Of course, her point was that since I've given up religion, that's why I'm not currently happy. I replied that I'm no more unhappy than I was with I was a theist and that since life isn't perfect,…

Unfortunately, my wife left me a few days after this. It's a long complicated story (aren't they all), but one I'll be alluding to as time goes forward.

I got the the hospital for my stress test this morning. It took half an hour for them to find a good vein for the IV then another half hour to get the EKG wires attached and do the resting set of echo pictures of my heart. Then the cardiologist came in so we could start the treadmill part of the test. After asking me a few questions about the pains I'd been having over the past week, she decided that since I'd been having some instances of pain with no exertion, that stress test would be…

a) I reached the desired sustained heart rate for the desired amount of time

b) I have a heart attack

c) I stumble, fall and break my nose on the hand rail.

(I'm hoping for "a" but "c" is a distinct possibility. I'm…