Ironically I didn’t take the regular flu shot earlier in the winter that my job offered, and I ended up trying to get it at my regular doctor’s office, but they were out of it! I’m not sure if it will even be worth taking it a month from now, but fortunately I’ve not been ill this year. I just need to get my blood sugar under control, because my blood pressure and cholesterol are really good now. Losing weight is part of the goal, so I’m taking some prescription and over the counter appetite suppressants. I’m also eating a lot more from home, but probably not getting any exercise as of late.
How can we ever say anything bad about Bill Gates?
Yes, it’s a tax write-off, but TEN BILLION dollars for children’s vaccines to save untold millions of lives? How many rich people even think of such benevolence? By comparison the United States committed 100 MILLION to Haiti relief, even though I realize it might become far more as a result of the military efforts and that many of the expenses will benefit the American economy as companies from the United States will be providing many of the supplies.
I disdain Democratic hypocrisy also!
John Edwards’ former assistant Andrew Young and his family who feigned Andrew’s fatherhood of Rielle Hunter’s baby should be highly compensated for their sacrifices with their book proceeds and otherwise! I would think someone capable of such loyalty would be highly employable if he should ever have to worry about his marketability.
Today of all days
Had a perilous commute into work today (usually, of course, I take the train). I was trying to get to work two hours early for a special project, but didn’t make it until one hour later than expected because of traffic, but what made it so treacherous was that it was still very dark at that hour (which was not helped by the cloud cover), there was an intense rain storm and while I was defrosting the windows, the driver’s side windshield wiper completely stopped working right before entering highway. I pulled over and the wiper portion basically came right off, but the arm had stopped moving anyway. I had to sit in a precarious position to see the road and changing lanes was scary. It was almost a blessing that traffic came to a standstill far sooner than usual because of the backup at the bridge, but then of course there were high winds and the problematic S-curve which is currently on the Bay Bridge during the reconstruction. The garage attendant said all I had to do was pull up the windshield wiper from the passenger side and pop it in the driver’s side, but I don’t want to risk having no windshield at all when I drive home today!
More Important News than the Late Night Wars
Am I the only one who doesn’t giving a flying heap about the late night lineups? These shows are all cookie-cutter anyway.
I mean economically speaking, I think SPORTS are more important than this, and I can’t believe we waste ANY time on sports “news” (which thankfully CNN does not).
Sick of Throwback fad already
I hope the kid/childhood photo fad as one’s primary picture on Facebooks ends damn soon; weirdos with no other public picture are trying to add me, and that’s just creepy and screams insecurity. Like I don’t have enough time wasted by closeted people expecting me to spill my guts to them without having another excuse to avoid showing themselves accurately? It’d be one thing if they had up-to-date pictures publicly posted as well, but I really don’t want to have to walk around with my phone ringing and texting from people who look like kids. Someone’s going to think I’m a pedophile if they see me communicating with kid photos, and I wouldn’t be surprised if the whole thing was started by one!
Protected: Gripe about the kinds of invites I tend to get
Doesn’t anyone else besides my friend Rick Storrs and me have parties in their homes anymore? I’m starting to get a complex that the only thing I get invited to are bar nights promoting people’s friends and DJ’s and other things that I don’t relate to. Maybe I’m just getting old. And this isn’t just a Facebook phenomenon. This has been going on for quite a while. Maybe it’s a California thing?
My family, of course, invites me for no special reason all the time, but I’m beginning to worry that many of these so-called friends are just opportunists.
My Word of the Day
Diaspora – Such as my Haitian friends in New York.
RIP Teddy Pendergrass
He was only 59 and he had been paralyzed for years, so I wasn’t too surprised to hear that his recent illness may have been related to his paralysis. Why aren’t we using stem cells more!! I’m sure there are plenty of people who would volunteer rather than die.
DMV red tape
I’m very disappointed that my daughter couldn’t get her permit today because her 18th birthday is coming up too soon. I paid for a whole course that she excelled in online last summer and she’s had a couple of postponed appointments, but now after all of that effort, she is not able to drive until at least April and her getting a job will be that much more difficult.
More frustratingly, all the money I spent and time shee spent on her driving course WAS WASTED