the drives are getting even longer

Now I wish I could say "the drives are getting even longer" about my golf game, but I reached a new height today when I drove all the way from home to my speech coach's!!! Click here to see.

oh yeah... WHO'S driving? (sometimes)

Well my recovery reached a new level today! I drove to play disc golf, then I drove ALL THE WAY from there to the Hut for lunch & back again! The whole time we were out of the house, if we were driving, I was driving! I've never done that before! Luckily, there are two of the world's greatest restaurants within an hour-- Barley's & the Hut! Oh... it's so fine... to live in... South Caroline! Sorry to non-SC dwellers that you have to live so far away... But maybe if you started walking last week...

ups & downs

Well, today had it's ups & downs.

Ups: I drove from The Sonic near Gvegas (Greenville) ALL THE WAY HOME (that's about 45-60 minutes)!!! That's the 1st time! My folks (understandably) didn't feel comfortable up until today with me driving on a two-lane road with a posted speed limit of 55. But I did it fine. So yay!

Downs: We arrive home safely to a phone call from my credit card company's fraud department. I paid for lunch today with my credit card, and then it was used around 6:00 pm in Ohio for two charges, one being around $600. So at least they know that charge is in dispute. Ummm, hello, living in SC here & don't have a driver's license yet. Capiche?

Today is my parents' anniversary!

Hooray hooray hooray! And to make it even cooler, one of them gave to the other a stand-up piece of chestnut tree (it's decorative). And... get this... we counted the rings to see how old it was... TWENTY-NINE YEARS!!! That has massive significance related to my age!!!

A glimpse into everyday life in this household: Mom just got a single new lens in her glasses. This thing is, well, solar-systm-sized. So here are some of our comments over breakfast:
-I hear ya talking but can't see where the words are coming from!
-Los Alamos called, their gonna want back their equipment to see nuclear blasts from 2 feet away.
-We called NASA and said the Hubble is rubble, 'cause we can see Alpha Centauri from here!
-The U.S.S. Endeavor called. They said they need their anchor back.
-What is Ghengis Khan like, since you can see backward through time?

Wave a FLAG

A guy walks into a bar with a huge chunk of asphalt under his arm. He tells the bartender ...
... "I'll take a beer and I'll take one for the road too."

So tonight @ dinner, my old collegiate FLAG club came up in conversation. At Furman, it was Friends of Lesbians And Gays, kinda important for an ultra-conservative community. I made the point that it was very different from the FLAG club @ my parents' old place of residence (which we always refer to as 'Del Boca Vista Phase 3" from Seinfeld), which was mostly a retirement community. In Del Boca, the FLAG club was Forgotten and Lost At the Golf club.

I'VE BEEN RECOGNIZED BY SOMEONE I DON'T KNOW!

What did the ocean say when it saw the sky? Nothing, it just waved.

So we stopped by F.U. on the way home today. Since we were there, I stopped by my old C.S. building to chat with some of my professors. One of them had two students in his office, but waved me in since they weren't busy. And one of the students said something like "Hey, aren't you the guy that started the Ultimate Frisbee team here?" Oh heck yeah!

how far?

I just got back from a 1.9 mile hike, the longest since the wreck! And I know it was 1.9 because we asked a park ranger about the 2 mile hike... and got corrected. Yeah. 1.9, what's the next decimal place? And your answer didn't involve pi, come on.

From my high school buddy Tom: What did the ocean say when it saw the sky?

Happy ate day!

Happy ate day everybody! It's just gonna be g8. In the afternoon, I hope to look back and say I 8 a good lunch and that I feel my stomach is s8ted. If you play billiards, the trick is for the shot to go str8. And best of luck to anybody who- like me- is looking for a potential m8- I've learned you wanna start with a first d8. I'd r8 today right up there. Happy ate day! 8/8/8

O. M. G. (That means "oh my goodness" if you're not from this century. And get off our internet-- it's not yours) The Sonic's Strawberry Cream Pie shake has finally been replaced. It had been a STAPLE of my diet since the wreck. (I also haven't lost much weight since the coma. Hmmm) Tonight I tried instead their... "blended float." It's just sugar-free, non-alcoholic diet coke (sowdah of choice) with a tad bit of ice cream. (Okay, for the winning side of the civil war, diet coke is a "pop." Soda's still sowdah. Slow down when saying that)

So here are some suggested spellings I've collected that only make sense if you're not FROM EARTH. These are from Firefox-- the greatest web browser ever-- and OpenOffice-- the greatest free replacement for Microsoft Word & Excel among others.

TYPED | MEANT | OPENOFFICE SUGGESTIONS | FIREFOX SUGGESTIONS
Drvng | Driving | Droning | Drawing, nerving, curving, carving, serving
Yeatersay | Yesterday | Watershed | Ratepayer's, Paterson
Barack | Barack | Ba rack | Ba rack
Obama | Obama | Bamako, Okayama | Alabaman, mamba
Rike | "I rike it a rot" | Nike, Pike, rile, rice | Trike, dike

So gr8t spelluhrs uv the wurld untie! Thair's too plehces that myght hire ya if yoo 4m a pickit line ehround 'm.