Tag: a personal note

First, I woke up tired.  That’s unusual.  Then right after lunch I fell asleep which is something I never do.  I had that crummy  have to catch-up feeling all afternoon.

A good thing did happen, though.  There was a fawn in the grass curled up about 5 feet from my apartment door.  We left him alone ( as you are supposed to) and he was gone later in the day.  There is a small herd of deer that hang out around St. Francis Cathedral, which is across the street from my house, and I’m  assuming he belongs with that group.  His mom probably came and picked him up.  I think I have a picture, but I have to play with it to see if I can get it on the computer.

The latest word on the man who was shot the other night–he is not in critical condition any more, but no word about the arm.  My friend and her husband will try to visit him in a day or two, if they are allowed to.

Aside from that, no news.

Have a good night, all.

God bless everybody.

Patty

Today I got a really shocking message from my friend in Florida.

You know how you can sort of know someone because a friend of yours talks about them?  You feel like you know them, personally, even though you have never met them.  Well my friend in Florida has a neighbor who has a long time buddy staying at his house while he’s home in New York.  These guys go back to Junior High as really close friends.  I feel almost as if I know this man because my friend talks about him all the time.  A nice guy who has helped them with their gardening and home repair stuff.  Let’s call him Joe.

Last night Joe was shot three times at the local MacDonald’s drive -through.  There is some confusion (a lot of confusion) about the circumstances.  Right now the police are calling it a “road rage” incident.  We know that Joe does not carry a gun.  The bottom line is that this man, once of the nicest guys you would ever want to meet is now in critical condition and may lose his arm.  There is no way this guy could ever be a threat to anyone.  Shot three times?  “Road rage” at a MacDonald’s drive through?  That sounds like attempted murder to me, rather than self defense.

As I say there is a lot of confusion right now.

What ever in the world is happening to our society?

I am in an absolute state of shock.

That is about it for today.

Have a good night, all.

God bless everybody.

Patty

The first piece  of good news is that I called the lab today and they said I owe them nothing.  Nada, zip.  Hooray.  The agent told me the bill that I got last week must have crossed in the mail.  I think she meant that the write off had been posted to my account just after the bill was sent.  That is a real load off my mind.

Second piece–a young woman who was seriously mentally confused was talked into “transitioning” after only two (2)!  one hour telemedicine  phone conferences ( by her team of  “doctors”)  She had both of her breasts removed.  She has since come to her senses, “detransitioned” and has just won a whopping lawsuit against these bozos.  If lawyers smell blood in the water over this, (which I am sure they will), it could be the beginning of the end for the whole corrupt industry of sexual mutilation in the name of mental health.  Can’t happen fast enough for me.

A sunny, warm day today.

I feel pretty good, all things considered.

See you  tomorrow.

God bless everybody.

Patty

I was very busy with the blog today.  Some days are harder than others, finding suitable material, listening to the whole thing, then posting.  I can’t tell you how many videos I have had to reject because the person filming it dropped a lot of enthusiastic f-bombs at the very end of what had otherwise been a really good video.

So when I went outside a little while ago,  I was shocked to feel just how much the temperature had gone up.  I have been freezing my butt off for the last few days, and the change was really remarkable.  It also looks like the sun is trying to come out.   Yay!

Had a nice chat with Susan Burns, Lee’s former editor at Chalcedon,  It’s so good to catch up with people.  We usually talk a couple of times a week.

Well now I am going to pour myself a glass of wine while I make my supper and watch more of ER ( which I had never seen and am really enjoying).  Because Michael Crichton actually was a doctor, the medical stuff is legit.

I hope everyone had a good day and if you had cookouts, no rain.

Have a good night.

See you tomorrow.

God bless everybody.

Patty

I really had what was shaping up to be a nice quiet day today.  This afternoon I watched a documentary about Marvin Hamlisch (whose work I love.)

Then the mail came, and with it another payment request from that wretched lab that has been haunting me.  Medicare assures me that this bill is not my responsibility.  I’m surprised that you did not hear me scream (no matter how far away you are).  This has all the earmarks of a cursed transaction.

I just did not have the heart to call medicare yet again, so I will just postpone that until tomorrow.  Will no one rid me of this meddlesome lab? (to misquote Shakespeare).  They are coming back more times than the mummy.  What I don’t want is for them to put me into collections, because I have a superb credit rating and I want to keep it that way.

Boy am I mad.  I will also call the lab tomorrow too.  I just sent them a copy of Lee’s death certificate. To yet another address, this one in Texas.  They probably lost it.

Sorry for the rant, but I’m not in the best frame of mind right now.

Tomorrow I’ll talk a bit more about Marvin Hamlisch and the great volunteer work he did in the last decade of his life, traveling and conducting local symphony orchestras at his own expense to keep the really good old popular music alive.

Have a good night, all.

See you tomorrow.

God bless everybody.

Patty

“I am becalmed.”   It sounds sort of nice, actually, but to the old pirate it was not a good way to be.  Wallace Beery was just great in that role.  If you ever get a chance to watch Treasure Island with Beery, and Jackie Cooper as Jim–watch it.  We used to watch it quite often.

The heat has becalmed me.  (read paralyzed).  Actually, it’s not as bad today as it was yesterday, but still way over the top for this time of year.  Tomorrow, there’s supposed to be rain (which we need desperately) and a lot cooler temperatures.

Did the absolute minimum for survival today.  Just the inescapably necessary stuff.  I’m sort of edging up toward that bum-of-the-year category again.

I’ll stick with blaming it on the heat.

I’m also trying to figure out how to bring one of Lee’s podcast interviews to the blog, so you can hear him discuss writing in person.  He had such an odd voice.  People would assume he was a very elderly man (even back when he was in his 30’s) because of his voice.  It was also very soft and the sound engineers would go nuts trying to manage the sound levels when he was being interviewed for internet radio.

I am now going to make my supper and relax a bit.

Have a good night.

See you tomorrow.

God bless everybody.

Patty

Today the mercury hit 99 at Newark airport, and it knocked me out.

Hence, fewer posts today.  I was just too darned tired.

If you remember, only a couple of days ago I was complaining about having to still wear my puffer jacket because it was so blinkin’  cold in the mornings.  And cold in the apartment, too.

It just proves the truth of the old saw  “if you can live in New Jersey you can live anywhere.”

There’s one more day of heat, then the temperatures should go into the  50s (which is actually cool for May).

On the home front, my new water cooler was delivered today.  I’ve started using the 3 gallon bottles, because the 5 gallon were just getting too hard for me to wrangle into the cooler.  The other day’s mini power outage seemed to have messed up the electronics in the cooler, hence the new one.  I rent it from the water company.  That’s actually better, because if there’s a problem, they replace it (as opposed to me buying a new one).

And that was my excitement for the day.

The delivery guy did spill some water.

On the rug.

Have a good night, all.

See you tomorrow.

God bless everybody.

Patty