Twittering

"Twitter is a service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing?"

My oh my. Now I'm twittering. Well trying to figure out what the hell it is and why I would what to do it -- or that it's the cool thing to do today. I'm still a trend follower like I've been all my life. Lately I'm joining a bunch of social networks -- first it was myspace, which was too creepy, then LinkedIn, then classmates.com, then babyboomerpeoplemeet.com, then seniorpeoplemeet.com which is real scary, then facebook (and many others) and finally -- for now -- Twitter. I'm still so new to Twitter I'm in the "what the fuck is this shit" phase. By the way there's a peoplemeet.com for every group you can think of. Someone's making a fortune off a crappy service that offers the clunkiest technology and minimal service but hey, that's show biz. If I ever figure out why twitter, I'll let you know.

Our early peek at summer has been nice -- forty degrees one day and eighty-five the next. That was a week ago. But things returned to normal. Low sixties and cloudy is perfect for me. I can golf alone on an uncrowded course. I know golf is the epitome of a social sport but there are tuns of guys who golf solo like me. I can remember when I took up golf in my forties and was thankful that it would force me to interact with friends and make new golf buddies. Hasn't worked out that way but I'm fine with it.

The health update is this: I had a full body PET scan to determine if there is active sarcoidosis in my nervous system or lungs. And I had a cardiac PET scan to see if it's active in my heart. The results were inconclusive -- basically they didn't show any sarcoid. I started prednisone the last week. Nothing has changed so far. This is the trial regime recommended by the specialist at Johns Hopkins. If the disease is active -- fifty/fifty chance -- the drug should reduce the disease and the symptoms. If not, there may still be some improvement. The best news for me would be that the disease is active because then it can be treated, if it's in remission then the damage may be permanent and there won't be any real improvement. That's the bad news. The good news is there is no down side; I'll just be back where I started and I will continue to work to maintain my quality of life. I refuse to think much about becoming an invalid. Not on my agenda. In any event, I am flattered and humbled by all the genuine concern and well wishes I've received.

Things with the Lovely M are great. Rather than look at this as our fifth attempt at a relationship, I see it was version 2.0. Starting on Feb. 28, which was not so coincidentally the first anniversary of our first date, I am looking at her and at our relationship a whole new way. I'm really happy with it and I don't have a clue where it's leading. Life is short so fret.

Two hillbillies were looking for a way to get from Dayton, Ohio - my home town - to Florida. They went to a used car dealer and said they had a hundred bucks -- what could they get to go to Florida. The car dealer was stumped but then thought of something. He said "Boys I've got something in the back that would be perfect for you." They walked around in back where he had a camel. They were confused but said okay and hopped about. They were loping down I-75 in Cincinnati when they came to a stop sign. I couple of guys in a white Cadillac pulled up next to them and looked. One guy looked at the other and said "Man, would you look at the two assholes on that camel." So the two hillbillies got off and looked.

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