well, i got what i paid for on that front. walking in mason city isn't like walking in new york. everybody drives around here. but in new york, we walked or took public transportation. but it was different enough that i thought i'd get away from what was obviously a problem that went whereever i went. the problem was me. if there was a problem. dealing with the health issues i have doesn't excuse me from doing what i did. and if you think you're going to get me to confess to something, don't hold your breath. i am divulgoing only what is pertinent to the story.
back to the issue at hand. getting away from new york., and i got away. way away. if ever there was a counter-new york, it would be mason city. i dunno why. the justice system around here is pretty new yorkish. unless you don't believe law & order. anyway, i got away from other new yuorkers, but stuck with the new york Q, er the new yorker david. i brought back some or anything i could think of, as long as it was from new york. and on and on i went with the partying and getting hit by the police pne time for public intox. that was dean's funeral. i got drunk and tried to drive home. ya wuld think i'm a stalwart supporter of drunk driving laws. i ammm, but not for the reason you might think. but suffice it to say, i learned a little bit about mason city justice.
it wasn't until the last coupla years, actually, since my father's funeral. i remember it like it was yesterday. the day i took a major turn around, and for no apparent reasoning or supportive system in place. didn't have to go to any meetings or anything of that sort. it wasn't the 12 step program - i know about those things. but ever since my dad's funeral (in 2005 i think it was). i can't search the obits on globegazette.com. i don't like their site very much. had to read. even with the text way up there. anyway, i came to mason city to bring internet into the midwest. i went around and got people online. if they didn't have a computer, i would build them one. but i got 'em all online and excited about the future.
the goin was good, as they say,. i then got sick, and have been wrong ever since. sickness can do some pretty fierce things to the body. i went from a healthy 195 to a paltry 153. and that's with shoes and jeans on. so living like i've been most of my life was out of the question. i came to mason city because i thought it would be ideal, and it is. only thing is i don't have a family in the traditional sense. my family are neighbors. good solid neighbors that haver been my neighbors for as long as i've been here. neighbors who would be right there when you need them. those kinda people are the folks like to surround myself with.
but my time is up. i can't stop thinking about that.