Dear Xanga Friends,

I'm writing this to let you know where I've been. 

After the incident in July when I had the allergic reaction to medication, I never really got well.  I've had one health issue after another.  I spent weeks throwing up.  I've had trouble sleeping.  All kinds of just not feeling great.  And I've been trying to learn everything I could for my new job.  And the kids have started school, and regularly scheduled therapy, and so on and so on and so on.

I finally saw the Dr last Tuesday.  Most probably I have an ulcer.  I have a prescription for sleep medication.  And I'm hoping that things are going to level out soon. 

There's not too much else to report.  I go to work, I come home, I help the kids with homework, feed them, read to them and then we go to bed.  The most interesting thing going on has been that I just have felt horrible and I didn't want to write about that.  Even talking about it made me feel worse.  I was alternately scared that there was something really wrong with me, and scared that I had become a hypochondriacal whiner in my middle age.   

When I wake up in the middle of the night, I go to Facebook and play Scrabble or Pathwords or some other diverting application game.  I've been in a sort of self-similar pattern where every day I start in a different direction but then wind up making the same movements and ending in the same place - rather like a Fractal.

Last Friday night I took the boys to what has to be one of Albuquerque's best kept secrets.  It's a show at the Museum of Science and Natural History called "First Friday Fractals" and they told us at the beginning that it was the 79th sold out show in a row.  (They do three shows the first Friday of every month.)

I had some difficulty properly embedding the video from YouTube so I'm giving you the link.  You can get a small taste of what the show is like from this, but the colors are much more vivid in the Planetarium and because of the dynamics of projecting onto the dome, at the show a viewer has the sense of being inside the design and moving with it. 

First Friday Fractals

The Fratcal images below were lifted from the web - some are available as posters, so you might like to Google "Fractal" to explore other images and maybe find one you'd want for your wall.