Monday Matters

 I'm really not quite sure how to adjudicate today. I certainly would have liked to have gotten more done maybe gone somewhere but it was not in the cards. Today my regular chair that I've been nursing to get by and tell I can get it in for some services finally sort of just died. Fortunately, I had Melissa put me in my backup chair because I had high hopes that my regular chair would be going in for services very soon. Well I tipped the chair back and the tip back position for the seat and it never worked after that the other parts of the chair kind of work but but see yourself as in the back position and won't return to a seating position. I called again this morning to the wheelchair shop no return calls and then tonight around 5:30 well I wasn't around the phone very closely it started ringing and when I found out what it was his it stopped and because it was after 5:30 you couldn't get into the office the gun to their taped phone call messages. I'm sure it was Cameron since I called all last week and he never returned my calls and I finally called my emergency mechanic, who works there and said that he would contact Cameron to call me well he must have but when I tried to call back all I got was the recording. So I'll try again tomorrow. At least it's Monday we've got a few more days to work at getting an appointment. I'm sure it's going to take a while in the meantime I'm saddled with this power chair that really is messed up. I don't dare take it anywhere the significance not only from the standpoint of I don't think the batteries will last long but there seems to be something with one of the wheels keeps jerking me to the left with such force that actually causes the cushion I'm sitting on to slide off. I really don't go anywhere in fact I even called Andreas that assist to advise him that I would not be in tomorrow. I hate doing this but I can't drive this chair in this condition downtown on the train and Back Again.

The most productive thing I did do today however was to get the envelope stuffed and the envelope stamped. Remember last week I was going to get the change and I couldn't remember my password and so the machine at the are the cashier at the market couldn't give me cash back what I needed I was going to get my tens there for the kids so today I was going to try to go down to the bank get cash and the $10 bills for the grandkids. Well like I said I'm not going anywhere with this chair so I did check my box money box and there was 110 in there or rather a $20 bill and I had a $10 bill in my wallet. I sent the 20 to Michelle asking her to break the 20 and give 10 to each of the kids and Jasmine got the $10 bill. I hate doing that but I think I've been pretty good along the way of getting everybody their money that they have come to them individually so the girls can wait a little bit before the mom can cash it it won't kill them. So I have the letters ready to go which I'll take down and post in the morning or maybe the night before I go to bed since who knows wat will happen with this chair by the morning ?

Sundays sweat

 I didn't sleep that well I don't know why really except for I wanted to make sure I was up early enough to get dressed and not be late for breakfast with Marc Anthony I should have realized that he would not make the 8:00 time but I wasn't sure so I think I woke up around 4:30ish a.m. and just sort of watch the clock until it's time to get up. Surprisingly I didn't have as much problem dressing as I anticipated though I did use up most of the time at allocated to the dressing component of the morning.

It was just Mark and I for breakfast the kids are at Strawberry Reservoir or something but that's okay we enjoyed our company we talked. Interestingly the group that sits next to us I find as a group of at least two retired drivers for Utah Transit Authority we spoke today more than we've ever done before cuz I was waiting for Marc Anthony so it was interesting that they knew a lot of the stuff that I was talking about vice versa. It's interesting to be quasi friends with these people who just happened to be at the table behind us every week. I thought about having Mark come over to the apartment after breakfast to help me transfer into the other chair but I decided I'd stick in this chair and have Melissa transfer me tomorrow after the shower. I spent good part of the day when I wasn't out trying to read and take a nap outside my window working on the kid letters. I got them finished pretty much and I even got them printed out along with the envelopes. I had a little trouble with the letters themselves because I was trying to print from the tablet. I'm still learning how to use this tablet that I've had for years and not really use it that much for creativity. Now I'm using it daily at least from the blog standpoint and the journal. Aside from that it was a pretty quiet day because I had such a large breakfast I really didn't eat much until this evening and that was just watermelon and cheese and some Ritz crackers. Well I had my pepper soup with half a can of tomatoes and green chiles which made a zesty drink. I also mixed up some more flavored water drink material something red fruit punch Fruit Juicy Hawaiian Punch. I'm using it to try to keep hydrated. I'm doing better the last couple days that I have been I can't believe how little water I take in and still I'm able to get by pretty well. Actually that's why I woke up early also was that I had to use the bag during the night to pee everything came out all right and I'm okay.

Watching the local news tonight sounds like the heat Dome is about ready to move on and we're going to go into the Monsoon mode again which means the temperature is going to drop down in the 80s. I won't complain except for I do like the superheat but I guess it's not all that healthy for everybody else and probably isn't that healthy for me but I sure enjoy it a few weeks of the year that we have this kind of heat. I don't know how fortunate that I am or if it's fortunate all or at least good fortune it's not but unless the public takes some firm stands on Industrial fuel in other kinds of fuel we're going to cook ourselves into an oblivion and the hot weather will just become the norm. I don't know how true this is, it sure seems that way when you live through it especially to see how radical temperatures have changed over just the last 10 years it's pretty significant. But I'm going to enjoy what's left of this summer and pray that I see another. I still have to get some $10 bills for the letters tomorrow and then send them off on Tuesday the 1st…

BLT Delight

 I'm really getting concerned about how non-functional this power chair of mine is becoming. I don't know what is happening to the motor which actuates the Tilt in place mechanism of the chair but seems to have burnt out or is burning out. This is the part that stopped working earlier in the week it had me stranded for about 40 minutes before it started working again but not as efficiently as it was before. So the Tilt in place motor Plus the foot box elevator which does not seem to work it's making it almost impossible for me to dress myself in this chair. I've been charging the other chair all day and hopefully I can transfer into it maybe tomorrow if not tomorrow then by Monday and then just put the full court press on IHC to get an appointment to get the chair picked up and repair it as soon as possible. It really is frustrating and a little painful on my butt. I just hope I'm not developing decubitus sores.

I spent a good part of the day working on August's letters and basically got most of them dictated I still have to print the documents and the envelopes and stuff the money into the kids letters. I realized that I don't have the change I need to stop the letters. So in an effort to get some change I went to the market in hopes that with my debit card I could get 30 extra dollars or 3 $10 bills. I just about got that when I couldn't remember my password that you got to give him when you get change back at the market,grrr, I actually tried last night but did not purchase over $10 and so I wasn't eligible but even had I purchased over the amount I still wouldn't have been able to produce a workable password. I have such a problem with passwords I hate them but I guess they're a necessity. Fortunately, the first of the month is not until Monday or I think Tuesday which gives me time to get to the bank and get the currency I need for the letters. What's nice however to get most of the project finished. The envelopes is always a chore but I think I can get them done tomorrow.

