Yet another hard day at work... but, looking back, ti wasn't really that hard, it's just that I'm such a pussy. I was thinking that when I stopped drinking, there would be this vast energy source that I would tap... after all, drinking does debilitate you, right? Well, maybe it does, and maybe it doesn't... but that energy source? A myth, a total fucking myth. Yeah, maybe it's one of my own making... but I remember the last time. And the last time? I was twenty years younger, and hadn't had four heart attacks. Disappointed? You bet I am. The day: Got up on time after a restless night. Looked at the goddamned clock a hundred times, I'll bet. Coughing a lot. Which segues into the next part: I'm sick. Been blowing green snot now for three days, sore throat for five or six. And today I started coughing up green phlegm. Green or maybe brown. With a little fresh blood (that's red, for those of you who may not know...) and I was having coughing fits that I could just barely stop with the inhaler that I carry.... This is a bad time of the year for those with allergies, and I seem to be susceptible to more and more as the years go on. Right now, the maples are the biggest produces of allergens... and I have three of them, strategically positioned around the house. But the green/brown/red phlegm worries me... sounds like pneumonia. So I called the doc and got some Zithromax and some cherratussin AC... codeine. And I'm going to bed really early tonight, after a good dose of the aforementioned codeine.... I went to get the building permit today, found out that I needed yet more information, so I need to get with the contractor tomorrow night to get things worked out. And now for some bad news: Mom fell in the grocery store today and sprained her left foot. This in itself isn't really bad news, but she's been having near-syncopal episodes for the last six months, and several syncopal ones. And the worry is, of course, that she will fall and break something major.... And it's dark out now, and I can go to sleep, and I think that I will. "The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy: that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness." -- John Kenneth Galbraith
with the cross and the dogma;
it only begins
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