Denise Brennan – Just another chat thread

[Winston Smith]

Well after over 40 years you inspired me to look up just what was my draft lottery number for the Vietnam war back in 1972 (which was the year they picked for my birth year of 1952).

It turns out that I was 130:

http://www.sss.gov/LOTTER3.HTM

It's so weird looking back at that now. I feel like this never applied to me as I was never male (which I never was inside anyway). It's funny but as my female hormones took over in the past few years and my physical changes took place I am more and more losing memories of what I was before and even how that felt physically.

As for what you wrote about your military time and the cello, that really made me laugh.

I just love the music that you and IPT make, you are both so amazingly beautiful. It makes me soar.

This will sound odd but I so often can feel (my way of "hearing") music in nature. It's amazing what you can hear in the wind, in a forest, in a desert and even under water if you just let go and listen. I used to call that "faery song", something that made you just sort of drift away. And that is what I meant when I spoke of "drifting away on faery song" in my poetry. I always considered it a preview of "home", a memory................what it is like when going back there.

And yours and IPT's music, that "faery song", makes me drift away too.

Well I cannot believe I was mistaken. I also am 1952, and my number therefore was 228. But I remember 224, no accounting for memory. Just be happy neither of us were December 4th.

As far as soundcloud goes, there is another tune up, maybe you have listened already but it is named after our lovely Purple Rain. https://www.soundcloud.com/oldvlc2

Been a bit too busy to post more; been playing in an orchestra and other stuff. But thank you for your compliments...sometimes I get tired or cranky and don't much give a damn about whether people like my playing or not. IPT knows all about that, called me a moody bitch once. And that is exactly what I am.

 

[JustMe]

I have a fawn!! How do I find you and Denise?

OMG I can't even get started. I am still awaiting back my email telling me what I need to do to log on.

Maybe we need another skype before you come, partly a "support skype". I'll show you what I did and you can tell me what I did wrong.


Also when you are here I am sure you will show me how to play Worlds of Warcraft. I just hope this does not end up being you and I LOL:

[video=youtube;JpLJ_6zb-bY]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpLJ_6zb-bY[/video]

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[JustMe]

Your post 103, has spurred me to write this to you from my heart, much less my head.

[video=youtube;v_DqcUPWf5E]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_DqcUPWf5E[/video]

I don't remember my lottery number. It was low enough to get me drafted.

i was born in 1950. I had finished high school in 1968. I HATED school. I spent as much time (literally) absent from school (all K-12 years) as present at school. my mother wrote notes throughout my schooling that I was sick. I could be found working on an engine or reading a book while being "too sick" to go to school.

no way was i going to college to avoid the draft.

In April of 1968, I got involved with Scientology. by the time I was filling out draft papers, I was already committed not to go to Viet Nam.

I checked ever box on the form. Bad hearing, homosexual, minister, drug addict, Conscientious Objector, you name it, I checked it.

The first response from the draft board was a request for a written affidavit from someone who knew me, saying I was a CO. I turned to a friend, standing closest to me at the time, and asked him to write the letter. he did, right then and there, on the hood of a car. I sent it back to the draft board.

I was completely androgynous in appearance. It was the days of San Francisco and the Haight Ashbury. I had blond hair past my shoulders, bell bottoms, Beatle boots, patchouly oil, etc.

I got a CO status with no problem. Though I still didn't want to clean bedpans, as an alternative to service in the war.

For my physical, I was sent to Fresno, in central California. I wore a demure blouse that I had borrowed from a girl friend, and a young Class Vl girl did my mascara.

Unfortunately, after talking with the shrink, and failing the hearing tests, i was classified unfit for even CO duties.

I can't even imagine your feelings of being a woman with a male body. Even though I was anything but macho, my interests were completely overwhelmingly heterosexual with sexual being underlined. And for second and third interests there was mechanical things like engines that kept me busy.

After I went Clear in 1971, all my interests became like Tone 40, intention without reservation. I acquired for a girl friend, the woman, who for me, was the most beautiful woman in the world. She was (still is) hot hot hot.

I got on the ski slopes, and went from beginner to intermediate in 3 hours. My friend, who had given me beginner lessons in the morning, found me at lunch giving a cute girl beginner lessons on the intermediate slopes.

