Phillip Wilson

Amazingly, I survived my Life
2011-09-30 00:07:04 (UTC)

2006 REVIEW (PART FOUR)

January- Childersburg, AL (continues)

One doesn’t taste food: One bonds with it! And did my taste buds ever bond with the Key Lime ice cream!
Today was to have been a colonoscopy. I naively thought that maybe colonoscopies have advanced beyond the wide-awake “plumbing” jobs that I use to have! But I guess Dr. Hakin is such a medical mercenary that he performs unnecessary “under gas” medical procedures just because they bring in more money!
No wonder he expressed reluctance Monday: Anesthia is a dangerous thing to the body, and Dr. Hakim well knew that my family could well launch a mal-practice suit in the event of death!
I could have sworn that a colonoscopy should be an annual ritual at my age, not one every 3-5 years! Damn if I know who is right: Dr. Hakim may be a hero in challenging the 1-year rule. Or he may only be interested in "getting the money and run,” knowing that there are numerous “suckers” like me “out there” that beg for colonoscopies!
I “stood up” to Eric and told him yesterday, that the ground must be loosen up if topsoil is to do any good!
Milt is adamant that the silky-leaves plants surrounding the meter cover in the northwest “Corner” of the Campus are not of the same species as the silky-leaves plants that “encircle” the pump! The former produces flowers.
I think Milt is once again wrong!

(acerca de 7:02 A.M.) Milt and I had discussed possible bushes, to border the “slummy” area, Wednesday: I had expressed a dis-like for box elders, the bushes now forming the “C.A.C.C.” on the hill/bank and the front-of-the-campus hill.
Responding to a television visual, I told Marvin yesterday in the shop office that if I won a million dollars, I would give him and Milt $10,000 apiece, but when Marvin asked if I would give Eric any money, I told him (Marvin) that I wouldn’t even give Eric the band surrounding the money!

(acerca de 1:48 P.M.) Why should this project be any different? I have been improving all along!
I’ll be damned if I allow some one like Eric McLain control my work schedule!
I used all the Weed Barrier mesh in stock at Milt’s shop and Eric’s shop (by the way, Marvin was “semi-shocked,” yesterday, that I had helped myself to the partially-used Weed Barrier that I found _n the supply of the shop).
I asked Eric twice, yesterday to buy another roll or two of the mesh, but incredible as it sounds, he claimed to be busy.
If he was or not, I refuse to wait for when he feels like resupplying me with Weed Barrier! So what I am using is the unframed air filters that I located in the dumpster by the machine shop (east side).
Milt had suggested Cardboard, but I knew that Cardboard would not let the water pass, and the resulting water collection would damage the sand highlight.
I had searched the dump to no avail. But then I happened to “see” used air filters, and I knew that water would get through that “Weed Barrier”!
I am out of air filters: Or so I thought! But then I remember the boxes of air filters in the warehouse behind Building “H.” I will use those air filters: And there are boxes and boxes of them!
The only bad point to using air filters: They are fiberglass. And fiberglass residue bore into my skin. It reminds me of the time that I assisted Jimmy Wood, Joyce’s second and third husband, with attic insulation in the summer of 1970, via Battum (?) Insulation!
However, air filters twist into corners that actual Weed Barrier never can!
I will use the air filters until I get Weed Barrier mesh!
According to Milt, Marvin has suffered tendonitis: He contacted Milt by radio this morning and informed Milt that he wouldn’t be at work today.
I watched THE NEWSHOUR WITH JIM LEHRER (5:30-6:25 P.M., P.B.S.) just long enough - about forty minutes - to access the surprise victory in Palestine’s recent election of Hamas, the so-called terrorist organization. It is an example of the Bush administration “Be careful what you wish for . . .”: The Bush administration is pushing democracy world-wide.
Hamas may be able to do what the Bush administration and Europe has been unable (and unwilling) to do: Bring peace to the Middle East. If the truth be known, the fear of being “upstaged” is probably at the root of the disgust by the Bush administration and Europe!
The Bush administration wants to bring the insurgents into the political process in Iraq as a way to decrease violence. Well, why can’t the decrease in violence happen with Hamas (in regards to suicide bombings in Israel)?
Yesterday Milt and I, in the shop office - Marvin was also presence - “analyzed” mopping: This is how Marvin may have injured himself.
Mopping involves complex muscle articulations. Mopping in a sideway motion only shifts the dirt around. Mopping requires a degree of downward pressure by the mopper.
I bought a pack of Virginia Slims Cigarettes for $2.16 from Allen’s Food Mart this morning.

