Phew!!! Lots of stuff on my mind. One: Stephen Hawking is right, Matter is not lost in a black hole, i say it comes out in another string or reality in a parallel universe. Yay! Its all relative. Wouldn't that be a kick if STAR TREK was right? And the Koran and the Bible and Buddha ---

Yes, I'm serious. Yes and I'm going to vote too. We gotta at least try. It might work....

Sylvia Browne and John Edward have been a source of great help and information these days. Hug your local (honest) psychic!

I guess 2006 is the time of the "Great Dying"

Now, my aunt, my mother's sister has passed. Good in this case, she was suffering and quite old. 93, and if she had lived three more months she would have seen 94.
Like I said before, Falling is the Greatest extreme sport an oldster has. Bones break. Bed ridden is not a good idea. Body doesn't like it.

October. Oy. I'm not sure I want winter this year, hey as if I had a choice. Politics and current events leave me feeling like 'deja vu' all over again. Man, Homo sap refuses to learn anything.

I suspect we bred the Neanderthal out. Seized the women and made em tan hides.
Science will prove someday that they are our brothers and sisters, not distant cousins. Betcha. Ya, me and the life-on-Mars nuts.

Lets go back to the moon, if only to establish a base. Keep us busy colonizing and out of each other's face. Man was born to tinker, monkey with, and otherwise fiddle. We will back into our salvation someday. I'm an optimist.

It beats the hell out of second place.

Can't wait to see what Stephen Hawkings says. As for us being endangered unless we really move on getting off this planet successfully, hey I agree. The BIG ROCK is coming, if the supervolcano don't get us first.

Yes! Optimist! I think we will snatch this out in a sudden death overtime!!!!!

cool stuff

You Should Rule Saturn

Saturn is a mysterious planet that can rarely be seen with the naked eye. You are perfect to rule Saturn because like its rings, you don't always follow the rules of nature. And like Saturn, to really be able to understand you, someone delve beyond your appearance. You are not an easy person to befriend. However, once you enter a friendship, you'll be a friend for life. You think slowly but deeply. You only gain great understanding after a situation has past.

What Planet Should You Rule?

Intersting, whot? Saturn! Well does that mean I rule Iepetus and Titan too??? Wouldn't that be nice. Onward!

Here We Go, Part 2

Well, it's Sept 26th'iish -- hell maybe even 28th, I haven't looked at the calendar, but it's Monday for sure. I've lost one of my soul-buddies. This gal and I went through a torrid seventies and eighties together, through StarTrek, Spock fandom and divorce things ---we had a lot in common, thrown together by a puckish man who will always claim he's more dignified than his innate secret nature. LN. His initials. Anything more and I might have to pay royalties. hehe. We had a good time. Kids Cats Sacks and Wives, we meandered to St. Ives, and on the way learned a great deal about life. It's very good to have a buddy, and I'll tell you, I replaced Nana with THREE good buddies. Dave, my male bestest, Verna, my diabetes twin, and Agnes, the i-dotter and t-crosser in my life. Nana was all of those when I lived in California, and now bless me, (and He Has) I have three to help me along, along with the spirit guide and several angels. I can just see Nana now, having a great time sharing a spiritual diet Pepsi with my spirit guide, talking over how difficult I was, and as my SG says, "She still is!" and Nana says, "why am I not surprised." well, so long good buddy, I loved you and your family very much. I need to e-mail your baby John.

Damn Diabetes. It weakened her. One operation too many.

Hmmmm. I think I'll forgo any more operations.

She and I were the same age! Yikes.

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Originally uploaded by Popokiknut.

