What made you smile today?

a phone call from new yawk...

A few months ago I bought a 4" pot planted with an apple mint plant. It's doing ok, needs a tree. But a few weeks ago, some aggressive wee greenie started to move up in the world, and quickly continued. It looked familiar, heart shaped leaves, but a lot of plants have those. A vine that wants to entwine my olden metal chair. I looked up heart shaped leaves but, eh.

So today - I see it's a morning glory. Luckily it's in a pot. I love them from afar, but I have enough trouble with various prickly weeds to control, even though morning glories are not apparently the weed of the universe here in New Mexico that they can be elsewhere.

Still, back in the early seventies, when I and a business partner/friend had what was my first art gallery/studio, the owner of the building had a large back yard, and in the yard was a church, or church parts, from a broken down old church in Spain. Plus, a garden shed. And over all those marble slabs and the garden shed, were morning glories being glorious. Beautiful memory, so I smiled at this new plant by my front door.

Today I opened the missives from my hospitals where I visited with various freakiness back in August, both events coming out fine or fine-ish at the end. I understood when I left both places that my charges were covered but after years of owing greatly when having insurance, being insurance poor as it was just as a non-group payer, and basically leaving California because my income was being stripped by insurance and follow up med costs as I paid all that off, so I had to sell the house - or so I saw it then - I was reluctant to open the envelopes.

The first I opened (I've barely been able to look at the envelopes for a week) asked me for a donation for a poor patient. (I blink, understand).
The second was from the audiology department at UNM, wanting me to fill out pertinent info for my first visit. I'm on medicaid again, and New Mexico M'aid facilitates audiology, I take it.

Sozobe, Dlowan, Eva, Roger, others, I am expecting to go through grief of learning to use it or them. I was told I needed them with an audiology test back in 2002, even then not having the money, so I expect to qualify, have the copy of that. I first had raging tinnitus in 1985 or 86. Soz saw my audiogram and recognized the pattern.

Big whew.

a facebook pic of bipolarbear and alias (TKO)

huge smile

that was really a nice meeting. After speaking with him and his girlfriend I don't feel quite so pessimistic about the future of our country.

a pretty lady jockey weaving her way through the field at Newmarket to win a shade cosily close home.

New boots! TWO pairs of new boots. Love shoes, love boots - and new boots fill me with sheer unadulterated joy!!!

Excellent!

Old boots. They are pliable with wear and are easy to slip into. One pair is quite sufficient.

Old boots get stiff and have to be dubbined.

Otherwise repeated wetting & drying makes them "tough as old boots".

Loved the pix, specially the girl with the fish.

we were all pretty giddy after our show at the Brickworks today
fabulous audience
bright sunshiny day
terrific friends to dance with
great cheeses and veggies to bring home
ginger gold apples and assorted local honey


did I mention the fabulous audience?
the audience was fabulous - it was fun not to be up on a stage though it was a bit of a challenge to dance on cobblestones

This month, after years of working on it, I paid off my tax lien, it came off my credit report and my FICO immediately went up 150 points. My bankruptcy from my illness comes off in February. Thanks to Obamacare I'll have health insurance again. I've reduced my monthly obligations to just the necessities.

Pixar Saves The Day By Sending A Director The Equipment He Needed To Finish His Final Film
http://www.buzzfeed.com/ailbhemalone/pixar-saves-the-day-by-sending-a-director-the-equipment-he-n

Waking up this morning with the knowledge that . . .



...the Boston Red Sox are the World Champions!!!

I started a thread in November 2007 about idiotic mistakes I find in my work. http://able2know.org/topic/107684-1

I was looking through this thead last night.

In February 2012, I said, "I'm getting too old for this stuff."
In May 2012, I said, "I'm getting too old for this crap."
In October 2013, I said, "I'm getting to old for this ****."

This made me smile. (Do I get any points for consistency?)

Well, you just got one from me. How's the current crap?

Terrible. But I'm glad for the work. Need el dinero. Lots less work than there used to be.

Thanks for the point, bunny. You're a good kid.

Dinero da rub.