(acerca de 4:36 P.M.) In “desperation,” I removed a piece of “holy” board from the trash pile in the dump (the particle board that has evenly distributed holes for the hanging of objects) and s___ over sections of that. Then “Weed Barriers” are at the bottom of the “C.A.C.C.” sign (by “A.C.”) so I can easily replace them.
Deah sniffs and sniffs at the grass arising above ground: The “new” grass has yet to be pissed on, and she wants to be the first!
Speaking of dog piss, Milt told me of the time, many years ago, when he and “Boots” were visiting Dr. Cornell, the former president of C.A.C.C., when Dr. Cornell lived in town, near Coosa River: Dr. Cornell’s dog pissed on Milt’s leg, and then had ersatz sex on the pissy leg.
“Boots” was wild with laughter. Apparently the dog was “breaking in” Milt: The dog was familiar with “Boots” from his (Boots’) frequent grass-cutting duties for Dr. Cornell.
Dr. Cornell was outside in the yard with Milt and “Boots.” As I told Milt, most likely “Boots” had been “broke in” the same way!
The upper-50⁰’s (F) had a wintry bite to them! It was the price “we” paid for the gorgeous day! Lots of shine, clear!

(acerca de 6:36 P.M.) I had been conversing with Milt, who was sitting in the state pick-up - that’s right, it was returned yesterday with a renovated, not new, interior - in the entrance/exit of the parking area behind the loading dock, headed south. As I walked north, Doug Stearns made some head motion and his lips moved (Doug was walking west on the sidewalk from Building “C” to the administration building.
I reminded him that I was unable to hear from the 30 feet or so distance between us.
Doug and I met at the intersection of the connecting sidewalk and the loading dock parking lot. He suggested I go get warm in Room C-1, which I did.
I had forgotten about the Vietnam War history film course! If you remember, Doug invited me to attend the video lectures, unregistered as an audit, several weeks back, as he was taping “posters outside the book store, the north end of the window.
There are only four students enrolled. To the kids, I am a living relic from the past, for I remember names, events, etc, surrounding the Vietnam War!
Milt and I discussed the fact that Doug receives a pension from the military, and C.A.C.C. only provides “chump change”! This is the reason Doug can be iconoclastic and independent.
Doug Stearns seems to be a lot better teacher than I thought he would be! As a good teacher should do, s/he presents a discipline as if that discipline is the most important discipline in the world! One must have a passion for the discipline, not for teaching per se!
The Key Lime Pie ice cream is so yummy, E.R. (9-10:00 P.M., N.B.C.) never stood a chance! After about fifteen minutes, I discontinue watching the program!

(28th, About 9:30 A.M.) All male smokers should smoke Virginia Slims! They (Virginia Slims) sure bring out the feminine part of me! That’s one of the few things that influenced me when I was an active Baha’i: A bird must have two wings to fly!
I opened the conversation with Milt yesterday morning - remember, he was in the recently-renovated C.A.C.C. truck - with a comparison of April Hunter, who had only recently arrived for work, with “Olive Oil,” “Popeye’s” girlfriend.
Milt and I then discussed April’s eating disorder, that she suffers bulimia, voluntarily or otherwise: Purging oneself after eating brings the gastric acid from the stomach and will damage the alimentary canal.
When I “criticized” the large vases that hold pansies for water drainage, he naturally held Eric responsible. But I thought that Eric put Milt in charge of the “___ing” of pansies, along with some inmates.
Milt was explaining that the drainage ___ in the bottom of each vase is clogged, and most likely was that way upon flowering.
In the shop office, Milt, in the office chair, told me, sitting by the north wall (my back ___), that he could raise a child that had been the product of donated sperm from the Sperm Bank. Though he would raise a child that had been adopted.
I told of Leslie’s sister-in-law Janice that gave birth to her ___ after undergoing fertility stimulation, and that many women are “inspired” to natural parturition after adopting a child, offering as an example Marilyn (?) Stevens (?) and “Babs” Lockhart.
___, the egg-flavored bagel is not as “yummy” as it sounds. What’s all the fuss about?

