Month: October 2024

Monday

Checked in with the Waterway Net on my HAM radio and read some news.

I can’t really go much further without clearing the garage.

As you can see, the garage needs to be sifted.

Got a call from Uncle Paul this morning and I had a bowl of cereal for breakfast. We drove out to Interstate Battery Center and offloaded about 100Lbs of batteries. I tried to deliver some insulation to Southern Seasons, but there was no one at the office. We ended up picking up a sandwich at QT and driving back home with another trip to storage.

She put paper towels under her plant on the buffet, they were soaking wet.

The surface of the buffet is showing water damage from over watering her plants.

We repotted the plant into a larger one that has a tray underneath.

Checked my Sucrose is a little high, 9:35PM @ 143, 11PM @ 146

Tuesday

On my HF radio, there’s a bit of a pileup this morning on the Waterway Net. This is one of the busiest days I can ever remember. I did not hear my uncle Paul. We went to vote early, there was no one else in line so it was a great time to vote.

Checked my Sucrose 01:28 @ 123, 07:38 @ 114. Both of us had a sucrose level of 150 at bedtime yesterday, we did eat a couple snacks while we were watching TV.

She loves to watch the news and to a lesser extent these campaign rallies. It is discouraging at times listening to them accuse everyone but themselves.

I’ve been using the living room as a place to sort through what we’re going to keep, give or toss. On occasion our living room gets so full that our lives are dragged down by the crowded condition of our home.

Our “Serving” Crock Pot heats the table underneath it.

I tried a hot pad underneath with excellent results. The underside of the Crock Pot appliance temperature is virtually identical as the clay pot inside.

(The sides are not insulated, and the pot is flatter than the cylinder ones. The only way that the appliance can get up to temperature is if you wrap it. It doesn’t have enough power to overcome all the heat lost. (The food can end up ~2 hours in the red zone temperature.)

But hey, it’s great as a heated “serving” dish, and that’s what I bought it for. We turn it on at 10AM so that it’s good and warm when we put the cooked food in it.

Dinner today was chicken thighs, veggies and sweet potatoes. Unloaded the van at the storage unit today. Next is to clear the garage out so that it can be used to store the stuff on the floor of the living room. It’s too warm and bright sun, this looks like a job for tomorrow. I didn’t see the compressor in the storage unit, so I bought a new one, it’ll be here tomorrow.

Wednesday

Slept in until 9AM and got me a cup of coffee. Met up with Jon at the Pub and that took up most of the day. Dinner was soup although I am trying to change that meal to something more healthy. I did eat quite a few bit size Almond Joy candy bars that we bought for Halloween Trick-Treat candy. I did write a letter to Jim Jim, I need to write the other two girls too.

10:00PM 141, 01:35 109 ,07:00 101

Thursday

No HF radio today.

Time to clear out the garage, it’s been gaining items for several years.

I pulled all the spare solar panels out of the garage and put them in the van. I also broke down the cardboard boxes of the panels on the roof. (Geez, they are heavy.)

Reloaded NetLimiter on my computer, there are nefarious things being sent to unknown addresses when using acrobat reader. NetLimiter allows me to block specific programs from reaching the Internet. I had a license that expired in June, that license was on my three Dell laptop computers. The eight permanent licenses I bought for Net limiter prior to 2014 apparently don’t include upgrades to the latest version. They’ve gone the way of most of the software on our phones, you are forced to purchase a dated license that has to be renewed every year. Their license portal didn’t recognize my two Toshiba computer licenses at all. I decided to upgrade the Dell licenses to cover all the home computers, that way I only have to remember the one license key. (The five licenses still don’t cover the HAM NUC.) All the previous license purchases are void since they no longer cover upgrades.

Bedtime after eating rice cakes with cream cheese, 139

Friday

Slept in, did not get onto the HAM radio this morning. Didn’t have breakfast either, lunch was leftover chicken breast, mashed taters and veggies. They did pick up the garbage today and the recycling too.

