It’s Sunday already! What a week! Sorta.

Had a thoracic ultrasound last Wednesday; which turned out normal. No thrombosis, embolism, whatever the hell they were looking for. My Aorta Ain’t Bulging! But that’s good. Means I won’t suddenly bleed out into my thoracic cavity. Not that the fat would leave any room for blood to pool anyway.

Unfortunately, the veins in my legs allow backflow so I’ll have to have them fixed. Doc’s got me wearing compression socks for the next 90 days and we’ll go from there. Then she’ll schedule me for having those vein’s closed off (with glue!) and, hopefully, that’ll fix that.

Having a good ultrasound leaves me open for butt-surgery this Wednesday tho. Which I’m NOT looking forward to but will go through cause it’s the best thing for me to do. Joy. From what I’ve been reading online I’m hoping for a completely normal recovery. No one posted that they died from after surgery pain, so, I’m expecting it to be majorly uncomfortable, but not fatally so.

And I have survived all my teeth (all  8 of them at the time) being yanked out for my dentures, my gall bladder being removed, sinus surgery, spiral tib-fib fracture, and a divorce. So I’ll survive this.

Was watching a program about “Save The Earth – Eat Bugs” and found that pretty interesting. I could do it; switch to bugs for protein. As long as they didn’t have the consistency of boiled okra I can eat pretty much anything. I know what real hunger is like. (We were pretty poor sometimes while growing up.)

So I was thinking I should open a restaurant here in Belfair. “Insecta-Sides” and specialize in bugs for dinner. Wouldn’t/couldn’t expect to make a zillion bucks or anything; but it might be fun. Not sure I need the notoriety but it still might be fun.

Went and had a pre-surgery covid-19 test today. Girl did 5 swirls of each nostril and told me that was it. I said that ain’t it. It was a 35 minute drive each way, so, do it again. She laughed and kicked me out. On the way out she said I had to “self-quarantine” until my surgery. Yeah, Sure. That’ll happen. Watch!

I don’t mean to be a Grinch however…. to those of you who are placing Christmas lights/decorations in your yards (WAY too early if I do say so!), would you please avoid anything that has Red or Blue flashing lights together?

Every time I come around the corner, I think it’s the police and I have a panic attack. I have to brake hard, toss my wine out the window, fasten my seat belt, throw my phone on the floor, turn my radio down, and push the gun under the seat. All while trying to drive and I’m not even a good driver!

It’s just too much drama, even for Christmas.

Thank you for your cooperation and understanding.

I download and watch a LOT of Science programs. Earthquakes through tsunami through ‘The Sky At Night” and, given the apparent age of the PhD’s and other experts called to inform us on so many subjects, I have only one question: Does y’alls mamas know you snuck out of the house? Y’all are so young!

I have the same problem when I go to the Navy Exchange on base. I see these Officers (and Enlisted folks, of course) and I want to ask them if their Mom’s know they’re off playing soldier?

Don’t get me wrong; if you learned enough to get your Doctorate, or you serve in the Military (in any capacity), then you have my respect and admiration. But y’all are so young!

Dry but windy day. Sunny. Dog and I dodged a couple of falling branches that could have caused a knot on my noggin if they’d have hit me. Still, gotta get out and walk a couple of times a day at least.

SWMBO had her older friends over. He sits in my recliner and watches tv while they go into her sewing room and, sew, I guess. So I spent most of the day getting my chores done and watching “The Planets” on one of my monitors. Great graphics! Zachery Quinto is okay at narrating but I do enjoy Brian Cox’s presentations. I literally could watch these programs all day.

I see where President Trump hasn’t conceded but has reportedly told his crew he’d like to run again in 2024. Cool! I was about to get bumper stickers Trump 2024 printed up.

I also saw where the CDC changed the numbers for covid-19 deaths again. Now only just over 9000 folks died of just the covid. But we shouldn’t worry about completely screwing our economy over less people than die monthly from texting and driving. Way to go!

Did y’all see where they’re coming up with covid stamps for your passports and other official papers? Soon you won’t be able to go shopping without showing your papers. Guess I’ll be losing a lot of weight. I’m not getting that vaccine until at least a year after it’s been out and the adverse side effects have been fixed. Then they’ll still have to prove to me there’s no microchip in it.

