The first concert Donna and I ever went to, summer of 1968. We met Frank Zappa between sets and he hit on Donna. Altogether an unforgettable evening.
The bill for last week’s social whirl is due, and I’m paying for it in the form of chest congestion and a cough. It’s my first cold (or indeed any illness) since hunkering down to ride out the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020. Donna and I have managed to avoid COVID and anything else — I”m pretty sure her healthy streak has lasted as long as mine — but it has to end sometime, and now it has for me. I took a home COVID test and it’s not that, thank goodness (and the vaccine, and all those boosters), and have apologized to the members of my book club and our friend Mary Anne, exposed to what I have before I knew I had it. I wonder if the six-year-old Sudafed in the medicine cabinet still has any oomph. Can’t hurt to try.
Of course I’m not counting AFib, which came on about this time last year. Treated and at bay, at least for now (and I hope for the duration, but who knows?) — when I whine about being sick, it’s colds and tummyaches I’m talking about.
Speaking of health, I’m coming up on 19 years sober, an anniversary I celebrate every Saint Patrick’s Day. Yay, me.
We didn’t watch the State of the Union last night. I can’t stand hearing that man’s voice, nor can Donna. If they told us beforehand he was going to announce his own resignation, I still wouldn’t tune in. From what I see in the news this morning, Trump and his captive party are living in an alternate reality where things are not as they appear to the rest of us. The media wants to go on pretending Trump’s words stand for something, but more and more Americans are waking up to the moral rot he and the Republicans have brought upon society and the country. Dare I hope the mid-term election will mark the start of a turnaround?
Just for fun, here’s a short TikTok video I uploaded a couple of days ago. The embedded video should come up with the sound turned off, but maybe turn your speakers down if you’re at work, just in case:
@paulwoodford165 Just playing around. Here’s a wrist-roll with Lulu and Fritzi. The watch is a Seiko diver, one of my absolute favorites. But is the dial blue, or is it black? I’m never sure! #bigseiko #desertdachshunds #andyswatches ? Time Has Come Today (Single Version) – The Chambers Brothers
Stay fresh (and healthy), cheese bags!