We got a response from the Philippines; this is what is needed. CF has a “Special Occasion” gift that can be used to send support for the new baby each month. We’ll start the gifts on or about the 10th of November. (They keep the gift and the interest until the rollup at the end of the month.) Holiday gifts are kept for more than 30 days, again keeping the accrued interest.

We had leftover chicken, veggies and mashed red potatoes for lunch.

We received 3 of the 5 Super Stacker boxes from EBay.

Saturday

Her kit arrived today. We’ll start to use the memory on the devices. Funny story is that the device only costs $2 more with the supplies. We’ve checked ourselves over 50 times already. (This device costs about 33c per test.) I could NOT find a way to delete her readings from my device, I’ll just have to wait until I get 100 readings.

My sucrose was 117 this morning even after eating candy before bed. One thing we’ve noticed is that our bodies adapt to our diet. Last week when we ate a York mint or a fun size Baby Ruth bar our sucrose would jump up around 150 and stay there for a while. After buying and eating some Halloween candy last week, we noticed our bodies are keeping up with the additional sugar intake. (Probably converting it to fat.) There are other symptoms that are bothersome. We’ve both had a yeast infection/rash in the moist folds of our skin since we started eating the candy.

The doctor recommended changing our diet to a Mediterranean diet. Actually, changing our diet has been an uphill struggle. The tallest hill on changing our diet is learning to cook difficult recipes.

We’ve been eating a medium breakfast, a heavy lunch and a light supper for months. Breakfast has been a bowl of Whole Foods bran cereal with raisins, juice, coffee and a couple hard boiled eggs. Lunch is Chicken, Pork, Fish and occasionally ground beef, beef stew meat or round steak in a casserole. Supper has been a bowl of Progresso soup or a sandwich for months. We both have a sweet tooth and a really bad habit of “Munching” between meals.

Lunch was a bit hectic, but all went well after I actually put water in the steam tray. We had chicken legs, veggies and mashed potatoes. Got outside today after lunch. I received my replacement compressor and put air into the van and the silver Focus. The spare had less than 30PSI in it, it is supposed to be 60PSI. It took a long while to get 60PSI because so much air leaks out when disconnecting the compressor. I really like the old one better, they chose to split the long hose making for leaks.

Sunday

I got up a little early this morning, we forgot to change the clocks. She brought me some coffee and I added a little hot chocolate this morning. I checked in with the Waterway Net, I happened to be first and the sole contact NCC Steve could reach.

I downloaded NetLimiter on my Longitude2 Laptop computer, I have two more to go. Zoom was a pain, apparently the 32bit version was installed and the 64 bit version was not able to uninstall it first.

My glucose was 122@10AM this morning.

Watched the service today and made a backup recording here at home. Linked the service to our website. Warmed up chicken leftovers from yesterday, they were delicious. Set all the clocks back an hour for the end of daylight Savings.

We played Scrabble while we tried to navigate three different conversations. We ended up watching Johnny Carson before heading to bed.

Monday

Woke about 7:30 and checked in with the HAM radio guys. We both were awake and working through our lists about 10AM. We took a nap before lunch. Lunch was well on its way by the time Emory called. Lunch was boneless pork chops, sweet potatoes and mixed veggies. We have an appointment with Emory social worker this week to change our diet and sedentary lifestyle. I have an appointment with the eye doctor this afternoon.

Eye doctor went good, nothing that needs to be addressed and the prescription is the same.

I bought a glucose meter. My first test was 116 mg/gL and that’s a good reading. We plan on testing ourselves especially when she has that sour taste in her mouth.

Dinner was canned chicken noodle soup, and we had a snack while watching a movie.

Tuesday

Woke up about 7:45 and checked in with the HAM guys on the WW net. They asked how Uncle Paul was doing, and I haven’t talked to him in a minute.

I checked my glucose, 120 mg/gL first thing this morning her reading was similar.

She asked me if I wanted to go down for a nap, I agreed and then she asked if she should put her braces in.