A couple of weeks ago I spied a number of pieces of meat in the throwaway section at my local Macy's Market. Two or three packages of bacon for $1.50 each and this is thick bacon plus some Jimmy Dean sausages packages. Our froze most of them but I left the bacon out to use and today I've been thinking about BLTs and how good those would be. So in an effort to get the $10 bills needed I had to go by $10 worth of materials at the market to use my debit card which I did but to no avail since I couldn't produce my password. But I came back and started dinner and sure enough I made bacon tomato and lettuce sandwiches. I wish I had more cutting skills the tomatoes were little chaotic in their cuts and the bacon was pretty thick. I cooked the bacon crisp but probably should have used thin bacon but I still enjoyed my sandwich which I served on toasted bread. I had to forcibly hold the thing together while I ate it I was able to consume all of it without it coming apart. It was a perfect Saturday night dinner

Another friend Bites the Dust

 

Another day which got away from me it's almost 11 o'clock in the evening and I'm just now doing my blog. I was trying to figure out just what I was doing wrong that my time got out of control period( something has changed with my tablet and I've lost the ability to in my sentences with a period as opposed to tablet writing period but it knows I need to ask and this period.. I could go through and make all the changes as far as the periods go but I'm just too lazy tonight it's too late period I hate the computer when it does that just changes something in the middle of something period.

I really didn't do much today with the exception of cutting the watermelon which I did this evening just because it's been teasing me all week long period I take the cheese and slice it up in the pieces they'll have to eat with the melon and that's going to be all right period I wish I could have found a smaller melon this one's pretty big but I did cut it up eat about a quarter Maybe then wrap the rest up and put it in the refrigerator hopefully I'll be able to eat it before it goes bad. Other than that I spent time reading outside and trying to survive my power chair which continues to freak me out because it's losing its ability to serve me. I tried to contact the wheelchair shop but I can't get Cameron to return my call I don't know what's going on. Pisses me off that's for sure. I did finish one novella and there's just one left in the volume I'm reading right now that's encouraging. It was a pretty good story though I enjoyed it. But like everything else I'm trying to read this out of my power chair that won't let me configure myself to where it's comfortable. I may just have to start looking at seriously using my backup chair cuz this one is just beginning to hinder me totally. I'm even beginning to wonder if I'll be able to dress myself in the coming days.

I was mildly surprised to find a fairly good friend of mine passed away sometime this year. I don't know when or what month exactly but must have been relatively soon. One of my other friends posted His image on the Facebook. I worked with this guy in one of my groups and I was at the Independent Living Center and he was on the board of directors for some time. In all honesty I thought Greg had passed away years ago. I tried to contact him when I found out he was in the long-term care facility but you kind of ignored me so that was the end of that later on I sort of understood he was in rehab at this long-term care facility and couldn't break away from what he was doing to visit with me it was still kind of shocked they didn't acknowledge my presence more. I taking the bus to get there and it was a summer day it was pretty warm I don't remember if I was in the power chair then if I was still pushing it's hard to remember sometimes. I feel this is a really poor posting today but like I said the day just got away from me and all manners of the word let's shoot for a better posting tomorrow

Procrastination!

 Today was the apartment inspection day when management walks through your place looking for issues and problems that need to be repaired. It's very non-confrontative situations but everybody acts like it's like semester finals. I even got a little bit of the paranoia last night when I had my home health person come over for a couple hours of apartment cleaning, which I really needed but have not been able to get to. It was the deep clean it was pretty superficial but still looks nice and I think management was okay with what they saw I wasn't too worried about it anyway. I do need to spend some time on some issues that I really want to get cleaned up before the end of the summer, going into the fall and winter. But I was so pleased with myself after the inspection I went right out and caught a bus to the theaters and watched Oppenheimer again and true to form on the second viewing the movie made a lot more sense. I think I may have slept through the first time I watched the movie. I don't know if I enjoyed the movie anymore the second time around but I certainly understood more so I guess it was worth the second 3-hour investment. I was talking to a friend of mine who also had gone to the movie and kind of felt the same way. He hasn't seen it twice but is thinking of going to it again. I'm only out the time since I have that plan that lets me to go to as many movies as I want to for just $20 a month. In fact that's why I went to the movies in the first place was to clear up a problem they were having on charging my account. Somehow, when I switched credit cards the movies didn't get put on the new credit card so now I had to get that fixed so since I was there and nothing really else to do for a hot summer day I decided to watch the maker of the atom bomb one more time.

The biggest issue of my day was after I got home from the movies read for a little bit I decided to tilt back and watch the 5:00 news before I worked on dinner. Now in my power chair as you all know I can lay in the chair almost back to horizontal position. But, tonight when I did that to watch the news I heard a small crack, which I often do when I lean my chair back, but then I realized when I was trying to adjust my seating position my chair wasn't responding! Luckily I was in such a position that I could still get the hand control to at least Drive the chair around. It was just the seating position that for some reason was no longer taking input from the toggle switch. This is the chair that I've been having problems with and I've been trying to make my other chair functional enough that I can use it to give up this chair to the shop to be worked on. However I've continued to drag my feet on that particular issue and tonight probably it was too long and now something really has gone wrong with the chair. I ended up calling Mark Anthony who was going to stop by after work and actually load me from this chair into the backup chair which should have a charge in it and ready to go. Only problem is I'd have to deal with this other chair over the weekend which is super long and maybe even longer actually cuz I'm going to have to wait until I get an appointment and they can come out and pick up my power chair. I was okay I could get around and finally at some point I kept fiddling with the toggle switch on the controller and fortunately I was able to get my chair back up in the upright position and seems to be working fairly good right now. I think if I'm careful I'm okay for the rest of the night, I canceled mark coming over, and we'll see how I feel tomorrow morning about trying to use this chair over the weekend as opposed to having Melissa load me into the backup chair for the weekend. It may not be a bad idea to do the backup chair just because I need to get used to it when I give this chair up for repair. By the way it's immensely frustrating and kind of spooky. I mean even if I have my cell phone with me and my chair quirks out who am I going to call? Mark Anthony seems to be forever away and my brother is kind of Aging as well. I just have to get it done it's all there is to it…

Wayward Wednesday

I really did not think it was going to be this busy today after all it's Wednesday but I did know I'd have to take the bus down south to the podiatrist. This of course requires switching to the 218 at the end of the line but the wait wasn't as long as I anticipated and that was good. And the bus wasn't freezing cold that was also good. But this was later in the day early on Melissa helped me with my morning regimen she also threw clothes into the washing machine and dryer which means I only had to collect the clothes and then fold them which I did this evening. I was also pleased and impressed that Melissa remembered to that I had my apartment inspection tomorrow so she planned to come over this evening to help me out clean up the place a little bit and make it a bit more presentable. I don't know what I have to entail but still drives me crazy at least these things. Since I was down to 80th South for the podiatrist appointment I stopped in at Smith's Superstore and sure enough they had the number 10 can of sliced peppers! It's not necessarily the brand that I really like but it'll certainly do until I can figure out how to order the San Marco brand in. I would also like to get a big can of carrots put your pickled. I know they make them I just got to find out how to get them. I also got a chicken tender at the superstore which was actually pretty good for less than $2. Inflation still goes crazy out there.

I would like to have gotten time to read today since there's promise of storms and the clouds were dark and threatening perfect weather for reading outside but with Melissa coming over at 7:00 p.m. to help with cleaning the apartment I felt that I needed to be doing something that would look like I was trying to help out. I don't know how significant that is but it's just something I feel I should do. And I need to just really focus on some of these things that possibly I could do like cleaning my work areas that have gotten over taken with just clutter. It's still overwhelming to me and I wish I had a regular person coming in. I may have to strong arm Melissa into doing it I don't know if she would but you never know unless you ask. I've been holding off just because I don't know what kind of job she does. I'm not too impressed with the bathroom floor after the bowel movements she's left a lot of messes there after I thought she cleaned everything up. So we'll see. We seem to be getting along good and that's half the battle.

