Must Be Spring I Guess

Settled in front of TV to watch KU v K State Big 12 Championship final game on TV and suddenly wafting through the air from outdoors came “ding-ding, ding-ding, ding-ding”. Yep, ice cream truck. Even if I’d wanted some genuine ice cream truck treats, I couldn’t have got to the street in time, as I’m hobbling around with a major herniated lumbar disk and broken ankle. Uh-huh, x-ray showed there was a little more to the Christmas sprain than just a sprain. Got a bone chip in there someplace. Besides the ankle x-ray, got MRI’s of both cervical and lumbar spine. Cervical was essentially unchanged from a few years ago, which is to say, addled with arthritis. Of course the ankle and spine issues have nothing to do with how it must be spring.

Earlier in the month, Becky’s back was one of the issues impeding a family March visit either to Kansas or to California. Her back got a bit improved after a few hundred dollars worth of physical therapy, and then she came down with a sinus infection. They’ve never done MRI on her back, for some reason. We’re pondering whether the new bed we bought last year is causing the back problems. Already the mattress sags in the middle, we roll to the middle and bump into each other all night. It was an expensive one, supposed to last somewhat longer than this, but we’re thinking of putting the old mattress back on the bed. Yeah, we still have it, of course.

Score at the moment: 27 to 24 in favor of KU.

It’s Almost Thanksgiving ?!!

ALMOST Thanksgiving? Might as well BE Thanksgiving. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again – the universe is undergoing time compression at an accelerated rate. Sure, it’s slow enough you don’t notice it from day to day. It’s like your kids growing up. They look the same today as they did yesterday, but suddenly you realize they’re a whole lot different from a year ago. You have be like grandparents to experience the shock effect of the difference between grandchildren today and the last time you saw them. “Oh, my! How you’ve grown!”

Anyway, there’s no dispute about Fall (Autumn) being here, as far as I can tell. Here in the Midwest it’s relatively mild. Last weekend was like late Spring, temperature in 70’s. This past week I think I recall temps in the low 40’s around sunup. Oh, that doesn’t look right. Is it sun-up? I’m sure it’s sundown, not sun-down. Can’t possibly be sunnup. Let’s call it dawn.

I just finished upgrading all the blogs (Attorney, Chappells, BlackStar, Bandolero) to latest WordPress version. The HarpShot blog is automatically updated since it’s a WordPress account blog. Bandolero’s Blog was down all day due to some problem at the host (DreamHost). Later tonight the database is supposed to get consolidated onto the same database server as other databases associated with other websites I have on DreamHost. I posted a new article on Bandolero’s Blog, as well as adding Chapter 2 to the Bandolero Memoirs. I fired off emails to all the porn sites that idiot opened accounts on with my bandolero gmail address. They haven’t had any effect yet.

KU Football has turned into a bust. Fortunately, KU Basketball looks like the real deal. First time in a long time I haven’t felt like their initial ranking (#1) was a tad (or more) higher than reality.

I did some searching on CraigsList and other things for potential California employers. I guess the next thing to do would be actually contacting some of them. In fact, I should be writing letters instead of blogging, eh?