Re-Heating our dinner works very well with these insulated bowls. They didn’t work well as serving bowls since the food got all over the insulating pads.

Once we’ve heated the dinner in the Pyrex bowls, we’ll transfer it to washable stainless insulated bowls for serving.

Her daily pills are in disarray tonight, we don’t know what’s what.

Watched Garfield the movie and Hudson and Rex this evening before heading to bed. I did recheck my glucose, it was 120ml/gL which is normal range.

Wednesday

Got a letter from Child Fund Philippines this morning, I sent them a couple of E-Mails with suggestions too. Went to lunch with some friends and had a blast. We got a couple letters from Josephine that I printed for her. We both took a good nap after we got back. We measured our Sucrose today after our nap and it was 105-115 which is in the normal range. We took a walk to the west until we got to the school playground, my knee was bothering me just a little.

Talked to my uncle today, he’s got a new upgraded shower.

Church was split Men/Women and that went well. My right foot and my left knee weren’t happy for some reason at bedtime. We watched Hudson and Rex before bed.

Thursday

Got up around 7 to meet Paul on the HF radio. I called out to him on the radio, and I never heard him during the Waterway Net. I didn’t feel good and neither did she, so we took a good long nap this morning. We also decided to eat out since our castle can feel like a prison if we’re uncomfortable. Lunch at Outback was great, the bar tender remembered us and the food was top notch! It never fails that we get awful food for several visits and the next place we visit the food is nothing less than TERRIFIC.

We took a huge nap after getting home and I was feeling a little better. I worked on the pile stuff in the van most of the day. We took the stuff to Public Storage and the van is pretty much empty. (I still have not found my sunglasses.) No word from Gwinnett County for my Homestead Exemption yet.

We went to Kroger and got our meat for next week, getting meat at Wally World is hit or miss. The package has gotten damaged several times and we didn’t find out until we thawed the product. Kroger had the same frozen chicken breast today; I didn’t buy it though.

Tested 3 hours after dinner and it was 140, took a quick walk up the street and it dropped to 105. (Hers was 150 and it dropped to 107.)

We NEED to take a walk after dinner every day to burn off these calories before going to bed.

Friday

I am up at 4:30 taking my pills about 34 hours late.

My sucrose this morning was 127 after taking my pills and before eating breakfast

3 Eggs and breakfast sausage, coffee and a baby Ruth bar for breakfast. Checked in with the Waterway Net this morning while I was eating breakfast. I didn’t hear my uncle this morning on the radio.

Met up with the guys from Dobbins at the Firehouse Pub and had a good time. Lunch and the drinks were complementary. Drove home this time without issue, I wasn’t feeling the beers this time around. I only had two and we were there three hours since my parking spot almost timed out.

We ended up at Outback cuz she was hungry, I really wasn’t. I thought I’d have a couple of shrimp and a beer. I told her that I came from a bar and that I didn’t want any liquor, just one beer to sip on. Food was terrific as usual. I might need to talk to her next week and decide on a protocol going forward. It’s her call if I tell her that I’ve had some alcohol, and I would not have been offended if she said no.

When we got home, I measured mine and it was 115, hers was 194! That’s when I realized she had three Arnold Palmers (Tea/Lemonade) with loads of sugar. We took a walk and hers dropped to 120.

Got a nice card from the church.

Saturday

Work gave us a picture of the radar I used to maintain.

My sucrose this morning was 113, we are learning how our bodies are dealing with our diet. She had three Arnold Palmer’s yesterday and her number was pretty high.

Checked into the WW Net, the band was “Long” so I couldn’t hear stations close to me. Worked on the living room pile for a good while this morning, the couch is almost visible. We both took a nap and had turkey chili for dinner. I continued working on it most of the evening after our nap. It sure takes a long time to put things back where they belong. I might be done by Wednesday LOL.

Worked on the living room today, the couch is empty.

Watched Meet Joe Black and I cried at the end.