Within 24 hours of seeing the Eiger Sanction, with Clint Eastwood,I was rock climbing, and haven't stopped forty years later.

I recovered enough of my self, both from the Clearing Course and the briefing course, that I walked away in 1976, after being assaulted by the 10% price hikes each month. For me, greed had overtaken help, in the Commodore's head. I couldn't support Scientology any longer.


For me, I've gotten most of what I wanted in life. My main regrets are the things i didn't do. I'm working on new dreams and games these days. Life is not bad at all, except for Cub fans.

[video=youtube;6HTRxAHfwPY]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HTRxAHfwPY[/video]

I like(d) Steve Goodman too.

Thank you so much for your beautiful post and for sharing that part of your life with us.

What an amazing story.

It's wonderful how when someone opens their heart and tells their story on here how much we all gain and how much closer we all become.

For all our differences I suspect we would have been real friends back in the day.

And thank you for the two John Denver songs. I especially loved his story in the beginning and then the song about love being everywhere. That is so true, it's all around us if one will just open her/his heart to receive it.

I cried with John Denver died in that plane accident. What a beautiful soul!

A couple of posts in this thread come to mind when I listen to John sing and tell about love everywhere. My way of expressing that feeling may have been best put when I talked about life in a seminary and the amazing people who helped me at least as much as I may have helped them. So many people who are belittled or discarded by others have so much love in them. But you can't see it with your eyes, you have to feel it.

It was back in posting 59 of this thread when I spoke of those amazing people and what I detested about all the "religious" people who are IMO neither spiritual nor loving:

http://www.forum.exscn.net/showthre...er-chat-thread&p=803779&viewfull=1#post803779


And I could not figure how to explain my views on what I considered trying spiritual and loving except to give examples which I tried to do in posting 123 of this thread re what "feminity" and "divine femininity" meant to me:

http://www.forum.exscn.net/showthre...er-chat-thread&p=806447&viewfull=1#post806447


That first song from John Denver that you posted made me think of all that.

Thank you CO2 for all that you shared

 

[Purple Rain]

OMG I can't even get started. I am still awaiting back my email telling me what I need to do to log on.

Maybe we need another skype before you come, partly a "support skype". I'll show you what I did and you can tell me what I did wrong.


Also when you are here I am sure you will show me how to play Worlds of Warcraft. I just hope this does not end up being you and I LOL:

[video=youtube;JpLJ_6zb-bY]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpLJ_6zb-bY[/video]

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I solemnly promise never to teleport away with the Sword of Azaroth! Lol!

 

[In present time]

OMG I can't even get started. I am still awaiting back my email telling me what I need to do to log on.

Maybe we need another skype before you come, partly a "support skype". I'll show you what I did and you can tell me what I did wrong.


Also when you are here I am sure you will show me how to play Worlds of Warcraft. I just hope this does not end up being you and I LOL:

[video=youtube;JpLJ_6zb-bY]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpLJ_6zb-bY[/video]

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well, that is annoying. hmmmm. i mean there wouldn't be much to expect in this game. it is completely about just running through the forest and body language. it probably takes a certain kind of weirdo, lol, i mean person to even play it.

i found my old log in, so i am my five year old self again, although that doesn't mean much.
i ran through the forest trying to accumulate spells that you and purple would like, but at the same time there were other deer trying to cast nice spells on me and i couldn't really sort myself out enough to be even gracious about it.


then i went digging around in second life, i managed to bring lily's account back up. it turns out, that pandoras account was hacked and someone has been stealing the real life money from the proceeds of my galllery there.

whatever!

i saw that some of the old haunts were still there... like there is a place called "the shelter" and you can just click on a dance ball and dance in a line to 80's music all night long.

and you can chat in room or on PM, and it is really kinda fun. there is a huge creativity factor to it, plus you can fly!

i remember the first night i signed up, i didn't know how to do anything, but i found the fly button. and back in those days you could fly all over the place.

i was hooked. i actually flew until i ended up puking (in real life!)

