Somehow pain and gas seems a quite natural follow-up to Sarah Palin.  Interesting the only difference between Pain and Palin is the ‘l’ in the middle.

     Sorry if this makes it to linked in.  I’ve disabled linked-in in my social media plugin but it still seems to propagate some posts for reasons I’ve yet to discern.

     Anyway, last two nights I’ve experienced substantial intestinal pain and gas and constipation much like after the three courses of antibiotics.  The night before last, I had three cans of diet coke and four quart sized glasses of iced tea and a glass of pure cranberry juice which was very acidic so not real surprised but yesterday I didn’t abuse my digestive system at all so no idea why last night was still bad.

     Hard to function in the day when I can’t sleep at night.

     Given the list of republican presidential contenders thus far, I wonder when she will enter the race?  Seems to me Sarah and The Donald would make excellent running mates.

“He who warned, uh, the British that they weren’t gonna be takin’ away our arms, uh, by ringing those bells, and um, makin’ sure as he’s riding his horse through town to send those warning shots and bells that we were going to be sure and we were going to be free, and we were going to be armed.” —Sarah Palin

     I am Sooooo tired today and I don’t know why.  Slept relatively well and long last night.

     So far three giant (quart sized) glasses of iced tea, the fully caffeinated variety, haven’t touched this overwhelming drowsiness.  I’m afraid to touch anything for fear of breaking it.

     Litter along the along the roadside is nothing unusual here in Shoreline.  Really some real obnoxious people seem to frequent these parts that don’t give a damn what they do to their surrounding environment.

      But this particular litter item struck me as both sad and humorous. Humorous because I know how these things are used and for someone to be using them along side the roadway, well to say the least it seems like not the best place. Sad because I’m thinking this was probably a young girl being afraid of being caught with a pregnancy test kit at home.

     There may be limitations of our understanding of the universe based upon the way our brains function.  … And for Republicans, that’s already happened.

     It’s amazing the lengths that humans will go in order to try to explain away God.  All we are really doing is pushing first cause back farther in cosmic history.

     I’m having some problems with depression relating to my life situation.  Maybe it’s a hazard of getting old.

     My mother passed several years ago about this time of the year.  My father’s health is not good.  My father is as atheistic as it gets and he is as stubborn as it gets a well. He believes that once your dead that’s it, there is nothing after.  I don’t share those beliefs.  I feel like I’m grieving for him while he’s still alive.  God has impacted my life in a big way, I know God is real.

     Then my wife, Tina, took a job with QFC where she is working, in theory midnight to 8:30AM, in practice often midnight to 9:30-10:00 AM which leaves me alone all night and to put it mildly I’m not loving it.

     And after 2-1/2 years in prison, I’m still working my way out of debt so we really need both of our incomes.

     I know my wife loves me, else she wouldn’t have waited for me while I was in prison.  Intellectually I know that, but it’s hard for me to feel it when she isn’t here most nights.  Thoughts come to me that I don’t want to have.  I find it difficult to sleep and then difficult to function in the day which doesn’t help the income situation.

    While I was in prison, my wife started attending a local church.  I want to attend but they are not making it easy and really I’m not feeling welcome there so I don’t know what to do.  I know if I went somewhere else my wife would go to but she’s made friends there and I don’t want to take her away from that.

     Usually I have little good to say about Comcast but they did one thing I am very happy about, they increased the size of the call screening list from 12 to 25, still far too small but none the less enough to help get rid of a substantial number of scammers and telephone spammers.

     The following opening sentence was written by George Adamski in 1946:

A few hundred years ago, when conformity to prescribed dogma was considered a virtue, men were proud to proclaim their strict adherence to the belief of their ancient ancestors.

     I find it funny how in 70 years, and apparently a few hundred years before that, this remains unchanged.