It’s been a week now since I left Las Vegas.  Hurricane Sandy’s extensive wipeout of Long Island’s power grid made going home pretty pointless, and so I remained a guest of the Rio for 8 days longer than I had planned.  Luckily, myself and most of my friends and family suffered only minor damage [...]

It has, quite obviously, taken me awhile to write a new blog entry.  It’s not that I don’t have things going on – there’s certainly been plenty to write about – I’ve just been unmotivated to write in blog format this year.  I have a half-dozen posts partially written and have been writing [...]

After seeing the doctor on monday, we decided to continue ahead with the plan I discussed in my last blog and cut off the final drug I was on to control the ulcerative colitis.  It’s been years since a major episode, but going medication free is still a risk.  I’m obviously hoping to not fall [...]

a few days ago I found a package on my porch. it was pretty large – the side of the box informed me that it weighed almost 35 pounds. I was worried that I’d have to call some burly friends to help me move it, but I remembered a trick I had learned [...]

I planned to spend today at work (yes, at work!) on various projects and can report a pretty varying degree of successes:
1. I planned to finally get officially started with a workout program/diet regimen with Alfalfa from SA. He operates a company called PetraFitness where he creates customized plans for training/nutrition. I [...]

It’s been a fun past few weeks.  I haven’t been particularly productive, but it’s been fun.  I spent a lot of time hanging out with friends from the old days, playing games and just generally relaxing.  I played poker every once in awhile, won the FTP $150, etc, but nothing really new to report there.  [...]

here is a clip of me and my buddy tommy !!

this is a post on the blog
i will be posting things on the blog
i have had no problems posting things on the blog
praise be to derk