(acerca de 1_:0_ A.M.) I try to be neighborly, really I do! But being neighborly is apparently counter to my nature!
Yesterday was Gerty Greer’s birthday anniversary: I decided to go across the “street” and offer birthday wishes. It was around 4:00.
Gerty invited me in, and I sat on the west end of her couch, Gerty in the lounge chair on my right.
The conversation mainly turned on cooking: As a former “professional” cook, Gerty provided me with several recipes.
The Food Channel (?) was broadcasting: I spoke of baked macaroni and cheese, and the Food Channel did so soon after. I discussed Quiche (an omelette) and the female chef did likewise.
I was very loquacious with Gerty. But how else was I to converse with a person with whom I share nothing in common?
During one of my sand hauls, an inmate asked me if he could help by using the tractor and wagon, but I declined his offer on the grounds of exercising my body. Though maybe the real reason is an insistence that the project be all mine from start to finish!
About forty minutes of THE NEWSHOUR WITH JIM LEHRER (5:30-6:25 P.M., P.B.S.) and the whole of WASHINGTON WEEK (7-7:25 P.M., P.B.S.) brought me up-to-the-minute news of the world!
Remember when David chauffered me to Sylacauga in search of Journal vehicles back in the summer of fall of 1999? I could have spared myself from the humiliation if only I had checked C.V.S. first! Oh well, it’s too late now!

(acerca de 6:40 P.M.) I was wondering why there wasn’t any “dish” for the reception of non-network television around this place! Gerty told me yesterday, during my visit, that “dishes” weren’t allowed at Wood Arms/Childersburg Estates! Not that I would ever go that route: I have a hard enough time as it is with Time!
About five hours at Joyce’s! Today was to have been the “family” celebration of my anniversary, but Joyce contacted me by telephone yesterday evening to cancel: Kayla has a fever (although it wasn’t obvious by her behavior this afternoon; however that is how it is when patent medicine drugs one ___ d___; even over-the-counter medication separates a person from her/his fever, convincing her/him that s/he can do things the fever would never permit!) and David is recuperating for a removal of a cyst on the back of his neck.
Before I left around 5:15, Joyce repeatedly emphasized that the party will go on as planned tomorrow.
As alway, I brought food items home with me!
I assisted Joyce in collecting leaves from her road-side gutter.
$10.25: That’s what a chicken dinner and four pizzas from Winn-Dixie cost me. I was “hungry” for chicken, that’s all! And the ___ I received from Joyce will be combined with a cheese pizza.
The final 10-15 minutes of IN JUSTICE (8-9:00 P. M., A.B.C.) held in my seat until LAW & ORDER (9-10:00 P.M., N.B.C.) “came on.” The latter program featured an episode about __ infertile woman wanting a baby so much, she stold one. Remember: Milt and I had discussed “child bearing” earlier yesterday.
La Sheila Townsend, Milt’s niece, suffered stroke-like symptoms yesterday or Thursday morning. Strokes are in Milt’s family: “Boots” suffered one. Anna, La Sheila’s mother, has been “floored” by a stroke. So I told Milt that he has something to look forward to!
I am presently “babysitting” laundry in the Wood Arms/Childersburg Estate laundry room. It’s about the only time I can find to write and read!
The low-60⁰’s (F), a great birthday present from Month I. Phoebus joined in the congratulations with a generous allotment of shine.
Taking into account a “break” to wash dishes, I watched THE LATE SHOW WITH DAVID LETTERMAN (10:35-11:35 P.M., C.B.S.) yesterday evening. A few minutes of THE TONIGHT SHOW WITH JAY LENO (10:35-11:35 P.M., N.B.C.) sneaked in my day when THE LATE SHOW went into commercial break.