We are changing our bad habits, hers 97 and mine 99 at bedtime.

Sunday

I ordered five “Stacker” boxes on eBay.

I’m up with my radio, waited my turn to check-in and then continued to declutter the living room floor most of the day. We had Grandma’s chili for lunch.

I am getting there. It’s taken me a week to get this far.

It is very cloudy out there today. (I can’t remember the last time it rained.)

1. Clear out garage into storage unit.
2. Put water in UPS batteries.
3. Nevada Taxes overdue.
4. Order sunglasses.
5. OPEN ENROLLMENT MEDICARE
6. fix spare glasses.
7. check and update Christmas lists
8. Check thanksgiving plans
9. Empty Van
10. Clear out Den closet.
11. Clear Living Room
12. Next Appt for Emory
13. Reply to IRS letter.
14. Page for changing hoses and tanks
15. Southeastern Lung care (Dec 29th)
16. Recycle electronics
17. Offering Prayer

Monday (Columbus Day)

Woke up around 6 this morning when the alarm went off from Sunday service wake-up. Checked in with the HAM radio guys while sipping my coffee.

Applying for the Gwinnett Homestead exemption on our home. The taxes are outrageous at $3,400.00 all the documents have to be in one PDF. I had to print them and then rescan them to upload to the county website.

Just found out that we’re cooking chicken in the cold oven and it’s 11AM. 20 minutes to heat the oven, another 30 minutes to cook the chicken. We should be able to eat by 1:00 PM if we forfeit our nap. I set an alarm on Alexa for 10AM so that we catch this earlier. We really should discuss the next day at 7:15 when her alarm goes off. We decided to cook the beef stew meat since it expired today.

Dinner was really good, but we’re still not on the same page today.

We’re keeping the troubles of yesterday and throwing them into conversations today. Emory Brain health appointment is this week, I think she’s a little apprehensive about talking to the doctor. We’ve NOT done anything that he’s asked us to do as far as medications.

Mowed the back yard, we have a lawn service for the front.

We saw an American roach on the wall in the den today. We tore up the room cleaning out any crumbs of food and we laid down a glue trap behind the chairs. I may have to clean out the Den closet if they are nesting in there.

Tuesday

Slept maybe two hours last night. I found out that the grocery list was not made, and we have to toss food that we could have eaten. She’s really worried about the doctor’s appointment on Wednesday and that’s taken a toll on us. We had disagreements all day yesterday.

Checked in with the HAM guys this morning on the HF radio while I update this blog. She also brought me a cup of coffee to sip on.

I worked on the tub of wires for the parking lot speakers, it looks like they are all still there. I separated them into cloth bags and the rest I put back into the tub. The wires are so heavy they broke through the bottom of the tub they were in.

Our 20Yr old, sponsored youth in the Philippines had a child of her own in May. I remember seeing a letter a while ago from her apologizing for something. The letter she wrote in May was sent directly to us from CF Philippines yesterday which I found to be convenient. The tone of the conversation was they thought we’d drop her support because she got pregnant. I know for a fact the CF will drop her if she gets married, that happened to Rochelle. We wrote a letter and forwarded that letter to CF Philippines directly. They are going to work with the community to determine what’s appropriate going forward and get back with us.

We found out in the evening that the doctor’s appointment was cancelled by Emory and that we were supposed to call for a Social Worker appointment earlier today. Oops! We’ll have to wait until Wednesday.

Wednesday

Got up around 8AM and checked in with the HAM radio guys on the Waterway Net. I spent a few minutes gathering information on our financial support of the Philippine children.

I also updated our three Daytimers, by inserting and moving 3 months.

They are absolutely necessary in our current environment. One Daytimer is the current 6 months, 3 months past/3 months future. One Daytimer is the past 6 months and one Daytimer is last year. I also use this blog to keep track of when we’ve accomplished things that we may not have written down in the Daytimer.

