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Making Me Great Again

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  • Towards “RETURN TO WORK” goal : there have been two moments of REVELATION in my recent journey with GBM (**) in 2023. Oddly, the first was not January 5 : My first brain seizure day, nor January 11 : the brain surgery.No, the first was while SCHEDULING the radiation + chemotherapy treatments on 2/10/23… I

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  • FaceBook Post from Feb 28, 2023 @ 7a Pacfic As month 2 with GBM (my brain cancer) winds down, it is evident my body has recovered from the corticosteroid I was taking… yesterday (including last night) I was asleep about 65% of the day! it’s bittersweet, though, since the 5-hour nights also came with anti-inflammatory

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  • Another late night

    This time I am typing on a keyboard garnered from a contract employer. They sent me a laptop to allow secure connection into their network so that I can write SSRS reports over their legacy data system. I’m being purposefully vague in case this blog does attract any unintended readers. But since for the most

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  • almost forgot

    But I didn’t! I guess this Kindle has advantages… I can get ready to nod off for the night and still knock out a bit of writing to keep my promise. Again, though, it kinda feels like cheating since I am only putting down brief snippets. I s’pose I could use the space in a

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  • limited entries

    Perhaps , as I heard last evening on YouTube, there’s substantial gain to be had by merely jotting down the inconsequential tidbits. Or – as I actually did – taking the notes DURING the inspired moment

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  • Self-discipline? Is that what it is that keeps me coming back here? At first it seemed a small promise to make to myself. I didn’t realize that it would turn into a chore. How is that inspiration cannot be manually manipulated ? Or is it OUTPUT? I can force myself to enter letters into a text box,

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  • I am writing this using my Kindle. It’s quite an awkward way, not sure that I wanna continue. Perhaps worlds apart from a chisel and stone but the mechanics themselves may inhibit and hinder the thoughts and insights surfaced when using alternate means and methods.

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  • ???

    Strange – looking back after my “07/09/15” post I noticed there’d been something written out EVERY SINGLE DAY, while I thought I’d missed one. I suppose that’s just as well, I didn’t even know what DAY I *thought* I’d missed. 

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  • 07-09-15

    Well, it only took a few days before I missed a day on this 100 day challenge! It’s not that blogging / writing hadn’t crossed my mind, just that I’d thought about and then promptly forgot about it in the presence of other, more pressing matters – my LIST of TO DO ITEMS : get ingredients

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  • Eve

    <originally written July 1989> Met her in the morning; Her eyes were shining smiles Timeless in her beauty ;Her name a shade of night All day long I’m thinking of her, though I know she can’t be mine ..still I wish it were me, holding her so tenderly this girl I’ve come to know this Eve

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  • Work is a four-letter word. Sometimes it does seem like a curse word. Work feels never-ending , never done , and never enough. As I try to muster the joy originally I felt at the prospect of my 100-day challenge of writing , the weariness of my mind and tiredness of my consciousness make heavy the

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  • Here was an idea for a short story. I’m in my office talking about the similarity of programming & deploying code to avoiding the alligators by dancing around the ponds in which they dwell. There’s a short story there, somewhere, said a co-worker. At the time I agreed … but through the half-remembered daze of

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