Resistance Is Futile

 

You all know that I'm a real sucker for traditional type things. Like to have myself fall into a romantic idea of oneness celebration or another. I don't watch the midday report every day but today I had some time when I was around the TV around 12 noon and I tuned in and of course it was their pre-Greek Festival broadcast. They had one of the big Greek promoters/Cook's making Greek meatballs which looked great. The talking heads expounded on how wonderful the Greek Festival is now everyone needs to go and watch the dancing and eat the food and have a total great time and spend! Now this is where I have the moment of weakness. It sounds like a great way to spend at an evening or afternoon. And whoever does the Greek vessel made it easy to get to by putting a attract station right by the basketball Coliseum making getting there a cinch even for somebody in a power chair. I sucker for the whole 9 yards. A couple years ago I fell for the commercials for the state fair (which by the way opens today at the fairgrounds). It's a little bit more difficult to get there but you can do it by the bus relatively simple. However once that I got there it was just rolling around looked at this and looking at that having some fair food but dodging people and bumping over those giant electric cords which seems to run everywhere especially in the amusement area. You can always spend hours in the exhibit Barnes but that gets old real fast if you ask me bunch of old ladies Jonesing for blue ribbons for their pickled peppers. I always come away thinking is the last time I will ever do that. But already in sinking in the back of my mind “that might not be a bad way to spend a Sunday afternoon or Saturday evening” I'm just so dumb!

I do like some of the fair food that's true especially if you can find real live corndogs made the way they used to. It's almost worth the discomfort for a real corndogs. I sort of think the same is true as far as the Greek food goes. Launch our cook did a big piece on the Greek meatballs sorted by mouth water. In fact there's another joint on 33^rd South and about 4^th East, a place calledThe Med of course for they do Mediterranean food. That's another hidden gem . You have to watch their menu but every once in a while they have this beautiful plum stopped meatball sized to your fist actually it comes with 2 meatballs and their great. But that's information for another blog. The heat dome which is been sitting on Utah for the past week feels like it's making a decision to move on. The hurricane of California are the Gulf of Mexico has begun pumping moisture into the area and I think pushing a low-pressure system into the area moving at dome out finally. I bring this up only's illustrate the fact the weather might be very travel able for the next couple of days maybe a few drops of rain. Maybe I will as long as it does not rain on my parade.

My Fair Claire

 

090722 – – Wednesday

Another triple digit day as far as temperatures drop so I used the great copout of being an older persons with a disability it would be wise for me to stay inside and not subject myself to the burning sun. Not that sound would've had anything to do with stopping me if I had something to do that would put me out in the community on the buses or the train. I chose to be shoeless and enjoy the confines of the apartment and particularly, today, my patio which was warm and toasty but not brutally hot since it's pretty much a Northern exposure and gets no direct sunlight hardly ever.

I spent some time before lunch talking with the smokers out in the parking lot it was pretty quiet, the discussion, but soon broke up with everybody except me having responsibilities to provide lunch for their respective mates. I don't really see much of these meetings, I try to stay apolitical because I know these guys are all conservative. The kind of grow on me however and I am quite frankly amazed at how many people stop by and join the whole conversation from time to time. After all, a visitor parking lot and people are coming going to their vehicles. Between the rat dogs and cats I have my share ofspace exposure to domestic beasts. I have yet to really expose my disdain for these hairy beings. I'm sure I will be disbarred from this little group when and if that should happen. Oh well, I'll just continue to play it by ear.

You know what's weird? Is that I kind of feel guilty for not doing anything day-to-day except for the meetings that I attend often on either in person or through Zoom. I have a couple next week but this week I think government offices/and businesses of the private sector are still unpacking from Labor Day weekend. That's okay in the past I've recorded about how much I hated trying to have a board meeting following the holiday weekend. I understand. I'm so glad I don't have to do that anymore.

I noticed on Facebook my boss turned 70 yesterday sometime over the weekend. I was kind of shocked because I thought she was older than I was. This is the person who saved my bacon during my last days of employment with the state of Utah. She made arrangements that is continue to work until I was totally eligible for my full pension. Clare published images over get together I assume in North Salt Lake looks like there little place. I would really like to have attended but I doubt I was ever gotten an invitation if not just crashed the event if I knew how and where she lived that would've been kind of fun. She looked pretty good. I think she's lost some weight or maybe a work out or two. I really liked working for her and what she did for me. Happy birthday Claire all the best

Brat Cat

 

Technically the summer is not over not until something like September 21 or something like that, you know the fall equinox but it's the day after Labor Day. In the real world people have gone back to work, kids to school and pensioners back to whatever they do to fill the time they have left for me today would've been the trip in the city for my Assist meeting. Well that did not happen, same as last week, the bosses on vacation still somewhere in Europe or something. It's amazing what these young people do. Anyway, no reason to go into the city and really no reason the venture anywhere particularly after noon when the temperature is supposed to once again get up into the 3 digits. Not that I'm frightened of the heat I just don't want to tempt anything so I'm being cautious, probably overly cautious but it's a good enough excuse to stay in around the apartment.

As soon as I got dressed, no shoes, I had to make a trip to the dumpster tossing them box that I got over the weekend from Amazon. It may be little before or after 9 AM so the day was still cool and inviting. After depositing my box in the dumpster occurs across the patio space to see if there's anybody in the smoking area there wasn't but as I cruised past the seating area something stirred the corner of my eye would stop my progress and their sleeping in the padded chair was one of the “communal” pets of the facility. Like most beasts of its caliber its antisocial and barely touchable. However, a number of the seniors here have taken it upon themselves to feed these wanderers and so they stay. Summer and winter. As you know I'm not particularly fond of cats and or pets in general. I don't know why I'm so antagonistic to these beasts I just am. Truth be known I have actually petted these beings unconsciously for I could be condescending enough to show them off my person. This cat on the seat is actually pretty well groomed and relatively well behaved just obnoxious and coy and extremely elitist. There is another feline which has “adopted” the old smoker ladies. This cat is a real mess probably very old itself, for shooting every which way every time I see the beast I think it's coming off some sort of catnip binge. If there were cigarettes for cats this beast would have one hanging out of its mouth and probably a patch over one of its eyes. This beast is smart enough to hightail every time I come out of the building your the one is not figured me out yet and comes running until it sees me then stops and casually walks away like it meant to do so.

I read more in my Lowell Bennion biography in the shade while sucking on some popsicles I figured it was a perfect way to recover from a holiday weekend…

Labor Day Hottie

 

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I think I've told you about my vortex theory, I think everybody subscribes to it in one form or another weathers the lost sock in the dryer or trying to find the one shoe you know it's there but for the life you can't find it only to find these things the next day or whenever you think you no longer need them like when you replace them with time and effort. This happened to me again this morning bums me out just a little. I asked to got some decent sleep last night which is always welcome having to get up only once to cath. I noticed the bathroom need some real attention especially the floor. And I felt today would be a good day to address that need.

