Okay,...I know that I've been lax here of late...and that there are a few who have been "wondering" what's been going on. I apologize for my untoward behavior...here's an update on some of the weird sht that's been going on in this ol' Fart's life these past few months...

Remember the "dizzy sht" that was the result of the fall I took back in November?...well, that has finally "cleared"...I am able to once again stand on a ladder and try and get some work done. That "sht" was really starting to worry/depress me...I didn't know what I was going to do "if" I wasn't able to paint anymore. There, for a while, I couldn't even hold a pencil and try to draw; whenever I'd try and "focus" my hand/eye co ordination my vision would blur and my mind would swirl into dizziness...it really scared the sht out of me. I was starting to think the worst of dark thoughts. I don't know what I'd do if I were to loose my ability to "play" with Art...however, finally, a couple of weeks ago, I noticed that the "dizzies" are finally gone...and that I am once again able to "focus" and get the control I need to create again...Thank You, Lord!

Remember the "You're Dead" problem with the VA that hit in December?...well...(fingers crossed here) that might finally be straightened out, also...I'm not gonna hold my breath, yet, though...The last week of December, I was finally able to talk with someone in Atlanta...where the "medical" department is head-based...and they "fixed it" so that I could once again see a Doc, and get my heart meds again. I had totally run out of meds and was really starting to wonder what kinda stress this whole sht was bringing on. My blood pressure was zooming and I couldn't see the Doc...computer said I was dead...so the azzholes wouldn't even acknowledge me "in person/right in front" of them?...whadafck kinda "people" have we turned into in this country? Would it have "mattered" if...IF... I had actually had another fckin' heart attack right there, in front of them... brought on by their sht? I kinda doubt it..."uh, he's already dead" so says my computer!...azzholes...anyway,.."that" part of my VA seems to be fixed...

...leaving only the Pension part to straighten out...the letter I got back on Dec. 3rd, had said that they wanted "monies paid out" to be returned...hmmm...what's that about?...throughout my running here and there, trying to find the "right person at the right keyboard" who could help me back into the land of the living, I discovered that  my records had somehow gotten "confused" with another Michael Baker's...another Mike Baker who happened to have died on June 14th last year...somehow, someone wasn't paying enough attention to the "details" of their job...nor of our separate record files. I was going back and forth and around in circles with "clueless" desk people, trying to "separate" my sht from the dead guy's...all to no-avail..

A friend down here helped me to contact my local Congressman's office..(I really wasn't into wanting to do this. I didn't see it as something worth "that guy's" time...nor did I really think he would even "give a sht" about something as "trivial" as this to begin with) My friend insisted "that's what he's there for", so, in exasperation, I went ahead and let her contact him.

A week ago his office called and said that they had straightened it out, and that I am now back "alive"...next day, I got a letter from St. Paul; where the Pensions department main office is located...saying that they apologize for the mix up and that they are going to start my pension back up...uh..."from June to present" and that they request my... "spouse to please return the death benefit check that she had erroneously been sent"...uh, whadafck!?!

Dammit!...they don't owe me money since June (when that other guy died) !!..my bank deposits were halted only in November, December, and now, January!...I don't want money clear back to June!
...and I don't have a "SPOUSE"!

...if they actually "paid  out" the $97 check that this letter says they did...whodafck did they send "that" to???

The "other guy"s wife?

...man, they really gonna go and fck with her head, now, too?...for 97 fckin' bucks?

...sht, if they, in fact, have sent her $97 "erroneously"...

I'll go ahead and give them $97 out of my own pocket to cover it, just so they leave her the fck alone!

fckin' clueless desk jockies with computers...sheesh!

I'm not for all certain yet...that I've seen the end of this Circle-Jerk...hee hee...

ya'll try and have a Great Day!...got it??