Thursday, June 27, 2024
The one thing I don't like about Google is you have no privacy
Thursday, June 20, 2024
The aging blogger
I have a large backyard and every year it gets overrun with weeds. Large weeds. Couple weeks back was whacking with one of them manual whackers and later into the day and into the next my left arm became very sore. Now I get this intense pain in my left elbow to the point I suffer if I even use a spray bottle with my left hand. I'm partial ambidextrous no matter. It's a jungle down there could have been a black widow who knows? I'm older now and Nurse Nancy would probably have one of my feet in the grave. Bought some Tylenol arthritis power but will wait until a sufficient time has elapsed after imbibing my last adult beverage for the night. I have my priorities.
Ever have everything go wrong with you AT THE SAME TIME? You want to go to the doctor's office and present him with a list of at least five ailments and say here fix them. We can rebuild him we have the technology. Funny thing is my friend can eat sushi and down it with chocolate milk no problem.
My cumbersome labeling system. Gonna file it under health.
Tuesday, May 28, 2024
I got 99 problems but my eyebrows ain't one
In the heart of the mall where I work is a very popular eyebrow threading kiosk. Day in and day out people of all ages sitting in the chairs. I don't get it. You're pressed for time and money it's not on my to do list. What are some social fads you don't get? People with the mini phone things in their ears expecting that all important call walking around like they're contractors. Why not use your cell? Are they gonna climb a utility pole? Smart watches. The point? Can you watch a movie on one? Constantly monitoring your BP with arm or wrist band thingamajigs. Tattoos are more than a fad of course and in some places you're in the minority if you haven't illustrated your body or at least a part. "I've fallen down and I can't get up" I can see. All I need is a meter to let me know I'm running low on the Christian Brothers.
Saturday, May 11, 2024
Don't book 'em Danno. It's legal now
Friday, March 22, 2024
Open thread
Talk about what you want.
Wednesday, July 15, 2020
Thank you for practicing unemployment
Saturday, October 29, 2016
The implosion of Obamacare?
With major insurers opting out of the exchange and premiums going up is it still worth keeping or even tweaking? Will it eventually be replaced by HillaryCare and how would this differ from DonaldCare? How are our nation's part-timers holding up those kept under 30 hours/week because of the original mandate? Finally whatever happened to if you like your colonoscopist you can keep your colonoscopist?
Thursday, September 15, 2016
& may the fittest candidate win
Trump went on the Dr. Oz show to wave his good health around. Conservatives seem fixated on Hillary's health (is that an ingrown toenail I see?). Let's face it Hil has some physical health issues but what about the Donald's mental and emotional health? Which matters more pneumonia or psychological insecurities? I just had a slight nap and so a blog was born.
Thursday, July 07, 2016
free-floating anxiety or maybe it's the state of the union
Part of def.: "a generalized feeling that something is wrong, to fear something but you don't know what it is" - - There's the bad choice of Trump vs. Clinton, ISIS is always in the news. You'll be in a modern hip mall checking out the wifi at Nordstrom Rack and you do have the random thought some guy is gonna come in, shoot that useless security guy and start yelling "Allahu Akbar." My Scripps card ain't working, am I gonna have to go on an Obamacare exchange? What if I'm frying chicken and my heart just stops working? I mean how many beats can it take? Colorectal stuff, always the polypic obsession after 50...I think maybe it's not so much a mental disorder, that the free-floaters are plugged into reality and the reality ain't good. The normal go about their day-to-day totally anxiety free because they really don't know what's going on. Indian Point......
Saturday, May 07, 2016
The 4 patron saints of lost causes, where do I rank?
They are Sts. Jude, Rita of Cascia, Philomena and a Gregory. With so many millions the world over praying to these big four for impossible cases despaired of where do I rank? Main problem: chronic tinnitus and let's throw in maybe a couple other problems while we have the divine connection. On one website of prayer petitions is a woman who wants a problem employee removed from the workplace. Where does tinnitus rank? Is it higher on the list? It's at least a medical/health issue and they're big on that although it can't rank as high as cancer of course. How do these four saints go through literally millions of petitions and decide which ones deserve their attention first? Do they have computers? They must have large staffs helping them. Excuse me I just got a text message......oh that's just another YPD Alert.
Sunday, May 01, 2016
The mystery of depression
Friday, April 15, 2016
Why didn't Yogi say that?
Hillary told Chuck Todd on Meet the Press "the unborn person doesn't have constitutional rights." I pass a Planned Parenthood on my way to work every day and they have a big banner "Health Care Happens Here." Makes it sound like I can walk in and maybe they can treat my catastrophic tinnitus and premature waking. This is not really a pro-life thread, you can discuss what have you.
Sunday, March 13, 2016
In addition to the great polyp hunt...
I wish the nation's doctors would band together and declare the mandated time change is unhealthy. With more and more people questioning it it's well past time to abandon it.
Friday, January 15, 2016
The post-50 years
It must be in keeping with the aging trend but I find myself sleeping less. I fall asleep ok but I find myself prematurely waking and most of the time not really getting back to sleep. An alternative Alex Jones theory of tinnitus: maybe we can simply hear things other folks can't hear. While others may enjoy their joblessness it has a weird effect on me. It brings to the fore any depressive issues that may exist and when you're past the half-century mark you think alot more about your own mortality. Life really is short and tortoises live alot longer than man. Also when you get older you start taking the issue of hell more seriously, at least I do but I was raised Catholic and it never really leaves you. I've blogged about this before, I actually don't like work but I also don't like being out of work if that makes any sense.
Thursday, August 20, 2015
Hippyfied health care
CVS won't sell tobacco products but medical marijuana dispensaries seem to be sprouting up everywhere these days. Alcohol continues to be heavily demonized (e.g. nearly every insomnia website warns don't drink before bedtime) but hemp use is actually being medically encouraged within a limited for now framework of course. Granny don't smoke, Granny don't drink, Granny light up a joint in the cancer ward.