joe K. posted an article on Joey K's Place - Nov 6, 2009, 1:23 pm
This morning, I was feeling okay and thought that would be a simple post. Maybe about the party on Sunday, maybe about the cold weather we are having and the beginning of the end of this beautiful se...
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joe K. posted an article on Joey K's Place - Nov 3, 2009, 2:54 pm
The day started rough. It was the eyes, of course, not focusing well through the glasses. This has been occurring off and on for a week and then came today. A lot of early interruptions made the littl...
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joe K. posted an article on Joey K's Place - Nov 1, 2009, 7:42 am
We had a good turn out last night, close to forty, which is good for our neighborhood. All the children I know plus a few I did not. I have almost no candy left over and that is also good. Of course...
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joe K. posted an article on Joey K's Place - Oct 30, 2009, 3:50 pm
The winds blows frightfully, It swirls in confusion. I am lost, Some where between despair and ecstasy, I am in both places at once and I am confused. Can I? Will I? Should I? Strange questions to ask...
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joe K. posted an article on Joey K's Place - Oct 29, 2009, 3:06 pm
In my sub conscious, I knew yesterday was important. I did not know why. That is because that is the day they a year before, they put the shunt to remove the excess cerebral spinal fluid that had accu...
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joe K. posted an article on Joey K's Place - Oct 28, 2009, 8:07 pm
Today was a strange day, I was down a bit, but there was a reallity, my muse was struggling to get out again and paint. That will be shown when I get the picture out of the camera. It was also a day o...
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joe K. posted an article on Joey K's Place - Oct 28, 2009, 9:06 am
Neither fish nor fowl, not animal or mineral or vegetable. Hang over an Abyss of limbo, Darkness crowds my mind. The mouth tries to speak, but the mid gives it no words. There is silence. Chaos and co...
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joe K. posted an article on Joey K's Place - Oct 27, 2009, 12:50 pm
These are the vegetarian recipes! Baked Zucchini 8” zucchinis sliced in half Olive oil Tomato sauce (puree, 1 large can) Oregano Minced garlic Coarse chopped parsley Shredded Mozzarella Shredded I...
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joe K. posted an article on Joey K's Place - Oct 26, 2009, 3:39 pm
My Eyes hurt today. Of course I was working yesterday and If I figure right, I will continue to do so until January,. Sigh! I go to a conference tomorrow and Wednesday I take off (and I will present ...
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joe K. posted an article on Joey K's Place - Oct 25, 2009, 5:29 pm
I will give all of the rest of you a chance to guess, so far Barry has got it right, a lot of food. All the other guesses are close, but no cigar. I will publish the recipes in a day or two. There i...
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joe K. posted an article on Joey K's Place - Oct 24, 2009, 6:47 am
Well the regular work week is over, tomorrow, not today, I get to go in for more samples (that will be Sunday for anyone reading this). There are times I am still hot headed with people (workers) who...
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joe K. posted an article on Joey K's Place - Oct 21, 2009, 7:07 am
I am planning something. It has been running around in the back of my mind for some time. I began to prepare a menu and have just started to gather the things i need. It means that my days off will be...
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joe K. posted an article on Joey K's Place - Oct 19, 2009, 4:18 pm
Yesterday was rainy... and COLD ... and WINDY... It was a day I did not work so I stayed indoors and created a mixture of the few trees I have seen in the fall. I also roasted a chicken and made Escar...
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joe K. posted an article on Joey K's Place - Oct 18, 2009, 8:37 am
So many things going on and it is my day off! So we will do each item as if it were a single entry Disaster! In the kitchen, sadly! I was making my version of potato leek soup. Everything was lookin...
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joe K. posted an article on Joey K's Place - Oct 17, 2009, 8:30 am
As if the wind is blowing, in a whirlwind fashion. My mind swirls with thoughts and images. Headlines in the news, contradict each other, one after another. My vision seems tame compared to the madnes...
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joe K. posted an article on Joey K's Place - Oct 16, 2009, 3:02 pm
After a bad Monday (it was a day off, but my mind and eyesight were not being good to me), the rest of the week has been good. I helped out my own personal charge (a person in a difficult place that h...