My mom used Pine-Sol I can still remember. Coming home to have that Pine-Sol smell throughout the house and she was hitting the bathroom or the kitchen or wherever with the mop and bucket and what seemed like lots of Pine-Sol. So I'm a believer. Couple weeks ago I bought a bottle, a small bottle of Pine-Sol, after all of this and take a whole lot. And I have been meaning to, at the right moment get after some of the floors of the apartment. I've been dragging lots of dirt and the place this summer we slept a couple times (actually a bunch of times) and there's just all kinds of buildup on the floors. I figured because it was old holiday weekend what better time to address the needs of the bathroo or especially after this morning's shower. Attract a lot of dirt in last week after getting my wheelchair stuck in the mud and it's time to address the left over mud on the floor and some odors which have been developing. I messed around the apartment after Melissa left. I even worked out on the arm bike got my 60 minutes in that's when I decided to mop the floor in the bathroom. I got my ever ready red bucket out and then started searching for my bottle of Pine-Sol which of course I couldn't find anywhere. Other tile at low but could not believe it was gone. However, the day was so nice outside of just head over to the market pickup at another bottle. I never made it to the market at least to Macy's. With the advent of the dollar store, dollar $.25 store and that store being right before Macy's and up doing a side trip and of course found a huge bottle of what I was looking for for a $1.25.

True to the nature of the vortex assumes I got home I happened to notice the cabinet next to the stove where I keep a lot of light cleaning materials was ajar. Unbelievably of all the places I was looking this morning for the Pine-Sol I did look there and of course when I opened the cabinet there was. Now I have a nearly new bottle of Pine-Sol in the mega bottle of a knockoff brand. Well the bigger bottle will go into the cabinet for sometimes the future and I took the Pine-Sol measured the water out of the Pine-Sol and went to work. I wish I could say it was a fine and fun experience but I don't really have a decent mop. The ones I have the sponges in the mop of all kind of deteriorated. I did get the Pine-Sol water on the floor and I think got the oder -makers pretty well eradicated. I did not as best as I could with what I had but like I said the mop sponge is pretty well disintegrated living quite a mess on the floor which I am going to try to broom/sweep up. I think it will throw my old mops away except for one which is one of those mops of all the stringy things on the end like a real-life old-time mop. One that you need to have some kind of ringer to press the water out. I got mom's mop bucket when she died and I know it was at the house but I don't know what happened to it it obviously did make the move over here. It would've been perfect. I'm stoked to see if I can find a mop bucket that as the ability to bring the water out of the mop. I'm also going to see if I can find a mop that I can actually work to squeeze the moisture out of the sponge and mop the floor.

Probably not the best way to spend the Labor Day but, it really is to hot to try to do anything outside was just no fun trying to do a fun cook thing inside what I did have though was perfect for my Labor Day, one cold hot dog, green grapes and cottage cheese, grape tomatoes the last of my ruffled potato chips with sour cream dressing. I didn't have a watermelon – – and that would've been nice – – but I'm okay with that. All in all it was a pretty good Labor Day I am thankful…

Two shoes Sunday

 

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The Heat continues everyday and everyday I just get through… just get through. It's Sunday morning which means it's time for breakfast which means it's time to get myself out of bed. I had a bit of a challenge getting ready for or breakfast this morning. I wasn't ready to get up when I woke and glanced at the clock it was 4:30 AM or something like that. I had gotten up in the middle of the night to do my thing and I guess I didn't get enough sleep time sleep time when it was time to rise. So I'm groggy and getting up is a little more of a challenge than usual. Even getting dressed was a challenge this morning.I Just had a little trouble lifting the one leg to slip my shorts on and then making sure I could bridge high enough to get my trousers up over the hips what the hell I eventually did and I did it all within the time frame but I acknowledged dressing was a bit more difficult then usual. I'm becoming more and more sensitive to problems I have of doing regular things, like dressing. Each time I have an issue I kind of panic thinking this is aging catching up with me. In my mind I go through a number of solutions to the possible problem and it's always the wheelchair. I really blame it for everything that I can't do. I always come back to I think it's just the wrong chair for me but that's just the bad times. Most of the time lately I've got enjoyed the chair even his lack of speed.

Anyway, dressed and ready to go is time for breakfast. I hadn't heard from Mark but I assume that he was on his way. It was already after 8 AM so I figure I better take off. Many times on Sunday morning instead of going out my secret side door entrance to the sidewalk I go through the building and exit through the front entrance. I then go through the skate park and then onto the sidewalk right across the street in the middle of the block because there is such lack of traffic on Sunday mornings it's quite safe. As I roll through the skate park I noticed a pair of abandoned shoes. There are neatly placed next to each other against the wall which I think skaters end up putting their belongings when they skate. I put together a scenario where the kid for one reason or another took his shoes in this case slippers off to either change in the real shoes or skate without shoes. I don't think that would be a very wise move, myself, if you're on a skateboard coming off the side of the wall or whatever you going pretty fast and I would think you'd want some kind of foot protection if if you were to lose your footing in crash. Whatever happened when it was time to leave the individual forgot their shoes. On this image I'm most intrigued again about how neatly their position one next to the other. It's still early in the day when I took this image and maybe the owners came back at some point the Sunday morning. I did not think to stop and see if the shoes were still there when I came back from the restaurant, in fact I haven't thought about all until writing this posting. I hope the owners find them or remember them look real comfortable a kind items I'd like to wear if it were such things

No way Home

 

it's almost 7:30 PM on Saturday night and still 94° outside. I just got back from taking some garbage out to the dumpster. I guess the temperature is uncomfortable to most people a least everybody seems to be complaining about how hot it is. I'm not complaining and I'm not necessarily enjoying the heat but I do enjoy the dryness and the opportunity to get out and do stuff.

I went to the movies today because it was national cinema day! The place where I go to movies were showing movies at $3 a shot which didn't bother me because I do the $18 month free movie pass that my theater so it was free regardless. I went to a Spiderman movie today I think the latest one “No Way Home”. I thought sure I had seen this Spiderman. The copyright date was 2021 so I think this particular movie was one which was supposed to been released during the Covid lockdown. I think it also might be the latest of the Spiderman franchise. This one also messed with a couple of marvels key concepts right now one being the multi-verse and the other one having someone knock you out of your body, I think they've talked about the astral body when this happens. I think it gained initial traction on the Hulk or possibly Dr. strange I can't remember which one went 1^st. It's kind of pathetic that after they do something cool like that they tend to overuse it in the following features. There was a little surprised to see them use it on Peter Parker. I mean it just gets a little old I don't know over the form of laziness and not. I mean is certainly not one to talk as far as reusing techniques are concepts that seemed to work over and over again.

