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A dear friend of mine writes:

I’ve been involved in a truly inspiring story about a woman of extraordinary courage. Liz DiVivo was a 36 year old wife and mother of two lovely girls. And just a few months after she finished her Master’s degree, she suddenly was struck with a rare and incurable disease.

The story of her wait for two years for a double lung and heart transplant is one of the most gripping stories I have read in my life. Liz did get her transplant back at the beginning of August, 2003 — and the amazing thing is, she was just released from the hospital and is on her way to a tremendous recovery.

I thought I should let you know because you can download a free ebook Liz wrote for the whole two years she was waiting for her transplant. I guarantee, you’ll laugh, and you’ll cry, but most of all, you’ll take some rich lessons about life from this amazing woman. It is an easy read, with just a page for each day. It’s called “Believing in Second Changes: The Story of a Life.” You can read it with the Adobe Reader.

http://www.lizfund.org/download/Liz%20DeVivo%20Believing%20in%20Second%20Chances.pdf

At the site they also have some great pictures of Liz and her family, and you can get up-to-the-minute updates on entries to her diary. If you want a get a dose of true inspiration, I recommend you visit there now, and read Liz’s diary.

This is to those of you who have decent exposure… we have put together this eBook of basically Liz’s online journal she kept for all this time, and we are attempting to have people download it, and with enough downloads, perhaps be able to pitch it to a real publisher who’d make a printed copy and give Liz and her family some much needed money (if you have any idea how much these things cost, you can imagine, even a book deal probably won’t cover her expenses… but she is alive!)

This is mainly directed at Ldy, who has the power to not only get her friends to download this, but those friends to spread it to their friends. A real meme, so to speak.

Consider it done, Scooter.

If you can, folks, please do right-click on this link— it’s only a ten second download on broadband. I’m already in the middle of two other books, and yet am finding it a compelling read.

And please do pass on the link as well.

The rest of her site is here: http://www.lizfund.org/

It’s easy to become jaded in this online world, where so many people are not what they seem.

Take ten seconds and a chance, and open your heart just a wee bit, k?

Thanks 🙂
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Landlord walking more people through to inspect the roof, to sell the place. I look forward to showing them the scary element that’s in the closet. He called at 10pm last night to let me know.. getting better about notifications.. but not much. I’m just glad that I’m home while they’re doing the walkthroughs.. I *really* hate folks walking through my place (potentially letting newt get out) when I’m not home. I would’ve had to tell them that they’ll need to reschedule…I wonder if he would’ve, or pulled something sneaky?

Frankie is still living next door. I asked LL about it, and he mentioned that he was being “relocated”. I wonder what that means, exactly?

8.5GB DVD+R discs, drives to ship April ’04 Continue reading #6224 helpful ebook, Frankie’s around, DVD strength, killer locusts, lyric search →

via ldy‘s journal –
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A dear friend of mine writes:

I’ve been involved in a truly inspiring story about a woman of extraordinary courage. Liz DiVivo was a 36 year old wife and mother of two lovely girls. And just a few months after she finished her Master’s degree, she suddenly was struck with a rare and incurable disease.

The story of her wait for two years for a double lung and heart transplant is one of the most gripping stories I have read in my life. Liz did get her transplant back at the beginning of August, 2003 — and the amazing thing is, she was just released from the hospital and is on her way to a tremendous recovery.

I thought I should let you know because you can download a free ebook Liz wrote for the whole two years she was waiting for her transplant. I guarantee, you’ll laugh, and you’ll cry, but most of all, you’ll take some rich lessons about life from this amazing woman. It is an easy read, with just a page for each day. It’s called “Believing in Second Changes: The Story of a Life.” You can read it with the Adobe Reader.

http://www.lizfund.org/download/Liz%20DeVivo%20Believing%20in%20Second%20Chances.pdf

At the site they also have some great pictures of Liz and her family, and you can get up-to-the-minute updates on entries to her diary. If you want a get a dose of true inspiration, I recommend you visit there now, and read Liz’s diary.

This is to those of you who have decent exposure… we have put together this eBook of basically Liz’s online journal she kept for all this time, and we are attempting to have people download it, and with enough downloads, perhaps be able to pitch it to a real publisher who’d make a printed copy and give Liz and her family some much needed money (if you have any idea how much these things cost, you can imagine, even a book deal probably won’t cover her expenses… but she is alive!)