Melissa was a little late coming in around 7:20 p.m. but that's okay I appreciate any assistance possible and she went right to work and I think she did a fairly good job. Especially since the time frame was pretty late in the day and tomorrow is when I need to have the apartment looking somewhat better. We know we are going to do the topical and not an in-depth cleaning. I don't know if Melissa is the one for deep cleaning we'll see. I think she likes it when I'm here for someone to talk to while she works. But she did straighten up my one mess in the work my one work area she did a fairly decent job on the kitchen though she didn't wash the dishes but that's okay because the other parts needed done more and she swept and mopped the floors I worked on the refrigerator a little bit and I worked on shredding papers and trying to throw stuff away. I just wish I could do better but at least when one comes in now it looks like something's been done. The floors are a lot cleaner than they were I need to get some more materials as far as cleansing stuff that'll all be done at another time maybe another year for now for the next inspection. Aside from that it was just a busy day and I think I'm fretting a little bit about tomorrow's inspection. Seems like there's more trauma beginning to happen regarding the coffee social which is a whole another ball of Wax…

Dragon Grill

My butt's been pretty sensitive last couple of days. I've been somewhat frightened I've developed some kind of a skin breakdown but Melissa checked on Monday and did a lot of retaping to my buttocks and the last two days it felt pretty decent. The reason I say this is because Tuesdays, as many of you know, is the one day that I really venture out and travel miles from my home usually down to Salt Lake City to assist Inc I'm part of their Advisory Board.. usually my trip is not a real stressful challenge but when my skin starts feeling a little risky I start worrying about all the rocking back and forth I will experience not only on my trip to the bus stop but on the train going into the city and Back Again. Fortunately I can report however I didn't have any of those experiences. My Skin's felt pretty good today and maybe it's because of the good shower I got yesterday and that's what's causing my hypersensitivity on my rear end especially come Sunday when it's been a number of days since a shower.

It was quite a busy meeting at the private nonprofit today lots of people requesting service and having their homes be repaired whether it's sinks are roofs or water heaters or whatever the family might need. They have to meet certain Financial guidelines standards so they're all pretty much low income folks. But anyway it's nice to have a bunch of requests to consider coming off a couple months of hardly any because all the money had been out to fund these projects. Typically July opens up the new fiscal year and new money tumbles out of the coffers and hopefully we'll tumble into the pockets of our contractors for the projects that we approve. I was feeling pretty decent at the end of the meeting. I want to get some lunch of some sort and not necessarily the Mexican fast food I've been doing the last couple of weeks. There's this one place I think I've gone to once or twice before but I don't have a clear memory but it's always closed when I get there early in the morning for the assist meeting and I never stick around long enough after the meeting to have a lunch there but today I figured I would do it. It's an Asian restaurant and has always intrigued me.

The place is called Charlie Chows Dragon Grill. I don't think I really knew the second part of the name Dragon Grill but Charlie Chows I always recognize. I wish I had understood the process of the grill I was more worried about the cost of the meal and going with my memory of lunch menu items where selections are actually a whole lunch and one at a specific price I went that way and got some sort of beef noodles spicy which comes with some kind of fried rice. It was all pretty good probably cost the going rate for downtown lunches. A side note, there's actually a table of attorneys just to my side and I spent my afternoon listening to those guys talk. It was really quite informative there were real trial attorneys doing shop talk on there clients murderers, embezzlers and folks that might even be innocent. My meal was pretty good again more than I really want out of lunch but I figured today I'd take it home with me and it's still in the fridge now I want it for tomorrow or some other time and I'll really enjoy it. I ate about half put the rest in my plastic styrofoam container which they provided along with the bag and carried the Lunch Home On My Feet which worked pretty good and hid my bare feet which I felt pretty decent about. I'm going to have to use this technique more in the future at works to hide my feet on those days that staff do not trust me…

Pioneer Day 2023!

It's Pioneer Day! The day when Utah pioneers came into this desolate Valley almost 200 years ago and claimed it as theirs. Of course, it's a state holiday not federal and the Yahoo's who like to blow things up are using it as a blank check to explode anything they can get their hands on in the name of Celebration and honor to those past. This Years celebration is turning out a bit different in Salt Lake anyway. We're having a bit of a storm even a little rain to speak of more sprinkles than anything else but huge dark clouds are trying to organize themselves into some sort of a statement. Wind has come up during the afternoon and evening hours and it's quite nice to see all the leaves and branches and trees paying homage to the gusts of the storm. On the positive side for many the wind in dark clouds have greatly reduced the temperatures that have Rock the to the upper 90s this afternoon. Not anymore it'll be cooler for the rest of the evening. I'm sure the heat will return tomorrow with less chance of afternoon storms.

As for me it was another quiet day in the apartment. Didn't have any place to go I didn't necessarily want to spend any money and I was unsure of what the bus schedules were cuz it is a state holiday and UTA runs buses on holidays sometimes but just with less frequencies. I looked on the internet online and then I tried to call the authority either way no answer was just enough deterrent to keep me from going out. But I stayed inside and outside reading and eating popsicles and a sloppy joe. I sliced up some whole jalapeno peppers which I kind of enjoyed I'm getting better the message are quite so significant and the smell of vinegar isn't quite as prevalent as the first couple of projects. I still have two big cans of the peppers Shelly sent me so I have time to continue my skill development of cutting up peppers for my morning drink. I've started using diced vegetable especially tomatoes in the drink as well which is really quite good. They make a spicy diced tomato option in the can good section which adds a lot of flavor to this ice cold drink which I used as my morning beverage more often than not.

The rain chased me into the apartment a few minutes ago. It really wasn't raining it was sprinkles nice summer evening sprinkles. There's just enough moisture to Enlighten the concrete to give up its odors which instantly takes me back to other memories of wet concrete are more specifically with cement are wet plaster. All of them have great historical roots for me especially the plaster. What concrete always reminds me of my dad plastering walls in the basement of our house on later when he was finishing the basement. It was the greatest smell. I miss those odors and I'm truly thankful for a summer rain to bring them back

Trencher

 It's been kind of a weird weather day lots of clouds almost sucked in dark billowy things which one would think holds lots of promise of lightning and thunder and possibly even rain. Along with the clouds there's also been gusts of wind it's also leads to the hope of possible moisture but so far nothing has happened. The clouds taunt me floating there looking mean and foreboding but they don't do anything. It's been a semi busy day for a Sunday. Started out of course getting up kind of early waking up about 5:45 and finally getting up at 6:00 a.m. in order to be ready by the time 8:00 a.m. rolls around. Invariably some folks are late to breakfast but that's okay as long as I'm there I can secure the table and enjoy the atmosphere and coffee until kids show up- - which they eventually did.