(later, because of the griefing, people started putting up barriers on their private land, so when you fly, you get bounced off those, a shame really.)

plus there is the added advantage of being able to make your avatar any way you want it. male/female or whatever.

although, in endless forest the deer are meant to be genderless, the creators do admit they made all deer into stag because of the antlers and all the creative things you can do with them.

some feminists complained, so they made a genderless avatar, but it is just a pink bubble.
it is obvious to me in the forest who the male and the females are because of the way they have done themselves up.
but back to second life....there,
in the end i built myself a geometric set of boxes that were animated, because i thought well, why should i even have to be any human form at all!

i was an animal for a while, which i felt comfortable with, but it turns out the "furries" have a very strange sexual role play thing going on ... so being an animated sculpture worked out, lol.

i am still not going to give up though, on meeting you two in a virtual world.
i think if we try hard enough it will be worth the effort.

 

[Winston Smith]

RE John Denver, I too think he was one of the greatest...what an incredible voice. To this day his Star Spangled Banner is unmatched in my mind. It was absolutely in rhythm and absolutely in tune with that glorious Denver voice. I just about puke when I hear the Star Spangled Banner sung today. John Denver was just stunning with it, and I will have that in my heart forever.

Along with all of his great songs too, of course.

 

[Udarnik]

RE John Denver, I too think he was one of the greatest...what an incredible voice. To this day his Star Spangled Banner is unmatched in my mind. It was absolutely in rhythm and absolutely in tune with that glorious Denver voice. I just about puke when I hear the Star Spangled Banner sung today. John Denver was just stunning with it, and I will have that in my heart forever.

Along with all of his great songs too, of course.

Yeah, we have Whitney Houston to blame for today's mess. A little melisima goes a long way. I'm not sure Mariah Carey is even capable of staying on the same pitch for more than 100 microseconds.

I think the trend is reversing, but big games like the Super Bowl keep going for these legends in their own mind.

 

[JustMe]

I solemnly promise never to teleport away with the Sword of Azaroth! Lol!

And I solemnly promise that if I go on a quest with you and we must fight as a team, not to get distracted by the beautiful things of the night............the lovely creatures that I refuse to kill............,.by the..........ummmm..............the ah..............what were we talking about?

Nevermind, I'll be the worst quest partner ever, I keep trying to make friends with everything.

 

[CO2]

Thank you so much for your beautiful post and for sharing that part of your life with us.

What an amazing story.

It's wonderful how when someone opens their heart and tells their story on here how much we all gain and how much closer we all become.

For all our differences I suspect we would have been real friends back in the day.

absolutely, kindred beings.

John McMaster once flashed me this gigantic huge affinity flow across a room. My girl friend, at the time, standing next to me, Laurie Noonan (Laurie Douglas, Engelhart later on), looked at me and asked what I did to deserve that?

I didn't know.
What he saw was a kindred soul. His choices in 2Ds were manly men. I certainly didn't fit that bill. It was love, not lust.

And thank you for the two John Denver songs. I especially loved his story in the beginning and then the song about love being everywhere. That is so true, it's all around us if one will just open her/his heart to receive it.

I cried when John Denver died in that plane accident. What a beautiful soul!

my daughter, when she was 6, and I saw John Denver perform in a very intimate performance prior to a San Francisco Bay to Breakers (a 12 K run, across town from the San Francisco Bay to Ocean Beach, now in it's over 100th annual run), in the 1980s. He was the genuine article. Unlike some performers I've seen (Robert Goulet comes to mind), he didn't phone in his performance. He had done EST, and gotten auditing from Norm McVea, a Scio HSST, who sold his auditing services to Werner, both squirreling before it was fashionable.)

Some years back, my kids were going skydiving out of the Monterey airport that John Denver that John took his fateful flight from. Those guys were not at all interested in even talking about THAT.

I look at it like Johnny Carson retiring while he was still on top. He didn't want to be like Bob Hope, over staying, his welcome.

Music - cultural popularity - was leaving John Denver behind.

Could he have survived the waves of popularity?, as Tony Bennett has, I can't say. He chose not to.

As a PS:, John Denver was going to be doing an EST - like training, from Impact Trainings, in Bluffdale, UT (a suburb of SLC) the next week, had he not died. Some of my family, and myself, have done it. My first wish, upon doing it myself, was wishing John McMaster had done it. It is a Mormon influenced EST squirrel group. Hokey, as it sounds, it delivers.

A couple of posts in this thread come to mind when I listening to John sing and tell about love everywhere. My way of expressing that feeling may have been best put when I talked about life in a seminary and the amazing people who helped me at least as much as I may have helped them. So many people who are belittled or discarded by others have so much love in them. But you can't see it with your eyes, you have to feel it.

