Controls of Life

No, not controlling life. That's quite impossible I'm convinced. Controls as I was instructed, are more a way to keep accountability on what's happening. Counting beans, or more likely, measuring and directing water. Controls are buckets, funnels, tubes. They can direct, but not control water. Water will always fall, in an unending effort to reach the end of the effects of gravity. I am losing even myself. So I'll stop after saying that our lives are an unending effort to reach the end of the effects of gravity.

I thought of all this while cleaning the garage. It was in a HEINOUS state of disarray. Not one control in place. I thought to myself after it was clean, "How can I have controls in my life, if I do not have any in my garage." Well, I thought that and "I need a bigger tool-box."

Alison's doing well in spite of the chemotherapy. The Oncologist was visibly surprised to see her doing so well. Her blood counts are holding strong, the pain is reduced, and he even mentioned that he couldn't quite say but maybe it felt to him that the main tumor was reduced. Of course, that could have been because she's regular now.

I have one last thing to share: www.abebooks.com. Wow. What a discovery. I bought the entire Harry Potter series, Hard Cover, for a total of 37$. That includes shipping. And Alison, I bought her 3 Hard Cover Nicholas Sparks books for a buck a piece. You really can't shake a stick at that. And I found out about Abe by showing my hind end at a used bookstore downtown, when I tried to buy Prince of Tides in Hard Cover for what I thought was 19.95$, but was specially marked (in pencil on the other page) at 89.95$. The lady said it was a 'First-Edition'. I apologized and said I was just interested in the hard cover, not the hard dinero it would take to purchase that book. She suggested to me Abebooks. I scoffed at it a little, but three weeks later I found her note in one of my pockets. I tried it and whalah! Harry Potter, Pat Conroy, and Nicholas Sparks. Of course, I had to promise Alison that my next new project would be book cases.