Getting to the restaurant was a bit more of a challenge still quite doable right now but in a very near future I think that's going to change. I'm going to have to really think my way around the road construction which seems to be looming. Last week they started slicing the asphalt up for the upcoming Trench they'll be digging in the next couple of weeks. I've seen this happen in other parts of Redwood Road and it really does quite cause a mess. The only thing that seems to survive is the driveways into people's business establishments and such. This construction is really going to have a negative effect on business for the rest of the summer. It's going south as well and not only is traveling going to be difficult on and around the sidewalks there's no place really set aside for the UTA buses too navigate close enough to put down their lifts. These drivers get kind of squirrely and anything that looks a little bit challenging to them but try to take the easy way out which is not load the person at all. The trench they're digging is about 4 ft wide and I don't know how many feet deep 4 to 6 ft deep and they're either laying cable or replacing cable I'm not sure it really looks tenuous if you ask me. I may have to figure out a way to get on the bus and go into the college and they're transferred to either 48 or 217 whatever. I think it's going to be awkward at best. We'll see on Tuesday when I have to go to assist for the volunteer meeting.

Good morning breakfast was quite almost rambunctious with my granddaughter who seems to be a budding Republican trying to make sense out of everything that's going on in your world. It's a little spooky trying to talk with her because she's such a little absolutist but hopefully we can lower the past this. And maybe at some point in time real life she'll remember and come back. Luckily we're able to keep the communication going and enjoying each other's company at the time being. Hopefully it'll always be this way. It's kind of hard to get to points across sometimes. After breakfast we all went our separate ways. I thought about going to a movie or something but I just didn't want to try to beat the Heat and freeze to death all the way through the movies. I've got to find one of my blankets I know I've got some little bitty throw blankets that would work. As much as I do not want to I may have to go to the Attleboro movie again cuz I don't see any or remember any of the images they show in the previews that's part of the movie and now I know a part of the cast are people I really like that might make a difference in how I enjoy the movie as well. But I'm going to have to find some sort of blanket of some sort to enjoy the movie with

Comfort Food

 I just finished making a meal of sloppy joes. Sloppy joes is one of my favorite go-to meals when I want some comfort food and I want to establish a bunch of sloppy joes to eat in the next week. What I like to do is make it back to sloppy joes fill up as many hamburger buns as I can put in the refrigerator and then just have them whenever I need them for the next week- - usually for dinner. I have been known however, to eat them for breakfast as well as I am dashing out the door sometimes for a meeting or something. Today I just wanted to have enough to get me through Sunday and the holiday which is Pioneer Day here in Utah the 24th of July which will be Monday. I've decided not to do a fantasy barbecue again it's just too much work for one person. It's kind of pathetic too and I stand back and look at it and what am I trying to achieve a feeling of normalcy. Anyway, this year I've got sloppy joes two kinds of potato chips, store made potato salad and my usual drink of jalapeno peppers tomato juice and the rest. It's going to be a great holiday. It's too hot to really do anything so I plan to do some reading sit in the shade as much as possible suck down popsicles I have a couple bags in the freezer and enjoy the time. 

As I said sloppy joes are one of my favorite go-to comfort Foods there's just something totally easy from building to digesting the burger. I think besides cinnamon toast sloppy joes was one of the first meals I ever learned to make all by myself. I don't know if my mother encouraged me she must have since I used the family kitchen to make them but I don't remember that aspect. I just remember putting everything together especially the green peppers and the onions and a can of tomato paste or whatever and having the whole thing turn out to be a decent little barbecue burger. Actually sloppy joes with sort of a new thing at that point in time and I was totally in love with the burger and would make as many times as I get away with. I've been thinking about making sloppy joes for 2 days now I even got a pound of hamburger out of the freezer and had it thawed out ready to go. I thought I had everything I needed but during the week I did get another green pepper and I knew I had an onion so I was okay that way. I also thought I was totally okay with the tomato sauce or paste whatever I knew I had cans of it in my storage. However when it came time to use the Tomato product I checked the best by dates and I was like 10 years past most of the checkout dates are used by dates. I opened up the paste anyway and it was this ugly black sludge same way with two cans of tomato sauce that I dared to open. I guess the use by dates are really valid I need to be less skeptical. I guess I'm going to go through all my cans now and get rid of the ones with way past the used by dates. I should have done it long ago how stupid am i? I'm currently waiting for the sloppy joe mix to us cool down at the point that I can build the burgers put them in the plastic container and throw them in the fridge. I kind of destroyed the Kitchen Tonight so I think I have to wait now till Monday to clean up. That's okay I enjoyed myself happy Saturday night

A Bomb

 The hot days continue but I decided to do something I wanted to do and not be forced to keep myself in the shade or cooler temperatures of the apartment all day. It's Friday and that means new movies at the theater and today Oppenheimer started. I'm kind of fascinated with the whole atom bomb thing but I also have fascinated with the playlist and characters in this particular movie. So, after Melissa was finished with me dressed and ready to go like rolled over to the bus stop and waited. The 217, the Redwood Road route, runs every 15 minutes so you never have to wait long the only problem being there's a bunch of construction beginning in my section of the street which means bus drivers may or may not stop because of all the orange cones in the street and there just isn't a place to stop. I don't know what I'm going to do when the construction gets worse. I think this work is only supposed to last two or three months but that's so they going to take up the rest of the summer that's for sure. I Will Survive.

I really didn't have any breakfast to speak of just some nuts in my tomato drink so I picked up the next bus and stopped at a hamburger joint and Chow Down. I still had almost an hour before the movie was supposed to start being seated which means another 20 minutes after that for me to run the previews so I had more than enough time. I stopped over at the dollar store and got some boxes of theater candy then I got my tickets. 

I got my customary Red Vines and a drink this time. I hate the sizes of the drinks cuz they're just huge and so I never finished them but I got some fruit punch with ice. I would have liked some popcorn but I declined figure I was doing enough damage to my body as it was. The movie: Oppenheimer is beautifully filmed I'm sure it's going to be up for a bunch of awards when the season comes due. But I just never really got into the movie maybe it's cuz I didn't understand it or I wasn't sure what they were trying to portray or trying to say I just didn't get it. Truthfully the thing was boring to me but I sat through the whole thing hopefully if I can it was going to get better it never really did. However like I said conceptually the concepts were interesting as far as quantum mechanics and some of that stuff how they tried to visually show that but that was almost as confusing as the others. I didn't even recognize some of my favorite actors in this movie which I thought was kind of weird. There are actual other people in the theater with me which is rare anymore but I was totally shocked when at the end of the movie someone actually clapped! Like I said somewhere along the way I got thrown off the wagon I never got back on I don't even know if I could sit through the movie again even though it would be free to go to. It was the old Jews and communist fears that seem to be underlying in the movie. I really don't know who the good guys were are the bad guys just flew over my head. Maybe I was tired I don't know but I don't think I can sit through it again but never say never and these are hot days…

Coffee and Cable

 Just to bring you up to speed I decided not to be a jerk and help out this morning at the Community Coffee social. Granted, I didn't go over to the market last night and get the cheap cookies that I usually get luckily however, we had a whole package of cookies and one of the cupboards that had not been used yet. Luckily there was the giant amount of people showing up today who knows why. Maybe it was just too hot for coffee. Anyway there was more than enough cookies for those that did show up to have seconds and even thirds at two cookies paper saucer. Marsha, my neighbor across the hall helped me tremendously this morning pull this off and I'm glad she did it was really quite laborious at times. I'm quite pleased now with Management's drive to get some regulars to do the coffee but I don't think that's going to happen. The announcements been up for a week and as I understand nobody has elected to take on that position. As long as I have people like Marcia willing to work make coffee, clean up put things away I can run the thing real well get the job done. Everyone's got coffee everyone yammers for a while and we're done in about an hour. I help her I can clean up and trying to get things back to normal but fortunately there's a class now that meets every Thursday at 11:00 a.m. and the tables have to be put away in the corner anyway, it's an exercise class, low impact, so even if the tables are all messed up and yucky some of the more able-bodied people can push them over to the side and get on with their lightweight workout session.

