The Maple Leaf Rag

Redux means revistited. So, lovers are ok now! Yeah, we made up. I overreacted and things are peaceful again in lalalalalaland. Lala Land usually means Hollywood but for me it's the land of the unreal, of the virtual love and virtual affairs. The feeliings are real but, of course, nothing is real. Try to get the MP3 'Imagination' by Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys. He used it on his Smile album and it is a fantastic song. Give it a whirl! That means try it.

I will try to explain everything as I go along so my readers, all two of them, can follow my blog.

Today I ran another 5K run and I set a personal best! Just under 30 minutes. I know , I know, it's slow but hell, I am 55 years old! I'm still a bit overweight, about 175 pounds or 79 KG. My phone is cool! It translates these things for me. So in the last two weeks I've lost a KG or more just because I am running 5k regularly. Most of it is in sweat but it's still fun and there are no ill effects yet. 

Friends are better because they don't do things behind your back. They don't pretend to be someone else. They don't usually lie and cheat and screw around on you. 

For the last year I've had an 'online' girl that I became very close to, very close to. I said that twice for effect! Now all of the secrets are coming out, the multiple msn accounts, the multiple Ebaby accounts and running more than one msn on the same computer, all of the games that a teenager would play but she is not a teenager. 

Ebaby is great for learning English and for my girlfriend it's a great place for meeting guys! I'm laughing through my tears now at my stupidity but I have one solace in my life. 

My one solace is my friends. I have one who wakes me up on msn shouting "get up get up you lazy old man!"  There is another who loves music and we trade songs back and forth whenever she can break away from her busy schedule. 

Another lives in the far north and we talk about people and places and things, all the time trying to help her learn English. Her children are young, mine are old so we talk about them too. 

One friend lives in the hottest place in the world, so far from the cold north and from here in Canada. We talk about Canada, about English and about her country too.  Mostly about English since she wants to take a proficiency test.

There are more, all just friends but at a time like this in my life, they are all needed and all very much appreciated. 

Yeah, it is. I ran another 5K today. It's getting much easier now, even though I am a goner! Goner means old guy in myspeak. Myspeak is how I talk. Remember the novel, 1984 and the word 'newspeak'? Well now newspeak is chatspeak. Gonna, your instead or you're, brb, lol, and all of that. I guess at some point these words will make their way into the Oxford dictionary but for now, try to speak in oldspeak!

What's up with me? Just settled a long time argument with a very close friend, ok, a girlfriend. Jealousy reared it's ugly head too many times. Just listened to Sting on a VH!Classic special. Some pretty good songs on it. 

You know, with 3 or 6 billion people on earth, it sure seems like a lonely place for some people. I know some folks who are surrounded by money and luxury but are so lonely. I know people who are poor and have almost nothing but they are rich with friends and the comfort that friends provide. So money is nice and cool to have but give me a friend I can call when I am low and, dammit, I would value that much more. 

Someone said, I've been rich and I've been poor. Rich is better. Well, the only way someone is rich is if they have lots of true friends. 

I am lucky enough to have some very good and close friends. Ebaby has allowed me to meet some incredible people, and to rebuild and rework some relationships that I already had. Sometimes friends get in the way of relationships but we need both, right? 

Long blog, more later. Feel free to comment, ask questions or booooo me. It's all good, ok?