Sipsey Street Irregulars: I may surprise y'all yet.

Wednesday, March 7, 2012

I may surprise y'all yet.

A future Absolved editor?

Michigan Escapee announces: "Mike Vanderboegh going under the knife."

Guess he's got a big ole softball sized tumor inside of him, so they gotta remove it,and hopefully he'll live long enough to finish the book.

Nah, who am I kidding, he'll get run over by a kid on a moped 12 years from now just as he's shipping off the manuscript. Way things always seem to happen. :roll:

Pretty funny, although his frustration -- which mirrors mine -- is perfectly understandable. Actually, I finally see the surgeon in his office first thing this morning and, since all necessary tests are already done, expect to be admitted to the hospital immediately thereafter with surgery tomorrow. Had one of the worst nights yet last night so I hope it works that fast. Will be taking my laptop with me, although I expect I'll lose at least a couple of work days post-surgery. Go to David Codrea's War on Guns site for updates in the meantime.

I'll do what I can, when I can, to avoid that killer moped. Obviously my death will be no excuse for not finishing Absolved, although there is an apparently growing crowd of folks who will cheer my death, finished or not. But, I may surprise y'all yet. ;-)

12 comments:

Bob said...: Good luck with the surgery, and prayers for a quick and complete recovery.; March 7, 2012 at 5:44 AM
Anonymous said...: Thoughts and prayers are with you, sir.; March 7, 2012 at 5:52 AM
Female III said...: I'm sure you have several manuscript copies, right? Secure and very well placed? Of course you do.

Today's morning prayers to include request for your complete recovery. Ah heck. What am I saying? I always pray for you, Mr. V.; March 7, 2012 at 6:26 AM
Dakota said...: LOL ....I would bet you will surprise us all Mike. I will be in prayer much these coming days and hours for you and family.

Times like these are always difficult at best, having been in a similar situation .... I understand and I hope you will be comforted by a merciful Lord and Savior.; March 7, 2012 at 7:06 AM
Sean said...: May G*d bless you and keep you, Mike, and your family.; March 7, 2012 at 7:44 AM
Anonymous said...: If you ain't loved, hated, or talked about, you ain't living. Get well soon Mike. Keep up the fire!; March 7, 2012 at 7:48 AM
Anonymous said...: my God, the vermin that would wish harm to another, dispicable.

i [and my family] have you in our prayers mike!!
and your a tough old coot tell the anesthesiologists that his little bit of medicine wont put you to sleep your stronger than that "right?"

ilmao, i tried that once he was still laughing when i woke up 2 hours later!
Drew; March 7, 2012 at 10:09 AM
MamaLiberty said...: Get 'er done, Mike. Thoughts and prayers with you.; March 7, 2012 at 10:12 AM
Anonymous said...: Mike,
You will be in my prayers (again).
DixieDennis; March 7, 2012 at 10:51 AM
AJ said...: Better to be hated for who you are than to be loved for who you are not.

Good luck with the surgery. Post a guard outside the recovery room.; March 7, 2012 at 11:33 AM
A Texan said...: Best wishes for a quick and complete recovery from your surgery and your tumor. R'fuah Sh'lemah from one of your Jewish fans.; March 7, 2012 at 11:50 AM
Anonymous said...: Well, hell...I'm just now seeing this.
Prayers for luck with surgery and have a quick recovery.

SB Smith
TX; March 8, 2012 at 1:44 AM

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I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave. -- H.L. Mencken

"The Fate of Unborn Millions. . ."

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"We will not go gently . . ."

This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can't be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won't be done. The Founders' Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.

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And when we are gone, the scattered, free survivors hiding in the ruins of our once-great republic will sing of our deeds in forbidden songs, tending the flickering flame of individual liberty until it bursts forth again, as it must, generations later. We will live forever, like the Spartans at Thermopylae, in sacred memory.

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