I was totally amazed because it seems like I had seen the movie before were thought that I had but the movie that I saw today felt totally new. There were a couple scenes that I thought I'd may be seen before but most of the movie look totally new to me which kind of blew it away. I was also intrigued the way they used all 3 Spiderman or actors who played Spiderman that was kind of cool. I don't know if I watch the movie again at the theater but who knows I might. When the movie was over I did a little shopping at Harmon's close to this moviehouse allows doing so noticed my bus pass. That's the weekend so I think I would have to wait 30 minutes before the next bus. I could do it but I'd much rather be home sucking on popsicle or something. I put my chairing dear drove home in the heat which I really didn't think it was that bad. If I had not had my hat on I might be whistling another tune. No problems whatsoever and is able to get home before the next bus passed me which is always good. I was kind of on the fence about going to the movies are not. I seriously could stay home and then paper pencil puzzles or if nothing else read the biography am currently reading through. I felt my going to the cinema was important not only for the day but for my well-being even if it was a Marvelokay offering

Holiday Weekend

 

I'm sure you're all tired of me harping about how special holidays are, to me, but I have to say I'm overcome with joy which comes from the knowledge that you're standing/sitting on the eve of a holiday weekend. Granted Labor Day I consider one of the minor majors because I just didn't understand the whole concept of Labor Day and work and all that kind of stuff growing up. But a holiday it is and staff of all gone home closed up their offices in anticipation of the Monday day off. I did my holiday trip over to the market and got a few things that I felt couldn't wait until Tuesday or Wednesday. They probably all could have purchased the idea of shopping for the holiday but I'll probably make it over there couple more times before Monday but the fun of the holiday weekend.

I don't think I went overboard this year the only thing I got that was kind of holiday WAS a bag of chips POTATO CHIPS. Sadly, this market does not carry my home brand of Clover club potato chips and its probably just as well because there certainly lost their hometown flavor for me anyway. IT'S PROBABLY JUST ME ANYWAY nothing takes the same. Go to apologize for whatever this program is doing as far as shelving capital letters with you don't belong. The document reads the same just not as pretty/uniform. I even got ice cream in a carton so I can scoop out scoops of ice cream, hard ice cream into my ice cream cones. I've been doing the little cups with mental cave just not the same. I don't know if I can handle AN ICE CREAM SCOOP but we'll see half the fun of the holiday is the experimentation of trying to do a few new things. I did not get any meets, yet anyway, I do have some ballpark Franks and I got some hot dog buns and maybe I just get by on that. I do have some broccoli and I could make s'more garb rock which I totally enjoyed last week. I forgot how much I enjoyed that dish. I have in the freezer chicken and hamburger. One thing I haven't done the longest time is make barbecued chicken that might be kind of fun of course it would be much better if it was done in/on a barbecue but I don't feel compelled to do anything on the apartment barbecue besides the super hot days continue with us last thing I need is the reality in the heat cooking. Boy do I sound like a wuss or what?

The only thing for sure that I've got planned if anything is the breakfast on Sunday with Mark Anthony and who shows up. I might see what movies are playing with visiting new shows are maybe watch some of the other old ones again since I have that capability or better yet maybe just maybe do some binging with Netflix or Disney. A couple days ago I stumble onto what I thought was a relatively new series daredevil and I started watching that realizing there is a bunch more in this 1^st season and I has 3 seasons this about 36 shows that subsided looks like it's pretty well done it's a marvel that says the law. So I could just been but I doubt I'll do that. I'm deep into my Bennion biography. It is really written well for biography. So I have popsicles I have jalapeno peppers and I have juice I have things frozen and I have vegetables I'm set for the weekend. By the way Dennis, I loved your posting on Facebook or wherever that image of you on the farm is just darling…

Is Cream Dreams

 

I hate it when I sell out and I hate it more when I sell out on myself that's exactly what I did today just for the promise of ice cream. How weak is that? Maybe my need for ice cream was so great because written the middle of that giant drought/hot spell right now were dealing with temperatures now over a week of hundred degrees plus weather. Seriously, the temperature is not so bad as always I enjoy being out in the heat particularly if I'm hydrated, wearing a hat basically everything I should be doing to be outside. But today I saw the calendar at 3 PM one of the “vendors” will be coming into provide the ice cream in an ice cream social. Of course I have visions of my mind of the Lawrence Welk show vision of an ice cream social with beautifully clad 1950s teenagers deliriously licking ice cream cones dug out of tubs of frozen ice cream like they used to have. What's even worse is that I sold out by not listening to my regular show Marketplace which is broadcast at the same time and this time I was really kind of interested in what the show teaser talked about which was the problems of public transit in the big cities following the pandemic. Since this is the Streaming age I should be able to snag the broadcast begins at 7 PM this evening but even then I have things I need to be doing our want to do that I may have to make a choice – – but that's not true either because with streaming you can stream anytime. However I really want a list of the show so maybe I will listen to the broadcast again at 7 PM or wherever it's held up at. So I suppose it to really not a big deal, especially with today's technology which allows a person to stream anything, anywhere, anytime. Now I just have to remember to do it!

Like Chinese food, and many other things the promise of hard ice cream just isn't there anymore. The vendor brought boxes of creamsicles, Fat Boys and possibly fudgesicles all in one of those plastic ice chests that seems to be ubiquitous during the summer months. I would've been surprised had he showed up with real tubs of hard ice cream and cones. That I think are things of the past at least in social settings. I've figured out a way to dig out ice cream in a cup that I purchased bags of and plop it on top of ice cream cone which is good in that it really limits me to how much I can eat ice cream and satisfies my need for a treat. There was one place in this area of the town where one can still get ice cream dug out of the wonderful round tubs and served in a very wide range of cones which is that IHC hospital cafeteria/restaurant but that's a goner thanks to Covid/pandemic. There's also a joint down the street called Leatherby's which likes to sell them selves as an ice cream mecca. I'll have to make time to go check it out until then I plan to head over to the market sometime soon and purchase one of those little round tubs of hard ice cream of various flavors maybe that's all I need to meet and satisfy this desire I have for ice cream castles of my past

Clip Clip!

 

Every 9 weeks I settle up and head south to 8822 Redwood Rd. which is the address of my podiatrist. Yes I have a podiatrist I cannot believe I say that it is true. I'm surprised at how many people use podiatrists talk about a thriving industry and a bit of a lucrative one as well for these little guys who take your shoes off clouds and dig and scrape your feet and clip your toenails to the best of their ability. My guy, Richard, takes about 10 to 15 maybe sometimes 20 minutes on my feet and then I'm done for another 9 weeks, like clockwork. Then Richard charges back to my insurance couple hundred bucks for his labor. Now, I'm just talking about toenail care I also know that Richard is an accomplished foot physician as well. I've been very thankful when I've had issues with my feet sores or traumatic toenail rips or whatever and Richard just jumped right on the situation got me in and out the door.

I have come to really look forward to my short little visits with Richard. His son is just finished podiatry school which is a form of medical school I guess. It's intense that's a four-year program passed regular bachelors degree. I think he has brothers also in the same business as quite a family function. We have a couple of storefronts around the state. I don't know if he does any home visiting our clinics in long-term care facilities or anything like that which ensure could be low hanging fruit. Everyone still while somebody shows up here at the complex and people line up to have their feet looked at and worked on. I don't go to these guys because I go to Richard, I'm a little elitist I guess that respect. I like the whole concept. I now just have to keep my wits about me in every 9 weeks contact the Salt Lake County Senior transit program to pick me up drop me off and pick me up again to take me home. My next session is going to be in November and he knows what kind of weather that will bring. We can't count on anything now that global warming has taken over.

