Mary is dressed like a French Canadian Maid today. It must be Halloween.See the video.
Another picture of the girls.
For some reason the first goddamn Star Wars toy I bought (for $1.00 in 1977 at some theater in Saint Paul) is now worth $5600.00 and counting. Does that make sense to anyone? At the time I bought mine I was pissed that that was the only figure they had left. Stupid Jawas.... Once again "thank you Kerry" for letting Logan have the Star Wars toys when he was a year and a half old instead of saving them like I asked. You know the stupid thing is, if I still had my collection I wouldn't sell it, I would take pictures of it and tease geeks online with them.
I went into the doctor again this morning. This was an independent medical exam or IME ordered by the insurance company. They seem to think that my injuries could have been caused by something other than the car accident I was in. The IME doctor was pretty nice. I told him my pain was more annoying than anything else and that the only thing seemed to help it was the Thai massage I got last time I was in LA. Got some more X-rays which is always cool. I like to look at my dental work that way because it makes me feel like I'm Kyrpton. Insurance companies suck.
I've been watching what I could of the Paul Wellstone memorials online. What a heartbreaking event. Of course the conspiracy theorist in me is a little suspicious. Maybe rightly so given the history of good people in this country.
I don’t what happened to me in the past decade but I went from being an active member of society and politics to a cranky apathetic hermit. There was a time when I thought I could be involved and do something to make the world a better place and now I feel like I’ve joined the running dogs. If I’m not part of the solution then perhaps I am part of the problem.
This morning I'm reading the alternative paper here and it's talking about the water shortage here in Las Vegas. This strikes me because we have rented a five-bedroom house with a massive yard (by Las Vegas) standards. The yard takes up the width of four houses behind us. It also includes our Flintstone-esque pool. Since I've moved here I've been dealing with the fact we live in the desert and that Kentucky Bluegrass would more than likely would never grow here on it's own. Yet there's that damn yard mocking me with its improbable existence.
Once again we are looking at moving depending on how a couple of potential jobs turn out; it could be California or Minnesota or even just staying here in Nevada.. Seeing that by mid-October there is snow on the ground of most of MN the California move is looking better all the time.
``Today, the nation lost its most passionate advocate for fairness and justice for all. All of us who knew and loved Paul Wellstone in the Senate are devastated by his loss. He had an intense passion and enormous ability to reach out, touch and improve the lives of the people he served so brilliantly.''
Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass.
Going in this morning for some kind of steroid injection for my herniated disk(s). Hopefully this will be a relatively simple thing. It's not Cortisone as I previously thought but some other kind of water soluble kind steroid as I understand it. Which isn't all that well to be honest because I have a hard time paying attention to doctors when they are speaking. So he told me and other people have asked me but I really am not sure what I'm being injected with. Hopefully it won't do anything to my drawing ability or give me super powers. With all the work I'm doing it would be hard to find time to fight crime.
We dropped Good Mary off the at airport this morning. It was terribly sad to see her go. Hopefully she is going to come back soon. What an astonishing person she is by the way. Bad Mary and I couldn't more pleased with how things have turned out. My only regret is that she had to go back at all. I'm not a big fan of the Oklahoma life, I mean Skoal and pick-ups are cool but you know, whatever, Good Mary deserves better than that (in my opinion). Anyway here is the aforementioned Siegfried and Roy photo of the girls.
Mary's daughter (Mary Belle, I call them Good Mary and Bad Mary -figure it out) has been here for the past week. It's been just amazing to watch Mary and her daughter reconnect. Mary Belle is very much her mother's daughter. Smart and sassy. You can see the reunion here it's a little Quicktime movie I shot at the airport.
You can also see Logan decked out in his tux for the homecoming dance last weekend. He's sixteen now and going to dances in tux's. At sixteen I was a little less enthusiastic about school , well let's face it; life in general.
We were all down on the strip the other night watching all the free crap and we stopped to take a photo in front of the massive sculpture in of Siegfried and Roy that is a permanent fixture at the Mirage. At one point a street person came up and asked Mary and I if we these were all our kids? We said "yes" because neither one of us had the time nor inclination explain the bizarro family tree to him. He said that we seemed very well preserved for having all these kids. I think it was a compliment, or maybe he was just hitting on Mary (or me). I do remember thinking that when Logan was born I was so afraid of being parent and now I can't imagine what it would be like not to be. The exact parentage of the kids seems a little irrelevant now..
I've been going through some profound changes as of late. My mother says I'm a lot more like the way I used to be. I'm not sure if that's good or bad(?) I suppose it would depend on who you ask. I feel like my attitudes and ideas about reality are changing. Not in a slapping on roller skates and pushing a shopping cart kind of way but more in a dawning realization that I don't know what I don't know kind of way.
I saw a documentary on the history channel called The Men Who Killed Kennedy. It really turned me around to the subjugation of the assassination. I never thought that Oswald acted alone but this was the first time I'd seen evidence like that. It was very disheartening.
Also I started reading this book the other day A People's History of the United States:...oddly enough because they were discussing it on The Sopranos. At any rate things are changing with me. I'm feeling more and more like I really need to be doing something better with my life.
