I wasn’t as nervous about the procedure this time. They got me all positioned and an absolutely stunning apparently 25 year old young lady introduces herself with “Hello, Mr. King. I’m Doctor <so-and-so> and I’ll be doing your procedure today.” No. Not right. Not right at all.

I remember them telling me that they were sending me to my happy place NOW and I had just enough time to mutter “Not the way I wanted to get half naked in a room full of girls but when you’re 71 you take what  you ge….” when, the very next second, they’re telling me “Wake up, Mr. King.” and turning over on my back I let out the most loose butt-cheek ‘wobbly’ (the only way to describe it) fart that lasted a good 3 seconds.

In school, I’d have been proud of that one. In the recovery room: pretty much the same.

They told me I probably wouldn’t poop for a couple of days (no shit!) but I kind of expected I wouldn’t since I’d just spent 24 hours shitting out everything I’d ever had in my guts since High School. I think I even passed a leggo once.

And I guess I made an old fool of myself asking about Dr. Wow. Turns out she’s in her 40’s and has a couple of kids, etc, etc, etc.

I don’t know what they use to knock you out for this, but that’s some good shit. No preamble. No drowsiness. No I think I’ll go to sleep now. You are OUT.

Anyway, things are back to “normal.” Re-installed the water heater in the FILA yesterday and am dealing with a sink leak today. Gonna give that walk-in shower a try out tomorrow I think. Then I’ll turn off the water heater until someone actually stays in the place. Just no sense in paying to heat water no one is going to be using.

So you know how my day is going. Hopefully, this will be the last time I’ll have to do this. (Because they don’t find anything!) Took me 68 years to grow those 3 polyps they found last time; if they don’t find any this time I figure it should be another 68 years before I have to worry about it again.

The Joy…

Oops. Gotta GO ……

And no amount of begging or pleading or promises to “be better” or “never doing that again” (whatever that was) ever worked. (Although a good bribe could get you a 24 hour reprieve. But ONLY 24 hours.)

And there was only one “style” of haircut you got: Buzz Cut. Dad might have called it a “flat top” to make you feel better; but it was out and out a buzz cut. Sometimes he took part of your ear. Just because.

This happened through the late 50’s until 1968; when I was 16 or so. Like clockwork: at the beginning of summer and half-way through the school year at the minimum. Still have no idea why he stopped when I turned 16. Maybe he felt the futility of keeping “that Hippie shit” out of the house. Maybe he was paying more attention to the mini-skirts than the way we looked. I don’t know.

I mention this because, at 71+ years of age, I’m about to step into the bathroom and give myself a “buzz cut” again. Been doing it myself since haircuts hit $25 just to sit in a “stylists” chair. Stylists ain’t barbers.

SWMBO says I do a ‘fair’ job of it with only a few rough edges; but I really don’t care. I wear a hat all the time anyway and who is ever impressed with a fat old guy (as if I was trying to impress anyone). Told her she’s welcome to “fix it up;” but she just shudders and goes back to her room.

Ah, well.

Not a lot going on around here. Finally turned cold and now getting dark by 1830 so I’m doing “inside” stuff more than not.

Been buying a couple of pork loins ($1.78/lb) a week for the past few weeks. Trimming then instant potting them and running them through the freeze dryer. Should have a couple of years worth of pulled pork stored downstairs pretty soon. Burger next. Already did chicken when it was on sale so much.

Set my grow towers up down in the FILA but they aren’t doing all that well. Honestly, I’m not paying as much attention to them as I should be. I have to remember to go down there and water what I’ve planted. I swear, if I had the room upstairs where they wouldn’t be in the way Id move them up here. I need to get into the routine. Keeping the FILA at 75 degrees cost $78 last month. Now add grow lights …

Just spent $500 for two 100ah lifepo 4 batteries to replace the lead acid batteries I run my radio’s with. Figure if I’m going to do this solar to run my shack then I need to get off my ass and do it. Backup battery for my cpap next…

This small form factor (sff) desktop computer I have may have an i7 cpu and 16 gig of ram; but it ain’t for shit to expand/upgrade it. So I bought a 4 in 1 multi-function blu-ray burner (external) and that just got in. This sff uses a laptop dvd which I haven’t found to be easily upgraded, so I’m going powered external.

If I didn’t use the memory, cpu, and Nvidia video card (SO much faster) for ripping and transcoding I’d just switch to a really small (something like an AcePC) computer and mount it under the desk out of the way. With that USB 7-drive bay and the external Blu-ray burner everything except transcoding would be covered.

Climbed into the attic over the garage and replaced the furnace filter. Then pulled the 12 ft ladder inside and climbed up and replaced the inside filter in the hall. I really should do it more than once a year! They were pretty dirty. I know! I should make myself a reminder in my google calendar to do that 3 or 4 times a year instead of when I remember to do it! That’ll work!