I must take a quick paragraph and confess that as much as I like Richard doing my feet I miss Dianne doing my feet. It's one of those situations that I didn't know a good deal I had when I had it. I thought Dianne was being mean to me the way that she clipped my toenails. I sided with my dog cinnamon thinking that Dianne got too close to the quick many times. At least she didn't use a drill tool which Richard does the board to my feet get a jumping. I have to admit I was a real boob and thought I was really been hurt when DD attended to my feet but no matter what she did nothing compared to what Richard does in the 10 to 15 minutes he works on my feet. So DD I miss your care of my feet you really did a good job I just wanted you to know…

Kid Letter-House Keeping

 

I don't know how many times I've indicated that I write this blog primarily for myself. Just to see if I can keep writing day after day. My favorite mantra is “a writer writes”. Now I really don't think of myself as a writer like Jerry or Lori, who are real writers but I like to sit down and may be right about something does happen to me usually during the day. But 1^st and foremost I write for myself. Having said that I'm always amazed when I just happen to notice that someone has taken the time to write a comment regarding something that I've written. There is a feature at the bottom of the page which allows readers to respond. I don't know how much I really want something like that. Like I said more than anything I'm surprised that anybody reads the blog let alone responds to something I've written. It's usually good stuff though there's been some kind of negative reports. List the god-awful I'll take them down. Then there's a couple of computer-generated/bots who have “tripped over my” blog and have regurgitated whatever their programmed to write. I usually take those off too. I've even gotten some comments written in Farsi or some other Middle Eastern or Asian alphabets. I kind of think these are bots as well. After 4000+ entries I guess someone determined to leave a comment.

I was pleased to find that my pension came in during the night for this month. I didn't want to pull any more money out of my account until more money has been added. I try to keep a certain amount of cash around the apartment to pay for things like tips to my home health people, lite- shopping and cash for kids letters which I basically finished this morning. I know it sounds a little paranoid but I like having the cash to pay for items which does not leave a record. Call me old-fashioned. So with that in mind, I drove my chair down the cream to college rectum pickup the 47 westbound which basically drops me off at the credit union. I wanted to go early enough to miss the heat of the day which is still quite significant – – due to global warming I totally believe. Everything worked perfectly. There were no lines at the credit union I was able to my transaction done quickly even though I bested up a little I'll be able to deal with the problem. And then cut the bus back and I was home by 11 o'clock. A totally good day even given me the illusion that I'd done something relatively important. If there is a drawback to the day it was once again my computer could not find my printer. The solution for this, according to online in full, is to unplug the printer let it stand for 30 seconds and plug it back in and of course that something's almost impossible for me to do the way my computers configured to the printer. I ended up having my neighbor Billie stop in who is able to pull the plug out far enough to plug in the printer and the thing worked. I've got my letters printed as well as the envelopes I just need to kind of proof and then sign, stuff the money and send it out. I still have a day before the 1^st of the month so I feel pretty good about myself. I didn't have to go to Salt Lake City today for my Assist, Inc. meeting. The boss is still on vacation…

Haircut Monday

wall art fromm the barbershop. The young guys did  the art…

I am really not prepared for this month to be over but it's coming. I don't know why but I have not been as on top of things as I should have been this month. I would like to blame the slackness on the heat but that doesn't make sense. Possibly my early involvement with the smokers out in the parking lot that doesn't really hold a lot of weight either accept I did spend a lot of time with these folks, who I like, but I just didn't get other things done in a timely manner like I should. The biggest case in point is I realize that the after tomorrow on the last day of this month I have a toenail appointment down S. Redwood Rd. I have found that I can contact Salt Lake County Senior services who runs a service delivering people who are seniors to them from medical and government appointments and other bureaucratic appointments. I've used them a couple of times for this minor medical attention to my toes i.e. cutting my toenails that really is kind a convenient. I remembered over the weekend that my appointment was this week and that I had not yet made an appointment with the transit service. I did call them this morning as soon as I was done with my home health visit but, as I expected, it was way too late all the time slots unfilled for sometimes. The operator did indicate that I can put my name on a waiting list in case any options opened up but I doubt that that's going to happen and luckily for me the bus will drop me off their but I have to actually wait quite a while when I have to switch buses at 7000 S. Souths to continue on my journey. But that this point that I have to wait sometimes 30 to 40 minutes before the next bus pulls out. Granted, it's an inconvenience but certainly not the end of the world especially with the temperatures as nice as they are right now. I need to get on top of this however so that I do have this transit convenience down for the bad weather if and when it comes this year. Need to make a commitment to try to make arrangements at least a week before set appointment is to occur.

It's not like not being able to make these arrangements (the pits of depression but I felt like I want to do something for myself and it was time to contact my barber to see if she was in today… And she was! As you know, I really like Myla who runs this little barber shop across the street from my apartment. To really convenient just really nice and as affordable as anybody else in some cases more so. She's recently (within the last year) allowed some young folk artists to move into her shop and essentially use her license for them to apply their hairstyling business. They do high-end cuts for minority men in the area. To have a deal worked out with Myla since she is the professional, with a license, and has a salon in the fall under to say except for I worry about the girl hope that her best interests are not maligned. I got my haircut and got back to the apartment after a short visit to the market. It's been a good day, I did wear shoes that always makes it a great day. I pretty much have by kid letters written for the month I still have to go over them again and print and I'm waiting for my end of the month 1^st of the month payments to come to the bank working bus over to the branch picked up some change for letter stuffers. I'm not sure if I have a meeting tomorrow downtown. See last Tuesday's entry. So I should be out one where the other and the wonderful heat of the last days of August…

DC Super Pets

 

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I enjoyed DC comics long before Marvel. I think primarily aside from comics like Disney you know Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck and goofy there the only comic books out there well not really hammering there was war/army type comics as well. I only knew about DC comics that's all you ever saw. Batman, Superman etc. that was good enough for me. Like I've talked about the past my big input of comics was at the school October/Halloween Carnival were kids would bring all the your supplies of comics had be sold there. I often wait until the end and would get the whole box for the signal a few dollars. I had to sort through got rid of a lot like Lulu and other type girl comics but I got a lot of great titles. Of course, when I got to junior high I begin to associate with real comic aficionados. That's what I was turned onto the whole world of Marvel comics and most specifically spider.

With this in mind I decided out take in DC comics animation piece DC super pets. I did not dislike the movie but certainly wasn't up there with what I expect from Marvel. It was sort of like a grand scale Saturday morning superhero cartoon stuff. I made it through the whole movie but there are a couple times where I fought off sleep rather heroically. I was also interested in a lot of the trailers that should after the movie and a few before the movie of actual DC comic movies that are on are trying to be on the same scale as the Marvel camp. Sadly I don't think it's going to happen. There's some movies coming out in September and October I believe that your Batman and Superman. Both of these guys have had movies done and actually been pretty good knowledge think about it as good as the Marvel comics but not in the same way and not with the longevity that some of the franchises have developed over the years. Whereas Batman and Superman have been true character studies they've been more like real movies as opposed to what's been shown in the Marvel universe. I mean they tried to do that with Spiderman and Ironman and they pretty much pulled it off but there is no law special-effects and some good writing. I'll be interested to see what DC's able to pull off in the next couple years. I hope I'm given the opportunity to see these.