Hi-dee! I'm back! With knee. That is what the x-ray looked like, minus my lil 'watchers' that is. It's called a "Striker Knee" for those of you who are interested, and yes, they whack off the joint. cement the bones to the new joint. Now. The knee is fine. I can even walk more normally than I have in three years. Beginning to climb stairs with both legs. Now, the stitches and the skin and all the muscles and liniments and stuff, those will take time. They need to stretch. That aches. Tne more I move, the less the ache (they say). So planted a new garden, more sunflowers this year. aand they say Cosmos reseed???? I got a jillion of those new plants that look like Cosmos everywhere IN the garden. Right outside??? not nary a one. Hmmm. Is they Cosmos? We shall see!!! Got tomatoes, peppers and other assorted herbs and spices. Also flowers of marigolds painted daisies...you know, stuff. 4th hooly coming up. Be careful out there. K.

Knew Knee!

Whoooo! Blew right through March! Here it is April 4, and dang it, it's time for a new knee. Yes. I march (hobble) into the hospital and have surgery done and I guess it will make me more bionic. Out with the old knee, in with the StrikerKnee! So the sweet Lord knows when I will get to this blogspot. Stay tuned.

In like a Lamb

Well, up here, anyway. Chey. WY. Danged decent. Upper 40s, 50s, and 60s I'm getting antsy for lil green sprouts again. I know, I jump the gun every year. Gotta go inspect the garden and see what the deer left. I'm hoping for Columbine. Watching the documentaries on Julius Caesar and Abe Lincoln -- Yes, it's time, and it's interesting how people really get involved in such like murder investigations of the long past.

What do they do for a living?? Who pays their salaries? I'd love to do research but I don't see a grant coming and knocking on my door. Oh? I gotta go get it? Phooey, that's no fun.

Man is a curious beast. We 'monkey' with stuff. Actually we put monkeys to shame, the way we pick and ponder and ask questions, and dig into stuff and ferret out the arcane and obscure. Me, I'm just hoping we can get the latest Mars hardware into orbit! Tain't as easy as lobbing it around the earth or moon.

C'mon Discovery Channel!! Start the new season!

Now about Bush and Cheney? Good thing Bush wasn't out hunting with him or possibly we'd have headlines about Bush being shot in the Bush?

OH dear.

This will work

Today is looking good. Snow on ground, more coming down -- we have been so dry this year, the air crackles. They have promised 3 days of this... Dare we see it?? hmm. Valentine's Day has come and gone. Lovely day if you are a twosome or in loving bosoms of family. If not, well, hug yourself and catch best wishes -- St. Paddy's Day is a'coming!

We are going to see amazing things in medical science. I predict that in the next fifty years (if not sooner) we will be able to create an artificial eyeball that will connect to the optic nerve just like the real one. This will be a beginning of eradicating blindness. Cloning, you know, is going to happen. Organs that are YOU, will be created as replacements for the diseased ones you have. This isn't cloning people or creating monster babies, this is just taking the cells that have the ability to become any organ in the body, and programming it to your own DNA.

Dare I predict that homo sapiens will quit being idiots and denying their own animal nature? To stop murder? Pride and Greed in the name of arrogance? Until we learn to get along with ourselves and the Cosmos, then we cannot truly claim to be an intelligent species. There. I said it. It's my blog, and I'll rant if I want to.

Take a moment --
Stop and see --
Your life, the beauty, the joy
It's there, you must look, just look, don't deny
It's all relative, subjective, Truth and Not
Seen through the kaleidoscope
Of your own understanding.

Be gentle with yourself.

That's my valentine. Sneaky, huh

Portraits??

Who Should Paint You: M.C. Escher

Open and raw, you would let your true self show for your portrait. And even if your painting turned out a bit dark, it would be honest.

What Artist Should Paint Your Portrait?

Hmmmm.

Husky!!

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Hang on. This lovely girl is not a Mal. She's a husky. Mals cannot be shown or registered with blue eyes. Otherwise, it's hard to tell the breeds apart unless you are a 'professional' judge or have lived with these guys for a long time. The Movie, 6 Below by Disney, have these guys as heroes. Those are huskies.

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Originally uploaded by Popokiknut.

