Category Archives: life

Some Hope With A Discectomy

  By Dr Saxe | March 8, 2012 - 7:33 pm | family, Finance, Health, life, money, technology, Travel/Auto
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It seems that my brother-in-law was taken to the E.R. again this early evening and that he has finally consented to have a discectomy done in order to alleviate the tremendous amount of pain that he is constantly in due to an auto accident 4 years ago. It has been a hard four years, the woman that hit him from the rear had no insurance so the medical bills are piling up, he can’t work and his wife was just diagnosed with several health issues of her own.

Anyway, I hope that this discectomy does all that it is supposed to do for people just like him and that this year might be the year that things start looking up for them. Without your health you don’t have much else.

Don’t Let the Title Fool You

  By Dr Saxe | March 6, 2012 - 8:13 pm | books, entertainment, life, technology
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The old saying not to judge a book by it’s cover holds true with the title of books also. I picked out a book last week and decided it was time to give it a chance, the title was holding me back, “Birds in Fall” by Brad Kessler. The cover is full of numerous postage stamps with different species of birds on them, I’m not even sure why I ended up with this book, it doesn’t look or sound like something that I would bring home, I generally do not read books about animals per say.

I’m glad that I did give it a chance, it turned out to be a pretty good book set in Nova Scotia about a plane crash that turns out to be a much deeper, much richer retelling of an ancient myth. Birds in Fall is a remarkable novel and I would recommend it to anyone.

Breaker 19

  By Dr Saxe | February 28, 2012 - 9:15 pm | Associates, entertainment, internet/computers, life, marketing, technology, Travel/Auto
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Any one remember the CB radio craze days in the 70′s, I still remember my call numbers KATZ double eight, three, eight, I even remember my handle, but that piece of trivia I will keep to myself! The CB was to us what chatrooms and Facebook is to people these days, if you think about it. It offered us the capability to communicate and meet with other people, sight unseen, and then being able to disclose your real identity only when and if you desired to. And the same privacy and safety concerns were relative then, as they are today with the Internet, with the meeting and possible hooking up with some that you don’t know and everything that goes along with that issue.

I seem to remember meeting and getting to know quite a few decent folks through the use of the CB back then, just as I have meet a good amount of people through the use of the Internet, makes me wonder what the future holds for us in this area, the sky is limit, as they say.

 

A Man Needs a Dog

  By Dr Saxe | February 27, 2012 - 6:18 pm | business, entertainment, life
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I’ve thinking about getting a dog. I don’t do cats, they are wicked little creatures. Dogs are man’s best friend and I could use a best friend around the house, it does get quiet around here at times. I usually have a dog or two, but since my last buddy passed on in 2006 I have been flying solo and it is time to change that.

I think that I will stop by the local ASPCA sometime soon and see if they have a dog that catches my attention there, I don’t want to buy from a store, I am very leery of the “Puppy Mill” situation and I don’t want to buy into anything that would help benefit those idiots who make a fortune on these poor creatures, that bites and I won’t have anything to do with it.

I’ll get you posted on what I find out there.

Louis L’Amour

  By Dr Saxe | February 26, 2012 - 9:16 pm | books, business, entertainment, life
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What can I say about Louis L’Amour, the author, that hasn’t already been said, this is a story teller that writes from his heart and soul of his life’s work, and I love each and every book that I have ever had the pleasure of reading.  These stories are about men that made the legends and of the heroes that are still celebrated to this day and Mr. L’Amour’s stories go far beyond the typical western tales in books that line to bookshelves everywhere.

I have just picked up from my favorite used book store The Collected Short Stories of Louis L’Amour, The Frontier Stories, Volume Two, and I have a feeling that I will be looking around soon to find Volume One after I have finished with this one.