It was hot today a lot warmer than I anticipated. I actually had quite a bit of accumulated points on my movie card which allowed me to get a drink and popcorn, seemingly for free, even with the hydration from the soda I still felt anew the hydrate. I said outside once I got home and read my book trying to finish it today if possible. Even though I sit in the shade I think I got overheated luckily I have popsicles to get me through till tomorrow.…

Saturday Movie

I really amaze myself. I thought I had a horrible night sleep wise 1st off it was very late going to bed when I read to like 1 AM or something that kind awoke up at 4 AM and just cut I dozed until 6 AM and then I got up and I've been going out all day long and I still feel pretty good only now yawning up for the 1st time. I know this is extremely lazy but I'm going to leave the number with the ST and rather growing and changing the numerals to words. I should have stayed home and finished writing my kid letters I wrote one letter today and that was to my ex-mother-in-law who has had some extremely bad luck of late. She's extremely elderly and began to fall on more than a regular basis. She banged itself up pretty bad last week is now rehabilitation but I hope she's doing okay. She was always nice to me and I appreciate that.

I decided I would end the week with the movie. I'm a little bummed out the really aren't a lot of good movies out there right now (I know I'm being a bit judgmental). I checked the movie schedule is pretty close to the times that would be showing the movies that I was interested in. Transit got me to 5400 S. us feeling pretty cheap I didn't want the calories that my buttered popcorn would render so instead I went to the high-end market just in front of the movie theater and got some of the specially bred cut into strips and covered with their secret zesty sprinkles and bootlegged it into the theater. The bread product costs made the $1 .55. Anything at the theater will cost me a small fortune.

Now that weird feeling when you get somewhere and nothing is way it's supposed to be. I got my tickets for a movie I thought was starting in 5 minutes and when I got in there the cleaning people/person was still hard at work wiping down the seats. I then checked my cell phone on movie times and I had read the times wrong. I thought my movie was to start at 11:40 AM but when I looked closer movie didn't start till 1:40 PM abate your difference. The movie I wanted to see was now beginning to show the previews so I raced out and got back to the ticket person explain the situation and they cut me a new ticket to the theater showing the movie I was interested in 3000 years old longing for something like that. Show wasn't half bad very colorful almost beautiful in some ways. A love story but a qualified science fiction thing as well. The opportunity for the audience to know a genie from the bottle elected never known it before kind of great treatise of the idea. I don't know if I would watch it again but it was certainly good wants to get my attention through the whole film. I got home in time for the last part of the national news. I cooked a nice T-bone steak ever had frozen for a couple of months. I didn't use anything else like potatoes and other starches I didn't even eat anything green I just cut steak into strips and watch my movie – – MCU Dead Pool 2. A pretty much is the movie for background noise though in some ways it is entertaining. And that's it for another Saturday night in Taylorsville Utah…

Turn Switch

 

I get so frustrated with myself – but you all know that. I can't remember if I've written about this issue are not but I have a number of these great, cheap, gooseneck clamp on lamps. The lamp has that alligator type of clamp that you pry open it on the flat surface you want to adhere the lamp to then plug it in a away you go. On the end of the lamp there is a round dome light switch that you can easily put your finger on internal amp on and off by twisting this dome. The only drawback is these domes are cap tend to pop off and if you don't find that piece and secure it back onto the little switch deal he that's left you have to turn the lamp on off by pinching the exposed and in turning. This is no problem for individuals who have full use of their hands and even me who has partial use I can use these switches to a point is just easier when that dome like piece is on the end of the lamp . I especially use this piece with my sticks with a nonslip coating which allows me to actuate this cap. Over the past couple of months I've actually been some research indicating that Walmart sells these pieces in 6 piece units. The section made sense to me when I read this that means I'm not the only one who has lost these caps especially to the point where they offer for sale in units of 6. The only problem the only problem is I spent all afternoon at my local Walmart.

These are such weird times it's hard to blame poor service on employees or Covid or the fact that I am unprepared and don't really know what I'm looking for. I'm beginning to wonder if the fact that I cannot find anyone to help me at the Walmart is a result of the fact that they are short on labor like everything seems to be these days. I did and was able to find the section and the lighting section of Walmart right action purchased my clamp on lamp. But searches I might I cannot find a new bags of replacement switches. So I went and trecked all over the store looking for a salesperson and finally finding some less than enthusiastic folks over at the computer section who said they were going to help me find what I was looking for but then disappeared or got lost in the market or whatever. Finally, I found somebody with a manager type badge on his shirt pocket and suppressed them into helping me or trying to. I found the drug them over to where the lamps are and specifically the clamp on lamps. Of course she just scratched his head similar to me but I felt I still had to go through the process of asking him. I figured he could be magic and pull out a manual somewhere and tell me where to order this material from but no dice. However, after I explained to him everything we finally figured out what I needed he reached over and pulled the Off of one of the lamps and handed to me and said “here take this one. I'll report this lab is nonfunctional and send it back will send replacement out". Just like that my problem was solved. I still would like to get a bag of 6 units I just need to find out where…

Pizza Carnage

 

I Fight entropy. If I was still driving and I believed in personalized license plates that's what mine would say. I just finished dinner or at least the eating part of it. Now, before I get to bed I want to get back in the kitchen a little bit and try to straighten up the mess that I made just making dinner! Remember the other day I reported that senior who lives in this complex who regularly leaves things attached to my doorknob left me a frozen pizza this last go around. I've had it in the refrigerator for a couple of days and figure tonight was as good as any night to cut the thing. It was relatively simple comparatively speaking and I was pretty tired actually from having gone to a movie this afternoon and 90° heat. So I want something relatively simple but fun after all it is Thursday night the beginning of my weekend. So, since I already had turkey pepperoni I opened up a can of olives and did a quick chop chop and pretty much settled for that. The pizza was free and it's a small one. I did want to totally over load the surface area with goodies. I thought about chopping up some green pepper and I do have a piece of onion at me to be processed but didn't have the energy tonight. I figured with olives and turkey pepperoni and whatever else was on the pizza that came with it looks like cheese and some tomato sauce I should be happy and I am.

I kind of think this pizza was part of a 2 or 3 frozen pizza deal and she just peeled one off to give to me. They were individually wrapped. I guess the point in trying to make is that I think these pieces were made to be taken from a frozen state and thrown into an oven and cook. But I've had mine thawed in sitting in the refrigerator for the past 3 or 4 days this pizza was one limp biscuit. I thought about cooking the piece in my high sided, metal cooking basket/plan which my brother made me but I didn't want to move very easily and I was afraid of tearing apart the whole thing. I ended up shoving my pizza pan swiftly underneath the limp pizza and throwing it in the oven at 425. I wasn't sure on the temperature so I just shot from the hip. I watched a little news and checked on the oven a couple times and finally figured it was now or never. The crust looked brown on its way to black so I turned off the heat and open the door to let it cool because I knew there is no way I was going to be able to get a hot pizza out of the oven by myself without throwing the pizza onto the floor.