It was back in posting 59 of this thread when I spoke of those amazing people and what I detested about all the "religious" people who are IMO neither spiritual nor loving:

http://www.forum.exscn.net/showthre...er-chat-thread&p=803779&viewfull=1#post803779

When I was 15, sitting alone in my room

[video=youtube;bV-dWhYklqE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bV-dWhYklqE&noredirect=1[/video]

I had a moment of clarity, that has lasted for fifty years. There is nothing more important than love. That moment unlocked doors to the ether. from that point forward, I met friends, looked in their eyes, and (re) bonded with them, not having seen them before with these physical eyes. forty / fifty years later, I have friends, recognized originally, with just a connection of our eyes. I, literally, dropped barriers, in that moment in my room, to the universe.

[video=youtube;46up8BsG_Gw]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46up8BsG_Gw&noredirect=1[/video]

And I could not figure how to explain my views on what I considered trying spiritual and loving except to give examples which I tried to do in posting 123 of this thread re what "feminity" and "divine femininity" meant to me:

http://www.forum.exscn.net/showthre...er-chat-thread&p=806447&viewfull=1#post806447


That first song from John Denver that you posted made me think of all that.

Thank you CO2 for all that you shared

I have to say, in my heart of hearts, the being I am, is 15/16 years old.

[video=youtube;ZLV4NGpoy_E]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLV4NGpoy_E&noredirect=1[/video]

 

[JustMe]

well, that is annoying. hmmmm. i mean there wouldn't be much to expect in this game. it is completely about just running through the forest and body language. it probably takes a certain kind of weirdo, lol, i mean person to even play it.

i found my old log in, so i am my five year old self again, although that doesn't mean much.
i ran through the forest trying to accumulate spells that you and purple would like, but at the same time there were other deer trying to cast nice spells on me and i couldn't really sort myself out enough to be even gracious about it.


then i went digging around in second life, i managed to bring lily's account back up. it turns out, that pandoras account was hacked and someone has been stealing the real life money from the proceeds of my galllery there.

whatever!

i saw that some of the old haunts were still there... like there is a place called "the shelter" and you can just click on a dance ball and dance in a line to 80's music all night long.

and you can chat in room or on PM, and it is really kinda fun. there is a huge creativity factor to it, plus you can fly!

i remember the first night i signed up, i didn't know how to do anything, but i found the fly button. and back in those days you could fly all over the place.

i was hooked. i actually flew until i ended up puking (in real life!)

(later, because of the griefing, people started putting up barriers on their private land, so when you fly, you get bounced off those, a shame really.)

plus there is the added advantage of being able to make your avatar any way you want it. male/female or whatever.

although, in endless forest the deer are meant to be genderless, the creators do admit they made all deer into stag because of the antlers and all the creative things you can do with them.

some feminists complained, so they made a genderless avatar, but it is just a pink bubble.
it is obvious to me in the forest who the male and the females are because of the way they have done themselves up.
but back to second life....there,
in the end i built myself a geometric set of boxes that were animated, because i thought well, why should i even have to be any human form at all!

i was an animal for a while, which i felt comfortable with, but it turns out the "furries" have a very strange sexual role play thing going on ... so being an animated sculpture worked out, lol.

i am still not going to give up though, on meeting you two in a virtual world.
i think if we try hard enough it will be worth the effort.

I still can't get signed onto the endless forest. I have windows 8 and use AOL for my email. I wonder if either might not be compatible with the game?

When Purple is here I'll ask her to look over what I did and see if there is an obvious solution.

I agree that you, Purple and I need to meet in a virtual world.

What about 2nd life? Is that a possibility?

 

[JustMe]

.........................Are we out of present time?

Are we just playing our favorite moments?

What gives?

I am up for discussion.

Thanks CO2 for all that.

I've pretty much spelled out my views about what life means to me throughout this thread.

I myself put no stock in anything from Hubbard but respect people who do.

I don't believe in a "one-size-fits-all" approach to life or philosophy. I think each of us have to work it out for ourselves as best we can.

Just my opinion.

But I do think it's great where we all tell our stories and share our views as just that...our views.