Dinner is a frozen turkey breast. It will take 3 hours *1PM before it is done, we’ll start the vegetables and potatoes around noon. Alexa is awfully easy to setup alarms like these.

Todd is probably going to get snow today, it’s only 41 degrees this morning and only getting up to 61 later today.

Made an eye appointment for next Monday, I have a crease in my vision at 5 o’clock just outside my primary vision in my right eye.

Made a huge dent in the loose paperwork on the kitchen table. The entire left side of the kitchen table is for transitioning paperwork and staging stuff.

My back is starting to bother me, need to take a break and lay down somewhere. I took about a half hour nap in the lounge chair, and I felt a little better.

Thursday

We got up waay after 8 so I was too late to join the guys on the Waterway Net this morning. It was only 41 degrees this morning and there’s a frost warning for tomorrow. We checked our grocery list and it was too late in the morning to get groceries before lunch. We needed a break, so we headed to Outback for lunch. The bill kind of surprised us, it was only 55 dollars. We ate at the bar with Armani and had a good time.

We drove to Wally World for groceries, it wasn’t a very heavy bill. The Progresso Soup section was terribly diminished. We also could not find our favorite Pace salsa either, they had Picante but not salsa.

When we got home, we discussed our way ahead with her brain health. We have to start documenting her symptoms, she’ll never remember all the details when she sees the doctor next. Which by the way, the doctor doesn’t come in until Monday and we have an appointment with a Social Worker which is getting in the way of seeing an actual doctor.

The picture of my arm last year was clear.

The larger spot is a little bigger than a pencil eraser. It’s still a little scary!

The doctor said that it is a common occurrence in elderly people. It’s simply a bruise just under the skin. We have an appointment in three weeks, it should be gone by then.

I still have shingles! I just don’t understand how I can have this for months even when I’ve had three rounds of medication.

Friday (Fall is upon us)

It got kinda cool outside this morning.

The space heaters kept the bedroom toasty last night.

I’ll make a call to the dermatologist after their office opens this morning. I sent an E-Mail to their office last night with a picture of my arm so see if they want to move up my appointment. She got up a little while earlier and had a bowl of cereal. Her fingers were really bothering her this morning and she appeared to have difficulty writing in her story book. (AKA Diary)

The doctor gave us the green light and we headed home. We had leftover turkey for dinner and took a nap. We also took a short walk about 3PM. It’s a beautiful day here today, cool and bright sun. I wanted to catch the mail lady, but she managed to pass me between the houses LOL.

I had soup for dinner and she had a ham sandwich on rye. We watched Teagarden mysteries until 7:15 and then we worked on inventorying the meat in the refrigerator.

Wally World ground beef gets terribly bloody when it reaches the use by date. We also have lost three frozen turkey breasts and two pork tenderloins for broken packaging. (They leaked when thawed.)

The package always leaks, and it got all over the small refrigerator yesterday. We use this refrigerator to offload the long term storage of fresh items from the larger refrigerator. (Dairy and Meat mostly.) We used to use it as a freezer, but our needs have changed since COVID.)

The colors correspond to the storage type, blue is fresh, and green is frozen.

Saturday (Landon’s birthday)

There’s something going on with my eyes. I have had a spot in my left eye for more than a year from the sign in Ohio. It’s just off center at 11 o’clock. There’s also a stripe in my right eye about 5 o-clock that is annoying. I see an eye doctor on Monday, she’ll take a good look at my pupil and my retina. I know I have cataracts. They are causing a shadow to appear below my vision. I am still able to see pretty good at night, if that changes, I’ll get the surgery. She cannot see at night, and I have to drive. Today for some reason I am seeing lightning at the 12 O’clock or 5 O’clock far corners under low light. It doesn’t happen in darkness.

It’s still quite cool today, great weather to work in the attic.

I took a nap for about 30 minutes after eating lunch. I am nauseous and my back is rather sore. I am emotionally worn out from the difficult discussions yesterday and today. We made excellent progress in expressing our feelings of the progression of her symptoms. We’re also taking notes on what the symptoms are and where we are.

