Well…just got to Baltimore and I’m at my daughter’s house…the flight was okay and I am getting excited to go to NYC tomorrow…we’re going to try to find the rock in Central Park that they used in “Doctor Who” and take a picture there so I can post that one on Facebook….looks like my daughter has a pretty cool trip planned and I can’t wait to see the sights and smell the smells of NYC….going out to dinner in a few but wanted to update here before we do that….going to be a pretty cool weekend….
At the airport…
Well…at the airport now and a bit early but since I haven’t flown in 6 years, I wanted to get here a little early to find the cheap parking lot…and it was pretty cool that the shuttle picked me up right at my car and they will deliver me back to it when I get back here Sunday….not much of a pain to get through security…only took about 10 mins so I have about a half hour until I board to head to Midway for the connection to Baltimore….I may post a few travel photos to facebook when I get to Midway but I’m not sure if it’s interesting enough….more later…
September 13th
Well…running early today with getting up early to get ready to head to the airport…kind of excited to have some time doing something different and to see a couple of my kids over the weekend…and I am feeling better this morning with much less coughing overnight and I even slept okay so that’s good way to start the day…even took my blood pressure with the new toy when I got up and it was better with the result of 125/80 and a pulse rate of 61…much better than the 150 they got in the doctors office….maybe the no antihistamines or cocktails is really helping…I’ll be curious to see what it is when I get back Sunday…didn’t get much done yesterday but packing and the grocery run and today will be taken up with traveling so I won’t get anything else done…I am pretty happy that the reaction to the flu shot is almost over and I can have a nice weekend….will try to update here as normal but I may not be able to do the two a day….more later…
Grading on the curve…
Well…not sure how much I’ll be here over the next few days with getting ready to head out to Baltimore tomorrow and then on the move until I get home Sunday…but, I am taking my computer with me so I’ll try to come here for at least a short one every day.. But, first…I want to comment on the idiot in chief’s comments on the abject failures of his administration to deal with the hurricanes that hit the US last year…but, in the addled mind of idiot boy, he rated himself an A+ for his personal involvement and how well he did to help people that were hit by them…going so far as to say that, in secret, people are saying that it couldn’t have been handled any better…and people are going to find out soon how wonderful a job he did….hmmm…does that sound familiar? “Heck of a job, Brownie” is what ole GW had to say to his failure of a FEMA director and his response to Katrina where thousands died because of their ineptitude. Can you say “grading on a curve”…it’s an A+ that at least 3,000 and as many as 5,000 Puerto Ricans died on his watch due to the indifference that trump and his minions showed to the “brown” people that every damn one of his administration hates? And now we have another huge hurricane bearing down on the country and the only work being done is to steal money from FEMA to build more places to lock up immigrants? I really hope that this hurricane is not as bad as the forecast but maybe people need a shock that climate change is real and is resulting in more and stronger storms…and there are two more backed up right behind Florence and 4 more in the Pacific heading toward Hawaii…and folks, there has never been 7 storms at a time…ever in the history of records…so I wonder what could be causing it? Impeach…
September 12th
Well….running a little late today with my site being down for a while …my son just fixed it so now I need to get this done before I get out on the bike and go to the bank again to get the cash for tomorrow…and, I forgot the fish I wanted at Meijer’s so I may have to go back there with being gone until Sunday….we’ll see…I am feeling a little better today and even slept some last night so I hope the improvement continues today…my head is not so plugged but I have decided to take medicine with me and use it if necessary and then go back to nothing on Sunday when I get home…I do need to check in for my flight online this morning to see where and when I can board the plane…I did start getting packed yesterday and will finish that up this afternoon…I really don’t have a lot more to do..it is easy to pack for 4 days if you just have shorts and shirts to pack…I do need to prep this place a little by putting the trash out and I do need to remember to shut the router and everything else off but that’s about it….more later…
The trauma of 9/11…
Well….have been doing my best to avoid the shows on tv today that are about what happened the day of 9/11 since it has a personal trauma for me that isn’t really related to the actual events but is a reminder of a really bad time in my life. That same day, my mother in law was in the hospital for her declining health and the prognosis was not good…and it wasn’t the first time she had been in but this time was different when the doctors told us that the end was near…she died later that evening as the incessant videos were playing on the small tv in the corner of the room….the day had started with me in the cafeteria at work when the WTC took the initial hit and no one knew what was going on….and the entire day was just moving from shock to shock but I didn’t know of the bigger shock that was coming that night or the gut punch that was coming in a week…that I was going to be fired from my job of 28 years in a bout of downsizing that was decimating the company….I think it’s why I try not to think of that day too much…I am where I am today because of that day….and I’m not sure that is a good thing….
It’s meltdown day…
Well….on the anniversary of 9/11, we have another day of meltdown coming with the publishing of Woodward’s book on the idiot trump and idiot boy’s reaction to it..I found the one from yesterday just so damn laughable…the moron threatening to write his own book about his “well-oiled” administration…now, I’m pretty sure that it is ‘well-oiled” but not in the way trump thinks…more from the barrels of Jack Daniels that his staff needs to just show up to work for the orange blowhard. To think that trump has the capability to write anything longer than a tweet just shows how deep his delusions run…he can’t even read anything that is more than a couple of bullet points long before he looks out the window and yells “squirrel” to no one in particular…and then praises himself for saying it…just the bestest squirrel yelling that anyone has ever done anywhere and then he has done his two minutes of work for the day and goes back to the residence and watches fox news while he gorges on Big Macs and cookies. I suppose we should be thankful that trump has the attention span of a gnat…I guess that limits the damage he can do…but it is still terrifying…impeach…
September 11th
Well….running on time this morning and I am a little worn out from being up and down all night…got to bed at 11 and then up at two and back to bed at 3:30 and then up at 6 for good so there may be a nap in my future…had a good day yesterday with feeling good enough to go out and shoot pool…which I won for a change…and Tom gave me a huge steak for my last red meat and I had that for dinner last night…still feel full from that but it is chicken and fish from now on out…still don’t feel a hundred percent with the flu symptoms still here but I do feel a little better and I hope that continues until I get on the plane Thursday….need to check in online tomorrow morning to get my seat on the plane so I’ll have to remember that…need to do laundry and hit he bank this morning after I ride…but it is cold out there right now and I am already feeling cold right now so I don’t want to push it too much….more later….
September 10th
Well…still feeling like crap this morning but at least I can breathe some and that is something…but I have no energy at all and I hope that will be fixed when I get on the bike later….not sure if I’ll ever get another flu shot since this is the reaction every time I get one…it’s like half flu and I sure hope that it’s gone by Thursday….slept okay last night but still feel like I have to ease into the day and let the coffee work before I get moving….I did feel okay for about an hour yesterday and I am waiting for that hour or more today… I do need to start getting ready for the trip but I think I’ll do that tomorrow and Wed….didn’t get much done yesterday and today will be the same with pool this aft and needing to conserve energy…need to go to the bank tomorrow and deposit the check before I travel….more later….
Might be feeling a little better…
Well….sitting here watching a little soccer and it just hit me that I may be feeling a little better… not coughing as much but that is being replaced by sneezing for some reason….but, I am not taking any antihistamines any more so I guess I’ll just have to live with it…I may have some decongestants that don’t affect BP but I’ll have to look and see….I may feel okay by Thursday and for the big plans that my daughter has for Friday in NYC…I probably even could have taken a ride today but I don’t want to push it with the trip coming up….today is my last cocktail day, too, and I am looking forward to that…and to spending the extra 25 bucks a week I’ll save on some good seafood, veggies, and fruit….