Never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down

Hey my fellow bloggers...

Yes, I have worked a tad on my book, but that's not the main reason for my absence. I've just had one busy week. Relate? Yesterday I spent 4 hours at the beauty shop repairing the damage to my overly dyed hair (picture to be posted...ehhh, probably next week) and today I ran 10 miles with a crippling headache (caused by the chemicals I endured the day before) that I optimistically hoped would go away. I was wrong.
However...
First I must tell you the GREAT NEWS...

I just found out today that my friend, Thea, has been accepted as a candidate for a promising new stem cell surgery of which I have already discussed in length on this site. Haven't I? Yes, I'm sure I did. Moving on...

That's right folks! Thea has a big bright smile pasted on her beautiful face and has revved up her therapy workouts in anticipation of the surgery, which will take place this November in Portugal. The down side? She's got to raise about 50 grand to pay for it. Plus she will need more than that to include the special post surgery therapy treatments she will need in Michigan. I have no doubts she will do it. This is a gracious, giving community and we all love her. It may not total as much as the benefit for Alexis, coming right off the heels of that, but my optimistic side is thinking...we could raise MORE. Sure why not?

Now...MACWORLD

Ta da! I'm so excited to be going to San Francisco tomorrow. I'll start out at 6:30am, wow, that's early for me! Drive to Walnut Creek and hop on the Bart train. After traveling under the bay, I'll get off near the center where Macworld is being held. I don't get to attend any of the workshops or keynote presentations...those are mega bucks! But the expo should provide plenty of interesting toys for my never ending wishlist.
Who knows, I might even buy Katie's birthday present there...what else would a thirteen year old want? An ipod. I want to get her the 60g that hold 10,000 songs. Her library is already HUGE! She'd have a nano filled up in no time.

There is one other thing we are doing this weekend, but I won't tell you until next week. However, take a look to the stars if you happen to be awake at 1:56am and live on west coast. The link on my post title will take you to one of my favorite sites. The JPL CIT. Stardust is a nifty little spacecraft with a tennis racket shaped honeycomb attached designed to catch interstellar dust and tiny particles of our solar system. Back in 2004 astronomers were extremely excited when Stardust got as close as 150 miles within the comet "Wild 2". From that comet it was able to catch some very respectable sized dust.
It's been riding around our galaxy since it was launched in Feb. of 1999.
Makes you wonder...how we can create a vehicle that can navigate the universe for 7 years, covering a whooping 2.88 billion miles without getting any maintence at all, while failing to market a car tough enough to withstand the neglect of the average busy American.

Anyway...

Welcome home Stardust!!