Blogging is hard work

but not as hard as writing about tungsten electrodes!
I feel like I'm writing a term paper for school... problem is I didn't take engineering. or metalurgy or chemistry. In fact I pretty much avoided everything technical in favor of fun things like Spanish linguistics, Portuguese literature, French...

ah well. I am learning. I had no idea how important grind angle and tip diameter was to the creation of a TIG welding bead. My head is spinning.

Sharpie

The weird and wacky wonder ful world of welding: www.arc-zone.com where I work

Same ole same ole

Here it is August 5 and I've not done a blog a day... haven't written in my journal either. Too much to do, too little time.

I really mean that. I'm moving. I'm training for the Breast Cancer 3 Day. I'm going on vacation. What was I thinking???

Oh yea, not only am I moving my stuff, we're dealing with all of granddad's stuff. 94 years of stuff accumulated in a house for the last 30 years, I think that makes it something like 1950 years of stuff. Checks. Old checks going back to WWII.
eegads.

Day 2

Can I keep this going?
Is there a point?
Lots going on around here.
In my head.
In my heart
In my house.
Sometimes it easier NOT to think.
to write.
just keep putting one foot in front of the other.

I've been blogged

Can't believe I finally did it. Wondering if I will blog as much as I journal.... Sometimes life is too overwhelming to write about. Takes time to process.

In
case
anyone is interested...

JeSais

is my nickname, derived one new year's eve. Actually we all came up with new names for ourselves that night-- new names for the new millenium. My friend Kim, became Miki, which is sort of the opposite of Kim... she was in the process of getting a divorce and we decided that she needed a new name for the wonderful new life she would be leading... actually I think the whole crazy plan was my idea, which was how I was dubbed "Je Sais"

For some time Ralph had been calling me, Je Ne Sais Quois (french for "I don't know anything) instead of my given name "Jennifer" so that night, in drunken brilliance, I was re-named Je Sais, which is french for "I know".

Marty wanted to be called Ibrahim... the Spanish translation of the name Abraham. He had a long explanation about how great Abraham (the biblical one) was... and the rest of us, laughing uproariously, named him "Ibby" as any translation of a biblical great was way too lofty for one with as big an ego as Marty...

Ralph became "Stack," an old nickname of a favorite uncle and the rest is history....