 

[JustMe]

This morning I have been thinking of so many of you I have gotten to know in one way or another over the years. And I was thinking of the laughs many of us have had on and off of ESMB as well as tears shed together as we shared our lives and friendships developed.

And I know that some people here often feel alone, some even mostly physically restricted to the places where they live.

But the truth is none of us here are alone. What happens here are friendships that are nonetheless real just because circumstances dictate that they develop in a cyber world or on the phone or skype.

And whether you post actively on here, just once in a while or not at all you can become so very close with others on here. If you feel alone, especially at this time of the approaching holidays, please know you are not. And know that despite our differences of opinion from time to time, it is our common humanity that joins us at the heart.

And no matter how alone you might feel, you can always close your eyes and feel that indeed you are not.

You have friends.

Right here.

We all have angels in our lives,

They are called "friends".

I'll just put this here for you my angels............ I love you:

[video=youtube;7X7d7Ul6PmI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7X7d7Ul6PmI[/video]
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[degraded being]

 

[Pheryn]

Couldn't agree more!

All of my


Some of my absolute FAVORITE moments of this year occurred right here with all of you. The bonds we've forged and stories we've shared I'll cherish forever. You guys make me laugh, cry, and everything in-between and I wouldn't trade any of it or you for a second!

 

[Pheryn]

well, that is annoying. hmmmm. i mean there wouldn't be much to expect in this game. it is completely about just running through the forest and body language. it probably takes a certain kind of weirdo, lol, i mean person to even play it.

i found my old log in, so i am my five year old self again, although that doesn't mean much.
i ran through the forest trying to accumulate spells that you and purple would like, but at the same time there were other deer trying to cast nice spells on me and i couldn't really sort myself out enough to be even gracious about it.


then i went digging around in second life, i managed to bring lily's account back up. it turns out, that pandoras account was hacked and someone has been stealing the real life money from the proceeds of my galllery there.

whatever!

i saw that some of the old haunts were still there... like there is a place called "the shelter" and you can just click on a dance ball and dance in a line to 80's music all night long.

and you can chat in room or on PM, and it is really kinda fun. there is a huge creativity factor to it, plus you can fly!

i remember the first night i signed up, i didn't know how to do anything, but i found the fly button. and back in those days you could fly all over the place.

i was hooked. i actually flew until i ended up puking (in real life!)

(later, because of the griefing, people started putting up barriers on their private land, so when you fly, you get bounced off those, a shame really.)

plus there is the added advantage of being able to make your avatar any way you want it. male/female or whatever.

although, in endless forest the deer are meant to be genderless, the creators do admit they made all deer into stag because of the antlers and all the creative things you can do with them.

some feminists complained, so they made a genderless avatar, but it is just a pink bubble.
it is obvious to me in the forest who the male and the females are because of the way they have done themselves up.
but back to second life....there,
in the end i built myself a geometric set of boxes that were animated, because i thought well, why should i even have to be any human form at all!

i was an animal for a while, which i felt comfortable with, but it turns out the "furries" have a very strange sexual role play thing going on ... so being an animated sculpture worked out, lol.

i am still not going to give up though, on meeting you two in a virtual world.
i think if we try hard enough it will be worth the effort.

Wow! The Shelter is still there?! That is the VERY FIRST place I ever hung out. I almost never left in my newbie days. Just hang out and dance...chat with whoever happened to be there. Man...the memories. Just thinking about it makes me want to log in, which I haven't done for probably a year or so. My husband and I still (i think) have a 1/4 sim where we've built a nice home together. As far as I know, he still pays the rent on it. We met and fell in love on Second Life and even though we've moved on to other things, we've had a hard time giving up our space there.

Oh also, the danceball you mentioned...I used to work in Second Life doing customer support for Intan(who makes those). Funny thing about that is that I never owned one personally. Too expensive and I didn't get an employee discount.

Furries....AHAHAHAHA The sad thing is that the shenanigans they get up to are VERY vanilla in comparison to some of the things I stumbled upon in Second Life. Hubby and I used to have great fun putting random things into the Search and visiting some of the more...uh...'adventurous' areas of Second Life. Mostly, it was amusing...but, every now and again we'd come across some stuff that was pretty horrifying. One thing in particular comes to mind, however, I won't say it here. No need to scar the rest of you for life, as well. All I know is that no matter what it is you're looking for(sexual or otherwise), it can be found in SL. Which is kinda the best thing about it.

