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My dad was a planner. He planned everything to the nth degree, his day, the details of a road trip, and his life. For the most part everything went as planned. Through the years I always thought he would get a hitch in his life plan. I was paying attention for when the day came that his plan would fall apart, making it nececcary for him to frantically create a contingency plan. It never happened. He pulled it off to the very end of his 86 years. But there was one thing that causes me to ponder. I think about it almost every day. HE DID NOT WANT TO GO!! He literally tried to crawl his way from death in the last moments of life. Two days before he died, he was in pain and even pleaded for someone to shoot him. Those moments were sad and pathetic in a way. Then the final hour came and he wasn't ready to face the afterlife. It seemed to me that he was hiding something. There was some guilt he did not want to share with a priest or family. I wonder about that very last second if Go...

Uncle Lou He was a devout man. He raised a lot of children. He seemed to have known that priority order was God, Family, and everything else. He wasn’t intimidated with job expectation pressures that ruled the corporate culture from the 50’s through the 80’s. He was a Right to Life Champion, having been arrested more than once for blocking the entry to abortion clinics. He had a steady supply of religious objects to pass out to people wherever he was. There was a time when I viewed him as an enemy. He pushed his spiritual beliefs on people and I didn’t want him doing that to me. He didn’t mind being obnoxious when he stood up for what he thought was right... Or wrong. It was after I worked on my own recovery from a seriously skewed life that I began to see that he cared for me and told me things, even though hard to swallow, that I needed to hear. I forfeited learning opportunities from him because of my attitude. He became sick with terminal cancer. From the outside view, he seemed t...

He was sitting up in his chair, same chair he had been sitting in for years and years. Maybe decades, maybe he had been sitting in that same chair for decades. Focus on him, not the chair was the thought. The old man looked crumpled and week, drugged and helpless. His head was heavy causing his neck to bend forward, trying with all its mite to hold it up. Without lifting his head, rather just swiveling up he got eye contact with me, the person in the chair across from him. My dad, who once was macho dude with swagger and strut. A man’s man. Now he is hanging on by a thread sitting in his chair, his friend like a loyal dog. His head bent upward as far as it could. He began to smile and he raised both forearms horizontal with the floor about 30 inches apart and his for fingers were pointing outward with thumbs pressing the other 3 fingers inward. His eyes captured mine as if in a hold like that of a wrestler pinning his opponent. “For two people so diametrically opposed”, he began pause...

I'm looking for the best way to describe a guy who is up to no good, but goes around town with the swagger that he is keeping a secret from the whole world that he is up to no good. At the same time he looks as if he wants everyone to think he is a mob family member and he is conspicuously inconspicuous. I've seen, them and even known them, but I don't know what to call them, at least in a nice way.

The passing of an old friend to me and many many others, Larry Bracher is resting peacefully on the other side. So Long Old Friend, I'm sure we will meet again

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And the dust is gonna fly for the next month.

If anyone out there has a solution to my bluetooth connectivity problem, please help. I installed Atheros driver from the ASUS website and followed the directions with loading the software. I installed an updated BIOS but may have chosen the wrong one. There were three to choose from. I don't know why I want to have the bluetooth working other than to use it for headphones and transferring data from my phone. Anyway I'm stuck with t looking dead. Your suggestions are most welcome.

I have been assigbed to write a user's guide/manual on a review process I do in my work. There are several software programs ustilized. The job entials lots of variables like what if this happens and what if that happens. I am seeking ideas from any one who reads this post.