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joe K. posted an article on Joey K's Place - Oct 15, 2009, 2:10 pm
I know my posts as of late have combined my struggles to recover with my work, but that is because work is taking so much of my time and has affected the recovery process. However, work's intrusio...
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joe K. posted an article on Joey K's Place - Oct 14, 2009, 3:33 pm
I am not a fan of cold and having grown up in Houston, Texas, where the cold of winter is limited to about 2 weeks, I am still not used to it. However, the first frost means a great deal. I get to beg...
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joe K. posted an article on Joey K's Place - Oct 13, 2009, 2:36 pm
I have had several titles or this post over the day, most have expressed the same sentiment, bewilderment. Apparently no one (save for a very few people) in my work place can understand what I am goin...
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joe K. posted an article on Joey K's Place - Oct 12, 2009, 7:06 am
Today is my second day off in this long weekend, I worked yesterday. I started quietly, stilling my heart from the mad rush it has been in. Dwelling on things that are beautiful, finding that quiet pl...
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joe K. posted an article on Joey K's Place - Oct 9, 2009, 2:57 pm
I am glad it is Friday. \i only have to work Sunday this weekend and have both Saturday and Monday off. The days were very busy with many phone calls and tests. I will not have the phone calls on Sun...
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joe K. posted an article on Joey K's Place - Oct 8, 2009, 7:22 pm
There was a lot to learn in the city from the doctor, some came because i mentioned that the show that I like (Bones) had the male main character have the same sort of tumor I had. It turns out the do...
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joe K. posted an article on Joey K's Place - Oct 7, 2009, 7:58 am
The doctor yesterday totally agreed that work is stalling my recovery. She will start something and i will welcome it.
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joe K. posted an article on Joey K's Place - Oct 6, 2009, 8:26 am
Inside the clutter was overwhelming, Little unmeaning traps set for me to trip. One fads out, play violent video games that i must escape. Things to do, so much to do. A clean uncluttered house is not...
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joe K. posted an article on Joey K's Place - Oct 4, 2009, 4:46 pm
Just finished working 4 hours today, yesterday I worked four hours, tomorrow I work again, but Tuesday and Wednesday...I am off. It was not so bad today, but I asked John to cook tonight, I have be wa...
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joe K. posted an article on Joey K's Place - Oct 3, 2009, 5:57 pm
Actually it was this afternoon the Thunderstorm hit, beautiful in its violence and ferocity. Lots of rain also. I was in the lab working when it hit, so I had a great view (the lab is on the 8th floo...
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joe K. posted an article on Joey K's Place - Oct 1, 2009, 11:01 pm
Kevin of Always Home and Uncool has asked me to post this as part of his effort to raise awareness in the blogosphere of juvenile myositis, a rare autoimmune disease his daughter was diagnosed with on...
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joe K. posted an article on Joey K's Place - Oct 1, 2009, 4:04 pm
2 men are in an auto accident. One gets out and casually inspects the damage, the other comes out red in the face and really upset, but he is particularly short. "I'm not happy!" He says The oth...
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joe K. posted an article on Joey K's Place - Sep 29, 2009, 7:05 pm
I have 2 favorite TV shows, Bones and NCIS. Tonight, Booth ends one episode with surgery with the same kind of tumor i had. The location was different (or they did not say the location), but what as...
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joe K. posted an article on Joey K's Place - Sep 29, 2009, 3:12 pm
Although the day was tough, I decided to do the 5 word challenge Scarlet gave me, tomorrow is my day off so I will take the day off. Stay to the end because my own ramblings are there. Challenge - Yes...
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joe K. posted an article on Joey K's Place - Sep 28, 2009, 2:27 pm
Outside, the neighborhood children are playing football. The ages range from 9 to the mid-teens. They play well together. They all play, they all get a chance. It is in our very non-busy street, so ...
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joe K. posted an article on Joey K's Place - Sep 27, 2009, 7:18 am
With the struggles going on, my mindsome time glitches to dreams/daydreams of violence. I am not alarmed, it shows what is in me. In that knowledge, I am given power to not be those things. Some wher...
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joe K. posted an article on Joey K's Place - Sep 26, 2009, 7:37 am
Everyday is a struggle. Everyday is a fight. Everyday is hard. I struggle with vision, that even with prisms, splits and wobbles. I struggle to stand and walk. everyday. To make my body do what my min...