 

[This is NOT OK !!!!]

Fashion Forward Denise!!!​

In case you missed it, earlier this week it was announced that Radiant Orchid is the Color of the Year for 2014. http://my.chicagotribune.com/#section/-1/article/p2p-78443884/

Well, this photo was taken of Denise LAST MONTH while she was out and about town looking for a new area rug!

Our Denise - ahead of the curve in so many ways!

 

[Free Being Me]

Hi Denise and all good Chat Threadians. Good news out this way. I've ran a slew of tests at the V.A., from basic vitals to a cranial C.A.T. scan all of which are negative. The one remaining test is an E.E.G. which I'm looking forward to getting done. The people at the V.A. were fantastic and the doctor was great. His take on this is that I was under a huge amount of stress, short on sleep and my blood pressure dropped suddenly. I normally take a medication for anxiety in the form of a mood stabilizer but stopped taking it which in hindsight has been a mistake on my part. I'm going to that correct shortly because not taking it has had a serious negative personal impact in my life. Thank you all for your kind caring concern and support. Namaste.

 

[JustMe]

Wow! The Shelter is still there?! That is the VERY FIRST place I ever hung out. I almost never left in my newbie days. Just hang out and dance...chat with whoever happened to be there. Man...the memories. Just thinking about it makes me want to log in, which I haven't done for probably a year or so. My husband and I still (i think) have a 1/4 sim where we've built a nice home together. As far as I know, he still pays the rent on it. We met and fell in love on Second Life and even though we've moved on to other things, we've had a hard time giving up our space there.

Oh also, the danceball you mentioned...I used to work in Second Life doing customer support for Intan(who makes those). Funny thing about that is that I never owned one personally. Too expensive and I didn't get an employee discount.

Furries....AHAHAHAHA The sad thing is that the shenanigans they get up to are VERY vanilla in comparison to some of the things I stumbled upon in Second Life. Hubby and I used to have great fun putting random things into the Search and visiting some of the more...uh...'adventurous' areas of Second Life. Mostly, it was amusing...but, every now and again we'd come across some stuff that was pretty horrifying. One thing in particular comes to mind, however, I won't say it here. No need to scar the rest of you for life, as well. All I know is that no matter what it is you're looking for(sexual or otherwise), it can be found in SL. Which is kinda the best thing about it.

Well you and IPT have me so interested in Second Life.

So I logged on and have a name ("Faearee")

I started to walk around a little and even flew. Don't know what I'm doing yet by I'm on in case anyone wants to meet there:

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[JustMe]

Fashion Forward Denise!!!​

In case you missed it, earlier this week it was announced that Radiant Orchid is the Color of the Year for 2014. http://my.chicagotribune.com/#section/-1/article/p2p-78443884/

Well, this photo was taken of Denise LAST MONTH while she was out and about town looking for a new area rug!

Our Denise - ahead of the curve in so many ways!.....................

OMG This is NOT OK, clearly you need to be taught "the girlfriend code" of not posting certain pics.

You should see what Nancy and Purple and I have to go through to get the others' agreements on pics OK to post. It's a process that I'm thinking most men don't understand.

Still I love you and will see you soonest.



For those of you who don't know him, This is NOT OK is a very close personal friend and a really, really nice guy (even if he does not know about clearing pics to post lol)

 

[JustMe]

Hi Denise and all good Chat Threadians. Good news out this way. I've ran a slew of tests at the V.A., from basic vitals to a cranial C.A.T. scan all of which are negative. The one remaining test is an E.E.G. which I'm looking forward to getting done. The people at the V.A. were fantastic and the doctor was great. His take on this is that I was under a huge amount of stress, short on sleep and my blood pressure dropped suddenly. I normally take a medication for anxiety in the form of a mood stabilizer but stopped taking it which in hindsight has been a mistake on my part. I'm going to that correct shortly because not taking it has had a serious negative personal impact in my life. Thank you all for your kind caring concern and support. Namaste.

It is so good to see you back with us my dear friend. And don't forget our private pact of both getting more rest.

Besides you are going to have to be well rested for your upcoming skype with Purple and I.

Brace yourself!LOL