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Systemic Mastocytosis Television Commercial

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I had already posted about this television commercial on my Facebook newsfeed about a month or so ago but thought I should probably share it here too since this is where I write about my illness and living life with a chronic illness.   In that Facebook post, I had mentioned that I had never seen a commercial about my primary illness before seeing this commercial.  I've had this illness for more than two decades and very few people know anything about this illness including many medical professionals so we've always been hoping for some awareness.  I've always felt that if there was more awareness, then there would be more understanding.  If there was more awareness among the medical professionals, then I wouldn't have to educate medical staff in emergency departments every time I land in there hospital.  There is so little understanding and familiarity of this illness even among medical professionals that both Sheila and I must carry around an emergency c...
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Our Latest Evenings in Manhattan

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O n our last journey to Ohio on Amtrak with Lukey and Kenzie, we spent a little bit of time in Manhattan, both coming and going on our journey.  We had a layover in Manhattan going each way so we could transfer from one Amtrak route to another.  This allowed us to walk around a little bit and to get some "real"  pizza each time we were there.  Honestly, the pizza along is worth the nightlong layover! This first photo, below, shows us in Penn Station's subway corridors.  This part of Penn Station has not yet been renovated (Penn Station is undergoing a decade-long, much-needed renovation) so it is still the same dark and dirty place it has been for many decades.  We also encountered some problems here at the beginning of our trip.   Naturally, we had planned for either Sheila or me to pay for the subway tickets so we had both of our phones all set up already in anticipation of having to pay.  The current way you pay for the subway is electroni...
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Miscellaneous Photos

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I 've been playing with a few different cameras this morning and, for the most part, I'm left feeling disappointed by the quality of the photos.  Well...  really...  I'm left disappointed with the quality of the cameras I used for a number of very good and valid reasons.    To be fair, these cameras I've been playing with this morning are ones with the smallest sensors (four-thirds inch sensors) of all but one of my cameras.  And, with the amount of experience I have in photography, I would rate this four-thirds format as the poorest quality I have ever had the displeasure to use.  Being disappointed by my photos from these cameras isn't much of a surprise.   Ironically, the one camera I have and still use regularly with a smaller sensor (a 2/3 inch sensor) is far better than these four-third cameras (some with four-thirds lens mount and newer ones with micro four-thirds lens mount).  Even though it is no surprise that I'm consisten...
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Our Longer Visit to the Air Force Museum

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O ur first visit to the Air Force Museum with Lukey and Kenzie was a rather short visit to see the Memorial Park ( see this blog entry here ) and the Wall of Honor ( see this blog entry here ) which are both outdoors.  On this second visit we planned to spend the entire day inside the museum.  The forecast was calling for heavy thunderstorms in the afternoon so we chose this day for this museum knowing we could easily spend the entire day inside where it was dry and safe from lightning.   This museum is huge spanning through four immense hangars so there is a lot to see here.  Actually, one could easily spend a few days at this museum not mere hours.  I've been here countless times before so I knew the spots to visit with the kids.   We did pick up our pace significantly in some areas that I knew would not interest the kids so we could get through the museum in a single day.   Although it made our schedule even tighter on this day, we c...
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