Mark’s Notes On The Go

I’m not sure what today got me into this journey down memory lane.

But it began with hunting down this old commercial…

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qayjR8Qbyfc[/YOUTUBE]

And the memories came rushing back.. I moved from commercial to commercial and the odd cartoon of those days such as

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3n22GQMgcU[/YOUTUBE]

But in the end I came to a skittering halt here…

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNgtdALywyc[/YOUTUBE]

The first thought out of my head was maudlin… It worries me that people so often believe their childhoods, their past, was the best, that the future is darker… Does anyone talk to their elders and notice the pattern, that so often we look back with rose colored glasses and see it as a simpler and happier time.

I remember the past fondly, but the thing that bothers me about getting older isn’t the changing world, it’s that I have less time left to enjoy it…

Well, I’ve been debating this one for quite awhile.

I kept waffling.  I discovered that I had built up a pile of points with my American Express card over the past few years.  It helps that up until this month, I could charge work travel to my own card.

Once I figured out I could book through Amex and use my points for a big chunk of the ticket, I was thinking strongly (more…)

Almost two weeks ago, I was having my pre-op for the surgery.   The hospital is down the street in Duluth, but the opposite direction I usually go to shop and all.  That morning, I stopped by the Kroger coming from that direction instead.  It’s a slightly older and less remodeled Kroger than the mammoth one nearer to me.  The interesting thing was as I came in, they had big band music playing out over the store.  I thought it was unusual but figured maybe they had music timed to the customers they expected during the work day, i.e. retired.  As I wandered the store digging (more…)

Spidey Disco

Originally uploaded by Marksda1.

In honor of what would have been my 10th consecutive DragonCon.

I’m not heart broken at having missed it. If I had wanted to go bad enough, I would have delayed surgery on my foot. I wasn’t excited about going this year and had yet to even purchase tickets when the surgery was planned two weeks ago.

The bone chip in a joint in my foot turned out to be a bone spur. I’m still not entirely sure how the fall a month ago precipitated all this. The bone spur had been forming there a long, long time, and apparently was a big impediment to the proper functioning of my foot. I look forward to seeing the difference once the foot is unbandaged and the stitches are out…

I actually took this over a week ago, playing with my camera and my uber poseable Spidey figure.

Surgery yesterday was both earlier than expected and longer than expected.

I had gone home to pick up my Mom the day before and the phone rang at their house and I saw it was the hospital. I answered expecting they wanted to speak to me, but they asked for Mom. I gather they hadn’t gotten me at my house, as they talked to my Mm to let her know the surgery time was moved up an hour and a half. When they found out I was there, they spoke to me and told me the same.

I tried, as told, to eat a lot of protein up until midnight the night before. And I woke up (more…)