Hump Day

 Once again I'm very tired and I should not be, well I'm still making up for yesterday. However I thought I did pretty good last night sleep wise I still woke up earlier than I would like to and I woke up because I felt like I needed to pee and I really didn't. However earlier in the evening I did pee quite a bit actually so I don't know what's going on. I fretted for a while about wondering if I had another bladder infection or kidney infection but I don't think so now after living the whole day fairly decent voids and no discomfort to speak of. The only issue I have is feeling drug out somewhat sleep deprived I'm not sure what that's all about.

Listen to the great job this morning as far as my attendant care business goes Plus she swept the floors which I greatly appreciate it especially here in the bedroom where the backup chair or actually the broken chair sat until they picked it up today or yesterday. They did call today though to advise me that they were doing the number of possible repairs but they're going to keep the chair at their office/shop and tell they get authorization from the insurance or whatever and we'll see where we go to from there. That's okay I'm beginning to like this chair I'm in now with the exception of it's still kind of poles to a certain way and kind of makes it difficult to Traverse long distances or go up ramps and I go up a lot of ramps with the bus system. Speaking of the bus system. I'm very anxious to find a container so I can put the jalapeno peppers in that will take the number 10 can size. So to do that I felt the closest way place to go would be Walmart Walmart is off I went. Jump the bus and spend cruising what was available at this particular Market. They had a couple of items and I bought one which now I think may not work because it's too big for the refrigerator I may just have to tough it out and get on back to Standard Restaurant or one of the other restaurant markets and get one of their containers that might fit better in my refrigerator. And actually does Peppers even need Refrigeration? I mean after all they're in a solution that should keep them from breaking down. I'll have to look into this further so maybe I can just keep the peppers backed up the big container and keep the other container that I usually use in the refrigerator keeping chill. Now I just have to get the can opener to work. I may have to wait until Friday now that or when Melissa couldn't be back and we can open up the can together unless somebody else comes by in the interim had the same problem tonight for dinner I made a bologna sandwich and was going to use salad dressing Miracle Whip and I couldn't get the Miracle Whip open it's still got some sort of security device on that does not allow people with limited hand function to get into it at least it seems like that to me kind of pisses me off. Anyway luckily I had Mayo at my disposal which worked out pretty good. Other than that I continue to try to get better. I washed clothes today or at least Melissa started the clothes and I picked them up and brought them back folded and put them away before dinner. Nice to have that particular thing done but I'm going to have to figure out some other items to wear before the cold sets in again seems like nothing ever changes…

Long Night Long Day

Monday when my home health person was here I had her open my window next to my bed all the way so I would get all kinds of fresh air. Of course last night the cold front wanders through the Wasatch Front and it feels like gale force winds are blowing cold air on my bald head and making sleep impossible that happened about 158 a.m. I remember looking at the clock. So I did the turtle thing with covers over my head with just a nose hole but it seemed and felt like the whole wind was howling right through my house or apartment. Of course it wasn't I'm sure I was just dreaming a lot of it but I was pretty conscious at the same time. Then it felt like I was getting a kidney infection but I think that's part of the whole night terrorist thing I was dealing with which got me thinking about the end of my existence. Trying to figure out how he's going to get myself into the doctor without adequate transportation. It just made for a really bizarre night. Tonight I'm going to try to shut the window a little bit with some of my sticks and hopefully I won't break the window entirely but I've got to be careful because we're looking at getting back into the 90s by the end of the week. I'll be glad of that I wore long sleeves today cuz I knew I was going downtown and I'd be on the buses and I'd be cold freezing cold. In fact a large part of the early morning thought process I had was I was going to call and cancel my attendance to the meeting but 6:00 approached I start feeling a little bit better and got up without any problems took care of myself got dressed called to make sure that we are having the meeting and we were. Told him I'd be there and I was.