To that end we’re capturing benchmarks twice a day to ground ourselves in where we are.

1. Hands tingling 1-10
2. Sour Taste in mouth 1-10
3. Tired 1-10
4. Hungry 1-10
5. Emotional 1-10
6. Worried 1-10
7. Confused 1-10
8. Frustrated 1-10
9. Happy 1-10

Describe the following during the last 5 hours.

1. Exercize
2. What’s been eaten
3. Preparations made today/tomorrow

Pick 5 feelings out of the emotional wheel twice a day.

Speaking of symptoms, her finger sensations have gotten much worse. I put her fingers in a bowl of water, and you can almost see the ripples on the water between her fingers.

I FOUND my hat today, now that we can go for walks. It’s very dirty though!

We had our Soup & Sandwich and watched I Love Trouble together.

Sunday

I ate too many calories yesterday evening, it is so easy to get carried away with munching while watching TV. I have two medicines for my skin, one is antiviral, and the other is anti-bacterial/yeast. The yeast medication seems to be more effective this morning. We’re staying home from church today since the red patch on my back is still there. It bothers me the most when I am emotional.

She woke up early this morning about 6:30 and had a bowl of cereal after removing her braces. She went back to sleep without putting them back on. When she woke at 8:30 she had a terrible headache and her right lower molar hurt really bad. After putting her braces back in the pain quickly subsided. I’ll have to remember that she’s getting to the point where the back teeth are moving pretty rapidly. I also have to remember that she is forgetful and can’t correlate even the symptoms she can remember to a cause.

We’ve added another large Daytimer for a total of three. One Daytimer is a calendar of events for both of us. One Daytimer is documentation of her symptoms and the third is our walk with the Lord.

We found the wife’s Kindle; it was accidentally put in storage as Patricia’s. Patrica’s is a 7″ version of the Kindle Fire and is still supported, I don’t see a need to keep the device since I can use an Android tablet to read Kindle books. Grandma’s chili for lunch with crackers. We Zoomed in for church today since my Shingles spot is still quite prominent on my back. I do not know why I still have shingles almost two months later. Having diabetes increases the risk of shingles and severity. My A1C at the doctor has put me at “At Risk or Pre” but not diagnosed with type II diabetes. I know it is getting worse because of other symptoms with my feet and skin infections are becoming more frequent. My eyes are also having issues other than the cataracts if I’ve eaten at night. This morning, I have medium pain on my torso and slightly more around the shingles rash. It made it difficult to sleep last night for sure. I’ve ordered a glucose meter and test strips. I don’t know why doctors of pre-diabetes patients don’t just prescribe the device to help patients be informed as their disease progresses.

Found out that she stopped taking LAMICTAL (lamotrigine) cold turkey a while ago. She didn’t tell me or write down when she stopped taking that medication. The side effects of stopping that medication are many including tingling fingers and toes. It’s not recommended to stop without talking to a doctor and then tapering off the medication slowly is highly recommended. It also accounts for the aggressively nature of our discussions over the last couple of weeks. (Bi-Polar came back.)

Monday

Woke up about 7:30 and checked in with the HAM guys while looking at the current Milton hurricane warnings. She made coffee and it doesn’t look good for Florida. We had baked chicken legs and veggies for lunch, it was excellent.

Milton is now Category 5 hurricane in 24 Hrs.

They are evacuating the people in Mobile homes and near the coast.

Our taxes need an estimate of the value of the Pahrump home when we acquired it. I don’t have that since my brother had the estate for the first five months. We did get an CMA estimate in July, but if I remember correctly, I could not download it. I checked my NAS, no documents from Oct 2022 that I can find.

