talky

I got a new laptop (thank you Kathy) for my birthday and it has a web cam built in. So I thought, I would do some talky bogs (vidoes). But now I have a very sore throat and a voice that sound like Kathleen Turner with a sore throat, so it will have to be put off for just a while longer.

Family History

I have arthiritis in my left knee, but not my hip, the Dr. today said the pain in my hip is from compensating for my left knee pain.

But in order to know which medication is best it would help to determine if the arthiritis is genetic (rhuemetoid). I know mom had arthiritis in her hands and other places but I don't know if it was rhuemetoid or osteo. But the dr also said it would be helpful to know her family history (her siblings) as well. So since I have you all as a captive audience......enlighten me please.

BTW the shoulder pain is tendonitis, so no bowling league for me this year. Boo Hoo!

40

Last Friday, the siblings in my family all entered the same decade. As I trail in at one end, Kathy will exit from the other end next year.

As a kid, at every birthday, someone invariably asks "do you feel any different?" I can honestly say that yes 40 feels different than 39. Within the last month or so, I have discovered arthiritis in both knees and my left hip. I have also got a burning pain in my shoulder for about about two weeks now, that I will be seeing the doctor about next week. I am OLD!

For the birthday itself, it was great. A fun family dinner, with old friends joining in. Then back to the house to play Wii! Yep, That was my birthday present to me. I love it.


p.s. The shoulder pain came before the Wii.

Ignorance

Kathy and I are both registered as Democrats. Marisa registered Non-Partisan. Adam will register next week as whatever he chooses. We hold no steadfast rules in this house about whom you vote for. Only that you vote. Your vote is your opinion and your right.

In the state of California for a Primary Election, as a Democrat you may only vote for a Democrat, as a Republican you may only vote for a Republican and so on throughout the smaller registered parties. But as a Non-Partisan you are given a choice. When the matter was taken to all of the parties and they were given the choice of having Non-Partisans vote for them, only the Democrats and the American Independents ok'd the idea. The Republicans refused. So on election day, Marisa will have the choice of voting for either a Democratic candidate or an American Independent or to not vote for a candidate at this time.

Getting back to the title, I expect to get phone calls from Obama and Clinton. But not a one has been received. We have however, received more than 10 phone calls from Mc Cain and Romney combined! One is even from Scarlett Johannssen (actress), who encourages "independent, Non-Partisan people like myself", to vote for Romney (or McCain, I don't recall who she was supporting)on Tuesday! WHo the heck thought up that script! Obviously they need to get a writer who isn't on strike!

I also am not pleased with Romney's television commercials bashing Hillary Clinton. This is the Primary, he is running against McCain et. al. Is he so afraid of Clinton that he is now endorsing Obama? What scares a white man more than a black man? A woman!

In your frame of mind, Uncle John, is Ann Coulter, who agreed with you that if McCain gets the nomination she may have to vote Democratic.

The question about Obama came up at the beginning of all this, some wondered because of his mixed race heritage (his mother is caucasian) whether he was black enough. Now the wonder for Republicans is about McCain, is he conservative enough?

I think an Obama/Clinton (or vice cersa) ticket would be an ideal. And then in eight years they can switch.