Sometimes I feel like a Marf, sometimes I don’t.
I’ve been participating in the Blogathon every year for the past three years, blogging for the National Marfan Foundation. There is a new Blogathon-type project starting up (put together by a veteran Blogathoner) that will be half as long, but still have the challenge of blogging every half hour on the half hour. It’s called Blogarity. I think I’ll blog for the birds this time, for the Williamsburg Bird Club. It’ll take place in Feburary (the 10th), so I have a little time to rest up between now and then.
PC World - The 25 Greatest PCs of All Time
#16 My first computer
Tandy’s TRS-80 Model I lacked the pizzazz of the Apple II, but it was the first computer to be truly marketed to the masses: Over 200,000 of the monochromatic little machines were sold by Radio Shack, an electronics retailer with thousands of locations in an age when almost nobody had ever heard of a computer store.
I spent my birthday money on a birdbath and the poles, seen here. We already had the birdfeeder, and the “sock,” which is filled with thistle. The birds don’t use the birdbath as a bath. They use it as a bathroom, so I guess it’s really a bird bathroom.
They won’t let me take pictures of them when I’m outside, so I have to get pictures through a window. That’s why this is blurred.
Who better to write about how to take care of one’s body than someone who has lived with health problems all one’s life? Roanne Weisman, who has Marfan syndrome, has written four books — one large and three smaller — about “choosing the best from alternative & conventional medicine.”
The Own Your Health series offer good, practical advice for anyone who wants to stay healthy but who doesn’t just do what the doctor says. Conventional medicine does have its place, but so does alternative, and Roanne shows you how to balance the two.
CNN.com - Rescued hikers survived on hard candy, creek water - Jul 24, 2006
Searchers spent the weekend combing parts of the more than 20-square-mile Stone Mountain State Park for any sign of the pair.
“Searchers” included my Dad and his search dog, Scot. They didn’t find the couple. But we’re all glad the couple was found!
I went to the NMF conference in Philadelphia last week. Someone took a picture of me. It turned out pretty good. I’ll be posting more pictures tomorrow.
Not too bad! Good surgeon.
Me and my sister last summer
She knows I like my toes.
Thanks, Mary and John!!!
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