This blog is dead and so am I. So until further notice..close the door on your way out.

Living next to a rental house is the pits. The last tenants had a bunch of kids who threw big rocks over the fence into my yard for amusement. They are making the new ones look good. These folks have kids who play and scream right outside the only window I have that opens. Even better they have a big dog that is chained outside and barks incessantly. My bedroom is on that side of the house. It’s a whole lot worse though when I dare to venture into my backyard. Then today I went out to check my garden and there are rocks and bricks in my yard! I am so tempted to throw them back over the fence. Maybe I’ll get lucky and beam the dog while I’m at it.

Or to paraphase George who is paraphrasing Dickens, as written by F.S. Fitzy…

It was a shitty day for my friend Pinhead – Paul.

“Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving
safely in a pretty and well preserved body,
but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally
worn out, and loudly proclaiming Holy shit! What a ride!!”

I saw this quote and thought it was perfect as I wobble towards old age with the map of my journey inscribed on my body. All my numerous scars each tell a story. From sliding into second base, to the birth of my daughter, to my lumpy skull where my shunt resides. Most of the memories are good, or at least funny now. How about you, can you see your life journey?

The Pros of ADD (that’s attention deficit disorder):

• It’s a perfect fit for a blog with no topic.
• You can learn little bits of tons of subjects.
• You never have a chance to get bored.
• Life is a constant adventure.
• There’s a certain freedom to being impulsive and spontaneous.
• People with ADD are highly intuitive.
• People with ADD are creative.
• It isn’t about inattention, but attention to so many things.
• People with ADD can hyper-focus like nobody’s business.

Even though it has complicated my life ever since I got the first “whispers” and “won’t sit still” on my report card in kindergarten, I wouldn’t want to be any other way. Of course if I’d been born the other way I’d never know what I was missing, but I like it this way just fine. Even though all through the years I see the trouble it caused me. It would have been easier to have had some help learning to deal with it, but over all I like my brain going off on whatever tangent strikes it and I even like it when I get obsessively stuck on something and stay up 30 hours or so working on it. I could spend months telling of my adventures that came from ADD. It’s how I saw Boston, joined the army, lived in Savannah, moved to California, it’s also how I spent a winter living in a basement and sleeping on the Charles riverbank, but I wouldn’t have missed it all for anything.

Gracie here is the baby of the bunch but you sure wouldn’t know it. She’s going to be a big girl.

Ah, the love of my life, Tucker. This guy has some spunk. 😉

Here’s Lilly. She’s the oldest but seems so much more delicate in build.

You can see lots more at my brothers blog and website. I’m accepting donations towards the purchase of one, I figure Tucker will fit in my little backyard in downtown Fort Wayne just fine…and he’ll keep the grass cut! 😀 (I might need to get a taller fence though)