Current mood:

cranky

Playing Ketchup..
OK, I couldn't resist a Kerry pun. Meanwhile back at the ranch.... I got the state to fill my prescription for Vioxx. I just had to ask "how high" when they said jump. Basically, I had to prove I couldn't make do with a cheaper drug. After three days back on it I feel "normal", for what it is worth. At least I am not having to take Vicodin several tims a day to cope with my pain load.
Tomorrow, at O'dark-thirty as they say, I am off to San Jose, CA via Salt Lake City. I totally hate the airline hub system, and if I had booked the damned thing, it would have been a direct flight. It is hard on Friday to wait so long to go potty. I can only hope there is a way I can take her outside in SLC. I am going to take training to be a Master Trainer in "Chronic Disease Self-Management." Yeah, right, like I'm eating well, sleeping well and exercising to manage my own chronic diseases. Oh, well, perhaps I will be inspired to do so.
It is strange to me, living in abject poverty at this time, that people keep paying for me to travel. I have had two trips to Colorado to see my Dad this year, and now this, all on somebody else's nickel. I never traveled this much when I was earning a decent living. (Of course, I never had time to travel when I was working. You either have time or money, not both. In my case I usually had neither.)
I wanted to slap my doc when he told me not to put myself in a victim mode because of the changes the state was making. They are just trying to help me. Bullshit! They are trying to cope with revenue shortfalls caused by the crash of the dot.com bubble here in Seattle, along with tax cuts imposed by "starve the beast of government" initiative writers like Tim Eyman. I am truly amused that his website is at "permanent-offense.org." Well, he does permanently offend me. I am proud to say the only Tim Eyman petition I ever signed was the one trying to have him designated a horse's ass. Well, even horse's asses have their uses. I hope most of the people in Washington state by now can see he is shallow and selfish, and making a living off of writing this crap.