Totally surprising something that I do especially kind of randomly works out in my favor and tonight was one of those nights. The crust was nice and crispy, just the way I like it, the olives in the turkey pepperoni was okay too I think I would've been happier if I'd taken the time to process the onion in a green pepper which would have greatly added to the flavor. But as it turned out the pizza was just right for Thursday night dinner experience. With the help of a hook I was able to pull the pizza off the cooking pan onto the basket and onto the table or is able to cut my dinner up. I'm blessed I still have pizza left for tomorrow morning and maybe even Saturday morning if I'm not too greedy.

The movie was good, all things considered, I'm glad I didn't have to pay full price. It was Brad Pitt in some fast-paced major violent comedy (?) Feature. Even though I could attend again free I don't think that I would. However, I was pleased with myself for leaving the apartment and using my resources to enjoy the movie or at least attend and by the way, I did feel special I was the only one in them theater for the whole movie. I asked the guy who processed by entry if he was worried about regal theaters reorganizing their bankruptcy. He said he figured Regal is good for another 6 months at least in that hit have to see what would happen. That was good enough for me I took my drink and headed into the movies…

No Shoes Wednesday

 

As you can tell I'm not wearing any shoes. I've realized this summer that just one shoes too much in my feet have been able to breathe like they usually do. I don't know if I will continue this concept but maybe I will start doing a no shoe Wednesday tradition. Even if I are this tradition until just the end of the summer. I think it will be enough. Recently, I've been a bit concerned about what my feet look like in my shoes as well as in the foot box of this power chair. I still believe it was oversized when I got it but I have gotten used to it actually kind of like it now for my comfort standpoint as well as the illusion of security it gives by wrapping around my feet particularly when I'm barefooted. I've only worn shoes, particularly the summer, because I've been meaning to go places and just not sure how people respond to bare feet of people in wheelchairs. I know for instance if you just walking around barefooted many proprietors have a problem with you in your establishment. So, rather than risk a confrontation over the coverings I'd not the coverings I decided to go with shoes the summer. I've actually thought about searching for a pair sandals like just sort of rest my feet on and still feel like I'm wearing shoes after all I see guys in sandals (which is just about as shoeless as one can get and not be barefooted) moving in and out of social places all the time from buses the bars known questions bare feet in sandals.

The only problem with my bare feet is that they tend to be puffy people who knows what they're talking about always note that I'm retaining water and all I can say is that “I know” and I have for nearly 60 years. Just what I do and I will get by I always do. So right now my bare feet, my swollen feet are my torn up oversized foot box makes me look very tacky and I guess I've accepted that the point of not really caring about my appearance hoping that my misguided belief in the illusion that people are who they are inside not on the outside (I don't know if that really made any sense you know).

Tomorrow, following coffee social, I'll be heading straight over to the restaurant for the Writers Brunch I guess I could go to coffee social and then swing by the apartment to slip my shoes on. And,I go to this restaurant almost every week at least once. They know me at the restaurant pretty well and I'm sure they would let me in no problem. But I'm almost sure that I'm not going to take the time to slip my shoes on tomorrow just the same and hope for the best so as I dress tomorrow going to put on my shoes then my shorts and my shirt and I'll be ready to go more than able to pass anybody's appearance test at least for the basics is not a whole lot I can do about this chair just yet but that's material for another post…

Taco Hell Imagined

 

Vacation day! When the boss takes vacation many times so does the staff. Andrea's is the closest thing I have to a boss right now. He runs the little volunteer group on Tuesday mornings who approve or not move of projects being done by Assist, Inc. This pretty much rubberstamp committee I know that but still a good place to go and gives me some credibility is doing something for the community. Anyway Andreas been talking about this vacation for a couple weeks and there would be no meeting today. I felt good enough that I still want to take some time for myself and actually do something that I'd usually don't do on Tuesday mornings. I built a great breakfast and then I decided to head south to Deseret industries and see if I could find more table knives but I search for. I was also go to check out books to see if I can find something to read next since I'm getting to the end of the novel and currently reading. They said is going to get hot today perhaps close to 100 but that's okay. I've got a hat and got money for drinks if I need to get some hydration I'm set.

Deseret industries I go to in the 70^th South region of Redwood Road. There's a number of secondhand stores as well as little restaurants and even a bar to in the district. Usually find a pretty good lunch but for some reason today I wanted to do Mexican fast food and the only thing I can really get to relatively quick and easily was a Taco Bell (Taco Hell). I don't know why I have such a poor feeling about this place I just never really liked their food even though it's pretty much the same as Del taco or any other Hispanic fast food joint though however I do still think Taco Time is the best for me from the fries to the tacos to the meat sticks if I can get to a Taco Time I'm definitely doing them. I have to admit when I went into the Taco Bell it was kind of grungy and a little unkept from staff to the product. That's okay they treated me fine. I got my 2 hardshell tacos and drink the grunts of the box more than I want to pay but what can you do? This joint had raised tables and ever since I got my power chair with the “eye level” lifting device I really like to go to a raised table to eat my whatever which I did today. I have to admit I looked pretty pathetic and even though I do love corn hardshell tacos to attend a blowup in my hands or crumble or whatever it is they do. And I made the mistake of getting sour cream with my taco so when bit into my taco not only did it explode move exploded with white rule stuff all over. No one seemed to mind. I got the weirdest feeling as I was eating my taco there is a tall guy standing at the counter trying to get some attention so you get order. I had not noticed until he stood there pounding on the counter trying to get someone to wait on him. He was tall and lanky, weirdly dressed oversize shirt over some kinds of trousers not necessarily bluejeans that loosefitting clothes. It was the kind of scene that (in movies is the last straw)in the character pulls out a weapon of some sort in either starts taking people hostages or just executing them. Neither happened, thank goodness, eventually the Ranger got some service and I got out of there as soon as I could have heading for a bus stop to get home. It had enough adventure for one day imagined are otherwise. I didn't need a vacation, next time maybe I'll just stay home…

Turkey Pepperoni!? Please

 

I did my final wake up at 6:30 AM, I rarely ever sleep in that late so last night was a gift even though I woke up around 2:30 AM to do some business. I was so glad is able get back to sleep and I did! I spent the morning, 90 minutes before my home health person, Melissa, shows up picking up the apartment so it's not so dire a mess. I was able to get a lot of the floor swept, coffee made, my special morning drink made and some basic dishes done. Because of the extra sleep I felt great.

I felt so great I went to the market. Again, picking up a few things I needed to get through to the end of the month. More jalapeno peppers, vegetable juice(spicy), fresh bananas, broccoli, green pepper and the cantaloupe. This does it mean I will not go to the market before the end of the month but probably means of a need to, I've got the basics. I may do some fun shopping but I think I'm okay to the next financial infusion. I'm doing okay as long as the inflation stays in check. Such weird times.

