One year ago today: April 9, 2025, “could explain . . .”
Five years ago today: April 9, 2021, Prince Who?
Nine years ago today: April 9, 2017, learning about gold.
Random years ago today: April 9, 2008, Marion moves to Denver.
Off to Miami, an e-mail y’day after I fell asleep, so we are up at 5:30AM. Reminding the world I fast by default on all medical meetings, I have the new Chick-fil-a $7.99 special on the brain. Most of my life I’ve had an aversion to rough towels and cold water [on my legs, which shocks my system]. Keeping all my attached apparatus dry is a challenge and an hour ago I ran out of hot. Not a great start and a mere shadow of my earlier times. If I did not say, today is 11 weeks since the bypass. Be patient, everybody is saying, the signs are good.
At this pace, he will be in a band in a couple years. I’ve long lamented there was nobody to coach me at 8 years old, yet there is no reason I could not have learned it at that age. Instead, it took me twenty years on my own, let me double check. No, i was twenty-five years before I developed my bass style. Before then, I played ordinary bass.
For clarity, today means no more wires or tubes during the day, though the life vest is night wear. This is an awaited event, as the tube made it trick to sleep on my side, which is how I read an hour a day or more. Another plus is the soap and water wash they had me use did not clear away all the detritus which accompanies such deep incisions. But the doc got it all with one swipe, quite painless and amazing. The scar will still be ugly.
The Oscar Committee, I think.
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This is the Nerf Pro Gel Fire, and it is full automatic. It this the answer to my squirrel infestation? The background tale on this puppy is the instructions are bad, so they keep showing up as Thrift donations. So Agt. M got this unit for $4. The snag is the company does not make it clear the pellets, seen in that round hopper at the top, must be soaked in water.
Next, to the clinic and I can report I am now free. Of tubes and wires, that is. I still have the nighttime monitor but during the day I’m back to full movement and loving it. Yep, I’m ahead of schedule and the removal of the chest tube caused a slight easing of general nerve “fuzziness”. The appointment time is also doubled and we know from history my recovery always accelerates if I’m getting daily chores done. I have not yet followed up with my other doctors but it is common knowledge pills with 00 refills means they are not over-worried.
Since I did not spend my money on wiper blades so much, I picked up this windshield repair kit. Fifteen bucks, so we finally get to see if this junk really works. That hairline crack on my screen could have gone anywhere, but this is Florida. It has now worked its way to exactly across the spot on the window in front of my eyes. If this doesn’t do the trick, it is a $400 repair.
Plan on a real visit next trip, I am committed to stay with “the family” at least two days. Hey, the kids holler for all the attention and the club is on the verge of re-activation. During the past week, not on person came to my door, much less anyone to help me life that pressure washer.
The clinic I visit for now is nearby the big West Maine shop in Ft. Lauderdale. I intend to drag Agt. M in there for minimum two hours. I’m shopping for a metal sextant but that is price-driven at the moment. We are again looking a something the club can sell. Where I dislike checking for orders every day, he is put off by packaging and shipping. Last time we kicked this idea around, I did not have a cabinet full of shipping materials.
Remember Secret Woods? Or was it Snyder Park? They are close, and a check with my own blog shows it was Snyder, the last great free concert with the Hippie. Nobody showed up. I wouldn’t have either if I’d known there was no advertising and the Hippie thought word of mouth was enough. So much for his management skills.
The rain would not quit, so Agt. M used the passkey for us to pull under the church balcony to change that windshield wiper. I decided to get out of there to be home while it was light, forgetting how touchy the gas pedal on the KIA can be and all I did was chirp the tires. No big deal as I high-tailed it out of there amid a hail of plastic beads.
ADDENDUM
We have a typical Democrat-generated problem with Pam Bondi, the one who screwed up the Epstein job. Some say she does not have to testify because she was subpoenaed as AG and she is no longer AG, others say she must testify because she was AG at the time of the subpoena. It’s the type of issue that deliberately ties up the courts, a libtard specialty. It was wasted time of this nature caused me to stop following election debates in the 90s. People were unemployed and the politicians were blabbing about climate change.
