Exile in Portales

I'm having a very bad day; motivation to do anything beyond fighting for my next breath is seriously lacking.  But I'm still here. ...

So, there I was, goin' through the overnight mail when I stumble upon this: I suppose timing is everything in life, eh?

First, a funny: Heh.  Occasional Reader and Constant Correspondent Lin sent that along. We watched us some football this weekend.....

We're just in from a run out to Cannon Airplane Patch to pick up the monthly meds and do a major commissary run (major = >$100.00)...

I had to journey over to The Big(ger) City TM for a follow-up appointment with an ear, nose, and throat specialist earlier today; last m...

Well, no... not really.  Just concern .  I'm just in from a visit to my doctor and was asked the following questions during check-in:...

The comments on this twit-pic are pretty interesting. In other news... we're still waiting for the other shoe to drop when it c...

Ah, the grand exit gesture.  Sorta.  The anchor-lady's response was about as nonplussed as I've ever seen on teevee, but she did ...

I feel like someone snuck into the house last night and beat the HELL outta me while I was sleeping.  It's kinda like this: Seriou...

Well, now.  This is rare: " The Truth We Won’t Admit: Drinking Is Healthy ."  A few excerpts: Not discussing the beneficial i...

We haz one.  I sent this off to the Mediscare folks today... So, here's me, blissfully cruising along through life with my spiff...

So sez Barry Melrose about Team Russia's early exit in the Olympic hockey tournament in a video clip available here .  A quote from tha...

There's this, for starters... This is one of those issues where I've not quite made up my mind, or perhaps I don't quite k...

Didja change yer clocks last night?  Well, I fell back this morning.  And kept falling, too... given the fact I didn't roll outta bed u...

I intimated life could get a lot more "interesting" exactly a month ago today.  Well, things haven't changed one way or th...

I put "interesting" in scare quotes because I'm using it in the sense of that ol' Chinese curse: to wit: "May you li...

My Buddy Ed In Florida sends along the following... Heh. My Buddy Tim at Cigar.com sent along these beauties... That would be...

I'm just in from a run out to Cannon Airplane Patch, where we re-stocked the likker locker, the freezer, the larder, and gassed up The ...

The drug in question on my messy desktop. I've had this post percolating in the back o' my mind for some time now but haven...

I prefer the former state to the latter state, except for the fact I DON'T feel like crap.  I feel perfectly fine.  Well, sorta. ...