Finally sitting down somewhere comfortable after spending nearly 5 hours sitting in my car at the surgery center while husband had a stent put in his heart.

I could have sat inside but the chairs didn't look more comfortable and I'd have had to wear a mask the whole time. Did some Sudoku and finally started reading a book on The Lost Colony.

Hopefully will be able to get a good night's rest.

(December 21, 2020 at 7:40 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: Finally sitting down somewhere comfortable after spending nearly 5 hours sitting in my car at the surgery center while husband had a stent put in his heart.

I could have sat inside but the chairs didn't look more comfortable and I'd have had to wear a mask the whole time.  Did some Sudoku and finally started reading a book on The Lost Colony.  

Hopefully will be able to get a good night's rest.

Remember when they used a mallet and a large knife to break the sternum and crack people open like a lobster to work on their hearts? We've come a long way. Good medicine for your husband!

(December 21, 2020 at 8:17 pm)Fireball Wrote:

(December 21, 2020 at 7:40 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: Finally sitting down somewhere comfortable after spending nearly 5 hours sitting in my car at the surgery center while husband had a stent put in his heart.

I could have sat inside but the chairs didn't look more comfortable and I'd have had to wear a mask the whole time.  Did some Sudoku and finally started reading a book on The Lost Colony.  

Hopefully will be able to get a good night's rest.

Remember when they used a mallet and a large knife to break the sternum and crack people open like a lobster to work on their hearts? We've come a long way. Good medicine for your husband!

Isn't that the truth.  Other than being tired himself he seems okay.  I was glad he was able to go to an ambulatory surgical center and not a hospital full of germy people.

This is Total Wine's house brand anejo. It's rather smooth, if a bit non-descript. I prefer grassy to peppery, but it manages to ring neither bell. Still, for $30, I'l stoically suffer my way through a bottle.

(December 21, 2020 at 8:17 pm)Fireball Wrote:

(December 21, 2020 at 7:40 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: Finally sitting down somewhere comfortable after spending nearly 5 hours sitting in my car at the surgery center while husband had a stent put in his heart.

I could have sat inside but the chairs didn't look more comfortable and I'd have had to wear a mask the whole time.  Did some Sudoku and finally started reading a book on The Lost Colony.  

Hopefully will be able to get a good night's rest.

Remember when they used a mallet and a large knife to break the sternum and crack people open like a lobster to work on their hearts? We've come a long way. Good medicine for your husband!

Only with non-patients these days.

Morning coffee.

Brewing a pot of half and half. I'm hopeful that I'll get more done today than I did yesterday, but not optimistic.

Drinking beer and hoping I don't post another load of inebriated, unpleasant, insane, belligerent nonsense all over the internet, and particularly this forum, again.

Dad apparently has an account on a site called Trashnothing.com that basically involves people asking for free stuff from their local area. He asked for stringed instruments that could be repairable. He got a bite: a Regal archtop apparently from the 1930s or 1940s from a guy in Lake Forest. Why is a guitar like this being given away? Well...






It was damaged on delivery, and he's planning on fixing it.  And, frankly, if that's the extent of the damage, I've seen acoustic guitars that somehow ended up in a playable condition from even worse. We've managed to resurrect guitars (and a tiple) that even professionals wrote off as only useful for parts (though the tiple still goes out of tune rather quickly.)

It's 5 F outside and I'm headed across town to Maplewood to donate blood plasma. I'm bundled up like the Michelin man. They normally close at 6:00 P.M., but it being Christmas Eve, they might close early at 2 or 3. I would get there before 2:00, but my bus was late. I'm wearing new boots and new long undies that I haven't worn before, so hopefully they'll perform satisfactorily. And on top of everything else my bus pass expired yesterday. I've got limited value cards, but not enough to last until I get my new card.

Feh.

"Merry" Christmas.