I've
written about Annette my home health provider before and how
professional and how helpful she is to me as she goes about providing
my services in the morning. She actually does housecleaning while I'm
sitting on the toilet waiting to run through my bowel program.
Yesterday it went a step further in that she came back to the
apartment later on that afternoon and voluntarily provided me two
hours of housekeeping services! How great is that? How lucky am I?!
Well in this flurry of cleaning we attacked the pile in my bedroom
and one of the things in that pile was a huge (for me it's huge
anyway) flatscreen television That one of the folks at the apartment
complex where I live gave me more than a year ago. Probably now more
like two years ago. Anyway, I never got around to having the
flatscreen installed anywhere in my apartment. Possibly because the
flatscreen is old technology, I'm sure that's one of the reasons my
friend Janet was giving the flatscreen away. It's I don't know how
many generations old it is but is quite thick compared to flat
screens now days. I also couldn't figure out where to install it at
and I didn't really have the drive/energy to try to find the right
mounting hardware and find a volunteer support to make the
installation. So it's just sat there against the wall, in its box
mocking me and pulling in all kinds of debris around it, sheet
protectors, Clothes I've grown out of, kangaroo bags and list goes
on. I'm sure there's some sort of scientific description of how
things get attached to things just by being there closest thing I can
think of is “nature abhors a vacuum”
You
might also remember that my brother Carl was going to pick up the
vacuum at Walmart can bring it over this afternoon which he did. So I
was fortunate to have Carl and Annette both working on my apartment
in different ways a lot got done. I actually culled a lot of Pieces
of clothing send them either to a trash bag are a bag headed for the
thrift store. My brother was going to take the big screen to the
thrift store then remember he didn't have his pickup truck and would
do it today. Anyway, the boxed flatscreen was left standing at the
foot of my bed like the monolith in 2001 a space Odyssey but it was
a short monolith not reaching the top of the foot of the bed and of
course I knocked it over when I got into bed. It took a little bit of
finagling and a lot of work but this morning I managed to push the
monolith/flatscreen away from the doorway into the middle of the room
where I could get around my power chair. I couldn't shake the scene
from 2001 a space Odyssey alluded to earlier. This would be great
fodder in making up parody of this great film may be having a mix of
2001 a space Odyssey and Scrooged. Regardless of the parity whether
it is A monolith for little people or a monolithic caricature of
Christmas Passed I still have to get my coffee first thing and that's
all there is to it…
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