James Chamberlin

It’s hard to imagine that weather I would expect in the middle of summer has already arrived. 90 degree temperatures with 80+% humidity is something I’d expect to only read about in the south right about now. This is just terrible to live in. You southerners can take back your weather whenever you like. I can deal without it.

I don’t follow the news quite as closely I did before 9/11, but I do read the news every day and this Iranian election mess has gone on much longer than I expected it would.

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has done a decent job of suppressing the media, but hasn’t been able to quiet everyone. There is still Internet access there and people are still able to get images and video out of the country.

While I consider myself an optimist, I am not very optimistic about the situation in Iran. I don’t see a new election in the future. I see Mahmoud Ahmadinejad snuffing out all those who stand in his way. The bloodshed is only going to get worse in the upcoming days. This isn’t going to end well.

The big family garden has been in for a few weeks now and the weeds have overtaken just about everything. That was until this morning when they were all dispatched thanks to a heavy duty steel rake that I like to use. The weeds don’t stand a chance against that beast of a rake.

It’s still too early to harvest much of anything. The only thing picked is strawberries. They’re coming off the vine quite well this year. We’ve received a great deal of rain this spring and the plants are looking very healthy. From the last two pickings (today and about four or five days ago), four gallons of strawberries have been harvested! And just like virtually anything picked from a garden (as opposed to the garbage sold in the grocery stores), they look and taste just like they should. I hate buying produce (namely strawberries and tomatoes) in the grocery store because they’re always shipped in from California or Florida and are often picked too early and they haven’t ripened properly, leaving them nearly tasteless.

In other news, I’ve applied for a new job. I’m trying to get out of my writing job and into something I could see myself doing for twenty or thirty years. One of the local TV stations recently posted a job ad for an opening they had in the control room.

I didn’t dismiss the ad like I would have ordinarily because the ad mentioned it was entry level, all training provided. Since I’ve never worked in the control room, I’ll need the training. Most of these sorts of jobs demand years of experience, but it looks like the local station is trying to find someone young and have them be there for a while and I’d like that someone to be me. Writing has been great for me, but as I get closer to turning thirty, I think more and more about finding a career and being able to settle down. I don’t feel I can do that with my writing job. I haven’t heard back from the station engineer, but I’m hopeful.

I haven’t mentioned by chiropractor visits in quite some time because there isn’t a whole lot to say. I’ve been entirely pain free for weeks now! I am going in once every three to four weeks, so I’m doing pretty well these days.

It’s nice to be able to move around or just sit and not worry about my back giving me fits.

I’m not sure if I’m the only one, but I have found myself on Twitter much more than I expected to be over the last few months. I haven’t abandoned my blog, but it does feel like something I could do without.

The biggest issue with Twitter is that you’re limited to under 200 characters. Twitter won’t kill blogging because of that reason alone, never mind any others.

I have found Twitter to be a handy website to be a part of. It has helped a few times with my job with IGN. I don’t post very often, but when the mood strikes me, I’ll type up something, or just retweet something I liked.

As a huge fan of USA Network for years, I always enjoy their promos and they have some great ones this year again.

It’s now getting to the point where this is hardly worth mentioning. It was another quick trip this morning, but it was busy as hell. It’s Friday and from what I’ve seen, Fridays are by far their busiest day of the week.

Since everything seems to be healing well, I won’t be going in on Monday. Instead, it’ll be Tuesday. I was told early on that as I healed, I’d go in less frequently and it’s already happening. I wasn’t sure how long this process would take, but I’m quite pleased with it thus far.

I’m now able to sleep an entire night of sleep without having to wake up and adjust my position in bed. Sure, there is still some pain in my left hip, but it’s vastly improved since March 25th, which was my first visit.

I know I didn’t mention this last one, but I was busy. I went to the doctor again to get another adjustment and things seem to be progressing rather well. Although all of the pain isn’t gone, it hasn’t been as bad today. My left hip has been hurting more than my back, so I am pleased by that.

I’ll be going back Friday morning for another adjustment. I hope my body continues to heal at the pace it has been. I’m very pleased with it so far.

This time of year is never my favorite period, but I always manage to get through it. Going through receipts is never a fun thing to do, but thanks to TaxCut, this year’s taxes were as easy as ever to do.

I used to use Turbo Tax but they moved self-employed support to a higher-priced product, meaning the ‘premium’ version wouldn’t work, and I’d have to pay for a more expensive product. H&R Block’s TaxCut was just as easy to use as Turbo Tax, I’m happy to announce. I just hope they don’t change things like Turbo Tax did.

This visit over and done with quite fast compared to yesterday. I did get an adjustment which was painful, but wasn’t as bad as the first one.

I feel better today than I did yesterday. I’m trying to stay ahead of the bulk of the pain by icing it every two hours like the chiropractor suggested.

Still, sleeping is a bitch.