Everything was going pretty good until SWMBO’s Son started the stove on fire. Grease in a drip-pan thingy and a burner turned a bit too high.

Didn’t want to go out either. Wet rag didn’t work. Pan lid didn’t work. Finally had to reach in and remove the electric burner (AFTER making sure it was turned off!), grabbing the drip-pan thingy and flinging it into the sink. (So, no, it wasn’t a large fire. Yet.) Minor scorching to my hand but we’ll all live. Everyone (but me) got pretty excited for a few moments there. (I don’t get excited. Too much training.)

Otherwise, Thanksgiving went mostly well. Took some turkey dinner to my shUt-in neighbors.

Friday was SWMBO’s Birthday. Tried to find a restaurant where we could have a sit-down dinner but, alas, Herr Insley has closed them all down except for curb-side delivery. So we wound up doing our usual Friday Walmart run and eating Whopper’s in the Burger King parking lot. At least we were together. She’s still that sweet young thing I married 34 years ago.

I bought her a subscription to newspapers.com for her birthday/ anniversary/ Christmas present this year. And a subscription to Family Tree magazine with online content. Figured she was tired of $200 gift cards from Jo-Ann’s Fabrics.

Her son has Scottish ancestry he’s particularly fond of, so last May I bought him and his future bride their own square foot each (plus 2 10ft square plots) through Highland Titles; which makes them actual Laird & Lady land owners in Scotland. It was kinda sorta expensive for a retired guy on a fixed income but I thought they’d really enjoy it.

So, Thanksgiving when they were getting ready to leave he mentions that he’d found a place you could buy a square foot of Scotland and become a Laird & Lady and they’d ordered theirs the previous week.

Fuck.

I was pretty upset for a  few but, really, there’s no one to blame for anything. So, Christmas I’ll give them their presents and explain that I’d bought them last summer and that’s it.

But, it’s like SWMBO says: Don’t Buy Anything This Close To Christmas! Ever!

Been trying to get back here for a week. Sorta. Thought about it a lot. Every day, really. Sorta. What with how boring, well, routine, my life is mostly I just couldn’t work up the effort to post. And, even though I don’t post for anyone else in particular, those that “follow” this blog deserve more than SSDD.

Or do they? So, SSDD.  Only, with the Wx being like it is I seem to get more reading done than housework/chores/things that need to be done around the house. Without sitting around too much.

Need to get off my ass and do a field day for Thanksgiving though. Not that we’re dirty; just somewhat messy. And we ARE going to have family over. Not sure if we’ll exceed the maximum imposed by Herr Insley, and don’t care. If the Police want to break into my house because I have too many folks over then they’re welcome. We’ll set a couple of extra plates. (The Police are pretty much always welcome in my house.)

SWMBO and I were talking the other night and we decided that the US Government, under Biden, should give every LEGAL American 18 and older $1 million dollars. With the stipulations that you 1) Pay off or buy a house, and 2) Buy an American made car. A possible 3rd option would be to put the bucks in a bank, unable to touch the principle, and live off the interest.

With 331 Million LEGAL Americans that would be about $331 Million (minus anyone under 18) and would still be cheaper than the $2-Trillion the Dems want to spend. If that doesn’t take care of the poverty problem nothing will. And if you get the money and spend all of it then you just do without. You’d of had your chance and if you blow it the Government will not help you again.

Honestly, other than the people screwing it up I can’t see why this wouldn’t work. But I’m probably not being a realist. Or too Socialistic But if the Government is just going to give money away, let’s make it worthwhile. And, it’s got the potential to be a lot cheaper than some of the programs we continue to dole out the bucks for now. Welfare!? Who needs it. Give them a one time payment of $1 million and let them prosper or die.

We think the Government could also save a butt-ton of money on our electrical grid (and make it way safer) if they just flat out paid for solar systems on every house and got rid of the wire totally. Or put in neighborhood fuel cell systems and charge each house the same amount for hydrogen deliveries once a week (or whenever). Hard for terrorists to take over or fuck up every local fuel cell system when they don’t connect to each other.

Would probably put the electrical company’s out of business; but would create a butt-ton of new jobs for local servicemen/technicians. Would stop a lot of pollution. Decrease CO2 levels and all. Save The Whales! Save The Glaciers! Save 10% Now!

The battle cry could be: Tesla Walls For Everyone!

So, nothing going on around here.