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When I was 45, I ran the Lilac 10K in Rochester. That was nearly 20 years ago. Here's to many more birthdays, my friend.

UPDATE: As of today we have $515 from our sponsors. Thanks to all! Sponsors: JÂy RÛßeÒ Tom Benson Anonymous Jane G Bill Low-Bear Boyst62 Mr info T. Huber M. NanLoan Scoundrels: Jack If you choose to participate: Donations (tax deductible in 2018) can be made at my MS Society page: http://main.nationalmssociety.org/goto/FamilyRockpile On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/349924721875823/?ref=bookmarks When you get to the donation page, it has "suggested" amounts starting on the left at $35, but on the far right you can put in any amount. ANY amount is greatly appreciated and many $5 contributions add up to a LOT!

Rooms selling out FAST!

Thank you! I appreciate your support. I am taking Gilenya right now, which is a daily pill. I have been on treatments like Ocrevus, which is an infusion (bag and IV). What is encouraging is it seems to help those with the progressive form of MS that can really hit you hard. I have the relapsing/remitting MS that comes and goes. My medication is pretty effective in stopping or slowing down relapses. I am kind of a guinea pig, since when I was first diagnosed they were just starting to have treatments to slow down MS. My treatments have been self injection, infusion, and now oral. Luckily prescription assistance programs pay for my drug for now. Annual costs would range from $65,000 to $96,000, I would have to stop treatment if asked to pay for it. SSDI plus my wife's income is enough to live on within our comfort zone (no complaints) , but prescription costs are beyond reason!

Thank you!

There is a bogus FB page that seems to be reserved for when he dies A very recent FB page's posts are much better: Stan Lee Facebook Page In general it seems that at his age, everyone is trying to strip away his fortunes.

The Walk is May 20th, the will accept donations for the walk after that date.

This is a link to an interesting video and also an informative blog about MS. It goes in to available treatments, how it feels to have MS, how others see you or do not see your MS. It was part of the March MS Awareness program, but it is appropriate at any time. FYI: my most recent MRI's showed no progression in my MS lesions in my brain or spine, but now I have spinal stenosis in my neck (cervical spine). I can manage the occasional pain with Ibuprofen, so we will just keep monitoring it. I was diagnosed with MS when I was in my mid 40's and will be 65 this year, but I am still fighting. Many people have it worse than me, and I walk to help THEM! Janice Dean talks about her MS.

UPDATE: As of today we have $390 from our sponsors. Thanks to all! Sponsors: JÂy RÛßeÒ Tom Benson Anonymous Jane G Bill Low-Bear Boyst62 Scoundrels: Jack If you choose to participate: Donations (tax deductible in 2018) can be made at my MS Society page: http://main.nationalmssociety.org/goto/FamilyRockpile On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/349924721875823/?ref=bookmarks When you get to the donation page, it has "suggested" amounts starting on the left at $35, but on the far right you can put in any amount. ANY amount is greatly appreciated and many $5 contributions add up to a LOT!

That is very cool! That is about how much ice I had on the car this morning. It scraped off easily. It is still raining and could go to ices or sleet. This time last year I was turning over the garden and draining my pool cover, not to OPEN it, but to skim all the leaves and crap off the cover so it did not get into the pool. Preparation before opening a pool makes it ready to enjoy by Memorial Day weekend, even if just for barbecues.

A donation to the MS Society, in someone else's name is also a donation to MY cause. So just sneak out the back, Jack!

Thanks for sponsoring me, Jeff! I really appreciate your support for the cause to Find A Cure for MS! BTW: Word is that R. Rich, Lisa and team walked May 7th and raised $500! Hats off to you, my twin Brother and Sister!!

By all means, share the link with anyone you want. Donations are routed to the MS society. By the time the walk is done, I will need over $1,200 to make the Top 100 Club! I generally have friends, my wife, a couple of my grown children, and several GRANDCHILDREN walking with us. We have been dong it for about 15 years now.