The bus ride and train ride in was uneventful everything worked just fine I was tired but not too exhausted it's not like I yawned all the way through the meeting. We got the work done and turned me loose by noon so I could get back to the apartment because they were finally going to pick up my chair today and I didn't want them to miss me. Fortunately when I called to find out for sure what the time frame was it was between 3:00 and 6:00 p.m. so I had more than enough time to stop for lunch which I did and got a child's Burger. There's this place that does serve great burgers are great but they're so huge you don't dare eat one just because you'll get protein overload but I decided I'd get the child's version of The Thing and it was huge and it's a it's a heart attack waiting to happen the hamburger is great it's grilled over a flame but then it's got like I don't know how much corned beef on the burger as well. There's a time when I love these burgers but now they're just sort of gross. In fact I opened up the bird and pulled all day corned beef off and eight just a few pieces of it with the burger. It's probably going to be the last meal for the day for me maybe a little snacking on watermelon before I go to bed but that's about it. I've been somewhat lethargic all afternoon of course. I read a little bit under my tree but like I said the cold front was through even though it was the low 80s it felt chilly. I even wore a long sleeve shirt today the first time since spring. It kept me warm on the buses well I was riding because they keep those buses freezer cold but everything's beginning to feel like autumn I guess the change is coming…. 

Arm Bike Ready

I actually slept pretty good except towards the end when I woke up and saw that it was like 5:00 a.m. so I figured I still had some time. I don't think I went back to sleep but I must have cuz when I turned and looked at the clock again, which I thought was just a few minutes, the clock read 10 minutes after 6:00 a.m. and 6:00 a.m. is when I usually get up on a regular day if it's possible. Today being Monday means that my home health person, Melissa, comes today for a shower in the rest the apartment wasn't in too much disarray from the weekend. I kind of cleaned up after myself so I wasn't too worried that way. I was glad to get the Monday morning ritual out of the way however, get dressed and get on with my day. Yesterday when I went down to the common room to check on the giveaway table there was a whole bag of hamburger buns which I grabbed immediately. So my goal today was to do some actual cooking and to make sloppy joes. I plan to use the canned ground beef that I've been picking up off the Sharon Shelf the last couple of months and Jazz it up with real onions and real green peppers which means a foray out to the market.

The sun was not hot today I think we're just about finished with that portion of the summer even with the temperatures going back to the 90s I will not feel hot like it did before because, I believe the sun is now not direct as it was which I think makes all the heat difference in the world. The temperatures today were in the upper 80s quite Pleasant. I thought about heading out to doing something but I was more interested in making the sloppy joes. Off to the market I picked up a green pepper and a bag of onions which I want to try to use before they go bad on me. They're little onions so I might be able to get away with it. I still need to make some spaghetti and maybe even some pizza all of which require onions one form or another. No trips to the dollar store or any place else but I went straight home from the market then went out and read for a while but later on in the afternoon I started cooking dinner which was the sloppy joes. But before that I decided I would actually get back into the arm bike routine which I have neglected for the past 2 months for one reason or another mainly because of my power chair not being able to get underneath the arm bike. So now that I'm in my other chair my backup chair I can there's been a giant mess underneath the arm bike cushions and hoses and plugs and such. I had Melissa clean it all out this morning plus she was able to find my missing glove that allows me to pump my bike. And at my regular time I tried to do my arm bike between 2:30 and 3:30 if I can for the 60 Minute blocks so I can listen to Marketplace while I finish my project or my bike pump. I was a little concerned I didn't think I was going to be able to jump right back into 60 minutes on my first attempt at getting the arm bike running again. But I persevered and got 60 Minutes on today's clock I'm so excited however there's something going on with the arm bike some kind of a glitch which is making the electric electronic screen jump all around Flash and act crazy but it didn't bother the timing mechanism so I was able to keep the minutes going on the clock so I knew where I was at how long I've been there as well as which power level I was at. That second portion the power level I think is a little squirrely as far as an honest level they seems to start 10 to 15 seconds late but I'm pumping but that's okay as long as those regular Clock Works and I know that I've been on the arm bike for as long as it says I'm okay and like I said I did 60 minutes. You remember that my goal is 200 minutes a week. I'm sure this will help me a lot not only in my sleeping Cycles but it might just physical tonation Etc. Now though I think we're going to have to start looking for another arm bike one way or the other this was been a real good one but I don't know how long it can last. But that's okay I got the sloppy joes done and they were okay as well quite a bit different from sloppy joe to make with a pound of hamburger the sloppy joe from the previously cooked canned ground beef tastes okay it's just a different flavor not what you expect and you don't have the ability to mix the flavors together as you would throw in the onions in the green pepper in with the meat Browning. But I put in the tomato juice and the onions and the green pepper and cook them all with the beef ground beef and it turned out pretty good I wanted to find my brown sugar to throw that in there haven't done that for years but I remember when I was first making this stuff I used the brown sugar which is on the recipe but you don't need to. I came away with about 6 burgers which I put into a plastic container which is in the fridge and now I've got dinner for the rest of the week, at least…

