POSTING #4 . trying to get caught up.

"How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, His precepts! O! 'tis easier to keep holidays than commandments."

Benjamin Franklin

Yes, we're all aware that this is the way it is, but how many of us make an effort to change that. Really the only way to make a change in that respect is to change ourselves and hope that others will catch on and follow. This has been my intention since my last posting, with christmas coming and going. This effort, combined with my chemotherapy treatments, and the holiday stresses have proven to be too much for me and caused exhaustion, fatigue and pain to be unbearable. I do believe, however, that it has been and is a test. A test to see how sincere i am about wanting to live. Wanting to beat this disease, to live , and live right and well. So, because of the above expressed exhaustion , i have not felt much like posting in spite of how much has happened since posting #3. Happenings in the family, in the news, politics, and just thoughts and ideas, in general.

I have not yet mentioned on this blog that i am fighting a terrible disease.Pancreatic cancer. In spite of the fact that it happens to be one of the worst forms of cancer, i am doing well and well on my way to winning this fight.In fact, it hasn't been much of a fight. The treatments haven't been too hard on me. I was participating in a clinical trial, one of the first people to use an experimental drug called FTS. That seems to be a promising drug, but it was too hard on my blood cells, so i had to be removed from the study. Lately i had a bit of a problem with pain and nausea, but an increase in pain meds, seemed to do the trick.

Now that the holidays are over with and life is back to abnormal, i expect to get this blog going and start posting regularly. I just had a chemo treatment yesterday and i feel pretty good so maybe i'll be able to keep up with this for a while. and , yes, possibly recognise Christ's ways the other 364 days of the year.

Shatner oration on Dinah Shore

For posting #3 I have decided to test my video sharing setup with youtube. I feel that this video should be apropos for the captains log. Beautiful words spoken by an ingenious orator. ENJOY !! (check out the related videos too)

Get The Ball Rolling

Well. It's day two. I managed to stay up way too late last night trying to set up this page. Big decisions on what template to use, colors, phonts, etc.
The name came to me rather quickly. In fact, it came to me before I really had made my mind up to start this. You see, i have many times considered starting a blog or some kind of newsletter or website. I have even tried my hand at a "myspace" page, which I intend to go back to and try again to finish setting up. It's a little more difficult to do than these blogger things. Difficult for a computer ignoramus like me anyway. I'm not at a loss for ideas or things to say, though, so, often i have thought about doing this and given some thought to what i would call it, and like so many other things, the name finally just popped into my head without my expecting it.
So, now here i am, with a page to write on, displayed before the world, in the cyber-verse we call the internet, waiting for some wayward traveller to stumble upon me.
Now, Mr. Smartypants, you have your chance, what do you have to say that's so freaking important ?

WELCOME

Congratulations!

You have found the needle in the haystack.

We shall begin our mission here in the neighborhood of Westfield in northeast Baltimore City, Maryland, U.S.A, Earth.

I've begun this journey knowing not where it's to or what it's for.

Somewhere in that photo is my dwelling.

From there i will be sending out this log of my thoughts, questions, rhetoric, random ramblings, ideas, opinions, humor(both good and ill), and whatever else makes its way from my mind to this keypad.

So, please, return regularly, and leave your comments, questions, or answers.

Who knows what we may learn before facing our own FINAL FRONTIER!