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Happy Birthday to ME!

And thank you all for your greetings, both here and on MySpace.

Not much of a celebration here, though.

But I did feel pretty damned good when I got up at 07:30. Sore throat was gone, and the back, she felt OK, too.

All of that had changed by noon, however.

Not so much the back, but the throat is swollen again. Just another reason to make me think that it's inflammitory and nothing scarier.

Scooter Libby, guilty. Justice is served, but in a small way and on a small head. The bigger heads still got what they wanted and it didn't hurt them a bit.

Well, maybe tarnished their reputations just a bit... they've gone from black to black black. Didn't know that was possible.

Karen has taken Brian back to KUMC... just a re-check on his surgery, I think. He's supposed to be getting something... braces or straps... to help him walk better.

61 years old.

And they're burying my buddy Jess about now.

I'll call his wife Brenda tomorrow.

Jess had about seven kids, four of them adopted, I think... I never could keep his kids and wives straight... maybe it was seven wives and six kids....

I knew four of his wives fairly well.

He was also an artist of sorts, once when he lived in Wichita he showed me some of his work... impressionistic, mostly. He made his living doing dry-wall, which ruined his lungs, but he got to work with that mud a lot, and he did some sculpture with that.

Eh, I could write pages and pages about Jess...

Interestingly, he and I never got mad at each other, never. He was always fighting with other people, though.

He was shot at least twice that I know of, and stabbed at least once... he spent two months in ICU in Wichita after being gut-shot by someone who he didn't even know... eh thought that he probably made an enemy that didn't have the guts to shoot Jess himself.

Ah, well.

It's a beautiful day here, but supposed to get cooler and possible nasty this evening. I love this time of year in Kansas... thunderstorms!

And I'm gonna go in to work tomorrow and hopefully work all day....

I'm gonna try really hard to not hurt myself.

And I'm gonna go to bed early tonight.