Here's my friend Kareon, with her lovely Sashie. She was a stray, took her to pound, and after time, and proper channels, Kareon's family decided to keep her. She's about a year old, and gorgeous, conformation etc --- great disposition. Man, if she had papers, she'd be show quality!

Pictures coming soon!

I don't recognize myself. Been thinking about milestones, and the decades past as I remember, and the person I was at that time, I am and am not now. There's a constant state of renewal going on, and I will tell you something. Nothing is forever. Not even the basic you, as other people perceive you to be. I remember me at 20, then at 30, 40, 50 ... through the haze of time --- And it's interesting how it all came out. I no longer think that heartbreak is permanent. I don't even fret about the things that used to upset me. The further I go along in life, the more I realize how much the past has influenced me, I am a product of my environment, my politics, beliefs mirror the area in which I was born. It's really amazing -- considering myself as an experiment in my own private lab. Onward! Pass the beaker and the bunsen burner. Oh that dates me!

Cheerio!

Well now let's see. Traveling pain. It has been my experience that random piques of pain travel through the body. The hip for example. Aches. Then the knee, which stops the hip. Now the hip is fine. It's the knee. No, now it's the tummy, or the toe, or section of jaw. When one pain starts, the other stops. Very interesting.

Handy hint section: If you have lived in a house over 20 years, and the furnace is not doing as it should, and making noises -- call the duct cleaner and have the furnace cleaned. You'd be surprised.

Recent television series. "Book of Daniel", about a Methodist minister and his family. Canceled. Apparently some very powerful people do not like this show to the point of swiping it off the air. Now, there have been some interesting points that have been discussed on the program, and surely many find it offensive if they insist on taking it literally seriously, which obviously they have. Personally, I found it a witty and provocative hour, with some parts in it sure to shake the fundamentalist to the core. Talking to Jesus was one such. Personally, I agreed with all said. I do advocate people taking moral responsibility for their own actions. Certain things were mentioned that some would speak of in terms of 'blasphemy' , but I do not think so. But boy, the uproar! The rapid snatching off the air! Blatant suppression! In the name of What -- status quo of the majority? I find that a bit offensive. Crying out loud, it's a story, a story. Not real. Fiction! Oh well.

Perversity, thy name is January ---

Midmonth. It's supposed to be winter here. It is, sometimes, but we are having a warming trend. This week, however, in the 30s and wind. Typical for this state. Drives people mad. This state is reknown for a high rate of suicide. It's the wind, cussed, relentless, all consuming, threatening to blow your body to Nebraska with all the other loose stuff. The specials on Presidents abounding on the TV waves puts forth the reminder that we are all fallible, and sometimes outrageously so. In spite of that, some individuals rise above the stew, letters in alphabet soup. Hi ho!

Life is quite funny. Sometimes, 'ha-ha' and sometimes just plain weird. It's to keep our souls on tippy-toes, alert and ready. Some will tell you that life on this old world IS Hell -- that we are sojourning through it to learn and refine our self. At any rate, stop right now and give yourself a hug. You are alive on this Planet Earth and that makes you one courageous being! Suspense novels are just varifications, to tell you that, yes, it's not your imagination. We are all in our own perilous journey.

God invented time to keep everything from happening at once.

Soon I will have more good pictures!

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Originally uploaded by Popokiknut.

Oh yummy! Blueberries and Mars bar chunks! Actually this is one nice little picture from the Rovers -- and is a lovely argument for WATER! Great, huh.

The older I get dept.

Man. Take this as an example. The hoo ha about the mega volcano at Yellowstone. Worst case scenario is always hyped because it's the most exciting. All part of the simplification and dumbing down of information. Take all the news you hear, add salt. Nothing is AS horrible as projected, and many times it's a mild version, quite manageable. Every once in a while we get a mega 'bad news' but should speculation of possibilities be catastrophic ALL of the time? Food for thought.