Luckily I had a building excuse to not hang around and watch the ladies do their low impact exercises. I finally went through the whole process and ordered Xfinity to come in and trade out my box which I think is the selector box or whatever that they're broadcast materials come in on. I know this is silly because the only thing I really want to watch is the 5:00 news and more specifically the 5:30 news which is the CBS affiliates national news broadcast which I cannot get on live streaming or whatever. I think CBS has a block on that forcing you to come through their front door like normal people. Anyway, the guy was supposed to be here between 10:00 and 12:00 you know how that goes. So after the coffee I waited out front so he wouldn't have to go through the whole process of coding in to the front door but he never showed up until I was notified by the front desk that this guy was waiting at my dog at my apartment and I turned around and looked there he was! I don't know how he got there. I don't know how he could have passed well he says he came in the side door which might be true, why would you lie? It was a process of about 45 minutes testing out the broken box and then making sure you had the new box that would work and by 12:00 noon I was able to catch the local news update on regular television feed. Really felt civilized. Then I turned off the feed and spent the rest of the day hanging out under the shade read my book. Seems like I have read this Stephen King before but that's okay it's good enough that it's worth a reread at least part of it I've read before I think it's the number of short stories I thought it was a full novel but does not seem to be. One last thing, I don't know if I've got a wound on my butt or what or maybe the tapes just getting old and irritating the skin but I need to have Melissa look at it in the morning and tape it up for the weekend and then still during these hot faces I'm not going anywhere probably just to the market if I have to go anywhere leaning back in my chair taking the weight off my butt as much as possible and getting through the day. A number of movies start this week that I might want to take in before the end of the month as well. The best thing was the coffee social went off okay and I didn't have to be an ass…

Wishy Washy Rain Day

 Seriously, the only thing productive I really did today all day was my Wednesday wash. It was usual I had Melissa carry the clothes down to the laundromat and throw the clothes in and I started the process as she was leaving. That sure helps a lot. And I was trying to be focused so I was going to try to finish reading my novel and watch the clothes at the same time. I went down and threw the clothes from the wash into the dryer and started the process and I did my usual thing of putting the quarters for the second wash in the slots and not thinking anything more of it. Then I went back to the apartment actually I went out to read my book. I was kind of excited they were supposed to be possible showers and thunder showers later on today but sometimes prepping getting ready for that to happen can be quite exciting. So, I did my reading with an eye to the sky. The afternoon wasn't this active as I would like to have been but eventually the clouds did seem to form up a little bit and there was a little wind not too much. What was really weird that during that time that I was reading I went to start the second dry of clothes to make sure they would be done by 3:00 when I could fold the clothes during Marketplace. It was really strange when I got there my basket was gone and so is my stick! I thought that was really weird and Jennifer wasn't in her office she was gone for the day where was my basket and more importantly how was I going to get at home once I did the second dry. I figured well I might as well get the clothes dry so I hit the plunger in the quarters fill in to the dryer and I started the whole thing. But I was just totally shocked because my basket and my stick was totally gone!

With nothing more to do I figured I might as well go back to the apartment drain my bladder then go out and read some more. I was taking it back when I got to the apartment there with my basket and the stick sitting on the floor. Somebody had taken my wash and dry and put it in the basket and dropped it off at my place. I was a little miffed but glad to have my basket back but a little worried that the clothes would still be damp which is why I always do a second dry. These people just took the clothes out and and took him to my apartment. I'm sure it was the best intentions. And luckily for me when I did check him out later on that afternoon the clothes weren't too damn and I was able to fold the clothes and hang the shirts as I usually do that was a blessing. It's a shame that I ran that dryer for no apparent reason though. Cuz I didn't check to see if there was clothes in there I just hit the plunger and started the machine. I'm still wondering who it was and I guess if I really wanted to I could check. But right now Jennifer and some of the staff are acting a little weird I don't know if it's at me in general or just what it's kind of strange though. So anyway I'm going to be somewhat scarce for a while and see if things blow over. I don't know for sure but I kind of think it's something to do with the coffee social and who's running it and who's not running it and all that kind of stuff it's really turning into a mess. I should learn not to get involved in this kind of stuff it always comes back to bite you in the bottom. I figured I will go tomorrow at least a part of the coffee social make sure it gets going and then make up some story to head out, I do have the cable guy coming tomorrow to see if the install the cable. That's a whole nother minor issue that I've got to deal with. Something doesn't seem right but at least I'll be able to watch television without having to filter everything through the computer. It's actually cold tonight and today I had Melissa take the top cover off the bed so I just have the quilt and the sheets hopefully I'll be able to stay warm tonight. I did finish the novel The Tom Clancy and started the new Stephen King but I kind of think I've read it sounds and feels real familiar in some ways. Sigh, I'd like some good science fiction if I can find it…

Totally Tuesday

 I really cannot believe that I am not able to put my shoes on independently, with my chair the way that it is right now. I hope I'm not just blowing smoke and that no matter what happened to my chair I'll not be able to finish dressing as I used to. I was going to try to wear shoes today going in for my assist meeting but I had one shoe on and then when I went to cross my legs to put on my shorts by shoe came off! I knew I could struggle to try to put that shoe on and I might be able to have made it but I only had a couple hours before my meeting and I wanted to make sure that I didn't waste the time on something is extraneous as shoes in the middle of summer. My biggest issue is the do I lose any credibility- - as if I had any anyway- - wandering around downtown without any shoes on. The way that my foot pedal/foot box is constrained right now tipping radically up I think someone has to be totally looking for feet without shoes to find them in my shoebox right now. I wish I had not lost my Avengers blanket that was perfect for hiding feet. So, I made the decision early on rather than fight the shoes leave them I finished getting dressed wandered out to the bus stop after a fast bowl of corn Chex and milk.

Gray skies with lots of wind and every once in a while sun shines through but the temperatures are still pretty warm not overbearingly hot like it has been but still pretty toasty. I got down to the library pretty early got some coffee I hung out in the library for 45 minutes until it was time to get to my meeting. Andreas my friend who runs the meetings keep saying he has all these tons of applications to approve and there's really not very many at all I'd be surprised if there was 10 today. It gets me out of there pretty fast and gets my job done. Since I was downtown and it's Tuesday meaning that Robert and Company will be in the workshop at the ucat building I figured out stop by and see if they can help fix the chair. That's a long story and it took a while but we finally got the main reason I stopped in there and that was to fix the receiver of left arm rest and to get the right armrest fixed as well. That's also able to ask questions about the other power chair and it seems like what really happened is that the batteries went so low that the charger I had is too weak to charge them so Robert who runs the shop indicated that he would stop by with a trickle charger which will revive the batteries if anything can. I've got the charger on now and I'll run it all night and see if that'll kick the batteries over. I might need new batteries that will be expensive.

