Off Day

Every now and then I have a bad day. Yesterday was one such. When I got up I just stood around leaning over. That's not too bad, but a lot of what I said didn't make sense to Diana. She was concerned. It lasted into the evening. During dinner I told Diana she had forgotten the cloth napkins. Got up to get  the napkins from the cabinet behind me. She pointed out that I already had a napkin on the tale. on the table.

I seem to be OK today. We'll see how it goes.

South City: Part 1

We live in a suburb of St. Louis that cartographers call South St. Louis. None of the residents call it that. It was, is, and always will be South City. We love it here.

A while back I had a blog called South City Sights. Each day's entry consisted of a photo from the local area and a brief description.

One of the nicest parts of it is the River Des Peres Greenway. I'm not going to kid you. The River Des Peres is nothing more than a long open sewer. The walkway is something else. A lovely and a refreshing change from walking or riding on the streets and sidewalks. It extends in two different directions and affords hours of walking.

I can no longer walk the Greenway. Maybe I can do it in a wheelchair later this summer. I've thought that if we get an out-of-town visitor it would be fun to get a t-shirt with a photo of a yacht at a dock and label it Green Rivers Des Peres Greenway.

More photos and descriptions to come. Enjoy!

Groceries

One of the good things going on is that I can still do grocery shopping with Diana. I use the cane to get to our car. She drives to the grocery story of our choice, Schnucks, and then pulls close enough for me to get out. While I go into the store to get a motorized cart she parks in a handicapped parking space. We just got our handicap tag this week.

Once in the store I try to keep out of the way of other shoppers. Perhaps the most difficult area of the store is the dairy aisle. For a long time we have been aware of Cheese Paralysis. The store has an excellent selection of cheeses. It's so good, in fact, that people just stand there contemplating their choices. I guess that's a good thing.

Once we have navigated that we can cart the groceries to the car and return home.

Comments tutorial

From Diana:

Several people have emailed their comments saying that they couldn't use the comments function on the blog.  I'm not sure why, although Blogger is occasionally flaky.  Just in case it's because posting a comment takes several steps, this is a brief tutorial.

To post comments to Blogger, select "Comments" at the bottom of the blog post, then select a profile.  I would suggest Name/URL  or anonymous.

If you selected Name/URL, you can just type in your name.  You don't have to use an URL.  Then click on the "Continue" button.

Type in your comment and click on the "Post Comment" button.

You will then have to type in the Captcha phrase that shows up and again click on the "Post Comment" button.

If any of the buttons or Captcha phrases don't show up, your browser may not support them.  You might try another browser or make sure you've updated to the latest version.  Or you might try waiting a few hours and try again, since, as mentioned, Blogger can sometimes be flaky.

Correction

I misread the NFL preseason schedule. Games have already been played. Time to go upstairs and do some more scheduling

Football

Today I will start a series of occasional posts on football. By that I mean American football, NFL football.

Tomorrow we will have the first preseason game: The Baltimore Ravens at the Philadelphia Eagles. The Colts will play the Rams later in the day.

I like watching football. One of the things I like is that I have no control over the outcome of the game. I am free to sit there, watch, and enjoy.

When we moved to the St. Louis area the nearest NFL team was the Kansas City Chiefs. I bought a Chiefs sweatshirt. Sometime prior to our moving here they had move the St. Louis Cardinals to Arizona. Not a good thing. A few years later they moved the Los Angeles Rams to St. Louis, something I suppose the Californians didn't appreciate either.

In 2000 the Rams won Super Bowl XXXIV against the Tennessee Titans. Dick Vermeil was the coach and Kurt Warner was the quarterback replacing the injured Trent Green. Ironically, Warner later transferred to the Arizona Cardinals who won a Super Bowl in 2008. Quite a player.

So forgive me if I don't pay much attention to cancer for a while.

Double Dactyl

After writing yesterday's post (a rhyme which I've known for a long time) I learned that it's a double dactyl. I had to do something silly because yesterday was not at all a good day. In the late afternoon I took a dose of liquid morphine. Almost immediately I go a strong chill. Diana claims it was coincidence. I'm not sure. I put on a sweatshirt and kept it on the rest of the day. This tossed the rest of Diana's day into turmoil. Neither of us slept well but I think I got more sleep than she did. I coughed a lot. The hospice worker has since given me a nebulizer med which will probably address that kind of problem.

So I took a day  off with a higgeldy piggeldy.

Not a bad tradeoff.