Simple Sabbath

 I don't know why but I'm exhausted this evening it's not like I really did anything to speak of that was not unusual for a Sunday. I know however I woke up way early around 3:00 a.m. for the second P of the night which is very rare. And I was totally surprised because it was also 400 CC's liquid. And I also had to pee like at 1:00 or something and it was 400 cc's of very very clear liquid, all great to see you after what I've been passing lately. I'm almost finished with my medication regimen and I'm worried that the infection will come back but I'll deal with that when the time comes it's been nice to have this interlude however. But like I said I woke early and I really wanted to make sure that I oversleep so I be on time for breakfast- - which I was.

I was totally impressed with myself as I dressed being able to get my legs up and over each other in fact I was even able to put my shoes on after I put the shorts on. Good morning was beautiful just few clouds of the sky fairly warm but certainly begin to feel like fall, the change is coming for sure. There are Folk City at the regular table this morning when I got to the restaurant so I had to sit a little bit up front or closer to the front than usual but Mark and I had enough room together and even when Jasmine joined us we were able to have enough room to have a good discussion. Jasmine did not have breakfast of course she really does and she and Mark tend to get into a very spirited discussions and I engage as well. Sometimes gets a little distressing however she seems to be very angry especially angry with her mom and possibly a little bit with Mark which kind of surprises me. They do work close together and I think they do love each other a lot. It was more discussion again about how angry Mark was and probably still is at Karen for the way that she treated them as kids as adolescent. I'm surprised I'm held as in any esteem at all since I sort of got thrown out but I did continue to have contact with them on a weekly basis and they seem to have good memories of that but I visited with them. Mark and shell for sure and the boys I really don't know but I think so at least James and poor Charlie I don't know. Anyway, after breakfast we all went on our way I came back to the apartment and basically read for the rest of the day occasionally napping under the tree just outside my window and reading taking a break for the news and such then watching a couple episodes of Hawkeye. I really like that series I wish they would bring the second series online that would be nice. Other than that that was my Sunday nothing big I did eat the rest of my chicken tortillas and some steak I had left over plus the watermelon which I took apart last night. Keeping it simple that's what I like by Sundays to be

No Tamales Today !!

My Saturday was kind of busy I didn't do any major things to speak of but it was busy for me. Janet of course is gone so I knew there would be no coffee companion for me but I'm hankering for some tamales and the last couple weeks we've missed the tamale man by just minutes it seems like he was coming earlier than we were there and we try to be there at least I do at 9:30 a.m. so he's coming around 8:30 to 9:30 a.m.. so I got up got dressed and went across the street to the coffee shop and waited for an hour. It's kind of a long time if you're just waiting for something but I got my coffee socialized a little bit with some of the regulars that I see every week but not a whole lot. The bottom line the tamale man never showed up I waited an hour till 9:30 a.m. and decided that was enough. Maybe next week

