So July 2, 2006. My first blog entry, if I can figure out how to do it.
I decided to start a blog this year because I had several significant things happen to me.
I'm middle-aged (I'm in the 45 to 54 bracket and that's all I'm saying about that except to note that by calling myself middle-aged I'm assuming I'm going to live to well past 100).
Sometimes it seems like stuff happens to people or they have ephianies at mile stone birthdays, like 40 or 50.
but this year is an off year in that regard and I've had some changes happen to me that are leading to reflection and planning, (see blog) and a desire to have change that is caused by me.
After five years in a particular job position, I was unceremonously moved into another position.
Caught completely unaware, it happened on a Friday, the day before my birthday on Saturday.
So not only was I moving along in the age bracket, I was blindsided by work, left gasping like some pitiful goldfish whose tanked was kicked over.
I put a good face on it at work (I think) but I was feeling pretty sorry for myself that day when I left.
I didn't have anyone at home to commiserate with me and I wasn't ready to tell my family - my parents and my adult child. I needed some time so I could tell them without crying about it.
I was also having some health issues, which were bringing me down because I was like: Damn, I'm getting old and falling apart.
My blood pressure went out of whack and I had to wear a heart halter for a weekened.
just before that I had my first MRI on my knee and saw that if I had to have one on any other part of my body, I would have definintely had to be sedated to go into that tube.

but back to Friday. I left work and stopped at the Mr. Zip on the way home. It had been storming like hell all day.
But I went in and got my 24 oz (to freedom, sublime likes a 40, but I can't drink it before it gets to hot).
When I pulled out of the parking lot, I looked to my left and there in the sky was a perfect rainbow.
Unobscured by clouds, it went completely from one side of the river to the other, and showed all the colors in its range.
It was beautiful. If I had seen a perfect rainbow before, I don't recall.
People were stopping on the streets to look at it.
My daughter and her boyfriend stopped where they were, across town and my mom told me she saw it.
everybody talked about it.
It had to be a sign, though. It's been over a month since I saw it and I still haven't interpreted the sign. I'm still open to the meaning, maybe it will come in a dream or maybe something else will happen that will put it all in place.
but I've decided to become more computer literate, hence the blog, and I'm going to learn more about digitial photography, I have a camera and video camera and I'm going to start publishing photos and stories online.
I won't make money but I won't be rejected either. Maybe.