What I did on Thursday

I've had a health problem.  I threw out my right shoulder opening up a difficult can of cat food two Sundays ago and a day or two later my muscles began aching.  I've never gotten over the pain.  They give me Adville for it and it doesn't work.  My response to their ads is to say "Relief, what relief?"   Thursday morning they were offering me the hope of something stronger to take like codeine but then gave me an appointment for next Thursday to even see Dr Saran in his office.  It would be after that before I'd see a back specialist.  I don't want this to drag out like scabies did two years ago right around this time of year.   In terms of Trump news I'm hoping to do a fresh posting on all of the people our esteemed president has alienated.  He's alienated the health care people, and the coal mining lobby, those looking for better trade with China, of course he's alienated the Latino and Black votes and also fans of John Mc Cain.  The only people he seems to care about are the etherial hard right gun lobby people, and also the military pro Israel lobby.  Anyhow here is what I did on Thursday.  

Paul showed up a couple of minutes past eight.  We used the car where Paul was a little worried about the battery running down.  We took Magnolia right to the freeway and after a while got in the express lane or diamond lane.  It kept looking like it was going to rain ahead of us and we encountered a few drops but a few windshield wipes covered it.  In general we made pretty good time but I was worried because this road is legendary for heavy traffic.  We turned off at Van Buren and once again I marvled at the mixture of rural and creeping urbanism.  I was getting cramps in my legs bu the time we got there.  Marie had on “Let’s Make a Deal” on the giant screen.  We looked at family photos from Paul from an album I’d never seen compiled with those photos before.  They were gathered from diverse sources.  At one point I wanted to sit down because we were all standing.  We left without Marie to go to the cemetery at almost ten.  We were famous this days for wandering around industrial places to look at them.  We made out way to the grave and saw the grave stone with Mom’s name on it.  We marvled a while then Paul said something about the scripture reference and Tim changed the subject.   We had looked at the trail on Tim’s computer.  We were in the northeast enterance of the park area.  But the guy said all of the flat trails were on the other side.  We went down the first trail we saw but it was more of an “animal path” than a good trail because it was lumpy with lots of ups and downs and rock cravaces.  I soon got tired and began losing my balance.  I knjew we couldn’t go very far and we soon turned around.  We debated what to do next.  We went to this record place to the north.  We spent a lot of time driving on the east side of Riverside city limits.  The record place wasn’t there any more.  By now it was getting pretty close to noon so we ate lunch in downtown Riverside.  We went right by the Mission Inn and I got to see it in person for the first time.  We went to this sandwich place and I needed to use the restroom again.  I told Tim to order.  I had an Italian Grinder and a large Cola.  Tim had ordered fruit and it was strawberries and grapes.  The sandwich was too big to eat whole and the bread was tough.  Then we went to that photo place where they discussed selling some of Dad’s cameras or selling some of Dad’s framed photos.  Then we wandered the streets more making our way back to Tim’s house.  I didn’t see any cats there.  We visited with Marie a little more.  We not once discussed politics.  Paul and I made our way back home and never needed a jump.  We made good time on the way home escept for a little traffic right in eastern Orange County.  Paul called Judy up and I held the cell phone.