Then I went to the Mexican restaurant directly across the street the new sword which is the English translation. It's really a strange experience because there really is no English spoken there. Fortunately the waitress speaks a little bit or at least between a little Spanish I know and what little English she did and pointing I finally got my meal which was three rolled up chicken somethings comes with beans and rice and covered with lettuce and sour cream. It was kind of a challenge to eat but I did eat most of it made a giant mess on the floor drop my utensils once and then took a take home bag with one rolled up tortilla filled with chicken. The whole thing cost like $12.99 or something I couldn't believe how much they were charging just for that particular meal basically chicken and beans and rice but the population seems to be paying for it and there are a lot of folks in there. I go there every once in awhile just to change things up they had some ground beef somethings but I didn't know what they were and I wasn't about to go through a Spanish ordering lesson right then. Again I'm really surprised the price of the items on the menu for such a low rent operation. Takes forever to get served and then takes forever for them to bust the tables when the people leave and the people working there are ancient at to go back home and take the rest of the day off kind of. The day is nice enough not too hot that I can actually hang out under the tree and read a nap as I would like. Which I did. Interesting enough DJ an individual who I've known here at the apartment complex for 5 or 6 years now stopped and talked to me we had quite a good discussion. We see each other in the weirdest places it usually at the market or sometimes at the restaurants. But this is the longest we've ever communicated it was nice to have a friend nearby.

So my goal today was to get a hold of my older brother and convey to him the best birthday wishes I could since one reason or another I never got to the bank or a card store to get him a birthday card and some money to go in it. Wanted to make sure that he was aware but I tried at least what she was this course you didn't care a bit it actually he doesn't want me to send him any more money but I like to anyway I don't know if I will now but who knows it'll irritated why not? We talked a good deal he'd been shooting things again over just across the Oregon border what she does usually every Saturday and probably Sunday too but he came back early today because it was his birthday and I think the family was doing something for him. I got some stuff done in the kitchen I finally processed the last of the watermelon cut it into chunks and put it in a plastic container and threw it back into the fridge and just did some of it had a couple pieces of steak and that's what I pretty much had for dinner which I think is going to be enough. Oh I forgot I also got a haircut today across the street. Everyone's telling me how much weight I've lost I don't necessarily see it but it's good to hear I don't think the conspiracy wide enough to attack my weight situation so they must be real I'll have to check into that a little bit more I'm wondering if it's because I'm eating so much peppers and carrots and that's about it for many times for breakfast there's a couple spoonfuls of carrots and a jalapenos and the other stuff that goes with it the juice and the diced tomatoes I've been adding to the concoction as well. It's still my favorite morning beverage/ meal I don't know how long I can keep it up. It's not necessarily expensive just involved. I'm toying with the idea of opening up another big can of the whole Peppers that my daughter sent me for Father's Day or birthday or whatever. I almost need somebody else to open it cuz it's got that squeezy handle that you got to squeeze in penetrate the lid or the steel lid and then then you can crank it and open it up. I have some smaller cans and I think I may have enough to get through tomorrow as far as if I have any juice tomorrow if not I can wait until Monday when Melissa will be here and she can open up the bottle of vegetable juice.

It was a sunny bright day today no clouds to speak of but it's not the same kind of heat as before. The summer is broken and I don't think the sunlight is hitting in us directly as it was. Now it's on to Autumn. I shall miss this summer…

Sunshine

 I am so excited and relieved but something has happened with my backup chair the lurchy and jerking that I was getting for so long has stopped. A couple of days ago my person Melissa indicated that my wheel was rubbing against a part of my chair and was shredding part of my tire and that's sort of like what it felt like so what I think happened was that I finally just wore the tire down to the point where is no longer making contact with the chair frame and now my chair is not lurching acting like a normal chair pretty much. There is still something Goofy with the steering mechanism which makes me think that a motor might be going out on me but I definitely think I'll be able to keep this device functional and fairly useful until I can get my other chair repaired and back hopefully by next Thursday. This means I'll be able to go to my assist meeting this coming Tuesday which brightens my day I hated missing the meeting last week. I think my priorities are screwed up.  Having a functional chair again also means being able to go back and forth to the market to get the items I need. Also the change I need for my cash. There is a cash machine for the credit union in the basement of the Student Union at the community college just up the street from where I live easily accessible by my chair especially on the bus. I just have to have a pin number that will work when I try to access cash from that machine. That will make a big difference on weekends holidays and such

