I Ain't Afraid of No Daleks

I never expected that being back online at home, after nearly 6 months of being dark, would be difficult.

But..it has been an adjustment. I thought I'd be PM'ing and e-mailing friends all the time, yet find it difficult to do so, though I couldn't begin to fathom why. I've been depressed, for the last several weeks--not constantly, but enough that I'm in a very minor "leave me alone, I'm the walking dead" sort of blue funk--which I dislike, but can't do anything about. Manic-depression can really suck, sometimes.

I used to go into chat--the only chat-room online that I've ever used---on Saturdays, to chit-chat with my friends. But tonight, merely found it confusing, and really couldn't think of anything to say--besides the fact that it was a Dr Who chat room and they'd all just watched Episode 10--which I won't see until it either might be kindly sent to me, or shows up on YouTube--so, though I don't mind a teaser, I really hate spoilers, so that kind of left me feeling left out of everything. Anyway, I'd thought my computer desk had arrived, when a knock came at the door, but it was just someone delivering a pizza to my neighbour--and I bugged out of there.

I lost a couple of friends, while away. Not completely, but certainly, we seemed to have drifted apart--that's happened more often that not with me, and while I am used to it, and accept it as a natural occurance in my life--it does sadden me, certainly.

But, on the other side of things, I've made some new friends, been-reintroduced to old friends as well. So, I suppose it all balances out, in the end.

I am in a similar situation--and that's a fact. This man's story is true, his experience is the experience of millions and millions of Americans.

America's health care crisis is fast-becoming a major human rights violation.

The conservative estimate is that some 45 million Americans have no health insurance coverage. They have to pay for all health care out of their own money. This can quickly escalate into the thousands of dollars.

Right-wing neo-con rebuplicans would tell you that we don't need to kick out private insurance, that NHS is unneeded. They'll try to lie, and tell you that most of the uninsured and underinsured, are healthy young people and people making over $75,000. The neo-cons are very sick individuals, if they believe that. They are only one step away from the Nazi's and the terrorist propaganda spewers.

REAL STORIES FROM REAL AMERICANS from the American Cancer Society:

Ambled past the senior centre's jumble sale, after work. What did I spy with my little eye? A COMPUTER DESK! And...it had been marked down from $20 to $5! And, the guy said he'd deliver it for FREE!!! I still have to corral someone to help me get it upstairs, but...hoo-ray! I've been desk-less since I dropped my old computer desk down the staircase when I moved, back in Nov. of '07. This sitting sideways with my keyboard in my lap, two feet from the screen, has been driving me BONKERS!

And, for $1 I got a little footstool, so I can climb in and out of the balcony window, without bumps and bruises anymore (provided I don't fall off of the footstool, ha-ha)...and, an antique victorian side chair with its original needlepoint seat. It's a bit rubbish--needs a bit of re-gluing and has a little chunk of wood out of it--no value probably, as an antiqe. But it's still nice enough for moi, and once I can get around to polishing it, and getting some Gorilla glue, and gluing and clamping it, it will make a nice chair for the desk, which is of a similar colour. The chair was only a $1 as well. So, for a some total of seven dollars, I got some stuff that I really needed---now, if I can only find a cheap but comfy settee....(not had a sofa since winter of '06).

AN AMERICAN VICTORIAN-ERA NEEDLEPOINT SIDE CHAIR

A friend of actor David Tennant--best known for his current role on television's Doctor Who--has recently revealed that the Scottish actor has a secret addiction: He craves rare tropical fruits. Apparently, Tennant is so bonkers enthusiastic for fruits, that he recently bid half a million pounds (as seen here in this exclusive photo) at Christies, for a rare pink orange, and a 10-inch long purple banana. Christies hosts the annual rare fruits auction for Poofter's House, which is a support clinic for men with unusually flamboyant tastes in clothing.

"What, you're Satan? But..blimey! You look just like Sharon Osborne! What? In order for me to get to heaven, I have to make wild, passionate love to these two? Erm--that lake of fire down there in Hell, does that come with a beach house, by any chance?"