Remember, yesterday, I got another sack of food for Marta, my friend who takes care of me grocery wise even though I don't need it. I got that pizza round. It was frozen at the time and now it's just a wimp/limp piece of dough covered with cheese sitting in my refrigerator looking like a Salvador Dali painting. I'm sure it'll cook up just fine if I use it this week. That was the reason I purchased the green pepper BTW. I would like to got some mushrooms too and opened a can of olives. The piece of dough just not large enough to support that kind of a pizza. I do like to decorate a great pizza though. The point that I'm getting to is that Marta in her complete care concept included a package of pepperoni was only on closer inspection I realize the pepperoni was turkey pepperoni and not pepperoni pepperoni. I know it's a minor point in the dollar should be thankful but this threw me back into the old days my mom is always trying to get us kids to try stuff that really didn't want at least I didn't want to. She was always cutting corners (that's how I sought but maybe she was just trying to make is healthy). Like shake and bake chicken! Once she found she could cook chicken “almost as good as fried” I don't think we ever had fried chicken again. Same way with dinner rolls mom could make the best bread which made the best roles but once she got into Bisquick and the other kinds of “fake biscuits” we never had “real bread” again I think the worst was no bake cookies. Even in this day I can't really stand no bake cookies just cutting too many corners. So turkey pepperoni is like a slap in the face. I'm sure it's good to some, I think it's a near miss what could be and it's probably a lot more healthy for you then regular Pepperoni but it's just not the same. I guess I better use it just because I haven't but I also have some of the pepperoni's in refrigerator. I don't think this whole thing is worthy of a taste test it wouldn't take much to have such a competition if there were other like minds in the universe. So maybe Thursday or Friday evening I get the gumption up to pull the Dali out of the refrigerator decorated up and shove it in the ovensee what we come up with

Door Food

I just had the meal that I made yesterday you remember basically hamburger patties cream of mushroom soup. I have some frozen tater tots that heated up in my toaster oven and it really works! This is the 1^st time really except for the other night when I actually heated up some pizza rolls love use the toaster oven for anything but toast. I almost had something green to go along with it but I left the broccoli in the refrigerator probably a couple weeks too long and so I guess I could is that the might cut it off the ends off the Spears that had gone to the next step is next step in its biological evolution into goop, that dark green blackish sludge that a perfectly good bag of broccoli morphs into unforgotten in the refrigerator. This bag had actually had lasted about 4 weeks which I think is about a record. And I wanted take the time I probably could salvage the green meal out of broccoli that was left. I tossed it. That's my new strategy is coping with my inability to keep a decent looking refrigerator is to just toss everything is offensive regardless how minor the offense might be. But the meal itself potatoes and meat and a little bit of gravy turned out much better than I anticipated I still have 3 patties left I believe. So maybe tomorrow if I feel it all energetic already crossed the street he gets more broccoli and see what I can do or maybe something else green light fresh green beans, or salad or something. I'd forgotten that I had sort of a salad at least ingredients.

Remember, I've written about this a couple of times about the person of this complex that shops for me without my permission. Sometimes I can home news bags hanging off my door filled with fresh grapes, many times those cheeses wrapped in wax low round things this regard actually. As well as cracker/cookies better for some kind of roughage or weight loss I don't know very confusing anyway I was outside reading today and she came in from the market and of course had to tell my shoe display everything with me and came down a few hours later with multiple bags of grapes, tomatoes,cookies/biscuits and a small bag of cherry tomatoes that I call a salad. Sometimes if I have enough good tomatoes I'll plop a dollop of college cheese on top and call it a real salad. I've told her not to do this but I don't need the things that she purchases but she continues to do so. Luckily for me I have people in my universe that will eat some of the things that she foists on me. Especially the crackers and biscuits. I just don't think I need them. There is one time she even included a fairly large roast I was impressed. I've given up trying to talk her out of it leaving these treats on my door so I don't think they're going to stop anytime soon probably until that your turn to leave the building feetfirst one where the other. I'm always surprised how focused she seems to be, Helen more surprised that she still has a drivers license and and she cruises around on city streets but hell, that's most the people in this building. Luckily most of them are just going across the street to the market may Really walk that far to drive. Some of them are going up to the fast food joints south of us who knows for the rest go. Doctors appointments, hospital visits shopping sometimes even coffee. But today Marta went shopping and today I have fruit for the rest of the month now I just have to put it all away and push myself to use it before it goes to goop…

Saturday Night Burgers

 

I woke to an overcast and somewhat rainy morning with definite feelings of autumn in the air. Oddly however I had a great night sleep get at least 6 hours of sleep, good sleep better sleep than I usually get. Well, with all the signs I figured I'd better cook to day. I had a pound of hamburger thawed from yesterday I was going to use for gravy burgers which became circumvented when Ellen and I ordered pizza from Pizza Hut last night. I want to make sure that the burgers for the last thing I really did today so I did start the cooking process until around 4:30 PM. Even though I just finished the last slice of pizza that Ellen sent home with me midafternoon I figured even if I did not eat the gravy burgers tonight I would have them for tomorrow and the beginning of next week so I would be done with cooking for this week basically. I might throw in here that I was up processing the green peppers and the onions yesterday when I started the project so those are all done it was just a matter them of breaking up the pieces of bread and then mixing everything together and cooking.

The big frying pan was washed and ready to go this was fortunate. I combine the ingredients of the burgers which went a lot better and quicker than I anticipated and a lot less messy. I actually used the new/old stainless steel container with handles I've had for some time but never used effectively as a mixing bowl which it really works well for my plan to utilize it again. I blocked this time for cooking since it was during the Saturday afternoon news block of national then local news. Something I can listen to while I process the burgers. Soon I had them in the frying pan beginning to sizzle. One of the recipes I downloaded/looked at the Internet indicated to basically just sear the meat products so that the outsides are cooked and then allow the remaining meat product to cook in the gravy once you have that established. For once Mexican experiences everything seemed a come together the ingredients were at hand and easily accessed, well kind of easily accessed, but I got a can of mushroom soup from one of the top shelves of the pantry with the help of my rising chair and then I lowered everything down and out of the soup to the grease left over from cooking the hamburgers (I had removed the hamburgers on to a paper plate and added the soup/condensed into the grease “sizzle sizzle” and then added a can of milk surprisingly this worked really well to make a fine white gravy with mushrooms. I gently dumped the burgers back into the mix and then with the whole concoction finish cooking sacrificing one paddy to be broken up and be the sacrificial taste test for the rest of the meal.

If I were very ambitious I would actually put together a meal for tomorrow something green plus something starchy (if I were to use anything I would whip up the envelope of fake potatoes I love those) and then steam some broccoli if any the broccoli spears that I've had in my refrigerator for a couple weeks are still edible. That's what I would do but I doubt that I will do that instead I will coax the burgers in the sauce into a plastic container to put into the refrigerator to keep over the rest of the weekend in the beginning of next week. I'm just pleased with myself to not let a pound hamburger go bad and to put together something that I will totally enjoy eating by myself over an extended period of time. Sometimes it's as good as it gets…

More Change

 

Something's happening I don't know what it is is begin to affect my sleep cycles some degree. Last night for some reason I just couldn't drain. Y'all know that I cath in bed and I've been doing it of course ever since I've been here which is been more than 5 years with no issues not really. However last night I used a catheter twice and could not drain and I didn't get much sleep because even though I couldn't drain it still felt like I had a full bladder. I did stay in bed till 6 AM when I finally did get up I drained like 500 mL! So, this is the happening little bit by little bit for past couple weeks last night was the 1^st time I couldn't drain at all is somewhat worrisome. I mean I don't want to have to actually transferred about power chair so I can catheterize sitting up. All I know is it something different there don't like necessarily “different”.