The monsoons of finally moved on in clear skies and warmer weather is on the agenda. With that in mind and the seemingly new ability to use my chair I decided I would go to the credit union change my PIN number as well as pull out some cash so I'm not using my card as much. It was a nice morning for traveling I wanted to make sure that I used as many buses as possible just so that I wouldn't be burning a lot of battery time getting from A to B. So I caught the bus outside my apartment dropped off at the community college then picked up 47 westbound to the bank I barely used 3/10 of a mile which I think is good. I did some exploration of the junk store and kind of enjoyed myself as the community tend to dry out from the storms.

I got off the vehicle / bus at 5600 South and got a sandwich at the smoked ham joint which was okay not as good as I would have liked it to be but it was time out and time for me. Following my time at the sandwich place I just went back home and hung out for the rest of the day enjoying the sunshine sitting out and reading a little bit and dozing more than anything else. It's another one of those days for I think I should be doing more but finally I say why? I'm doing just fine as it is

Welcome back Summer Sun

 I guess I was getting a bit stir crazy but I just decided I needed to test these batteries a lI guess I was getting a bit stir crazy but I just decided I needed to test these batteries a little bit better that I've been doing the last couple of days utilizing the chairs problems to keep me from going any where during anything. I had a pretty busy morning sort of, in my weird official capacity of member of the coffee group. One of the members, maria, wanted to have biscuits and gravy but her concept was pretty much different than mine. She she used those biscuits in a package that you have to break open and they puff up and then mixed gravy from a packet. My biscuits would have been different at least they would have been frozen baking soda biscuits and a can of sausage gravy. There was no sausage in Maria's gravy but it was still better than nothing and since I thought I couldn't get out and get cookies or anything because I was afraid my chair may not make it we had to rely on what was left over from last week's cookies and strangely enough we had enough to feed everybody reminiscent of a Biblical tale of one sort or another.

 it was good getting out and feeling some miles underneath the wheels of my chair. I think I have enough courage now that I would try going into the city next Tuesday for my assist meeting. I might bag up a charger just in case I get a little worried. Charger would be a good backup system but I plan to go there and Back Again nowhere else unless I were to go to a wheelchair shop to have this chair looked at but quite frankly I'm so embarrassed because I peed in it so much that really needs to be diffumigated. Hopefully my other chair will be fixed shortly and then I need to figure out a way to get this into the other shop to have them look at it cuz I think it's a relatively easy fix with one wheel seems to be rubbing and if that's the case can something be done cuz other than that it would not be a bad chair I don't think. And the chair I think I could get used to using if I really had to . The major project I'm dealing with now with this backup chair, if I do get the wheels repaired , would be acquiring new batteries.

I'm pleased that it looks like the wet weather / Monsoon is moving on hopefully they warm weather will come back and dry everything out it's supposed to and I'll be pleased with that but I think we're done with the super hot temperatures for this year I think but no one knows because these are different years than ever before. But it looks like for the next couple days anyway the temperatures will be getting back to normal staying in the double digits in the 90s if I'm lucky but they're definitely coming down and August will someday soon become September...

Expired RX Risky Business

 Finally, crazy Cameron called me back and again it was after 5:00 p.m. almost 6:00 p.m. and I just happened to have the phone on the table with me- - in fact I've been carrying the phone all day in hopes that he would call. The phone was not in Easy reach but I finally got it right before the last ring. So I'm set to have my chair picked up on the 9th of August this coming Tuesday that would like to have it done a lot sooner but I don't think that's going to happen. I was civilized I didn't tell him how big a jerk I thought he was he always sounds so friendly when you're talking to him straight on the phone. But I'm still a bit miffed it shouldn't be this long to get something done. I just hope I can survive in this backup chair until then. I've sort of developed a routine much of which is basically staying around the apartment I don't dare go anywhere just because I'm not sure the batteries how long they might last. I haven't even been going over to the market. There's also the issue of this raging bladder infection I think I'm going through. I felt bad that I had to miss my meeting yesterday morning and I think I'll have to miss it again on Tuesday next. Hopefully I'll have a working chair a week from today but you never know. That means if I get the chair back on Wednesday night I won't be able to get into it until Friday morning when Melissa's here. There is the possibility however I could call Melissa on Wednesday and pay her for coming over and put me in the chair we'll have to see how that works out.