I finally got home and that was a trip as well because I seem to have destroyed two buses today just by being. When I was waiting to catch the bus number four from downtown Salt Lake over to Rehabilitation where the wheelchair repair shop is. One cycle the bus didn't show up which of course that particular route runs every half an hour making me wait almost another hour in the Sun and the heat waiting for the next bus. Then on the way home I was on the bus, I just gotten on actually on the 217 Southbound and all the sudden all the electrical systems on the bus completely phase out. The bus has nothing but a lump on the road. Though Kimberly the driver says it's not my fault I know that it is just as I'm sure I wasted the bus on Route 4 earlier in the day. I am the Destroyer after all. I'm just glad I got home, got a couple popsicles in me dropping my body temperature and then relaxed for the rest of the day…

Very Warm Indeed

 Another super hot day that I'm using this excuse to do nothing at all except read my book which by the way, is getting close to being finished. I don't know if waiting through the first 500 pages was worth the conclusion but it isn't pretty exciting and to this volume. I'm not sure how much I like the writer maybe I'd read Clancy again if I was desperate and fortunately for me there are a number of Clancy volumes up in the library. So I'm covered either way. I do have a Stephen King to get into possibly two we'll have to see. So I'm pretty well set till the end of the summer I believe if the heat wave ever gets done which I know that it will, but going through it just never feel that's going to happen. But believe me it will get cold again and who knows maybe even snow this whole climate change thing is still new bananas and we're still trying to figure out how to peel the first one let alone the whole bunch.

Tomorrow I'm going into the city even though it's supposed to be a hot day again. I think I'll be okay as long as I carry water and have my head covered. I mean after all it's not really that hot even at its worst we're talking triple digit Heat but tomorrow there is a possible cold front pushing by which brings clouds as well as the possibility of some precipitation. It won't be much even in the best case scenario but certainly could be exciting with winds lightning and possible torrential rain. My biggest issue is within my wheelchair will hold up to the stress of travel in the heat. I'm having so many issues with parts of the chair becoming unbolted and such that I'm going to go over to ucat wheelchair shop to see if they can do anything to patch me together as well as I need to ask them some questions by my power chair won't charge. Because I can't get this chair going until I have something to ride around in when this one's not available. Why does everything have to be so complicated? If I can get those two items done tomorrow I will if deemed it a positive day.

I was a little taken aback this afternoon when I passed the bulletin board and there was a announcement for somebody to do the coffee on Thursdays that I thought had been doing okay at. Obviously not, but before I got all screwed up and hot or anything else about it I realize it's no big deal. It's my ticket out of that whole thing if I play it right I still come off looking relatively decent. If they don't like the one I've been doing let somebody else do it no problem to me. Just seems weird that I've been able to do that and if it wasn't doing it the right way why didn't they let me know. It's pretty dumb thing anyway coffee social. I'm really glad that I'm able to live here though it sure came in handy when I needed it and it's been handy ever since on all the levels. Personal transportation would have been nice but you can't have everything and that's okay too I get by just fine doing what I need to do.

JUST Reading in the Shade

I kind of slept in today. Both kids had something going on out of town in other states even. So there was really no reason for me to go over to breakfast by myself. I slept until about 7:00 a.m. which is kind of unique especially for a Sunday I didn't even get up till after 8:00 a.m. which is when we usually have breakfast over at the restaurant. I indeed felt like I was skipping school. I thought about cooking myself a masterpiece but just didn't have the desire. I made my drink which actually has the peppers and the carrots and the vegetable juice that's kind of like a diet breakfast I would think. But that was about it I'm sure I grabbed a couple cookies here and there. I didn't take out the sausage last night like I wanted to which again is probably just as well because I really didn't feel a lot like cooking this morning.

T I'm really going through a reading phase right now. In fact after that pathetic breakfast I went out in the shade and read for a couple hours. I could feel the temperature increasing and realized it was going to be a hot day but that's nothing new right now we're still under the dome. I've kind of enjoyed the Heat this summer so far it hasn't been too bad on me but I haven't had to be out in the sun too much. I'll be going out this week to some degree I have to go in on Tuesday of course and I think I'd better get over to you Kat or whatever to see if I can fix this chair a little bit. To get to see somebody look at my other chair or find out another system to take care of me while this chair is in the shop. It's also complicated it's all driving me crazy just want to deny everything and read my books. Hopefully that's not a bad sign.

My older brother Ross calls this afternoon that was kind of a surprise for sure. I was getting kind of worried not hearing from him from sometime and I must confess I have not been the best brother either as far as calling him like I should. He seemed to feel like he was the one in the wrong for not calling. I thought perhaps he had died or something and I had got the message yet but he still functional but he says he's living on borrowed time which is kind of spooky but I can understand his point of view especially at 78 or whatever he is. Maybe he's only 76. Just having a problem with the VA medical system but who doesn't. Making all the noises that vets make when working with that system. He's got a lot of that Vietnam era problem as far as not feeling they've gotten the respect they should have gotten coming home from that war. It's a hard one to call no question about it. I gave him some ideas possibly maybe if you're going to contact the vet rep at his senators office or House of Representative person. They might be able to help him cut through the red tape a little bit the bottom line is just a giant Perkasie and nobody gets through there okay. I think a lot of the old World War II vets got along okay at least my neighbor did but he was a nice guy as it was so what can you say treat nice get nice I don't know. I watched the Harrison Ford movie this evening just for the fun of it. I've seen it a couple times before but still enjoy the whole premise. Good political stuff CIA nobody telling the truth and Harrison Ford getting caught in the middle of everything almost killed and doing stuff he's not supposed to do as a CIA reader and not a field agent. Always kind of fun.6 kind of excited about the next week. They're supposed to be a couple days of high probability of possible thunderstorms or thunder showers that always makes for an exciting evening and afternoon. Sadly it also means that the summer is winding down but once again that would be okay I'll get through it and then we'll be winter time again and Dark Nights and little days and enjoying each day that I have left

Sticky Rice...Very Sticky!

Another hot day though nothing like the Heat and some parts of this state which is well over 100°. Today I think was only around 98 or something which is Toasty no question about it but not enough to keep me from doing stuff- - if I really wanted to. As is I'm happy with just doing the basics and spending time in the shade dozing and reading. Perhaps the biggest thing I did today was run across the street to the Macy's Market and purchase a couple chicken breasts, Deep Fat fried, to use in making some Frank or something that nature. I've got a package of jasmine rice that I use tonight. I don't know if it's the rice or me or what- - is probably me I can accept that- - but I washed the rice brought the rice to boil then added the rice soon thereafter taking the rice aside covering up with a( I don't have a lid that fits the the saucepan I used)). Then I went out and read for an hour or so came back in the fluff up the rice and it already begun to like turn to mush in parts of the rice. Like I said I'm sure it was something that I did but I chose to use the rice anyway and fried up some onions and a can of chicken meat, I decided not to use the breast of chicken just too much work. And I went to the process of Browning the the onions and the meat is best I could then dumped the rice into the mix and tried to cook off the extra moisture and fluid and make it edible. I of course will plan to use a lot of soy sauce. I totally believe soy sauce can fix almost anything especially white rice but I would have liked the kind of rice you get in the restaurant however. But I opened the whole bag of jasmine rice that should be a good package to practice on. If I have a pile of rice made it's easy for me to eat that during the week like when I make six or seven hamburgers and have them ready to go at any time works out really good.

