Went to the doctor yesterday afternoon. Nice place and the doctor seemed to be competent. I told him I dropped the statins and he was fine with that. He felt that Green may have been over-aggressive on them with me. We talked about Chicago and Detroit.

WEATHER

Day before yesterday the weatherliar was dead wrong again! We were supposed to get snow, enough snow that I prepared the plow for action. We got NOTHING again.

ERIN

We’ve had Erin for an extra day this week. They pick her up tomorrow. They needed her for Sunday for the great-grandma’s b’day. They’re a pain in the ass. Always late picking her up, promise one time and come whenever they feel like it.

MARYLOU

Yesterday was her birthday. I know I should know her age, but truthfully, I don’t give enough of a shit to remember. She’s 1 day older than the day before. She’s telling everyone that she’s 21 and appears confused when no one laughs. Ugliest 21 y.o. I’ve ever seen. New meds arrived today to temper her temper. I hope that it makes things easier for Nina.

MOTORCYCLE

I should be able to ride tomorrow. It’s supposed to be in the 60’s and beautiful out. Today was great riding weather too, but I was scheduled to heavy to bother. The weather is supposed to turn for the worse over the weekend.

Happy December everyone. The countdown to Christmas begins, at least with me. I hate seeing Christmas ads starting after Halloween, it annoys me.

We did that bank this morning and afterwards I went stopped at a friend’s to see if I could get her FaceTime working. Didn’t happen, so I told her to stop at Verizon when she went to town next.

Erin is challenging Tori more lately. Not a good thing for either of them. Not a good thing for me either. It causes loud talking and shouting and other nastiness in MY house. I hate that. If there weren’t other people here I wouldn’t mind it as much. No witnesses.

We went on a ride over the weekend. Nice short ride, just a 100 mile run. I’ll have to take it out later this week for it’s 7500 service, just a few miles late of course. The bike has over 7600 miles on it by now. I hope to have over 8000 before the end of the year.

ML is still alive, contrary to Nina’s mid-year prediction. Evil just doesn’t die. Hospice has taken her off a few of her meds because they’re contrary to the hospice policy. Don’t know more, don’t care either.

I’m thinking of playing poker Thursday. After last week I figured to try the no limit hold-em games they do every other week. I did very well during my last appearance.

Dat’s all.

I can usually feel what day it is, but today, while I know it’s Tuesday, it feels like any day but Tuesday. I hate this, holidays suck.

Today we did the banking and I did some web work for a friend. Stupid shit that is fairly easy. I’ll do some more later this evening for him and try to finish tomorrow.

Erin, Nina, and I did breakfast at Charlie’s again, just like any other Monday. While they waited for me at the restaurant, I did the banking. Bank regs are getting to be a pain in the ass lately. Lucky the bank officers are all friendly  with me.

Erin and I picked up three Plecostomus, algae eaters, for her fish tank. They’re having a feast there. I never realized how much algae had accumulated since I clean the front glass regularly. The side and rear glass seem to have needed cleaning too and that’s where they are feasting.  I hope they don’t get too large for the tank.

Erin and Debra are doing schoolwork together at the kitchen table. She’s doing very well and she’s pretty happy with this situation. We were singing the alphabet song on the way into town this morning.

• Rain is predicted for today.
• Posted a funny FB meme in “vulgar”.
• Banking today.
• Erin is home after 10 days. I sure missed her.
• She’s glad she’s home.
• We’re glad she’s home before we leave.
• She spent the night here. She fell asleep in her bed (yes we have a bed here for her) and I woke this morning with her knee in my back.  Makes me wonder why we have a bed here for her.
• My back is bothering me today, can’t figure out why.
• I added something under the Erin tab.  “my room”
• This morning I’ve suffered through over 10 political ads. I hate the political season. Too bad it’s not more like hunting season.
• Dropped my bike off at Harley yesterday. It will live there during our trip where they will do a couple of mods, add a garage door opener that works off the high beam switch, and add an audible burglar alarm. I’ve caught people sitting on my bike twice and the audible will stop that. The mods? Headers and pipes. These will reduce the felt heat, get rid of the catalytic converter, give me better milage and keep a near stock sound.
• On the trip into Santa Fe yesterday, it 55° when I left and it was one of the most comfortable rides I have taken on the bike. It makes my thoughts of a road trip to Chicago in October seem like an even better idea than I thought.
• We did Harry’s Roadhouse for breakfast yesterday. Nina had something with spinach and I had trout, bacon, and eggs. Great food, tiny little freaking tables. You can’t read a newspaper while there. When you’re as popular as Harry’s is, you have to jam the customers in every little shitty corner you can I guess.
• Marylou goes to the nursing home today! YAY! She’ll stay there for 3 weeks. We told her that our vacation is 3 weeks so that we’d have an extra week without her. I know, we’re scum for lying to an old lady.
• Speaking about ML, yesterday she was telling me about when she was last in London and while she didn’t remember the date, it HAD to be around 10 years ago. Winston Churchill had just left power and she saw people kneeling to a passing piece of royalty and when she didn’t even acknowledge the guy, she was dressed down by a local since the guy was a duke. She told him that she only knelt before God and would kneel before no man. Since Churchill left the PM office in ’55 and died in ’65, I was so tempted to tell her that it had to be just a little longer than 10 years ago since she was in London. I decided to let her just finish the story so I wouldn’t have to listen to her any longer.
• ML looks like a skeleton that hasn’t decomposed yet. Her hospice nurse feels that she is still healthy though and is fine staying here, but we shouldn’t be surprised if she passes soon.

Over thinking shit kills your happiness.

Dennis:
It’s not the breaker. I replaced the wrong breaker first and the problem still happened. Once I realized that problem, I replaced the correct breaker and it’s still happening.

Family & Christina:
Marylou was just carted off in the ambulance. Claims of chest pains and inability to breath were loud and frequent. Ambulance called, checked her out, claimed she was fine, but took her away anyway. Cool!

To All:
Check back here for updates. Same Bat Time, same Bat Channel! (Dating myself, ain’t I?)

Comedy of Errors?

So, Nina and I decide to take separate cars to the hospital. Made sense at the time, right? Probably should have talked about which hospital she was being taken to. Nina headed to Santa Fe and I headed to Las Vegas.

Nina updated me while at breakfast and I waited until I got home to update you all. Surprise surprise, ML has nothing wrong with her. She did not have another stroke, she did not have a heart attack (I knew that was impossible since she has no heart.), and she was breathing fine.

This was all started because Diana, her weekend caretaker, brought her a book on China. She was trying to be nice because ML was reading an old book about China. ML, in her demented thought processes went through the following:

• Where did this book come from? (Nina) Diana brought it for you.
• Did she give it to me?
• Is she expecting it back?
• Is she trying to sell this to me?
• That’s it isn’t it? She’s trying to sell this to me!
• Who does she think she is? (Nina) Oh for Christ’s sake, she just thought you’d like to page through it!

And so on and so on and so on. Nina is a saint, but unfortunately this saint needs to vent and I get to listen to the frustration and anger that ML brings out of Nina. For a while ML seemed to be semi-sane, but then she slowly started to revert to the nazi-gnome figurine that prompted her return to Illinois. I think I’ll have a little chat with her when she gets back home this afternoon.

I hope to have Diana back here too. She needs to see these antics will have no consequence to Diana and that she’s here for the duration.

To summarize the day: Marylou is batshit crazy. Batshit crazy will get her back at a home in Las Vegas, NM. Just saying . . . . .