Heat @ MindSay

Fuzzy was moved into a room late yesterday.They are monitoring his heart and his kidneys,slowly taking him off oxygen.He is still having diaherria  though. they cant get that under control.Peggy was very tired this morning when I talked with her. She looked it yesterday,but today you hear it in her voice. She has today covered.Hopefully she can get some sleep while her mom takes dialysis, as her aunt will pick her mom up afterwards.Peggy plans to go home and try to sleep a bit. She needs to. I'm concerned about her. She is gonna collaspe if she doesn't rest soon...She will probably get me to help her tomorrow...
James and I went yard sale-ing  this morning. it gives us something to do and we never spend much. Maybe a few dollars. Its our Saturday morning routine! We found Morgan a drum set for xbox today! called and woke him up to ask if he wanted them...just $7.00!!! They put everything at half price after 11 am! They are gonna have a great yard sale by doing this and they were cheap anyway! Orginally the drums were $15.00!  Came with the rock revolution game. I just hope they work! She said they did and they seem to be in great shape! Wont know til Morgan uses them!
Last weekend we went to Hillsville to the huge flea market there. I didnt think it was as crowded as in years past. Because of the recession many didn't travel for it. Even the vendors were down.We still enjoyed it, just getting away for a day was good! Got to see Morgan too, as he popped home for the weekend cause he bought a drum set and had to pick up his glasses that came in.It was hot though last weekend! I was ready to quit at 2, but James insisted we rest a bit then plow on some more! I was wore out! we got there at 9 that morning, and we finally quit about 4:30...still about 3-4 hours left that next day to cover it all. We got to our room about 5 and collasped. I got a shower and saw that I was sunburned! ouch! I put sunscreen on! anyway, we walked over to Sagebrush to eat. we were too beat to drive anywhere. waited an hour to sit, then waited 30 mintues for our food.... Finished at 8 then went back to room and fell into bed! we were asleep by 10! whew! Up at 7 next day and started again! we finished about 10:30...I will never do that again! I cant take the heat anymore. I feel like i'm gonna pass out in it. today while yard sale-ing I felt like it again. I get really weak all of a sudden and feel shaky, and cant get a good breath... I dont know what it is...but it bothers me. Since I turned 46 this year, I feel like my body is deserting me... Perimenopause... Hot flashes, cold,chills, now this with the heat. I get too hot now...Maybe I should get checked out by the doctor. Mood swings too! I can bite someones head off if they cross me at the wrong time of the month now!!!I cant help it either. Family will just have to deal with it!! looks like I've got a ways to go before I'm out. Most of my friends tell me it ends about the time you turn 50ish!! So I'm looking at 4 more years of this!??? Ouch!!!
We went to the West game last night..It was really wierd with Ariana not cheering... Still saw a lot of parents there whose kids graduated with Ariana. Even saw some there home for the weekend from college. Just as 4th quarter started,it starts raining...I look at James and start laughing...we wait a bit, and it starts getting harder, so pack up and leave. passed several others and we said"No need to get wet this year! Not sitting in any rain!" everyone laughed. last year see, it practically rained every football game! and we had to stay then! With Ariana cheering and James head of concessions, there was no leaving. Sat under an umbrella most of the season and learned to deal with getting wet! So, last night was fun to get up and leave with everyone else!! We sat in car and listened to the rest of the game...West won, 28-21...Its a wonder though as many passes as they threw and missed,dropped or whatever...They lost over half the team as most were Sr.'s. last years team was great..
Of course all the parents still there saw James and tried to get him back,or tell him they miss him doing concessions! Some even told him that it went downhill a bit! Oh well! It's time for other parents to step up to the plate and do it!! The new couple that took over the concessions said they didnt really know just how much work it took to keep it up! Ha! We told em!!its like having a second job with no pay! and then no other parents want to help.."Oh I have to see my child play!" what's one night??? oh well, not our concern anymore! we will go to most of the home games I guess. I especially want to see Homecoming... the athletic director gave James a pass for this year, for all the years he put in as head of concessions. Old saying goes, no one appreciates you until you aren't there!
Wow! 2 days at once on here1 I'm on a roll!!

Was 85 degrees today. Too hot for me, so I retreat to my air conditioned refuge to fiddle with the computer. Got a new 22 inch monitor, but would rather have my old 19" LG CRT, but the old beast was acting up after 9 years of service. These flat screens are not as good as the old tubes....you cannot reduce the resolution to something sensible like 1024*768 without getting a blurry screen. So you have to make due with the ridiculous 1920*1080 res and tiny fonts. I have adjusted windows to enlarge the Windows fonts, but a lot of web pages produce almost illegibly small letters. Gotta use the scroll wheel and Ctrl key to enlarge......

Health care debate illustrates how immature the US is when it comes to dealing with a big problem that is undermining our competitiveness and the health of the citizenry. 47 million have no health care, which is appaling for a developed country. No other "advanced" countries have such a situation. Reason - for profit health care, which makes trillions for HMOs. Campaigns of fear and disinformation have scared huge numbers of people, who want the status quo. So why doesn't the US look at countries like France and Denmark which have excellent public/private systems? Can't do that, this is America. We need a profit driven, made in AMERICA plan. Hell we can't accept that someone else is doing it better and cheaper. We can't have non-profit health care which will be cheaper. That is un-American! L

The outcome will be little or nothing achieved. Obama's reform plans will be a failure. Just as big $$$$ HMOs and the politicians in their pockets killed Bill Clinton's attempts in the 1990s, they will kill any reform this time too. There is too much money at stake.

I live in washington state and we are not supposed to have 90 degree weather let alone 100 degree weather! we have been in a major heat wave for a week now and we need relief!  PLEASE MAKE IT STOP! I love the heat but this is ridiculous.

 

I never thought I would pray for 90 degree weather but that is what i was doing  and now i am praying for it to go back to the 70's

 

I am done with this heat

the mercury hit 98 today. my studio is over 80 degrees and there is no way I am turning on lights and machines and irons. so I have been slum slugging ( a phrase from a Pinter play)  it in A/C comfort with abi- playing on facebook and staying cool. In three days the weather should break and I can get back in there.

A black hole expelling great amounts of

Heat: the summer sky playing
Unaware of its radio activity,
Never seeming complete without being penetrated
Gravimetricly by high energy particles.

Repeating the sins of our mothers,
Yes, and the fathers are too ashamed,

Doors that were opened long before
Even the first day, to swell up
Violently, and collapsed our mighty
Orion- probably at the moment of conception.

Underneath these inverted fountains,
Requiems are played out on strings less then
Every picosecond, to the pulse
Rhythem of the universi.

Lustful galactic cores swirl
In the speed of light,
Entirely at the mercey of the darkened
Super massive black holes,

Wallowing in a feast of sensation, blanketed
In seams soley for her spirit animal,
Together, the birds fly to
Hesiod's titans and sing love songs, ultimately

Inspired out of necessity by the
Nill.