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When terrible things occur in your life, it can be all too easy to focus on the negative and allow yourself to spiral into depression.

Joshua Ferguson of Tennessee understands these dark moments better than most. As a veteran of the United States Army, Joshua suffered a devastating setback when he lost his leg in an explosion caused by an improvised explosive device. Now that he’s retired and back home with his family he focuses on gratitude to help him overcome his new disability.


“There’s silver linings to anything, you can find something, and even if you can’t, somebody’s had it worse! So stop complaining,” said Joshua, who recently adopted a dog with whom he has a lot in common.


Back in June, a hiker stumbled upon a little dog in a wooded area at Johnson Creek near Burns, Tennessee. The pup was in bad shape, and one of his legs was mangled beyond repair. The hiker brought the dog to the Humane Society of Dickson County where they did their best to save his life. Veterinarians believe that the dog, who they called Scooter, had gotten his leg stuck and was forced to gnaw it off in order to find food.

After Scooter’s leg was surgically amputated the shelter began hunting for the perfect family for the special needs pup. As soon as Joshua spotted him on the local rescue’s website, he knew they were kindred spirits. Joshua volunteered to foster Scooter and the pair soon bonded.

“He makes it easier for me to remember, ‘hey it’s still a beautiful day,’” Joshua explained. “You realize really just how tremendous a journey life is.”

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Whenever I drive, after 20 kms I start falling asleep. When I try to sleep by stopping the car, the sleep disappears and when I try to start the car and proceed, it starts falling asleep again. This is a very strange and dangerous situation.

I have found solution to this problem.
Whenever I drive after eating cooked food, I feel sleepy, but if I do not eat cooked food, stay empty stomach or eat raw food (fruits) then I do not sleep.
I came to know from naturopathy doctor in youtube that eating cooked food makes lethargic but eating raw food (fruits) does not make anyone lethargic.
Now whenever I have to drive more than 20 or 30 kms, I do not eat cooked food.

38 year old actor Rich Rotella was always concerned about his height. As an actor, he felt it was an impediment to his career. Rich stood 5 foot 5 inches as a teenager and never grew taller.
Looking for a solution, he researched leg-lengthening surgery, an expensive process.
For those of you who might puke over the details, they basically were able to make his femur bones 3 inches longer. He was unable to work for months and required lots and lots of physical therapy.

The cost: $100,000 and none of it was covered by insurance.

I'm thinking, if it boosted his career and he started getting acting parts right after, that could be a tax 'write-off' the same way actors/actresses improve their appearance to further their careers.
As a way to pay for the surgical procedure, Rich is working on a documentary and plans to release it in 2024.

Going from 5'-5" to 5'-8" looks like he reached the height of his career!


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Life does not always give a chance to choose between right and wrong, sometimes there are only wrong and you have to choose one wrong out of many wrongs.

When I was new to this hospital I’ve got a sign to a preceptor Nurse meeting she is a senior nurse who is supposed to teach me the policies and the operating procedures in our hospital especially in our department where I was assigned an emergency department. I noticed that most of our coworkers didn’t like her I thought it was just because she’s Frank and straightforward and a little mean when she talks but personally I don’t mind people like this so I kind of sucked it up and it’s OK with me so we became friends.
She was a little difficult because there were times when she would just ignore you and then when you directly talk to her ask her what’s going on if she’s mad or some thing she would deny everything and just carry on like nothing is happening. But of course that’s some thing that I don’t like because Frank as I am and straightforward as I am if there’s some thing that I don’t like about our interaction i would say it.

Now fast forward when I got Covid. When I Got discharged from the hospital people were talking to me asking me how I was if I’m feeling better what problems do I still have because of Covid and what sort of things they can do to help me cope and recover even better. Aside from that though there were some concerned people who mentioned to me about the things that she has said against me behind my back. They said that she’d been telling people that I was being so careless going on dates while there’s a pandemic. That I am actually the one who gave them the virus and put them at risk. To be honest I felt really sorry that if I was the one who gave them the virus that I didn’t want to do that although I was being very careful with my own health and other peoples health like washing my hands all the time wearing my mask changing my mask if I needed to just to make sure that I don’t spread the virus that things still happen. Good thing though for them for her and her child they were a symptomatic they never had anything like cough or fever her child got runny nose and so did she and then they have a test and they were positive and they got isolated at home while I was admitted to the hospital for eight days and stayed on home quarantine for few more days until I got better to go back to work. But I wasn’t sure where I got the virus all I know is I got the vaccine and after two weeks I got the chills and the fever that doesn’t go down no matter how much medication they take so I don’t know who to blame I don’t really want to blame anybody anymore or even during that time because blaming would never help anybody anyway so I focused on meditating and praying and going inside myself thinking and trying to heal myself.

And then because of the things that I learned that she said about me while I was in the hospital I went on silent mode. I stopped going to their house. I just stopped the communication and the bonding.

Then yesterday I was having fun with other nurses because they had idle Time and so we made a TikTok video where we danced. I posted it on Facebook and there were a lot of reactions and comments to it. The next day I came to work and I was told that I have to hide it or take the video down. They said that somebody complained about it in the meeting. I didn’t have to ask to know that it was her who did it I know because that’s her nature to go behind a someone’s back, friend or not. I know it was her because she’s done it before. It didn’t reach the higher management and quite frankly I didn’t think it was wrong because like everybody in our hospital has been doing that and I don’t know why it was just me who was singled out.

