~Jenny~

For about 3 years or more now, KENBROOK has been coming into the chathouse, mainly to Joe's Diner on the Next Level. Although over the past year he has only been going in there now and then. For those who know him and for those who have ever come into contact with him, he is not a well man. I'm not sure if you know or not but he has cancer. He is lucky to have survived this long but for how much longer no one knows. He has deteriorated quite a bit over the past 4 to 6 weeks but one thing that he wanted to do before he dies is his homepage. When he first told me he wanted to do one...I thought to myself..."Ut ohhhhhh.... " cause you see, KENBROOK isn't very computer minded but he had his mind set on doing this. At first he got very frustrated with it and wanted to give up, but I realised why he wanted to start one in the first place and so encouraged him to keep going. He wanted to put his thoughts of life, love, death etc. and have something for me to hold onto after he is gone. I then understood his reasons behind doing it. Also, when he is concentrating on it, it gets his mind of his pain and what he has. The work he has put into it over the short amount of time since he started it and with no knowledge in the first place has simply amazed me. But then again, he has always amazed me with his courage his strength and his whole outlook on life and with what he has. The next few months are going to be very hard on him health wise but I know I will be beside him, helping and supporting him in whatever way I can. I guess I have gone on a bit too much here but what I am asking now is for you to take a few minutes to check out his homepage. We could all learn a few things from a man who has so many great qualities about him that if I went on about them all, there would be no room in here for anything else, but then again...one could say I am a bit bias. *S*
His page is located at http://www.geocities.com/kenbrook .

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Quote for the week:
"Prosperity doth best discover vice, but Adversity doth best discover virtue."

Captured posts:
*gotta run taxi service time damn men who cant use two legs to walk

*Opinions are like a*sholes, everybody's got one some just stink worse than others.

Joke of the week:
A woman gives birth to a baby, and afterwards, the doctor comes in, and he says "I have to tell you something about your baby."

The woman sits up in bed and says, "What's wrong with my baby, Doctor? What's wrong???"

The doctor says, "Well, now, nothing's wrong, exactly, but your baby is a little bit different. Your baby is a hermaphrodite."

The woman says "A hermaphrodite, what's that???"

The doctor says, "Well, it means your baby has the...er... features...of a male and a female."

The woman turns pale. She says, "Oh my god! You mean it has a penis AND a brain?"

there's something i'm not getting here...what is this wonderful thing about coke (the beverage that is) that i have not discovered?! sure, i have a can or two; maybe once a week at most, but what's the big deal?! okay, so; caffeine. you can get that from elsewhere. like coffee. except, what it is about coffee?! what is this wonderful thing about coffee that i have also not discovered?! all i can say for coffee is this; smells good, tastes like.....mud at the bottom of the college pond springs to mind here!
so, i'm going to share my secret with you all. the secret is: TEA. oh yes. *tea.* possibly the best drink..in the universe...ever! why, do you ask?

1). it does not taste like mud at the bottom of the pond. it tastes pleasant and looks and smells nice too.
2). it has caffeine, but not so much as to make you totally hyper no matter how much you drink.
3). i wouldn't know this, but i bet it doesn't make you pee as much as coffee does. :P
4). it has good chemicals like antioxidants and stuff that, well, do good stuff and make you less likely to get cancer and hosts of other nasties. no, really, it does!:Ž
5). it has theophylline (er, i think...struggling to remember my pharmacology here!) well it has some xanthine things anyway which are vaguely good if you have asthma. tell someone that and they might be impressed!!*L*
6). it is a soothing herbal remedy (with allowed artistic licence), not a caffeinated drink, if you're told to give that stuff up.
7). it doesn't really matter how much you drink.
8). it's not carbonated, so it won't leach calcium, and unless you pile sugar into it *like 9 teaspoons in a can of coke* your teeth won't fall out for that reason either.
9). if you live an area that has as much hardwater as mine does, you're getting free calcium in every cup anyway!*L*
10). putting the kettle on is a great work distraction and a comforting routine.

just think: if you were weaned off baby milk onto tea and have never gone more than a day without it since, you could end up just like me!:Žphhhhtt!!!

i'm gonna go have a cuppa now. all this talk has made me thirsty..