The Festival of Samhain

Ahh the dark night approaches. I think one of my favorite things about Halloween is what is means to different people. Some people consider it a super pagan holiday and totally refuse to even recognize it. I like how all the churches have a "Harvest Festival" party, as if calling a horse a marshmallow makes it not a horse anymore. Then there are other people who go decoration crazy and have pumpkins, skeletons, spiders and witchy stuff hanging everywhere. Some people, especially little punks, use it as an excuse to do mischief.
I like to use the time to get in touch with the mystical and horrible types of inexplicable evil, occult and supernatural in the world. This year I will be attempting to conjure a demon (or poltergeist depending on your school of learning) and Wifey and I will be watching for ghosts and monsters by the light of the moon in the front yard.

May All Hallow's Eve see you well...

The results are...

I finally got an eye exam and my prescription hasn't changed since last year which is good. So I'm going to get fitted for contact lenses Monday and I'm really excited. I don't have anything against glasses but it gets irritating having to switch back and forth between glasses and sunglasses. The weather changes every 20 seconds down here so it happens a lot.

Next, el dentisto. I tried a local dentist and I liked him. I have had a tooth bothering me and it turns out it's broken and I get to have a root canal. Yippee! I have had these before and I was going to go back to my old dentist but I figured what better way to try out a new dentist than to get a root canal!

Last is the thing that hasn't happened yet, I need to get my frigging knee checked out. I really f'd it up, I think I over-golfed or something. I almost bought a cane the other day... it was a really cool, clear plastic cane with a formed grip. I felt like I was one pair of goldfish filled, high-heeled clogs shy of pimpitude when I was trying it out at the pharmacy. But I digress, the knee problem is either a torn meniscus or a bad MCL strain. If there were any doctors around here I wasn't afraid of I would have seen someone much sooner. Off to Longview I go. Wish me luck.

Time for a tune-up

So we have been living down here for more than a year now and I haven't been to the doctor, dentist, or eye doctor. I tried to make an eyeball appointment last week but work got in the way. I figured the only way to get this stuff done was to take a day off of work and do it all. Next Tuesday at 8am I have a dental checkup and cleaning. Then at 9:45 I have my eye exam. I'm going to learn about contact lenses. Finally I was just about to schedule an appt. to get my knee checked out and maybe get a physical but I decided to go get a massage instead.

Then murphy's law struck. I found out I have an important job to do next Tuesday morning. The last time I did a job like this it took all day long. FFFFfffffFf!!

I guess I will have to reschedule everything...:::sigh:::

Tough day

It has been a rough couple of days as some of you know. My wife's 83 year-old grandma is not doing well, mentally. She is physically healthy other than being dehydrated and malnourished from refusing to eat or drink anything. I called an ambulance out to her house last night because we felt she needed to be checked out. They ended up taking her to the hospital after much indecision by the family members that were taking care of her. Grandma wouldn't allow the hospital to give her any fluids or do anything to get her better.

I have to take a step back here and remember that I am only the spouse of a grandchild of this woman and the decisions regarding what to do with her do not lay with me. I am just going to do my best to support my wife and her folks.

-out

What is new?

So the auction is over and it was a raging success. We raised over $76,000 for the foundation! Everybody looked great, check out Secret Squirrel and yours truly on Wife-O-Dactyl's blog, lookin' pretty damn good if I do say so myself.

I am finally getting the hang of being the bowling league secretary/treasurer. The software is great to use once I figured it out.

I am starting to get back into cigars again. Something that I use to enjoy quite a bit and now they are even better with a couple fingers of single malt Scotch.

It looks like it is going to be harder to get out golfing now that the fall is here. Nice days are fewer and further apart. But that's what bowling is for! See you in a few years.