Anyway it doesn’t matter that you did that anymore. I just removed all my Facebook friends that work in the same hospital. Maybe life is better this way it’s going to be more peaceful without the eyes and ears and mouth of other people dipping in your life. I hope she finds happiness in her life so she stops being bitter and just be happy.

if you stick to this thought, you will never get sick.

I used to have 3 computer systems. One in my office, one in my home office and one personal. Each of them had dual monitors. This dates back more than 10 years ago when I started upgrading to 27" screens with 1920 x 1200 resolution.

The proportion of these monitors represented a sheet of 11 x 17 inch paper that I used for engineering drawings, so what I saw on the screen printed with the same proportion.
I bought I-INC brand from Tiger Direct and recall buying at least 6 of them. After 2 years, a few started 'blanking out' and my research showed some of the capacitors in the power supply failed. eBay sold repair kits to change all the capacitors, so I took them to a local repair shop and had them fixed. The shop closed and I found another shop who also fixed one and life was good. One more monitor stopped working and due to COVID, the repair shop since closed.
Industry changes and a different perspective to match wide-screen TV's with a resolution of 1920 x 1080 became popular, so I bought 2 quad density monitors, but my favorites are the older ones.

Now that I'm working from home, I'm running 3 workstations... 5 actually, but don't tell anyone. A friend came over and thought I was working for NASA!
Along the way (3 years ago) I bought a 32" monitor for business graphics and did some computer upgrades earlier this year that included 2 computers and another 32" monitor.
Last weekend I installed the new monitor... my eyes aren't getting better as they say, but I'm using it in quad-density mode so everything is smaller. Yeah, kinda defeats the purpose of a larger screen. I'll get to that at another time. The video is flawless!

This week I ordered some external hard drive connectors so I can do backups and clone my systems. I know I bought these things in the past, but since my move, they are stacked in bins in my patio and I'm not wanting to go through them... But, I needed a power strip and unable to find any in the condo, so I opened a bin only to find one of the external connectors just like the one I order to arrive today. Groan...

I really don't have firm plans on retirement and I didn't take on any big projects last month so this month, I'll be slacking and available to actually do some home projects (upgrade the closet shelving, change out the shower rod & curtain, move the toaster to the kitchen) like a real kitchen renovation that's been on my list for 3 years now. Mmmm... maybe next month.

One of my projects is to set up a digital music station. I've got the software, computers, monitor, MIDI sound processor, piano MIDI keyboard, guitars, basses, MIDI woodwind controller, I can be a one man band and do some recording. Since it's all acoustic and digital, I can keep the volume low... unlike when I played Irish (Uilleann) bagpipes and my roommate said she could hear me practice all the way to the sidewalk!

5 guitars and 4 basses... Not planning to add to the heard.
But I've been thinking about that bass amplifier that produces 500 hundred watts!
It will be perfect if I get invited to a jam session.

Where did I put that power strip. I know I saw it around here... somewhere.

And Also The People All Over The World!
Try To Stay Positive Not Matter What!
Learn To Be Happy With Little As Well!
If You Staring Getting Sick Seek Help ASAP.
Try To Untie Your Self With Friends, Relative, etc.
Be Understanding, of Other People Problems!
Avoid Danger of Any Kind!
Love Your Self, So You Could Love Other People!
Sorrender Your Self With Good People , People Who Will Lift You Up Whe n You Feels Down!
And Do The Same for Them!
God Bless You All

From Falicia O

What Is Your Oppinion?

Many things get changed with age.
We used to be stubborn when we were young, now we make compromises in old age.
The thing which seemed very important in young-age, today the same thing seems useless.
The thing which seemed useless in young-age, today the same thing seems very important.

With age our needs get changed, our deeds get changed, our feelings get changed, our behavior get changed, our thoughts get changed, and sometimes we completely get changed.

There was a woman who won a contest to a an exotic island and she was so excited
as she told all her friends and family and in her excitement she wondered what will
she need to take and what she will have to pack up on her journey.
However, when she learned that some stranger was going to accompany her she felt kind of weird about this whole arrangement

Nevertheless she said to herself a chance of a lifetime to go to place she has never been was so exciting.
Now when she had met up with her partner who was going to accompany her she found he was tall dark and handsome type and seemed to a gentleman of such.

Yet there was something about him that made her feel on edge.
As she greeted him the first thing he said to her was she wont be needing all the crap she packed in her suitcase where she was going.

She kind of seemed perplexed to say what do you mean I have my clothes and things and a couple books and sunscreen and some things of value to me I want to take so what is wrong with that she thought. Well as part of the conditions of the trip she had to select only what she could carry in her heart and mind. She thought about what she was going to do with all her belongings in the suitcase and frustrated about her choice between the suitcase and what she valued within her heart and mind she was really in a bind of what she thought was important.

She thought of her life, her friends, her position in life and all the things she accumulated in her life as she was reasonably wealthy.
She just could not figure out what was of most valuable to her that she can think upon for the duration of her journey.

However, as it came close to the time that she was boarding her plane she sort of looked at this guy she did not know but, he seemed familiar and was rather upset with him as why he suggested to bring only what is important to her.

Nevertheless, she thought well she had her thoughts her feelings her perceptions ideas her passions reflections and dreams her memories of such and decided they were the most important things that mattered.

The man said to her that he was relieved because nobody wants your anger or hate or bitterness
because where you are going is to see my father in Heaven where you will dwell in paradise with me and him who sent for you.
All your experiences all the things you learned in this life is all anyone really has.
The material world is made to serve you but it will not be needed when it comes time to leave this world.