domain to a different provider that allows a tad more control over things that SBcee/YaWHOOO peeps. Ever since they made us change over to the new package ithas been interesting to say the least. This site can not even use the pretty peramlinks cuase they won’t allow writing to the htacess. The positive thing is I have not been hac ke d lately – oh please not an invitation to do so.

So, hope you are interested in following this blog and that your rss reader feed works – augh!