Friday means it's shower day. Gloria was here as always and she did a great job. In the course of our conversation this morning she did give me a heads up that she would probably be leaving this employment mid-October. I hope not but the girls go do what's good for her. Luckily get too freaked out because a lot can happen between now and October specially if you are a home health service provider. Hopefully, if that were to happen – – Gloria living – – then hopefully Melissa could jump in and start providing services to cover Gloria's absence. This would be a good solution actually a good great solution so I wouldn't have to train someone over again getting kind of old. But I guess the real lesson is that the life of having to use home health providers for part of your independence. Other than that the days been quite quiet. A low-pressure systems moved in brooding clouds and threats of rain and a much lower temperature. It seems everyone is running around talking about how great it is not just trying to find some heat somewhere. I wore a short sleeve shirt anyway pretty much stayed in the apartment most of the day. Did my workout did my regular stuff, a couple of word games puzzles and such cleanup little bit drank some coffee later on in the afternoon I went out to see if anybody would was at the smokers parking space and Ellen was there. One story short we are not having dinner of pizza. We did half's the my portion came out to be 10 bucks and that was less for probably should have paid. There was nice however to have someone to eat dinner with for want to do while. I doubt if it will be an ongoing thing but was certainly different a nice change. I didn't get the Salisbury steaks in rich dark gravy made like I wanted to but I did get the meat thawed out and vegetables processed so maybe I can do it tomorrow and then I'll have it for Sunday as well.

So not a bad day still I didn't do as much as I think I should of or a could have but I didn't drag as much as I thought for as long as I was up during the night, strange that's okay it's Friday sometimes you want a light Friday…

Park Fun

 

this is not the slide am writing about but imagine 2 other slides coming off the top "crows nest". It's probably is high as that one was.

I decided I would get a jump on the weekend chores and do my weekly wash today rather than tomorrow. I've learned that when I do a wash that's not a huge like waiting to the exact end of the week your deal goes much easier and swifter. Plus they use coffee social so I was going to be at the front of the building anyway next to the laundromat, swerving was a plus plus. I could do the socialization and then – out to check my wash and dryer.

While I was switching the wash from the dryer into the basket to head back to the apartment to begin the next process of folding and hanging I noticed the spent dryer tissue or whatever it's called, you know to help with limiting the wrinkles and also for some fragrance into the wash? I noticed that when applied to us steal like surface or metallic surface it can really be slippery to the point of dangerous. We're always encouraged to make sure we don't leave these little pieces of paper on the floor the laundry. Of course I began to wander in my mind and just think of how great it would be like to have been able to use this little piece of fabric to sit on going down while slides of the public parks. This in turn got me thinking of this monster 3 slide device in Julie Davis Park in Boise, Idaho. This thing was huge and it took every ounce of courage as well as “encouragement” for my older brother declined the top of this device and slide down. Of course, the only time we ever use this piece of the playground equipment was during the summer. I remember the steel or whatever the slide was made of wood gets so hot you didn't want to stay in one spot very long. I also remember us throwing handfuls of sand is high up on the slide as we could reach to increase the speed of our downward fall. We even started using wax paper to limit the friction.

I thought it be relatively simple to find a picture of that slide system for this posting but no such luck. I searched and searched for about an hour this morning and I could find no references or images of the playground at the Julie Davis Park. I did find other such slides from other parks from around the country around that time. But none of them were the triple slide that we enjoyed. I don't remember how high the slide was it seemed like it was superhigh. Once you climbed this latter to the top there is like a square “crows nest” configuration and then you would choose which slide you would descend. Everyone believed there is always one slide faster than all the others and that's the one my brother always wanted me to do it always terrified me. But I did notice, for my search, was that it seemed all these park playgrounds begin to vanish during the 70s. So it feels like a national effort was made to to purge the country of this horrendous Park liability. I can only imagine how many accidents and deaths and spinal cord injuries were caused by these huge playground devices. I'm going to search some of the Idaho history blogs and websites to see if somebody somewhere has an image of this slide monstrosity.you really have to see it to believe it…

Wednesday's Chaos

 

The hot days continue and I don't really blame that for not really going anywhere in doing anything but hanging around my apartment but certainly it would be easy to do so. I did venture over to the market earlier today before the major heat hit got accountable and then fled back to my apartment. I did my usual arm by for 60 minutes and then I'm doing the blog right now. Other than that I just sort of it hanging around the apartment the problem is if there is one that I quite enjoy it. Many people I know who are, essentially relegated to their apartment are going crazy, stir crazy. Maybe it's just the fact that I know that I could go in for I wanted to if I want to exert the effort. Maybe that's the big key to my non-boredom reality of enjoying my apartment day in day out. I'm sure if I was sentenced here by the court I would be chafing at the bit to escape. Thank heavens I am a free man.

The problem however if one stays and one's day in and day out a major amount of entropy occurs. Hopefully I'm quite a ways away from 0 entropy but I'm beginning to see the effects and I'm not the only one. Gloria, home health person's morning made the comment that was I having parties at the place. I must admit I have had a losing battle with gravity the past couple of days a lot of stuff on the floor mainly coins that emerge from my wallet when I opened it up. I like this wallet that I hang around my neck but it's got some major holes in the area where you keep the dollar bills and many times I have the checkered dump the change into that area the next time I open up my wallet usually at the home front and I looked and sounded like a prop from Pennies From Heaven as all the coins fall on the floor. I usually let my home health person whether it's Melissa or Gloria keep all the change they can find they just pick up but for some reason Gloria pocketed a couple of times and that was it. She calls her lucky dimes and she doesn't need anything more than that but I still need to get them off the floor and maybe in the next couple days ago the energy to do so. The coins on the floor is one form of entropy but the big entropy happens on my kitchen table. I wish there was something I could do to eliminate this aside from moving my table completely out of the kitchen – – I don't know where I would put it. Everything lands on my kitchen table loaves of bread credit cards puzzle games, everything. Gloria was focused on arranging my medical shelf this morning. Often she sees the chaos on the table and will jump in and bring a major amount of order to the debris. It's amazing what she could do in 20 minutes or less. Every night I lay in bed and cursed myself for not making an effort to put that table in order and every morning I wake up and push the task to the back of my mind. I really think the mornings will be the best bet in working on the table because that's when I feel the strongest right after I risen from bed. Tomorrow is coffee social Thursday and maybe I will concentrate on the table tomorrow as I wait for 9:30 AM when coffee social begins. Wish me luck…