Delinquent. As usual.

I really need to be more diligent about writing in here. I get distracted so easily. I'm going to figure out how to do this. Hang in there.

$1.00 tacos on Mondays

We found a very nice Mexican restaurant about a mile away that has $1.00 tacos on Mondays. Yep. And they are good. Chicken or beef. They come with free tortilla chips and salsa, even. It's nice to find good things, even little things like this. Thank you, Mexico.

Stupid knowledge!

Ignorance is bliss. That's what they say. I can tell you for a fact - that is usually true. I was once really smart. I mean super-smart. I never, ever stopped thinking, even when asleep. I was always stressed, and always making everyone crazy with all of my thinking, and talking, and questions, etc. Then I got a few traumatic brain injuries, went through an accelerated program of relationship-training, and tried real hard to be rough on myself in general for a few years. Now, I'm slightly less smart, a whole lot less sharp, and my memory is pretty much ruined. Am I happier? I certainly am.

  Well, I was. Everything was going just fine, until I decided to write a blog. At first, I thought to myself: "How hard could it be? It's simple, right?". Then, I decided to do what I always do - I would learn everything there is to know about writing a blog. Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for me. Yeah, right. As it turns out, there is a LOT to know about writing a blog! Arrrrrgh! I currently have about 30 tabs open in my Firefox pertaining to blog-writing (plus another 40 or 50 for other things, mostly wikipedia). It seems that I am doing it all wrong. I can't continue writing my blog this way! I have to go back to the very beginning and start all over! Crikey!

  So, here I am. What, now? I guess I have to design and build a whole new blog, while continuing to write in this one. Also, I have to do all of the other things that I have to do, such as: get my car inspected, dress myself, make stupid food, shave, answer my phone, and all the other tedious, seemingly unimportant nagging chores I have to live with. I also have to be awesome for Beth, try to pretend I like people when I go to the store, Be funny on facebook, and convince my kids that I'm not the worst daddy ever. It's a lot of hard work, doing all of these things that require thinking. Oh - I'm also continuously learning languages, science stuff, stock-trading, medicine, dentistry, *astrology, metallurgy, geology, and 20 other useless, random things. On top of all that stuff, I'm trying to plan our world tour.

  What ever happened to my big plan to simplify my life? I guess I'm gonna need another traumatic brain injury. This cognitive-function recovery is getting out of hand!

 *Exploring scientific validity

Dental disappointment.

Richest country on Earth - with the crappiest health care. That seems suspicious to me.

I have to go to the VCU (Virginia Commonwealth University) dental clinic tonight. Yeah - tonight. Actually, at 2:00 A.M. They only take the first 10 people in line when they open at 7:00 - AND I have to have $75 in hand for the cost of x-rays only. How am I going to stand in line for 5 hours without going to the loo? Also - why should anyone have to? It just doesn't make sense. Greatest country in the world, my ass! America is like a bully who talks a lot of crap, but really has nothing behind the facade of awesomeness except self-proclaimed greatness. I have been to the E.R in 5 or 6 hospitals in 4 states, at huge expense, just to deal with dental emergencies resulting from lack of dental care for 12 years. I am simply too poor to go to a dentist in the U.S. I think I will end up going to Mexico to get my teeth fixed. Maybe I will stay, too. That's just pitiful.

Grrrrrrr!!!!!

 I had a new post almost written, and my clumsy fingers touched some button, I have no idea which one, and it all went away. I hate that. A lot. I'm not going to smash anything, as I wanted to, but I'm also not going to write the whole thing over again. I don't know if this has ever happened to you, but it is maddening. I'm going to sleep on it and write a new one tomorrow. I'm so mad, I'm literally angry with rage! I guess I should have been writing it in Notepad, as I am now, or in some other kind of office utility, which I know nothing about.

  I guess I need to learn some office skills.  Next stop: OpenOffice.org.

Oh, and, by the way- I just noticed that I opened Notepad, and still went ahead and wrote it directly in the Blog editor. Unbelievable.