Sunday April 17th, 2011: My big home project for this afternoon was getting that chain and padlock to attach my bike to the parking structure outside with. When my back or my knee bother me I hate carrying the bike up the stairs. Now I have a parking spot for it. I hope nobody complains.

     

  

      

6/20/11: The dentist installed the real crown for the first time. It's the relatively featureless tooth in front of the silver fillings. I'm getting used to it. I still feel it a bit when I bite into something, but for the most part it's trouble free. It has a much lighter shadow on the X-Ray image than my other teeth though. That's a change.

6/26/2011: Andrea gave me that Aloe Vera plant. It came with a bunch of smaller ones that haven't flowered yet. Maybe I have room for one aloe vera plant, principally because she said they do fine with no water all summer long. The fact that you can get balm out of them to wipe on cuts and bruises to speed healing helps to. Five was way too many though. I gave away four of them at the really really free market. I felt like I was giving away kittens. Hope they found a good home.

3/15/11: The longer this story goes on the worse Japanese nuclear reactor disaster seems to get. That's on top of all the drama from the tsunami.  In case you're wondering, that reactor is an American design. I heard that Washington DC based nuclear power advocates were saying something like "All US based reactors of the same design are safe in all conceivable situations." If that's true than why is there smoke and wounded buildings in the above picture? All it took was a bigger tsunami than they thought could happen.