This is the second time I retired. Eleven years ago I closed my office, sold my furniture, applied for social security and prepared for the big adventure. Three weeks later I bought new furniture, rented a new office and opened my business again. The second time I retired I retired at 4 pm woke up at 4:30 am and decided to unretire for the second time. This time I didnt sell anything and just told my partners and one client and today I untold them and they all seemed quite happy about the whole thing. So I will grandparent a couple of weeks at a time a few times a year. Peace Brothers and sisters.
keep the faith
david
Guess who has just decided to retire? If you guessed David Hamilton Longley you guessed correctly. I’m closing my private counseling practice effective April 1. It will be a pretty strange sensation since that’s all I’ve done since 1968. It was just time to move on and I have no idea what I’m moving on to I contemplated going to medical school but by the time I was ready to practice I would be 82. That’s maybe a little bit old to start a brand-new career. Maybe instead I should get my PhD in Rebellious Studies because you never too old to become a rebel and I really don’t know if that would suit my conforming personality I would probably have to stretch out a bit but then I can probably do that. This is a nice time in life to start his second career as far as I can see. But then I don’t always see well.
Keep the faith
david
My flip flop idea was a good one I think. Snuck those rascals in the “in” basket without any body noticing price tags and all. What color a bear is doesnt mean much to a blind man. As a matter of fact the color of a bear doesnt mean much to most men. If every man on all three coasts ejaculated into the ocean would it mean anything? Would it have any effect of the denziens of the deep? Any chance a nude snorkeler could get the surprise of her life?
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david
Good morning on a warm, windy and cloudy day in SouthWest Missouri. I am in the process of completing my reinstallation of Windows 7 after a cyber tool meltdown. I don’t care how many times a person reformats it is never an easy task and I lost a thousand photos and the verbal expletives have estabished their ominous presence in my office. Sears has never been the same since Roebuck died but they did finally get around to refunding the money from my dead surroundsound system. So now I have a tidy sum of money to spend at our local Sears store. My initial inclination is to spend the money on flip flops and donate them to the disabled American veterans outlet store. As a matter of fact I’m going to shut this rascal down and will make that purchase where 15 people will soon have a nice surprise waiting for them.
Keep the faith
david
Happy new year. Over the past three years I have trained myself to use simple sentence and phrases. After reviewing some of my blogs of four or five years ago I realize that this move toward simplicity has really affected the way I write and the message I communicate. Happy new year is quite a simple greeting and the assumption is that everyone will know that I am talking personally to them. Actually it can say everything I wanted say or he can do very little to enhance the warm feelings that I wish to convey. After realizing that my writing has slipped radically I gave myself a Happy Season present in the form of a DVD program entitled “How to write great sentences”, from the Great Courses Series. I had gotten to the point of saying what I feel on a subject without considering the best way to assure that, you the reader, will have the best opportunity to understand the message I am trying to convey.
Take for instance the statement, whiskey for breakfast, which seems to be in it’s simplest form as the statements whiskey breakfast and breakfast whiskey seem to convey different meanings and leave the intended meeting up for interpretation. Many times a sentence such as this will evoke a negative response as all but the very serious drinker will make a judgement about the assumed depravity of the consumer of whiskey for breakfast. If you asked me how many times I have consumed whiskey for breakfast I would respond with the number eighty or ninety times as my family always started Christmas and New Years with a shot of the best blended whiskey before opening presents and to steady our nerves after an evening of revelry on January 1st. So if I wanted to use a more accurate form of the sentence whiskey for breakfast, as it applies to me, I would say that the holidays provided a special experience for me as it was a warm and loving time of the gathering of our family to experience joy and tenderness from special family members that we seldom saw in person, and led to the development of a tradition of toast on Christmas and New Years day with a shot of fine whiskey which led to the invitation of please join us for whiskey for breakfast on the 25th of December and the first of January.