No one's available for breakfast tomorrow and I think I will use the time to sleep in if it's possible and possibly cook some breakfast here. I have a green pepper and the rest of the onion and if I were to cook the sausage like sausage squares I learned that last quarter might be okay some breakfast food to have at hand if I need it. Other than that the days go in fine. I'm finishing that Tom Clancy I've been sweating for the last couple weeks. Jennifer dropped off another Stephen King yesterday, I don't think I've read it but I'm not sure we'll see. But I'm set perhaps the rest of the summer for reading.

I'm a little worried about Marc Anthony coming back from Oregon with his car. It seems to be of having some challenges. I must admit however he's doing a great job keeping things going like that. I like to think that I could never do that but he swears that's where he gets his skills is from some innate ability from my gene pool. I find that kind of hard to believe but Mark's pretty smart I'll have to think about this some more. It's the 15th kind of like halfway through July which also makes me think halfway through the summer if you want to use the three months protocol. Even if you use the four month quarterly concept we're closer to the end of the quarter then the middle of the quarter. Soon, soon the days will shorten to the point that they're noticeable, the overheating environment will get back in line and we'll make the transition during fall. And summer will be gone for the year. I'm hoping I get to see another…

Let Him Down Gently

 I just finished a semi- awkward task of emailing a friend of mine advising him that I was really not interested in a wheelchair cushion which he was offering me. This was such an odd offering to begin with still trying to figure it out. The guy's name is Tim and I don't know him that well. He's one of the Paras( paraplegics that hang out and play ball with the Salt Lake Street Wolves. An independent paraplegic basketball team ran by the paraplegics on the team. This is quite a delicate / complicated topic and one day perhaps I will write further on this concept. But anyway that's how I know this guy. The company that I worked with Utah Independent Living Center was the sponsor of these guys, As I understood it, so we often went out to their games to show our support. These guys were interesting folks many of which like to go drinking after the games/ practices or whenever. There are a couple times I went with them but I always felt like I third wheel. I didn't quite fit in with the group. My wife at the time was pretty interested in the team so in supporting both I went to a couple of the extracurricular functions.

With the Advent of more social media particularly with Facebook and some of the other platforms it's been easy to communicate with some of these folks that I never have before. I know Tim and I have sent a couple messages back and forth more just salutatory ideas you know Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, whatever holiday might be there. But that's been the extent of our relationship. I was kind of surprised that Tim even realized I was on Facebook still. I've been keeping kind of a low profile over the last couple of years. No particular reason just that I can't think of a whole lot to say to these people anymore or I don't have a lot to say about myself on the public side of the platform anymore. I'm not sure what that means, probably just another age indicator. Actually I just heard back from the gentleman and he was more than diplomatic regarding my refusal of his offer. In fact he shared with me that he had issues with the cushion as well and could never really use the cushion himself. I thought that was very interesting to know.

The Rojo cushion is a Top Model, high tech, piece of disability equipment. The cushion itself is made of the number of individual pockets of air that really cushions the buttocks. My problem with the cushion is that one it's expense and two that it's pretty unstable for somebody with limited trunk control as well as transfer capabilities. It's hard to transfer on and off of almost to the point of being unsafe. Perhaps the biggest issue I have had with the Rojo is that as I understand the pockets of air they're all hook together so when one goes the all go as far as when one ruptures and deflates the whole cushion is affected. Over the years they've tried to limit the amount of problem by keeping just sections of the cushion integrated but still when one of the air sacs deflates you're left with an almost unusual cushion even if you have 3/4 of the cushion still intact. Anyway, I ramble. Don't get me wrong the Rojo's a great cushion especially if you're trying to either heal from skin breakdown or prevent skin breakdown. It's just not for me

A Very Long Day

 

Another early morning for no apparent reason but being too lazy turnover and catheterize. I mean I feel like I need to go to the bathroom, the empty my bladder, where just too tired to turnover and do the process so instead try to force myself back to sleep, which does not come , and not pee The bed at the same time. I do not dare sleep in, it's Thursday, and I see it my job to make sure that coffee social Goes off as planned. So I've got to get up and get shaved and make sure Things happen. As usual, who myself out of bed at 6 AM. I do my thingsAnd struggle to ge ssed– – much easier since I have elected not to wear shoes.

I am functionally rolling by 8:30 AM the cookies I purchased last night still in the sack from All a dollars and take them down to the community room and make a mistake of putting them on the giveaway table not thinking that people with seriously take the whole package of cookies… But they did. I tried to be angry but this was on me I really should've known better. If I had encountered a package of chocolate covered graham cookiesI suppose I would have done the same thing. And it turns out no big deal Chris brought donuts and we've been stockpiling the cookies that I've been dreaming the past couple weeks so we had calories to expend.

I have to admit even I think it's dangerously hot outside and therefore somewhat limiting by time out in the elements. I spent a good part of the morning following coffee social trying to update my resume. It has been sometime since I last updated the document. I have all my information about my Murray existence which I wanted to update my current contact information. It must be done case since I last used PDF software and oddly I don't have any on my equipment. I couldn't get my document open. I actually went down and asked Jennifer if she could assist me and she did but you just print the document I needed the information changed. Hopefully she'll send me the open/save the Word file documents-make the changes. In the meantime I managed to send a copy of the as is resume To have until I can get the updated version. This might not even be necessary since I'm really not trying to gain employment just be considered for membership to the board. But who knows where things go?

I continue to read my Tom Clancy and worry about the condition of my apartment, backup power chair that will not power and how I'm going to get my current chair repair.Speaking of repair I also need to fix a way to access my arm Bike. I think I've missed Working out like 200 minutes a week I'm amazed at how good the constant workout made me feel as well as give me the illusion of looking better;most of all the things I think I'm having these thoughts because it's almost 8 PM and I've been out for very long time in a very long day

Wednesday Thoughts

 

As much as I like to use the tablet to verbally dictate and how contingent the tablet is to enjoy using my computer, desktop and hopefully back in the game. Again, the tablet is very effective about doing basic dictation doesn't have all the little tricks that bedtime software has.This morning I noticed an email from Google indicating that I was eligible, once again, to reclaim my password or whatever the term is.I did with the email said that look like I was back in the game will see when it comes time to post this document in a few minutes.

Melissa was back from vacation today. I have to admit I was really glad to see her and her ability at service or at least her taking care of me. What was best was Melissa not looking at her watch every 5 minutes. This is what the person who substituted or Melissa and really put me off my game. Melissa, it's good to have you back. The rest of the day I pretty much all around the apartment complex taking off briefly across the street get treats for tomorrow's coffee social.I did spend some time trying to read out on the deck or the common area. Got a few pages read but mainly dozed. I was sitting at one of those tables With the Umbrella Stuck in the top of the table. I was fortunate day the umbrella was accepted and will give me adequate protection from the beast of The sun.

