A Day in the Life

They are now re-introducing a question on the 2020 census, “Are you a citizen?”  This will only scare off minorities from even filling out the form.  And if they aren’t counted we’ll get fewer democrats in congress.   There is a definite racial and political angle behind this move.  The constitution says to count ‘People living in that state’ and it doesn’t say “citizens”.   These people should read the constitution. 

President Trump just fired his VA administrator and is replacing him with his personal doctor that gave him such a glowing report on his physical a few months ago.  He said he has "good genes" and could live to be a hundred and fifty or something.  We have no idea when this canabalism in the administration is going to stop.  It's clear that whatever emerges will be a far less qualified team than even the appointments of a year ago. I am typing this Thursday morning and yesterday was a day I wouldn't care to repeat anytime soon.

That ten year kid who fell off of that water slide was in the news again because the owners are in big trouble.  They have had fourteen injuries on this ride in the past two years.  Two adult women were injured at the same time the kid was killed- - something about being decapitated.  I haven’t yet heard of any legal settlement for wrongful death.   How much is a human life worth?  But they plan to charge the owners with second degree murder under Kansas law.

It’s bad enough we have to get used to men making out on daytime TV.  Now we have to look at male cheerleaders at Rams football games.  And there is increasedtalk about men running for homecoming queen.    Now I hear they are trying to involve trans-sexuals in cheerleading functions.  The courts say that being a trans-sexual won’t interfere with the functioning of an army unit.  I don’t know but it seems to me- - - I don’t know- - don’t people get creaped out anymore?   In Dodger Stadium during last night’s Angels game there was a bad sewage leak and the third base line was really wet and people say it smelled.  So they “called” the game at the end of the fifth inning and that makes the Dodgers the winner because the score was 4 to 3 and it was official.  

I slept well but woke tired and was disappointed that it was already 4:30 because I felt I could sleep for several more hours.  I then had a really bad case of diaria.  Bill had given me two cigarettes and I went out and smoked them.  It was a little after five thirty that I went down and got medication from Leah.   I got diaria pills in addition to my usual medication.  That medication caused nausea, as it does often.  I decided to turn on the TV news and not the computer.   We had Eye Witness news on.  Denise returned with the clothes at six thirty.  One gray sock was missing.  I was taking a general sock inventory but I should have gone right down to the laundry toom.  The sun was shining before seven.   We had Cheerios for breakfast followed by two pancakes and a sausage patty.  Jerry gave he her two pancakes and eventually her sausage patty.  I got a big cup of coffee but still went back for seconds and got that.  I was worried the diaria would return.  So I told Alvin at a quarter after eight to cancel the dentist appointment I had.  But he didn’t do it.  I had turned on Bill Handel.  Bill then lent me a whole pack of Clippers.  There were rumors Nora would no longer do out room.  These proved unfounded because she showed up just after nine to change the linens.  I felt like saying “Just don’t steal anything”.  As it turns out she did steal a “The Week” magazine.  She had said something about keeping food in the room but there was no food.  I looked at the menu and was going to change dinner but never got around to it.  After ten I went to the courtyard for snacks from Rico and got a hand full of vanilla wafers and punch. 

Bill turned on “Lets Make a Deal” at nine.   It was only a quarter after nine when Alvin saw me up and about and said “I guess your diaria is over with” and then admitted to not calling the dentist to cancel.  Around nine thirty (?) he called and I listened and an appointment was made for two o clock this afternoon.  They must not do much business if they can schedule such a major event on so little time.  Bill turned on ‘Let’s Make a Deal” at nine.  At ten we watched “The Price is Right”.  I dozed off during the end of the program.  We had parmazon chicken breasts for lunch with bowtie pasta.  We had a half of a sliced orange for dessert.  I had the Gary and Shannon show on.  Mario asked me at twenty after twelve to go buy him a pack of cigarettes at the store.  I went to the store and got them and he gave me two cigarettes for my efforts.  I caught “Draining the Swamp”.   At one I still had KFI on and at a quarter after one I checked with Alvin because he’d said something about having to take me early because of Mary Bernes.  It turns out we left at one thirty and I was the only passenger.   The dentist lady told Alvin that it would be a two hour appointment.  This was more than I had figured.  I had to sign an authorization electronically for both the root canals and the deep cleaning.  They said there could be pain afterwards.   It turned out they did not one but three root canals and NOT the tooth that was even hurting.  Because this they did a “deep cleaning” on the left side of my mouth.   I needed more Novocain because it really hurt when she drilled on an upper tooth, a lateral incisor.  There were two lower teeth on the left that were also worked on.  Again they took all sorts of X rays multiple times.  I’m surprised I didn’t OD on X ray radiation.  They used those flaming sticks to seal in the root canal filling.  They showed something on deep sea creatures and then they showed a thing on the Arctic seas.  The appointment started right at two o clock and I was finished a few minutes before four thirty.  They called up here to come and get me and I went out for a smoke.  But then Alvin called me from the driveway.  It seems he had just arrived and proactively at Federico’s suggestion came out because it had been so long and people wondered what had happened to me.  It didn’t look like I was prescribed either anti biotics or pain pills.   There was rush hour traffic at least heading north.  We arrived and the kitchen and dining room were all locked up, which surprised me.  I expected there would be a few hangers on at ten to five.  Alvin went into the dark kitchen and came across my dinner plate with a turkey sandwich and French fries.  The original menu said macaroni and cheese and I’m glad we didn’t have that.   Eye Witness news is on now.