I'm Back

As much as I enjoy composing these little visions into my life I have been hesitating doing it for over a month. Why, you ask? It’s primarily because when I last wrote back in August I committed to stop writing about all that “old senior stuff”. I promised myself that I wasn’t going to look at any of those old people or nostalgia emails anymore. I was going to think “young”, but damn it, it hasn’t worked.

Damn back, shoulder, arm, and hand, all of them hurting like hell. Skipped golf more times then I want to even think about, passing up on some of my favorite kind of weather. Gobbling up Aleve, Ibupropin, and even some of Marge’s left over Vicodin (from her knee surgery) on a regular basis.

Finally went to a couple of doctors to find out what was wrong. So now I’m going to physical therapy, a pain doctor for spinal shots for you guessed it……stuff that happens to old people. Arthritis spurs at a disc and pressing on a nerve. So here I am with nothing but old shit on my mind. How am I going to write nice stimulating stuff will all that going on?

But putting all that aside, I decided to exercise a few fingers that are still working and let all of you know I’m still around and still kicking albeit not quite as hard. I'm still keeping myself busy with other activities, never did learn how to say no. Just helped run a successful Oktoberfest at my church .One hundred thirty people, eight piece orchestra and a great German Dinner, Knockwurst, Bratwurst, roast pork with gravy, German potato salad, red cabbage and rye bread. Had loads of old people there, felt right at home….lol.

Since golf has been on the back burner I decided to start reading novels again. Knocked off several and was really getting into the swing of it. There were a few Stephen Kings on the bookshelf that I wanted to get to, but kept hesitating because the damn things are three or four inches thick and weigh a ton. No way I could hold the up for hours with my new lame hand and arm, especially could never handle them in bed. Finally a light bulb went off in my head, why don’t I buy myself one of those new fangled “Kindle” things from Amazon. Did just that, what a great invention! This thing now goes to bed with me. I’ve already read about four books including one of King’s monsters, “Insomnia”. Working on another real beast, “It”, over eleven hundred pages.

I do have to get one “bitch” in this entry. Are you people tired of the political campaign commercials, especially the constant smear tactics and the frequency. I’d like to know what it is costing them to drive us crazy. When the hell is one of them going to take a positive approach and tell us how they plan to improve our lives. Makes you want to move to Canada where they are only allowed to campaign for five weeks prior to the election.

Here’s hoping I can be more entertaining the next time around…..maybe the treatments will let my smile again.