Today was hot like Texas gets, 95 or so. I chose today to clean out the gutters of the house, it was number one on my list just by chance. I got out the ten foot ladder and went at it. One gutter was very clogged with Crepe Myrtle leaves and debris. There was even a fire ant mound and earth worms in it. How in hell do earth worms get ten feet up off the ground into gutters? It still has me wondering. At any rate five of seven down spouts were clogged but all is well now. Had to quit because of heat and because chemo was Thursday. My energy gets low after chemo. Just the first task on my long list of maintenance issues around the house.

I have been researching the CNC router project. I have read over and studied several plans. I am getting close to determining the optimum design. One fun consideration is that I can build a small one, then use it to build a bigger one. The one I need for the miniatures will cost much less because the stepper motors will be way less expensive. I am very excited about it. I love tools and making them is just so much more fun. By the way, check out http://www.instructables.com/ More projects on more subjects than you can imagine. I wouldn't normally plug a website but this one deserves it.

I am still considering the good news of last Thursday. Knowing that I likely will not die from pancreatic is a major relief, of course. But behind that good news is the realization that I have to change my life so that the bitterness and bad attitude that got me into cancer mode will be challenged and changed. I have embarked on the miniature building episode for one level of 'distraction' but I have to do more. I am looking for a job that will get me out of the house, if that can ever come to fruition. Perhaps demonstrating my abilities will help so I am considering building a website where I practice my web techniques by promoting fictional products such as electric rocks, bottling cow farts to limit green house gasses and a few others. It will of course all be done as if the products are genuine. I am curious just what reactions I might get from some of my ideas. People can have some unusual reactions to subtle humor, not that my humor has ever been subtle.

The other thing is that I have decided to try writing essays on various observations on life. That will be an entirely separate website, to be announced soon. I am greatly encouraged by the reception to this blog so I will move up to write on more wide ranging subject matter. I will try to avoid politics as my views are fairly conservative and without much room for compromise. I will instead try to do some essays and develop short stories so that I can develop my writing styles. I will decorate the story lines with my photography so I can maybe explore some more creativity venues. It would seem that my life has been vexed by the duality of being very technical and being very creative, two mostly mutually exclusive mental endeavors. The technical enterprise paid for the earlier part of my life, the creative side of my personality will maybe fill the part of my life that has been granted to me in this great adventure. I have written about what happened to me in my cancer period so far, now I will write about how I can describe life or particular events in my new found reality. Life gets a lot more intense and colorful when you get surprised by fate slapping you upside the head.