As I said I think I've got a full-blown bladder infection. I'm pee in my pants every couple of hours I'm using the pads they work sort of I'm real proud of myself for not waiting the bed but I'm certainly not getting much sleep either. And again since I don't have a way to get to the clinic I'm on my own. Going through my cupboards however, I did find a whole bottle of cephalex which I think, if I remember right, the doc gave me a second prescription just so I will have to come in that's been over a year ago and that by best use date is almost a year past. So I guess my better judgment I started the regimen we'll see what happens. It's really obnoxious though and stinky be sitting in this little piss all the time.

Oh, and one last thing this morning as I was transferring from my bed to my chair I almost didn't make it. I think I had my chair far too back for a decent transfer. I thought I was really going to fall and probably have to call the fire department. However, fortunately that didn't happen it took me a bit of finagling with the chair basically folded it down to a laying position and then basically pulling myself up to a safe Zone on the chair and then securing myself in the chair I'm going on with my morning. I've spent much more time and physical strength and saving myself from precarious positions such as this but I just vexed how I got there in the first place. Then again hopefully when I get my new chair or my repair chair actually it will be safer to transfer them to this guy. I'm still scratching my head though and to what happened in the first place and we'll be hyper Vigilant tomorrow morning…

Ornery August 2023

 I feel tired though I shouldn't I really haven't done anything today. I really can't do anything except just hanging around the apartment complex. I have aligned myself to living in this inferior backup chair. Don't get me wrong I'm thankful to have it but just barely. I don't go anywhere I dare just because I don't know if one I'll make it too. I'll run out of power and three. There's something wrong with the drive mechanism and it just jerks me back and forth all day long and it's kind of wearing. I think I'm really worn out even though I've only gone less than a mile today. I kind of miss my freedom and I'm a little concerned about going back and forth to the market in this bum Out Chair I'm being able to get what I need. I may have to relent and go to the home delivery concept. They probably would make sense all things considered especially with winter coming. Or am I just to come in tomorz-row geriatric provisions. I guess who cares. But like I said between the jerking of the chair and the ability to or inability to go in a straight line most of the time I'm like worn out. On top of that the storm is supposedly coming in and the temperature is dropping So Gone is my hot hot days. At least today it was in the '80s and that's relatively hot if he can find the sunshine to go along with it. After I spent a good time on the phone trying to get a hold of IHC Medical wheelchair shop to get back with me fix the time to pick up my chair which they didn't. I decided just to go read my latest Stephen King my up for the inspection. On top of everything else I think I've got another bladder infection. I'd like to blame it on my chair but I don't know if that's possible. Anyway I'm having frequent or just a urinate right after I have finished urinating which is symbolic to me of a bladder infection of some sort. This will of course entail me going into the Clinic which means significant amount of wheelchair travel with public transit with a less than supportive chair. Maybe if I just ignore the whole situation until I get the better chair it'll run its own course maybe increase my vitamin C intake and maybe even do some Alfalfa tea if I can find my alfalfa. There is a flower shop across the street kind of in the same complex as my coffee shop and I think they have herbs another remedies. I don't know if they're a full-blown hippie outfit or not but maybe if I can get alfalfa tea that would not hurt me in the least. I wet myself today pretty badly luckily I'm all by myself and the Sunshine is enough to dry me out pretty quickly I put a pad in but I don't know what happened because later this evening I noticed that that wet myself again and the pad was in place. Right now I'm blaming everything on the chair hopefully that's doable.

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…