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joe K. posted an article on Joey K's Place - Sep 24, 2009, 5:22 pm
Woke this morning with words in my heart, a song on my lips. I was unsure if the day would erase them, some maybe, but not all. The love that carried me through the operation and the long recovery, st...
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joe K. posted an article on Joey K's Place - Sep 22, 2009, 9:20 pm
Something that keeps my mind together when there is unsettleness is cooking. If I am really gone, I do not cook. I was fairly bad for awhile, but then started with a series of "experiments". It becam...
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joe K. posted an article on Joey K's Place - Sep 22, 2009, 2:37 pm
Today was a really difficult day, meetings were had, my boss got exasperated with me, and my eyes were hurting. Sounds like a strange way to start with such a title, but it is all in the perception. O...
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joe K. posted an article on Joey K's Place - Sep 21, 2009, 2:50 pm
That song by Peter Gabriel has been running through my head, it kninda fits, getting off working 4 hours for each day, Saturday and Sunday. Today was actually more difficult because there are constan...
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joe K. posted an article on Joey K's Place - Sep 20, 2009, 8:15 am
During this current battle, i purposely suppressed a lot of things, my muse, my creativity and a lot of the way I have started to look at the world (which finds a lot of beauty). This helped me surviv...
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joe K. posted an article on Joey K's Place - Sep 19, 2009, 6:41 am
Before I stop, a description of what i saw as the "battle lines " is in order. There was the paper - which was screaming about a cover up (remember, I did not get the report till after they wrote some...
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joe K. posted an article on Joey K's Place - Sep 18, 2009, 9:10 pm
I do not have time to go a read, I want to, but I am just too involved because it involves peoples lives. I have to see this to an end. While I proclaim and try to live something akin to a pacifist, ...
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joe K. posted an article on Joey K's Place - Sep 11, 2009, 2:32 pm
Don't expect much for a few weeks, if today is any indication, things are just going to get worse for a few weeks. The problem is there are a few of places not tested yet that I expect to come bac...
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joe K. posted an article on Joey K's Place - Sep 9, 2009, 12:19 pm
Why? The short answer is because i am back to work. The long answer is that because i am the one with the chemical/environmental background and there is no one else, the public and the city officials ...
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joe K. posted an article on Joey K's Place - Sep 7, 2009, 7:55 pm
This is going to take a while to post, but i was reminded of an article in the Episcopal Churches monthly newsletter "Good News", which extolled the virtues of priest who did basically a hostile take ...
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joe K. posted an article on Joey K's Place - Sep 7, 2009, 6:18 pm
We had the 2 members of the community up from Virginia for this weekend, so of course I got to celebrate by cooking a BBQ. I know it was a bit cool, but that made it even more important. I keep wantin...
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joe K. posted an article on Joey K's Place - Sep 6, 2009, 7:57 am
It is the beginning of September, it always becomes cool and you know summer is over. The flowers still bloom, the vegetables still come, But there is a finality it all these things. Soon, the colors ...
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joe K. posted an article on Joey K's Place - Sep 5, 2009, 7:04 am
I am up early - come what, 7 ish, sitting on the porch. It is quite. I have to go in at some point to work. No one else in the lab knows what to do with these samples, or has an interest. A bird with...
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joe K. posted an article on Joey K's Place - Sep 4, 2009, 2:11 pm
My muse is returning. i can feel it sneaking up, just around the corner, but before it takes over, there is another story to be told. Mary was the niece of the friend with whom I came to Connecticut ...
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joe K. posted an article on Joey K's Place - Sep 3, 2009, 5:41 am
I was called that once by a lady i was seeing once and i considered being called an "eclectic Monk" a high complement. Because of my own views and interpretations of things, I try to look at this lif...
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joe K. posted an article on Joey K's Place - Sep 1, 2009, 5:04 pm
Both Monday and Tuesday brought me places I do not like to be at work and at home. In conflict with just about everyone else on the planet, at least it seemed. At work, something that has been draggin...
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joe K. posted an article on Joey K's Place - Aug 30, 2009, 8:18 am
This post is on something which happen long ago, beginning almost 30 years ago. While I am over much of it, there are times it still affects me. This post is dedicated to one of the followers of this ...
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