17.5 degrees Dec. 15, 2010

Well, if cold feet can stop a person from getting married, then I may be single for the rest of my life.

Comments about my postings

It was only this morning that I discovered why I could not see any comments to posts I made on my blog.
When I set up my blog "Forever Endeavor" I was either too dense to understand, or it was not explained well enough that the bloggers dashboard was supposed to be the site from which to manage the ForeverEndeavor site, and that from there I could see and manage comments made about my postings.
So, please make any comments you would like, and I look forward to learning what you think.

Thank you.
John

Monday the 13th

I am sitting at my computer on Monday December 13th 2010, and this question came to me:
Who was it that said that Friday the 13th has the market cornered on bad luck?
It seems that Monday the 13th would be a more fitting choice of day than Friday!
If anyone has any idea where this designation was chosen, I would honestly like to hear about it.

Don't let anyone know you can do this

    I remember when I was about 25 years old, my father showed me how to change the front end suspension on a VW that I had just driven all the way across the country. In addition to needing new rubber parts and ball joints replaced, there was a thing called a steering pamper which kept the whole steering linkage from vibrating as it reacted to bumps and ruts in the road.

    After that, he showed me how to adjust the alignment. Then we took it to a place to have the wheels balanced.

    Once these things were done, the car ran beautifully. And most of the important work my father did as he demonstrated the procedures to me.

   He told me, "Don't let anyone know you can do this, because you will end up doing it for your friends and relatives for the rest of your life for free."

    Now I have multiple sclerosis, and I have trouble doing things that were easy for me in the past. And I can see how the advice my father gave me about automotive repair applies to everything. It seems that people who know what I was able to do before becoming disabled think that I must be able to do the same things now. Or if I have trouble doing something, that I must not be using skills and knowledge some other reason.

    Modern science and medicine have never been able to explain how multiple sclerosis is caused, and they have not found a cure for it. I am stunned at the number of people who believe that there is a conspiracy keeping the cause and cure a secret for some kind of financial or political gain, but for those who believe I am keeping such secrets I have a large degree of resentment.

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JFC

Lisa's own personal cuteness.

There is something very compelling about a cute five foot tall woman who has a great mechanical aptitude as well.

Dec. 2010 What to do?

    It is a sad thing, but true. This last decade showed me the best times, and the worst times I have personally seen so far.

    Like many people before me, I have learned that I will not truly be able to know anything in an empirical sense, and I wonder if there is anything other than love of friends and relatives that I will "take with me when I go."

    The things I thought I was learning, and the things I thought I would do with those things, are becoming increasingly difficult to access, in both my hands, and my memory.

    I now see that my interaction with other people has produced results that nw confuse me. It is possible thst there is no moral to the story, or that it will reviel itself eventually, but I have no way of knowing what to prepare for.

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JFC