We were kind of "snooty" about being Marvel comics fans, but to be fair, compare the "universe" Marvel created in the 60's and 70's and compare it to DC, and DC was pitiful. I did try to follow DC when Jack Kirby left Marvel, as did George Perez (New Teen Titans) and others. We even had our own chapter of the M.M.M.S. One of my favorites from DC is "Sandman" by Neil Gaiman. Many of the "Vertigo" comics, which leaned towards a more mature audience at the time were very satisfying reads. I was especially fond of the *writing* of Alan Moore, combined with the artwork of John Totleben. That was some scary stuff that started in the Swamp Thing and spun off into Constantine, Black Orchid, and other series. Too bad the Swamp Thing and Constantine movies were so bad! Bottom line, and I say this based on the failed experience I had, trying to run a mail order comics business, is that a comic book's value in dollars is only worth what a person is willing to pay you. Coins and stamps at least have some intrinsic value. You can spend coins and mail letters if nothing else. I am glad you have such a nice collection and envy your ability to keep them intact. I had dreamed mine would be worth a fortune one day, but I did not have "the right stuff". I used to have some Captain Canuck comic books.

Still at $290 for donations, which I thank my sponsors for! IF you are so inclined, please follow the link and donate to a good cause! Thanks, Rock

I assume everything is stored using archival sleeves, backing boards, etc. Did someone appraise your collection for the insurance company? I am just curious as to how and who put a dollar value on them. What type of comics do you collect, or is there a wide scope? I have everything from super hero to humor, to suspends and horror. I never got hooked on westerns, but I like an occasional Lone Ranger or Two Gun Kid. I liked DC's war comics, and Marvel's Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos. I even loved Nancy and Sluggo, Sad Sack, Little Hot Stuff, and more. What is hard for me to accept about "grading" comics, is the independent companies that put a number grade on your collectible of good, very good, mint, etc for a healthy fee. IF you look on e-Bay, as I am sure you have, the CGC graded books are sealed in a plastic frame, and cannot be opened without invalidating the grade/intrinsic value. They sell for five to twenty times more than the same book accurately graded by the seller. I LOVE the smell of newsprint comics! Unless I was solely an investor, I would not want my books sealed. I do store them with acid free backing boards and sleeves.

A lot of the communities have "associations" and the home owners make the rules. I just want a normal neighborhood. I guess I can understand a retired couple not wanting an above ground pool outside their bedroom window, but I am not there. No one MAKES people live under these rules. No clothes lines. No above ground pools. No trash at curb until morning of collection. No swing sets. No bicycles left in yard. No cars in driveway overnight (some exceptions OK if temporary)

My grandmother had a furnace with one large floor "grate". In the winter or on rainy days that is where she dried laundry. She also had a wringer washer. My collection was comic books. A one time I had probably 12,000 or more. I have harvested that down to less than 1,000 that I keep because I like them or possible investment. Starting in the late 80's and increasingly in the 90's, demand for comics decreased. Also, like sports cards, there were so many "commons" that you would e lucky if one in a hundred kept collector interest. For a couple years I traveled to comic book/card shows in Rochester and Buffalo, but once the best comics were "cherry picked" from my inventory, it was not a profitable task. I sold quite a few on e-Bay for a while too. I loved comics until they started costing too much, and publishers dealt so heavily on creating "fake" collectibles, instead of good comics with good stories. So I enjoyed the hobby, but did not "retire" on the profit from selling them as I once hoped! A few years back, I sold about 6,000 for a dime each to a comic book store. They had the means to sell them over time to collectors, and I cleaned house.

I have been fighting my MS since 1994. I will keep bumping this until May 20th. For every dollar raised I am happy. Thanks! Donations (tax deductible in 2018) can be made at my MS Society page: http://main.nationalmssociety.org/goto/FamilyRockpile On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/349924721875823/?ref=bookmarks

Not this time.

My son was bullied more than once.It was mostly little things but relentlessly annoying. The last time it happened, he was having his face pushed into a drinking fountain in the hall way. He finally had enough, grabbed the kid, and tossed him into a classroom door. The kid "spilled" into the classroom. The teacher looked at the kid on the floor and then at my son. He sent the bully to the office and told my son to go back to his class.

I want a guy who is the captain of a team that can take it one more step than just GETTING there and actually WIN a Super Bowl. I have waiting for them to be league champions since the AFL in the 1965 season. Seriously, not even ONE NFL Championship after 52 Super Bowls?

My Third Eye is getting tired. I will have to stop reading now.

Being conned into standing on top of a cooler that was on the edge of a pickup truck tailgate before the sun came up, so I could hang the Two Bills Drive sign for a TBDAHOT.

UPDATE: As of today we are up to $290. Thanks to all! Sponsors: JÂy RÛßeÒ Tom Benson Anonymous Jane G Bill Low-Bear Scoundrels: Jack If you choose to participate: Donations (tax deductible in 2018) can be made at my MS Society page: http://main.nationalmssociety.org/goto/FamilyRockpile On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/349924721875823/?ref=bookmarks