Ok. The Spine Institute just called and told me that what the doctor told me the other day was that I have Degenerative Disc Disease. Well, I looked it up and it's not a disease at all. Here is a quote from the website linked above: "A large part of many patients’ confusion is that the term “degenerative disc disease” sounds like a progressive, very threatening condition. However, this condition is not strictly degenerative and is not really a disease: Part of the confusion probably comes from the term "degenerative", which implies to most people that the symptoms will get worse   read more

I finally went to the Spine institute yesterday for my back.  I’m kinda disappointed because I went through so many months of pain and now I’m not in any pain and I was kind of expecting to have something done but since the pain is gone temporarily for some strange reason they can’t and won’t do anything to help my slipped disc in my spine. Ok so the pain begins in July (I’d say on the 19th?) and I had nonstop pain 24/7 until last month in February 2010 when I bought my suspenders.  I don’t know why the pain is gone but I mentioned that to the doctor and they   read more

Ok so I was watching this video from MikeysMail on YouTube where he was using one of those long Looms to make a baby’s blanket and he was using a pen tube as a tool to thread the yarn around the pegs. I thought it was cool and I wanted to try it but I didn’t want to commit to a huge project so I just used a spool loom (the side with 5 pegs).I found that it was a neat idea to use a pen but I think that it’s better to use that when you are using the bigger looms lol. The spool loom is probably best done by hand. I used the pen with a few rounds but then I got bored with it.I wasn’t   read more

I went to Western Dental last month with a routine appointment and found out that Medi-Cal won’t pay for anything anymore except extractions.  Well, they didn’t tell me that last year when I made the appointment.  The appointment was to see me in 6 months for a checkup.  I had an emergency extraction in January and they told me that Medi-Cal had already paid for other work that I needed and I said that I had an appointment in a month anyway so they said ok fine, come in for that work that was already paid for when you have your appointment. So as I said, I went in and they told me that   read more

I just saw this on Web Soup.  This kid saw another kid having his tooth pulled by bow and arrow and said that he wanted his first tooth to be pulled in the same way so his mother pulled out her trusty and very expensive looking bow and obliged her son.  Here it is.   read more

School prom off after lesbian’s date request – Source Bakersfieldnow.com CBS 29 / Fox 58 A school district in Jackson Miss. canceled their prom this year because of a simple request from 18-year-old senior Constance McMillen who simply wanted to attend prom wearing a tuxedo with her girlfriend as her date. They canceled the prom… are you serious? They couldn’t prevent her from attending because the ACLU had stepped in to say that it’s against her civil rights so you have to let her attend so they thought well screw her, we’ll just cancel the whole thing, see who the   read more

When I was a child in the 70’s I remember being driven to the gas station with all of our bikes to have air put in the tires for .10 cents and it would not only fill both tires in 4 or more bikes but the compressor continued to run long after you left. When I was a teenager in the 80’s I remember walking to the 711 with a flat tire to refill it with air for .25 cents and the air compressor continued to run and the car waiting for me to finish was able to fill all of their tires on my quarter. Today we had to go to Sears for a new water heater and it was too heavy to lift so we needed   read more

Chip bought a 46″ TV from Sears the day before Christmas because he’s wanted one for such a long time. Everyone we know has HDTV and all the new shows are widescreen so it’s natural to want a new one right? It’s nice to have the latest technology and not be so out of the loop.By the way if someone does a google search for it, it’s a Toshiba 46XV645U model.So right away within the first week there was an issue with it. It has this electronic sound, sort of like the Daleks in Doctor Who. Right away we thought that it might be the cable boxes so we swapped boxes. Then we   read more

Earlier today I posted about how Chips computer died, well you can add mine to that. All of a sudden it shuts down. You can turn it on then in a minute or so it shuts down again.I think Chips computer needs a video card, I know he needs a new monitor. I’ve had this same issue with my computer before so I know it’s a memory issue.So… video card, monitor and ram… I need to lay down now.I can still blog on my PSP but it takes forever. So much for carpel tunnel.Posted from Mobile   read more

Chips computer finally died today. I don’t really know what the problem is so I can’t say that it died but I have a feeling I MIGHT know what the problem is but until we get some money it’s going to have to sit there and wait for repair. I built it in 2002 when my cousin gave me a motherboard +cpu for my birthday lol. So 8 years is a long time for a computer to work and so it’s passing was expected.Like I said, I don’t know that it’s dead but when you turn it on you can hear the fan but nothing comes on the screen which could mean that it’s the video card which is   read more