Remember I said I went to the market for the coffee treats. The other major reason I went to the market was to get a couple bags of popsicles.The bag I have been using was almost gone you have about 5 more popsicles left. It took me a while to find my hot/cold bag. Right after marketplace I headed to market. I have to admi 2 bags of popsicles which is 36 units those were counting is fairly heavy. But with little effort the bankers got them all into my H/C bag and removed the bag off my hook. I know I probably don't need 36 popsicles ALL at once but it is been my experience that only run out of just the plain popsicles taken forever to get new popsicles. You have a bunch of fancy dancy designer popsicles is just not the same. So now I'm set I wonder if I can consume these popsicles as quickly as I do the pickled peppers. Speaking of which, Melissa found the oversized can opener with hand crank and desperately want to use it but I put her off until Friday because I'm usually want to also cut up the peppers. I want to make sure this next batch/Large can of peppers are slashedCorrectly long way. I really want to try it on Friday and see how difficult task cutting the peppers this way is.

I can't remember the name of the place right now is like an ice cream/malt shop.net shopping area around 5400 S. and Redwood Road. This is place I would to last week and asked for an ice cream cone with one Scoop which cost me almost $5 . Aside from the sticker shock and the size of the hard ice cream scoop has left me the desire to go back for moreI don't know quite there but at least I'll know how much the next cone is going to cost…

Hot City neck pretty gritty

I really thought the high point of my day was going to be the assist meeting downtown Salt Lake at 11:00 a.m.. I was actually doing pretty well all things considered. I started getting up around 6:00 a.m. figuring that I had to get dressed and shaved and everything and ready to take the bus into the train and the train into the city. Now I knew that there was a problem before I caught the bus because of road construction the bus stop has been taken out of commission it's kind of freaks me out. I figured however that I'd be able to maybe go the back way in the back streets cut into the Community College and take the bus from its place where the bus comes in. What I didn't take into consideration with that the work guys of the streets chiseled up so badly there's no way I was getting into the Community College. I had to roll Maybe a mile out of my way maybe more to finally get to a number 47 bus stop on the far side of the Community College which eventually did take me in to the train but in doing so I used up so much time. I was kind of surprised by the time I got to assist,inc it was only about 15 to 20 minutes late and I was really surprised I thought it's going to be much later than that.

We have just started the new Grant year which means that we have money which means that we can actually take requests for home repairs. A lot of these have been stacked up waiting for the new funding but some are new quite a few actually and that's what we did once I got in station there at the office. Once we got going the process was pretty quick and we got about 19 or 20 requests signed and delivered. These people now will have new steps concrete and otherwise, new windows, off and on electrical repairs which powers air conditioners and such. What was really great was that it was a Payday. We rarely get any pay or financing for what we do we don't expect to. This is basically an altruistic function well for me it was part of my work week so that was something different as housing coordinator but still I never expected any Financial compensation we got some today wasn't much $48 but still that's quite a bit allowed me to get some things that I hadn't really planned on for a while.

With that in mind new money in my my laptop I took off for the bank cash the check then had a great lunch over at Taco Time my favorite guilty pleasure. Then I went off to find Standard Restaurant Supply which I hope would have industrial type can openers. I finally found the building didn't take too long but this was after I stopped at my old workplace the Utah Independent Living Center to visit with my friend Kim. And Kim drag me into the executive directors office Holly. I've been meaning to get to talk Holly ever since she became the new director which has been about 6 months now. In truth I'm a little bit intimidated by her and was reticent to spend time but Kim got us together we had a great conversation and looks like I'll be on the board of directors at that facility Plus on another board as far as Transportation goes all of which is pretty exciting and should be good for me to get back into the swing of things. What was the best part of the event was that she was making talk like the good old Independent Living director should which was having a source for folks with disabilities who aren't represented by any other group which is basically physically disabled folks. I don't know how much I will work with the center they're going to have to go through some major changes but that's okay it's a new day. I finally found restaurant supply after leaving the Independent Living Center and it took me awhile but I did find kind of what I was looking for a crank heavy duty can opener belts to open up the number 10 cans of restaurant vegetables and things like that in my case jalapeno peppers. I finally got to the train station and took the train to my stop. It was much easier getting home then getting to the bus. I cut the watermelon tonight I've been meaning to do that for some time. It went off better than I anticipated so dinner was pretty much watermelon and cheese cheddar cheese Sharp and pickled peppers sometimes the day does not turns out as you expect 

Measuring Monday

I cannot believe it! I just lost a 700 Word document of today's post to my blog! I don't know what I did but I was completely finished with it and I was going to save it to the blog site and I must have hit the wrong button and there's been no way I can retrieve it.:-( so here it goes I'm going to try again.

I didn't sleep as well as I would have liked primarily because I was worried about how the morning was going to go with the new/ substitute lady for Melissa who's on vacation. I was contacted by the agency last week that this was going to happen and that she was coming at 5:30 a.m. and would that be a problem. I indicated that was pretty early but you know I could survive and so whether or not that was a reason I woke up around 4:00 a.m. and couldn't really get back to sleep. As up at 5:00 a.m. and got a lot of my stuff done I've got coffee made and cleaned up a little bit in the kitchen and was finishing my catheterization when the individual walked in. I was a bit surprised she was well past middle age and she barely spoke English and I don't know how much she understood English and I wasn't sure how much she understood what my needs were. I am finding with this agency they don't really fill in their people when they start a new person. I mean they've always assured me that the people knew what my needs were and many times the people didn't know anything about what was going to need. She was a champ though between our broken English and her broken Romanian or whatever we got the process done. She even did the suppository fairly well. I must admit I feel concerned that the bowel movement itself was not a very good evacuation but I think I got enough out to get by until Wednesday when Melissa is back. I also felt a bit stressed out because she was supposed to be here at 5:30 a.m. and then she's about 20 minutes late and then start looking at her watch like she had some place to be. It seems like she has her regular nursing job up at the University Hospital and had to be on line at 7:00 a.m. so she really need to travel that half hour from our place here in Taylorsville up to the U. I need to probably do some soul searching in that how thankful I am with Melissa who I think regularly goes over the hour that I should be doing my stuff in but I think that Gloria also let me slip a little bit TimeWise but we always got a pretty decent bowel movement in the shower. This lady,5 I could not even pronounce her name was nice about everything and maybe on a long-term basis she would work out okay but it would be real challenging to say the least. Hopefully I'll be glad when Melissa is back.

I did run to the market today and pick up some green sliced Peppers to go with my drink. Makes a big difference. I still need to travel and get some a can opener that will handle the big industrial cans that I have. I also got a green pepper and some onion with the idea of making sloppy joes for tonight and that's what I did. I watched two movies during the day on Netflix then made dinner tonight and messed up the kitchen. I also found out that I have an assist, ink meeting tomorrow which I thought sure we did not but that's okay gets me up gets me out gets me enjoying the day. I have to be careful however because the one stop that I used to pick up no longer functions. Long story it's frustrating. Hopefully I'll sleep tonight…