It's been a long time!

Hi Everyone.

It's been a long time since I've had the energy or desire to add to my blog. I was diagnosed with stomach cancer back in November of 08, and really had a rough winter and spring season. I'm glad to report that I was just given a clean bill of health this past week. Gotta stay vigilent though, cause cancer is rampant in my family!

Pow-Wow season has started in southeastern new england, and I'm jumping back into it with both feet. I have this increadible urge to raise badly needed funds for One Spirit, to assist their efforts to aid the Oglala Lakota Sioux @ Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. I raised $356.00 last weekend at a pow-wow in Brooklyn, CT. and I'm scheduled to do another pow-wow this weekend in Dighton, MA., but it's suppose to rain all weekend, so I don't know how successful I'll be at raising money!

This past fall, I was contacted by a woman, that I'll always concider the genuine love of my life. She had just gone through a divorce and wanted to thank me for being, of all things, a real nice guy, while we dated! Because I never had closure on our relationship, I wanted to start all over! But, alas, it wasn't to be. That's OK, she'll always be my one true love. I finally did get the closure I needed. I wish her happiness and I'm getting on with my life. Princess, if you read this, I still love you!

I'm working on a potential deal with a local radio station to do a weekly one hour program on Native Americans, in the general Woonsocket, RI area. There's lots of Wampanoag, Narragansett, Abanaki and Mohawk that live in the area, so it'll be intresting to see what arises!

I'm now on Facebook and Linkedin with profiles. It's actually fun to be retired and financially stable. This latest stock market crisis has cost me dearly and I'll never live long enough to see the recovery of the substancial funds that I have lost. If murder wasn't a crime, I'd kill Bernie Madoff sp?. I'm a Joe Nobody that did OK in life and lost over 160 thousand on wall street. My first house cost me $9,970 dollars, back in the early 1960's, today, that doesn't even buy a new car!

I see in the news that North Korea is acting up again. North Korea wouldn't be a problem if only President Truman authorized the use of a Nuclear Bomb on North Korea back in 1951. But alas, they're now a threat to peace in southeast asia and the world. I still think a nuclear bomb on North Korea is warranted. Same thing for Iran if they don't stop the bullshit with their threats to world peace! Why oh why can't the nations of the world join in harmony and genuine peace.

As soon as I figure out how to operate the program of my new digital camera, I'll be posting some pictures. Seems like everytime I get comfortable with a new computer program, it becomes obsolete and I have to start over again. I bought my first real computer system back in 1981. It was a Apple Lisa, the first computer with a mouse. I actually liked this system. It cost me 10 thousand dollars. But, I got ants in my pants and my second system was a Digital Rainbow, that too cost 10 grand. I hated the rainbow. Way too many commands to make it operate. My next computer was a Packard Bell. This had a early windows operating system and I loved it. I now have a custom made PC system with mega speed and mega storage, that I absolutely love! Who know what's next??????

Signing of for now, but more to come!

Ed