Miscellaneous

It's a cold and rainy day and we're holed up in our house. Looks like H1N1 is really hitting our area now. Sadly, we're also short on vaccines for both the regular flu and H1N1. My husband already got his flu shot. I have yet to get one. I'm thinking I need to have my regular physician refer me to my husband's lung doctor so I can get a shot. Apparently they're not giving vaccines to internists. Only to pulminologists since our doctor said he was informed the supply is short so he wasn't getting any. Wonderful. We're going to just stay home - when I don't have to work that is - and not go anywhere. I've been using enough Purell to wish I owned stock in the company. Okay, it's actually Germ X, which is cheaper but the same thing.

On up side, not as much to cover in the school news department as they keep canceling events and in some areas closing schools due to illness. Not that it's a good thing but it's less places for me to have to be to catch something. In fact, I'm thinking of asking to be excused from covering anything that may expose me to H1N1. The local high school had it's first case last week.

Maybe I'm over reacting? You know, because if I get it, my doctor tells me I'll probably end up in the hospital because of my asthma. And of course I don't want to go into the hospital as we have enough medical bills to catch up with as it is and I don't think I can afford to be sick. Thanks to the "best health care system in the world" according to Republicans like Orrin Hatch, I am planning to just die if I ever get a terminal illness. Why? Because if I end up getting cured, I will owe so much money I will never be able to stop working. It's nice to know the Republicans and conservative Democrats have their heads firmly planted up their asses. Who the hell cares if we have such cutting edge medicine if WE CAN'T AFFORD IT??? Other countries can because their governments apparently give a shit if they are sick or not.

I've decided that the media is making us all hysterical. Not about health care but about politics in general. So I've been kind of trying to avoid the extremes. But then, the politically correct ones bug me, too. Like news pundits who feel they have to be nice and not call Sarah Palin a self-aggrandizing, thin skinned, selfish, obnoxious, idiot with a whiny ass voice.

Her book is on the best seller list when it was just announced that she was actually writing one. Right. I'm sure it's ghost written or heavily edited so those of us who actually speak English can read it and understand. Why is her book on that list? Because we love a freak show. That's why Glenn Beck is so popular. I have to confess I sometimes watch him but not because I think he actually has a clue. But because I'm hoping to witness the final nervous breakdown when he cracks up and needs to be carried off set by the men in white coats. Needless to say I usually watch with the sound turned off because there's only so much bullshit I can take.

Speaking of bullshit, lots of bullshit being flung on one particular LOCI forum I'm told. Personally haven't been there in ages but apparently, a lot of members are being driven away from ci-us due to the mean-spirited, assholes who frequent the place. I left a long time ago and deleted my account because it's so ill-managed. The mods favor members who share their POV and tend to treat the rest like crap. Or allow them to treat others like crap. Either that or they are just disengaged and not paying attention. Makes me miss Major Case a lot. Caring mods who treat everyone equally regardless of whether you're Rene Balcer or some troll who just like forum jumping under different guises just to make trouble.

Fall is in full swing here. The trees are beautiful. Reminds me of when my husband and I would take our Old English Sheep Dog Belle and hop in the Jaguar Mark II and go for a drive up to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan just to see the colors. I miss it. The dog, the car, the good health that allowed us to take impromptu trips.

Life isn't horrible or anything. It's just sometimes I get nostalgic. Just like I get nostalgic for Waiamea Falls before it became a tourist trap and stuff. I can live without it but I do look back fondly on all of it.

On the up side of life, word has come down from corporate that we will be getting new computers in January. I guess the new - what-ever she was - who came down to visit all the properties in the area was suitably horrified to see the horrible conditions we work under. She can't do anything about the waterfall in the front office but she can give us proper equipment. A little bit of good did come from their 20 minute stop at our decrepit old building.

Have some kitty pictures to post but will do it later. Have a good week!

[NP: R.E.M. - Imitation of Life]