17 April 2022…Happy Easter

This week has been more eventful than I like. 

My step father died the other day. Me and my wife and children have been feeling really yucky, so we didn’t go to Utah for the funeral. They did a zoom broadcast. That was nice of them. It was a very nice service. 

After some other business, we went to “grandpa Larry’s” favorite restaurant Jack in the Box. That was an adventure. The sign said they we open. Nope. So we went through the drive though. Eventually we got home ate our food and remembered events we loved with “Grandpa Larry”. One of the best times we have had for a long time. 

Side note while we were eating the elders/missionaries stopped by. Apparently they didn’t know where I live. And the fact I shaved my beard threw them of. They saw that I had The Family a Proclamation to the World hanging on the wall. Then they figured out we are members of the same church as them. Then I said I just shaved my beard off. Then we recognized each other. Fun night. 

I guess people have figured out I shaved my beard. I hate it. I can’t wait until I have some fur on my face again. Without facial hare it’s cold it hurts it’s uncomfortable. I do not like it at all. I will post the video of my children helping to shave me on another post. 

So I guess this past week was also the anniversary of when I had my stroke. I had several posts on Facebook show up that people have made 9 years ago. Some are still Facebook friends. Some decided to unfriend me. Honestly I don’t understand unfriending someone. If you don’t like something me or anyone says, Ignore it. But some people can’t handle the constant reminder that someone exists. I have had very unpleasant moments.  Moments are just that moments. I had to turn off all the posts of a couple people. Still, life goes on. But I am curious about what I may have posted that upset someone so much that they felt they had to unfriend me.  I’m just me. A person. I have a type of brain damage. Still I’m not to big of a deal in the large world. That said, I’m the grand scheme, everyone is a big deal. 

Then my wonderful wife has been making Easter treats for everyone. She is amazing. To bad she can’t eat hot peppers I grow. She is marvelous in countless other things. Not being able to eat hot peppers is nothing. 

4 April 2022…..we are getting closer to First Contact Day.

I have found and been reminded recently, that anger is a very effective way to get physical things done. 

It helped me in the past, when I was a pilot, still I decided then that I could not hold on to the anger I had. 

Then I had a stroke. For a while I had no idea why I was in the hospital and why I couldn’t move me body. Then I wanted to get better so I got angry. It help me improve but at some point I lost the anger I had. 

Just this morning I was angry again. I wanted to write and get all of my anger of different things out of my system. 

A few hours have gone by. I have no desire to be angry. I think it can handle not being angry. That said I miss the rush of desire to write and create in other ways.

One other thing I decided to do is shave my mustache. I still have my beard. I am sure I do not like having a naked upper lip. 

I ask my wife to leave her hair curly. Her hair is gorgeous and naturally curly. She doesn’t like it so she wants to straighten it most of the time. Her choice. She is a big girl. Still she doesn’t like my beard. Still, after shaving my mustache my face is freezing. I am willing to live with her straight hair if it means my face wont freeze. I had to have a shaved face for years. 

One other thing about me. My beard is so curly it seems to grow very little. If I use my heat brush it helps it look a little bit longer. 

Slightly related is the fact that shaving is messy. I got hair all over the counter and the rest of my beard and body. Then the razor needs cleaning. That is not easy for me. After I took a shower to get all of the little hairs off. 

Sorry everyone. Shaving is for suckers.