No Jamie, this is not about you.

We’re in the home stretch for getting Marylou here.  Beds are in place, 2 new hospital bed.  Tickets bought, American Airlines.  Wheelchair ordered from Medicaid.  Large quantities of alcohol ordered, wine for Nina and Knob Creek for me.  Putting up shelves in their room today.

Poker game scheduled for Thursday.  Always a good time, but I may have to punch our host a bit.  He’s starting to get lippy in his emails about my lack of attendance lately.

Anyone give a shit about the inauguration of the chief idiot?  I didn’t think so.  I’m getting tired of hear about it on the news.  I’m amazed at how people are fooled by this clown, but then it’s not about the country anymore, they’re selling the man.

Got this from my mom:

Wow, is Illinois and Chicago great or  what?
 
Perhaps the U.S. should pull out of  Chicago?
 
Body count: In the last six months 292 killed (murdered) in  Chicago.
 
221 killed in Iraq AND Chicago has one of the strictest gun  laws in
the entire  US.
 
President: Barack Hussein  Obama
 
Senator: Dick  Durbin
 
House Representative: Jesse Jackson  Jr.
 
Governor: Pat  Quinn
 
House leader: Mike  Madigan
 
Atty. Gen.: Lisa Madigan (daughter of  Mike)
 
Mayor: Rahm  Emanuel
 
The leadership in Illinois – all  Democrats .
 
Thank you for the combat zone in Chicago  .
 
Of course, they’re all blaming each  other.
 
Can’t blame Republicans; there aren’t  any !
 
Chicago school system rated one of the worst in the  country.
 
Can’t blame Republicans; there aren’t  any !
 
State pension fund $78 Billion in debt, worst in  country.
 
Can’t blame Republicans; there aren’t  any !
 
Cook County ( Chicago ) sales tax 10.25% highest in  country.
 
Can’t blame Republicans; there aren’t  any !
 
This is the political culture that Obama comes from in  Illinois.
 
And he is going to ‘fix’ Washington politics for  us???
 
George Ryan is no longer Governor, he is in the big house.
Of course he was replaced by Rob Blajegovitch who is …  that’s
right, also in the big house. And Representative Jesse  Jackson Jr.
resigned a couple of weeks ago. That is because he is  fighting
being sent to … that’s right, the big  house.
Every one knows what the “Big House” is right, it has lots  of bars,
guards, and a tall fence with barbed wire at the top, sound  familiar
 
The Land of Lincoln, where our governors make our license  plates.
 
But you know what? As long as they keep providing  entitlements to the population of Chicago, nothing is going to change, except  the state
will go broke before the country  does.

Maybe that explains a lot of our current problems.

Christina.  She’s a gem.  Paul Vanderwoude has a good person on staff in her.  She stopped by and visited with ML yesterday and called me once she left the facility.  She said that ML brightened up when she saw her and they had a lovely talk.  She spent an hour with ML and they talked about many things.  ML is looking forward to her trip west and can’t wait to see Shirley.

That is a different ML that I was reported on by 2 staff members at the rehab place.  They said she was mean, nasty, uncooperative, and weepy.  Both calls came yesterday morning.

• I picked Erin up from Dilia yesterday.  She was teasing me and not looking at me.  I said “OK, I can take a hint.  I’ll leave!”  That changed her attitude.  We were having a fun trip home when all of a sudden she got all serious on me and told me that she wanted to be a boy.  I told her that she couldn’t be a boy because she didn’t have a winky.  She then told me that she could grow one and it would be a big one.  I almost ran off the road trying not to laugh at that one.
• As usual, Erin snuck into bed with us after we were sleeping.  It’s pretty normal when we return from a trip that she does this.  I guess it’s her way of keeping us from slipping away again soon.
• Everything that was brought back from Illinois is now safely ensconced in the bank.  Made me nervous having it all in our house.
• I’ve been trying to post here daily.  So far so good.
• We now have 2 hospital beds in the house for the old people.  I hope we didn’t buy one too many.  It sounds like ML is trying to kill herself.  I called the lawyer and informed her that the home is leaning to doing a feeding tube, against ML’s wishes and she plans on a visit there today to reinforce ML’s right to die and to give her a pep talk.  She has less than a week until she’s here.
• Everyone’s telling us we are making a big mistake bringing her here.  They may be right.  We’ll soon see.  We are currently looking for a 3rd caregiver to pick up some of the slack.  I know we’ll survive though.
• I’m tired of all the gun talk on TV.  Spin!  All the news shitters need to spin everything to stir up shit.  Just another instance of the news people making government policy.

Later.

Not a lot of snow, but some is better than none.  We probably have around 2 inches of light fluffy stuff.  Nina said there was nothing said about this on the news last night.

Erin is still in Dilia.  Nina and I are sick so Tori felt it was better that she not be exposed.

We got home at 2:00 p.m.

Both of us are still coughing and hacking away.  We are pretty miserable.  Going to try to make it home today, but I can’t guarantee that we’ll make it that far.  We have less than 500 miles to go, so it is possible.

Last night I posted here and was in bed at 8.  No dinner, no drinks.  I woke up promptly at 12 and had a tough time sleeping again.  Did I mention that I’m miserable?

Driving with the flu is horrid.  Both of us are fully engulfed in the flu right now and I have to tell you it’s terrible.  I am not a happy camper.

We are in Clinton OK for the night.  I’m finished with this and then straight to bed.  I’m DEAD.

Sorry Archie, I forgot to call you back and since I really have a hard time talking right now, I doubt I’ll do so today.