Hi, David.....

As usual, I thoroughly enjoyed your post... and your wonderful sense of
humor in all this!  That is a blessing!  Sometimes, I find, we have to laugh
at it and try to keep it all in perspective!!

If you want to work on the depression *and* the ED in another way, you can
do like I did.  I went on Prozac.  It helps with the depression.... my mood
is better.  It also takes away pretty much all libido.  If I ever try to
play with Willy, it has totally killed any ability to orgasm.  But... since
I'm taking the Prozac, I also don't really give a d#@m! :))  So it doesn't
really seem to matter as much! LOL

I hope you get all the things you asked for in your letter to Santa!  But I
wonder..... have YOU been a good boy this year???

I hope you at least get a mouse for your laptop... get an optical one, so
you don't have to worry with a cord!! I *hate* using a touchpad!!

Ho Ho Ho.... Merry Christmas/Happy Holidays to all!

MikeH :)

hey, they say that if you're naughty, you get a lump of coal in your
sock.  i guess it must be true, because i've had a dump truck full of
coal driven by a big jolly fat guy in a red flannel suit making
deliveries each year at christmas.  helps on the heating bill, so it
isn't all bad.

first, and foremost, i had very grateful that they caught the cancer
when they did.  considering that i was one of those "healthy" people who
doesn't get sick or go to the doctor for years at a time.  i realize
that it could have been a different story just as easy and i would have
had no one to blame but myself.  

i am grateful that my psa readings have came by as undetectables so far.

i am grateful that they caught hussin and that maybe the troops will get
to come home real soon.

i am grateful that i've had my wife here to share to joy of this time of
the year given what she has been through.

i am grateful that, just when we thought it was the end of the rope for
her and the treatment of health, that they have found a treatment that
cause the growth of new arteries in her heart.  

i am grateful, that someone was watchful that tv show that put us onto
that path and led us to those clinical people, because i never knew it
existed and it is the other folks in this world that let us know we are
not alone.

i am grateful for all of my new friends and the friendships i've got
because of this disease called prostate cancer.  it would have been
better to meet under different situations. but that was not in the cards
and because of this disease, i've been blessed.

i am grateful again, that since my bout with prostate cancer, i am able
to look at life with a renewed view.  i do not take life for granted.  i
was lucky, or unlucky from vietnam to have discovered this and have
treasured each day as my last.  but these wonderful days seemed like
there were more to come as the years went by and even though i did
treasure those days, i became use to them.  now, because of my pca, i am
back to where i was before and enjoying these wonderful times.

i wish that they would be the christ back in christmas.  i'm sick and
tired of seeing christmas trees and christmas stock being put out in
july and that it has dust piled on it by november.

i'm tired of the only thing the news can think about it is black friday,
the retail sales market, and the impact of the weather and how it affect
the seasonal sales.  

i wish we could go back to trusting people and when a person gave their
word,  it was all you needed, not a contract.

i wish we could get over the fears, and prejudice of a person's
background or color.  who cares if they are successful and jewish, for
example.  instead of saying something negative, look at it that if they
can do it, so can you.  

i wish we could get the family unit back again.  society has stress the
folks so bad, that it takes both partners in the marriage to have a job,
just to pay the bills.  how hard it is, to raise a child with both
parents working?  and how much harder it is to raise that same child
when the two people can't get along, and get a divorce.  now, if you
think if it was hard to raise a child with both parents working,  try to
raise a child with one parent working.  the child loses and falls
through the cracks of society.  the parents fight over the custody of
the child - like a piece of clothing.  the child is a person, and should
not treated as such.

we had one person, they say, who was put on this earth, and all he ever
said was to "love"  that was it.  love each other, love yourself, and in
2000 years, we haven't got it right yet.  we still have fighting,
killing, and hatred spreading like wildfire.  they say we are developed
more now, into a better society than we were hundreds of years before.
yet, when one looks at the 500,000 people that were slaughtered in
rowanda,  one has to ask, "how have we really developed?"  and we had
parents killing their children, and we had neighbors killing neighbors,
and we had family members killing family members,  and 2000 years ago,
killed the one person who said to love one another.  

they said in 1964, school buses were needed to move our precious
children around to other schools to make sure the racial numbers were
politically correct.  yet, after almost 40 years, and with the moving
patterns of people.  we still bus our children.  why?  putting a bus out
in today's traffic is at risk.  putting the money used for that bus into
our school system to make it a better school makes more sense.

so, santa, i guess my final wish, i would ask that you bring to the
people of earth, the gift of common sense.  the ability to just reason
what is the best of everyone to get along, instead of what can i get if
i sue.

this is a pretty long wish list now, santa.  and besides, i heard rumors
that the elves were voting for go union this year, right before
christmas.  i hope that is not true.  the last thing we need is for a
strike right before christmas.

~ curtis

knowledge is power - growing old is mandatory - growing wise is optional

Never in the history of man, since Cane slew Abel, has there been world
peace.
We will likely cure cancer someday, and eboli, and fill this world with 120
year olds.
Since we have no right to a 'health care system', I wonder if we just can't
afford to live that long.
I'm sorry for your friend, but cocaine is nearly impossible to kick.
We had a clean election last time.
The only thing that has ever brought a country together is war.  See #1.
How about a Citizen 40-channel CB with roof magnet mount antenna?
A mouse costs about $15.  I have five I'm not using.  I'll mail you one.
The more channels you have, the longer it takes to find something you don't
wanna watch.
Sorry, I have no answers for the rest.

AMEN!
(Though I can do without the HAM rig...)
Good luck with Buttercup!
DanR