I have barely started the program but I am very excited to see if completing the course adds fun and more precise communication in my sentences. AND
to all of my Xanga friends I hope the coming year provides an abundance of joy, love, peace and prosperity,
keep the faith
david
I rebooted my voice-activated program and wonder if it will be better this time around. It still wants to use an old profile, but we will see what happens. Our journey to Seattle to see our kids and grand kids was quite nice and very busy. Lover had stomach flu most of the time we were there. Our grand kids are most active and basically don’t stop to catch their breaths from awakening to sleeping. Both are quite special but Rouxs disease is beginning to be more and more apparent. He now has to do stretching exercises every night and they are painful and he doesn’t like them at all. His balance is not as good as it was in October when I was in Tacoma and he is pretty close to having to take steroids to avoid a wheelchair for another year or so. They will give him a new sense of strength but it won’t last a long time. I was his major caretaker and lover took care of Finn. We had quite a special time lots of time walking to town and scoping out places such as Starbucks. He is almost four and a bit large for a stroller but we needed to take it any way because physically I can no longer carry him three or four blocks when he becomes too tired to walk. We read lots of books and his current favorite is Skippy Jon Jones which is about kitty who looks like a Chihuahua and bounces to Mars. He has some cognitive and language difficulties and is going to a special school and the results so far been amazing. I’m pretty sure he realizes that he is different than other kids but I don’t think he knows what to do with this information because he can’t bring it into his consciousness. He really is a very sweet child.
I bought myself a Christmas present which is a college-level course of sentence construction data. I’m excited to see if I can renew my writing skills and redevelop a lot of creativity that has fallen by the wayside as I have suffered a decrease in both the quantity and quality of my writing. As most of you know I have spent the past seven or eight years reading and studying the Tao Te Ching. As a result of these studies my lifestyle simplified immensely and the main order of the day for an aspiring Taoist is to complete the task in front of them to do and not feel as if it is important to complete unnecessary tasks. So instead of easily writing paragraphs I reduced my writing to a few simple sentences and realize what suffers is not my writing but, my relationships. So I ended the process of flowing on the periphery of life and plan to redevelop a protocol of engagement. My current plan is to resume blogging at least three times a week. I think during my next blog I will see how many sentences I can write about the statement Whiskey For Breakfast.
Keep the faith
David
It would probably be appropriate if I wished you a Merry Christmas and I could even wish you a Mary Christmas since she was the one who brought the object of our celebration into the world. Christmas Day does not mean a lot to me spiritually but brings a lot of joy to an abundance of people and facilitates an incredible amount of love and sharing.
Obviously, I am back from my journey to the Pacific Northwest and found that I can survive another airport day. We got to the Seattle airport at 10 AM on Thursday, 23 December 2011years after the intombment. We arrived at the Tulsa Oklahoma international Airport at 12:21 AM on Thursday, 24 December and graced the Holliday Inn with our presence thinking that whiskey for breakfast might not be a bad idea, however, I don’t do things like that any longer so we ate a peanut butter and jelly cracker, went to bed and woke each other up with our idiosyncratic nocturnal sleep sounds intermittently throughout the night. Given the lack of peaceful sombulism, and dim prospect of change in the quality sleep, 7 AM seemed a reasonable departure time. We wondered if it was worth fighting the crowd at the motel restaurant and discovered when we made our appearance at that establishment that there were at least five people in a 200 room hotel. Lover and I gathered the attention of the desk clerk who waved at us and also got the attention of the waiter who could at least count on a couple of bucks for a tip because the morning did not have the appearance of an impending financial windfall for a young wait person. The fifth person in the motel was probably the cook which we never saw but assumed his presence by the appearence of a scrumptious looking breakfast, if bacon and rye toast can ever look scrumptious.
AhHa it appears as if my writing style might be a bit different. Could it possibility be because I gave my self a course in sentence structure for Chrismas. I have a lot to say today but neither my keyboard nor voice activaton program are functioning at an acceptable level. So I will go fuss with them and hopefully come back later.
david
Is 11 o’clock Sunday evening and lover and I are getting ready to drive to Tulsa tomorrow where we can pop on the plane early Tuesday morning for Tacoma to see grandbabies and babysit while our big kids go to rehearsals for Christmas Revels which happens every Christmas in 10 cities around the country. Lover is recovering nicely and were looking forward to our trip. Life is short, dance often.
Keep the faith
David
Lover is cool. I took her to the hospital Tuesday night to get her aging kidneys stabilized where the die would affect them when She did the angiogram. She was scheduled for a 9 AM protocol and I got to the room about 830 in she was already finished with the procedure. One artery was seriously blocked and they inserted a stent and I brought her home on Thursday, she’s doing well and of course has been to Walmart 53 times today, which of course is pretty normal for her. We had to delay our trip to Tacoma we will be able to go next Tuesday which is pretty cool, we will watch the grandkids in the evening while my daughter and hubs rehearse for a presentation called Christmas revels.
Keep the faith
David
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