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December 18th, 2008
Time for a change, and if you click on the little blue ball in the bottom left corner YOU can change the background image! Do you like it? Let me know…
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New Contact/comment page
November 7th, 2008
UPDATE:
I “fixed” it…
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I added a new contact page so you can send me a message, check it out!
Updates
July 25th, 2008
Wicked was great! Our seats were in the 10th row, center and could see everything. I bought my daughter a tee shirt ($35!!) but it was worth it.
Health – I have noticed that I am beginning to slightly drag my left foot when I walk. On the uneven bricks outside of my office I often catch my shoe on a brick that’s a bit higher than the others. I’ve read that Lou Gehrig’s friend noticed that Lou was not wearing golf shoes when they golfed, that was a turning point for him. My hands and arms continue to weaken, when I filled my car was gas yesterday ($4.319/gal) I had trouble getting the gas cap back on, but I finally managed.
About Lou Gehrig’s Disease
Excerpts and Content Provided By © Estate of Eleanor Gehrig c/o CMG Worldwide
(http://www.als.ca/lou_gehrigs_disease.aspx)
ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, is a fatal disease. The disease had its name coined after a great American baseball player. Following is a brief article about Lou Gehrig and the disease named after the baseball player.
In 1938, Lou Gehrig fell below .300 for the first time since 1925 and it was clear that there was something wrong. He lacked his usual strength. Pitches he would have hit for home runs were only flyouts. Doctors diagnosed a gall bladder problem first, and they put him on a bland diet, which only made him weaker. Teammate Wes Ferrell noticed that on the golf course, instead of wearing golf cleats, Lou Gehrig was wearing tennis shoes and sliding his feet along the ground. Ferrell was frightened. When asked if he would remove Gehrig from the lineup, manager Joe McCarthy said, “That’s Lou’s decision.”
Lou Gehrig played the first eight games of the 1939 season, but he managed only four hits. On a ball hit back to pitcher Johnny Murphy, Gehrig had trouble getting to first in time for the throw. When he returned to the dugout, his teammates complimented him on the “good play.” Gehrig knew when his fellow Yankees had to congratulate him for stumbling into an average catch it was time to leave. He took himself out of the game. On May 2, 1939, as Yankee captain, he took the lineup card to the umpires, as usual. But his name was not on the roster. Babe Dahlgren was stationed at first. The game announcer intoned, “Ladies and gentlemen, Lou Gehrig’s consecutive streak of 2,130 games played has ended.”
Doctors at the Mayo Clinic diagnosed Lou Gehrig with a very rare form of degenerative disease: amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), which is now called Lou Gehrig’s disease. There was no chance he would ever play baseball again.
You can read more about Lou Gehrig here.
Wicked
July 21st, 2008
A less depressing post
July 11th, 2008
Sorry about the Imagine post, that hit too close to home. Remember my new cell phone, the Glyde? Today was day 30 of my 30 day return policy, and since the camera didn’t always work and the touch screen took many pushes to work, I went to my local Verizon Wireless store to replace it. I have heard that there were bad “batches” of Glydes so I wanted a new model. The tech guy took my phone and everything worked for him, that meant he couldn’t replace it!! Amazing! So, I said I’d take a different model, the LG Dare, so far it’s great!
June 15th, 2008
I finally got Twitter working here. At the Right side, I will send updates from Hawaii from my cell phone. I got a new one last week, a Samsung Glyde!
I got the idea from Carlos, who is in Asia now and updates his blog with Twitter updates.
Waikoloa area map
June 11th, 2008
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