This is mainly directed at Ldy, who has the power to not only get her friends to download this, but those friends to spread it to their friends. A real meme, so to speak.

Consider it done, Scooter.

If you can, folks, please do right-click on this link— it’s only a ten second download on broadband. I’m already in the middle of two other books, and yet am finding it a compelling read.

And please do pass on the link as well.

The rest of her site is here: http://www.lizfund.org/

It’s easy to become jaded in this online world, where so many people are not what they seem.

Take ten seconds and a chance, and open your heart just a wee bit, k?

Thanks 🙂
– – – – – – – – – – – – –

Landlord walking more people through to inspect the roof, to sell the place. I look forward to showing them the scary element that’s in the closet. He called at 10pm last night to let me know.. getting better about notifications.. but not much. I’m just glad that I’m home while they’re doing the walkthroughs.. I *really* hate folks walking through my place (potentially letting newt get out) when I’m not home. I would’ve had to tell them that they’ll need to reschedule…I wonder if he would’ve, or pulled something sneaky?

Frankie is still living next door. I asked LL about it, and he mentioned that he was being “relocated”. I wonder what that means, exactly?

8.5GB DVD+R discs, drives to ship April ’04 Continue reading #6224 helpful ebook, Frankie's around, DVD strength, killer locusts, lyric search →

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Um, holy cow, I now have 50 images available as icons. I can’t even think of what to use them all for. Maybe every “current mood?” as it stands, I think I’ve resent every icon I’ve *ever* used for more than 2 entries back into storage now.

Very cool that they mentioned Pellucidar on the Tarzan cartoon tonight. Someone has been doing genre homework. (At the Earth’s Core is where I cribbed most of my info for Doc Firestone and the Gusano)

Ciudad Juarez is known as ‘the city of the dead girls’. In 10 years almost 400 women have been murdered in this city on the border between Mexico and El Paso, Texas, and the killings continue. Now a courageous Mexican-American journalist is alleging a group of six businessmen is behind the slaughter. Described as ‘untouchables’, their wealth puts them above the law. Their motive is said to be blood sport. Continue reading #6223 50 icons! Pellucidar. City of Dead girls →

Finally got a good night’s rest…In conjunction with a 2 hour power nap midday.

Wowie Zowie! Permanent Accounts have 20 icons, now! (and paid accounts can also buy up to 20 for $10 a year.. seems steep, but I know a lot of people that’ll go for it.) Why, I remember, back in the day,when people had no icons and by cracky, they liked it just fine! The addition of userpics was a good idea, though. I’m itchin’ to know what the up-and-coming fun stuff is, too. (I really don’t use more than four or five icons, generally, but it’s nice to have the option for variety. I didn’t have a user icon for about a month or two into having my journal.

Apparently rumor has it that audio posts are coming soon.

Weird. I wonder why they changed my LJ clustermap‘s colors.. and why the color borders are wrong on some parts. I suspect the parsing of friend’s lists is off. I do like that the search feature is active, now. I can look at the City of Baghdad, for example, and spot journals to peek at there. (I’m really not interested in the “questionnaire search” but I could see where it’d be handy to locate like-minded people to gather in meatspace.

Trans-gender star trek spider-man is just wrong, but a bunch of guys dressed up as AIM agents is dang cool.

Meow Memory, the kitten Memory Game.

Cool Mathematical Sculptures.

Info on the New Windows Build – Longhorn

current mood: Pretty good!
current music: John B – We Like the Music (Latino mix)

Brother came over last night, late looking to crash (slept on the porch – Newt hair gets him). Apparently he missed the last bus home, so he wanted a place to just rest until he could take off. I was awake, so no big deal… until 3am when he woke me up trying to come inside the apartment looking for a snack, I gave him a smart ones sundae cone (only 2 points! hooray for splenda!) and wished him good night. He woke me again at 6am looking to get $1 for a bus pass (and another sugary snack from the freezer). A pity he wasn’t thinking more clearly, or I could have been only awakened once. I am sleeping more soundly, was very likely to go the whole night.

Thinkin’ about my sweetie, and that makes me smile.

bp is 110/70, haven’t taken any pain meds since right before bed last night. Riva noted that my wound is mending nicely, and nothing should impede staple removal on Friday.

