DOSSIER - PORTFOLIO - MY 2 CENTS

I'm Valerie. I carried on the paternal family tradtion of having a hemorrhagic stroke at an early age — me at 45. Suddenly, I was retired. Due to surviving a near fatal truck wreck, I'm a card carrying member of the Traumatic Brain Injury Club. This makes stroke recovery all the more interesting! From all this, I've come to earn to do the opposite of what neurology "experts" direct me to do and NOT take the pricy medication they prescribe.
     Life goes on and as a result of physical rehabilitation not going well — as advised — I discovered that if I Sally Forth and do what I used to do around the house, I'm using my limbs as I need to. Much like my alter egos at odds with each other, I have to recalibrate my thinking and doing endevours by evenly matching that of my opponent.
     As I learned in citizen's police training — always match force to my opponent's force. If they use a knife, I use a knife. They use a gun, I use a gun and so on.... While I'm a firm believer in overkill, I have to restrain myself to match wits, so to speak.

Where I see us heading into the end times, I have to prepare myself -- mentally and physically -- and probably NOT be evenly matched. To the best of my ability, I'll utilize overkill and light the fuse at any time.... Who's with me???

With all of my new found free time, I did a lot of stroke recovery documenting in addition to learning to appreciate arts and crafts like never before — hence BlueCoyote GraphX — where I document my crafting adventures and sell customized items. This is also where I learned to like coffee. With reduced caffeine so I wouldn't stroke out again from high blood pressure and work stress....

I was never a coffee drinker until after the stroke so I had to learn what coffee I liked and where to get it and how I liked I it. I definitely prefer a medium Arabica roast. With cream? Sugar? Irish cream?... Somewhere along the line I learned to loooove Bulletproof coffee! As it turns out, I don't like their fancy price or taste so I used Camberlain Coffee until they made it clear they are clearly liberals.

In serious caffeine moderation, I decided I prefer the taste of Death Wish coffee and a few other brands such as Peets, Chamberlain Coffee, Black Rifle Coffee Company, Global Roast Coffee and Flavor Fantasies.

It wasn't until after I read this article that I learned to fully appreciate the physical affects of Bulletproof coffee: What It's Like To Drink Bulletproof Coffee Every Morning For Two Weeks.

"Bulletproof Coffee" became "Bulletproof Latte". How to assemble my Bulletproof Latte is easy now after plenty of practice. With one usable hand and the other for counter balance, it requires everything to be an assembly line. Seems "easy and rational" but....

Do you remember this visual?

When I'm seen drinking out of one of these custom Yeti tumblers, please understand how commited and / or crazy I am to the cause to help forward my efforts in remaining focused on that particular project. The websites I have for RabidJackal, HitBunny, PossumZombie, BlueCoyote and OrionEngnr are secured for a good long time after I lost hitbunny.com as it was up for renewal at a time I just wasn't using the domain name.
     hitbunny.com lapsed and while I was recovering from a serious stroke, some pencil weenie named Matthew Klein with DropCatch.com 887 LLC came in and swiped it for "simple to spell and remember" words. It's for sale at $ 1,228.00. He can keep it. I settled on keeping hitbunny.site and hitbunny.me.

Next in line.... While recovering from my health shenanigans, I keep busy with Alusky / husky dog grooming and website building as I used to do — by hand. That means knowing how to code and program. It may not be what I went to programing school for but it's what I do. To keep up with technology, I figured out which language I preferred. I'm middle aged and programming for my own amusement. I found website CSS being the easiest and best for this disabled 50+ year old! Long live W3Schools for teaching me all I need to know at this time for my websites.

Keeping my brain engaged (and amused) after my stroke on top of a Traumatic Brain Injury is not easy: consider it engaging your enemy combatant in a small-scale physiological war against yourself. Your enemy is in your head and can read your thoughts. You don't know if you're losing your mind or overcoming fears in a good or bad way. So I stay focused and pick a direction to amuse myself with, even if it's that conumdrum of a briar patch....

Next in my dossier is the importance of Alusky (husky x malamute) grooming! While our dogs have their own website, I'm sharing a little bit here to add to the mix of why I feel like a zombie of sorts. And here is where I reinforce my need for caffeine — In my RabidJackal tumbler!

 Grooming double coated northern breed dogs — in Texas — is not to be taken lightly.