I’ve sent what I could to mom, the last of it arrives tomorrow. If they get into big trouble, they have 1000W of solar panels and a Solar Generator that will help. It likely will not totally power a refrigerator 75Wx24=1800WH/Day. If they get 5 hours of sun, like I do here in Atlanta they’ll have 2KWH/Day which is just enough for the fridge. Clouds often greatly reduce the total power generated. If they manage to connect the solar trailer they might have enough and that’s a maybe…

Checked in with the GARS 2M Net on their repeater. Soup for dinner and then we watched some Faith & Family until bedtime.

Tuesday

Looks like mom is not listed, but I expect it’ll be around midnight.

Talked to Paul this morning and called mom but she was sleeping.

New bed rails arrived from Wally World today, box was pretty beaten up.

Old bedrails got bent trying to move the bed with the mattress on it.

The original 30Yr Old frame with a single 3″ foot wasn’t enough to hold us since we’ve gotten to be 400Lbs. I bought a new frame with TWO feet and then realized all the weight is at one end. I decided to distribute the weight with a 2x4x12 after I reassembled the bed. I had to use a floor jack to raise the mattress and add the 2×4 under the foot, it seems to be enough support. The black thing is a Bed Bug trap to prevent them from traveling. Apparently, I forgot the wrench and my wife’s shoes.

Wednesday (Hurricane Milton)

Got up at 8AM and checked-in on the HAM radio with the Waterway Net, which was unusually busy I might add.

Mom is in a good spot, she’s north of the path and in the middle of the state.

I ordered a cart to carry the UPS and the batteries to the Sunday Service this weekend. I still have to assemble all the wires. I had two boiled eggs for breakfast and have spent a good part of the day trying to figure out the power for Sunday.

The Hurricane should arrive in Tampa at 9PM tonight and 20MPH winds for mom.

Chicken legs for dinner, although I had to toss one of them cuz it was a little too red inside. I could have cooked it, but having warm uncooked meat might be a little scary.

Mom still should have power, that’s the 5 in the middle. In theory its one block south of her.

Thursday

Checked on Mom, she has power and is in good shape.

There are 36,000 people near her that do not have power.

We went to Wally World to get our paper stuff. We also went to the park to test the power in the Pavillion for the Sunday service. We had a light dinner at Longhorn and then returned home to do our taxes. All done at 7PM so we watched a little well deserved TV.

Friday

Did not get onto the HF radio today, we had a Dentist appointment at 9AM which went well. I had lunch with Jon at JOHNNIE MACCRACKEN’S
CELTIC FIREHOUSE PUB. I drank a little too much and had to walk it off before driving home. I was terribly sleepy by the time I got home and really needed to take a nap. The lawn service came by and I had not put out his payment, they caught me off guard. (I didn’t think the grass was long enough to mow.) I woke up having missed a couple calls and she made me a bowl of soup while we watched some TV. We got into those unproductive conversations last night about her believing she has a cavity. The reality is that the edges of her braces cut into her gums or her cheeks making her uncomfortable. I went to bed thinking that it was resolved, but it wasn’t.

Saturday

Woke up early and took my medicine, I’ve not taken it on time for the last couple of days. Emotional drama prevails. I did check in with the guys on my HF radio while checking on the news and sipping on a cup of coffee.

Went to Longhorn for Lunch after we had a rather long discussion about the unresolved issues from last night. We still have to cook the pork chops since they needed to be eaten/frozen by yesterday.

Spent a good part of the day on the phone working out how to put 1000W of audio inside a 64 Foot circle at church tomorrow. It turned out that the volumes were kept low because of the speaker placement and electronic drum set.

Sunday

Headed out to the park after loading up the batteries and solar generator. I was completely out of fuel so a gas run was necessary. The odometer was also warning me with a text message, LOW FUEL! Got to the park at the correct time and met up with Larry. Lisa and Tommy were both quite late. Tommy had all the mic stands and Lisa had all the wires. My back did not like hauling the equipment back-n forth today.

Church service went quite well, and the T-Mobile hot spot carried the service.

We went to Outback for lunch and the food was fantastic. I was exhausted by the time I got home, and the van is full of equipment that has to go to storage. My back hurt too much to put the equipment back in storage.