Hmm.. I hope Jonna got my checks deposited ok on Friday… still no reflection, but it is the weekend.

I expect to see the Madre swing by today…she’s nicely picking up some drinks for me. I think Danny is coming by sometime today too, as well as the first visit by the “hairwashing” nurse. I can birdbath ok on my own, but it’s difficult to get my head under the sink.

Terra Wind. Introducing the world’s first luxury Amphibious Motor Coach / Yacht. Perfect for slow moving, or retired supervillians. Hmm… a little tricky, because it’s a freshwater device, but still handy for getaways on lakes or rivers.

They’re working on building a floating tow trailor for a car or pair of jet skis. Pretty cool!

I could see the old Z-squad group petitioning Agent 13 for one of those.

(I’ve seen the earlier “Duck Tours” Style vehicle before, but the bus looks just like an RV.

The Cat’s Eye Nebula. info, and a beautiful image.

Brother came over last night, late looking to crash (slept on the porch – Newt hair gets him). Apparently he missed the last bus home, so he wanted a place to just rest until he could take off. I was awake, so no big deal… until 3am when he woke me up trying to come inside the apartment looking for a snack, I gave him a smart ones sundae cone (only 2 points! hooray for splenda!) and wished him good night. He woke me again at 6am looking to get $1 for a bus pass (and another sugary snack from the freezer). A pity he wasn’t thinking more clearly, or I could have been only awakened once. I am sleeping more soundly, was very likely to go the whole night.

Thinkin’ about my sweetie, and that makes me smile.

bp is 110/70, haven’t taken any pain meds since right before bed last night. Riva noted that my wound is mending nicely, and nothing should impede staple removal on Friday.

Hmm.. I hope Jonna got my checks deposited ok on Friday… still no reflection, but it is the weekend.

I expect to see the Madre swing by today…she’s nicely picking up some drinks for me. I think Danny is coming by sometime today too, as well as the first visit by the “hairwashing” nurse. I can birdbath ok on my own, but it’s difficult to get my head under the sink.

Terra Wind. Introducing the world’s first luxury Amphibious Motor Coach / Yacht. Perfect for slow moving, or retired supervillians. Hmm… a little tricky, because it’s a freshwater device, but still handy for getaways on lakes or rivers.

They’re working on building a floating tow trailor for a car or pair of jet skis. Pretty cool!

I could see the old Z-squad group petitioning Agent 13 for one of those.

(I’ve seen the earlier “Duck Tours” Style vehicle before, but the bus looks just like an RV.

The Cat’s Eye Nebula. info, and a beautiful image.

Hmm. I’m very prone to nibble in bed tonight. If I weren’t documenting intake, I’d probably have gobbled up a good portion of my available snacks as I read. Polished off the Magician’s Companion and it’s superb, information-wise, save for poor editing. I’d love to see a 2^nd edition in hardcover and all cleaned up. I can see using it as a point of reference for a long time to come. It’s got me wanting to write something about the occult underground (or play in a UA / Over the edge game)

I remembered to call the mother tonight, and wish her a happy 56. She seems older than that to me… heck, Danny and Ray are both 40. I feel that she is more than 16 years greater than they are. She seems so much frailer.

I’ve been craving home fries since that article on flavor creation. I’m going to try to have Danny bring me by some salty-starch tomorrow…I’m not up to standing over a skillet yet. (Dan brought me a reload of Reese’s Puffs and took some laundry away today. we watched a little nickelodeon cartoons before he took off. He couldn’t stay longer, allergic to Newt. Dan varies from an hour to about 4 hours cope-level.)

Newt’s been sweet today by bringing me all of his toys and leaving them next to me to play with. He’s sleeping at my feet now, cute as a cat-loaf can be. His fur seems extra soft today…Perhaps due to the season’s lack of humidity.

I’m wondering if I can special order specific letters from alpha-bits cereal. Think that it’d be cool to have just a big bowl of a specific word like “LOVE” (Though, I suppose someone would wonder why I was eating “VOLE” cereal.) Heck, if I wanted to be a little narcissistic, I could always ask for “SCOTTO”.

My Popdex Game Profile – Popdex – Metapop

The “Map your buddies meme”

Why McDonald’s Fries Taste So Good archived here. long, but fascinating.