(29th, About 8:36 A.M.) Tara simply wants a window of which to look out, that’s probably the reason she wants a different office! Joyce, however, challenges this, claiming that there is a window in the west wall of Tara’s present office that looks out on the window to the outside, on the west wall of Leisa’s former office, now Sharon’s office. But Joyce is wrong: There is no inner window!
In essence, Sharon is combining Leisa’s “meet and greet” duty with her (Sharon’s) own, probably without a raise in pay!
Contrary to what Milt told me, Joyce is remaining in her current office. She was complaining to me how it was almost impossible to get any work done with the inmates, Michael, Eric, the “new” guy, and possibly Milt cussing and arguing while renovating Tara’s soon-to-be office. “Dick head” was one of the terms Joyce repeated to me that the inmates uttered.
Joyce confirmed that AFLAC is a “Cafeteria” plan, which I can’t get out of until September.
AFLAC contacted Joyce about my desire to disassociate myself with the insurance.
C.A.C.C. may benefit on its taxes by offering AFLAC! My opting out may, therefore, affect C.A.C.C. It’s reason enough to want out!

(acerca de 9:10 A.M.) Joyce has heard, too, that Southern Union has plans to “swallow” C.A.C.C. But I will continue highlighting the “C.A.C.C” on the hill/bank: If, indeed, Southern Union Community College does assume management of Central Alabama Community College, it will be, most likely, at least 6-7 months!
Besides, I will only have to re-do the “C.A.,” and make it “S.U.”!
It felt “rainy” yesterday evening! The wind telegraphed a drenching. Sure enough, Rain had left behind water to establish “martial law” on this final Sunday of Month I.
I will “see” tomorrow how the sand of the “C.A.C.C.” stood up to the beating! I may have to re-patch, Big Deal!
Whenever my refrigerator “runs” for, what I consider, an adnormal time, it is due to the food load I have charged it with. Lloyd hinted that the refrigerator “runs” heavier when it has more food to be responsible for! I am aware of this fact, but it is something I haven’t considered until Lloyd mentioned it.
I declared to Joyce - twice - that it takes 10,000 hours of discussion with Milt to “hear” a minute of truth! The odds are in favor of it! 10,000 hours to one minute: Well, I’m sure you get the picture even if I was exaggerating a little!

(acerca de 11:43 A.M.) You know the scene in “Hamlet” when “Hamlet” is debating with himself whether to kill “Claudius,” who is kneeling in prayer, or not? Chapter 123 of “Moby Dick” has “Starbuck” in a similar quandary: Should he murder “Captain Ahab” before the latter’s obsession with the White Whale endangers everyone on board the “Pequod”? “Hamlet” is certain that “Claudius” is a threat to national security in Elsinore.
I think the title of the show is “Yes, Minister” (10-10:30 P.M., A.P.T.): The episode, “On the List” (?), is a satire on domestic spying. A pre-9/11 production, wiretapping is used in Great Britain in an attempt to overcome organized crime.
The government minister is a champion of anti-domestic spying, until an assassination plot against him is uncovered.
For Karl Rove to designate pre-9/11 and post-9/11 as radically different periods is to admit that the terrorists won the battle!
There is no way to challenge the Bush administration and win! It is as futile a “fight” as my challenge of Eric: Andy, and maybe Ms. Salotto, will always approve of whatever Eric does, no matter what it is!
The only option for anti-terrorism is to confront it as a lone individual, without any expectation of protection from the Bush administration! It is the problem, not the solution!
American democracy endured over a hundred and fifty years of “growth pains” before democracy even began! Who is to say that Hamas won’t be able to challenge and defeat the anti-democratic forces in Israel?

(acerca de 4:35 P.M.) The first monetary outlay of the 3-check $45 birthday gift was a $2.15 pack of cigarettes (Markers) for the convenient store on the highway.
I understand from granny that the weather was similar to what it is today in 1950, on the day I was born: The low-70⁰’s (F), breezy, abundance of shine. As I told Bill yesterday evening when he brought me home, the Spring in Month I is not an affect of global warming: The climate “runs” in cycles.
But a lovely day it is, no matter the cause!
Granny should know how the weather was on January 28, 1950: She was there when I was born! Of course I was too, but I can’t seem to remember the day!
It was thirty-thirty-five minutes short of twenty-four hours from the exact time that I popped out into the world fifty-six years ago, that the Family Celebration was held in my honor.
Even though I had seen the LAW & ORDER: SVU (9-10:00 P.M., N.B.C.) episode, I wasn’t interested in the Tom Hankes movie on A.B.C.. even though I may have watched about ten minutes of it.
The LAW & ORDER: SVU episode was the one concerning the amthrax scare, New Orleans, and Katrina.
I told Joyce yesterday, and I repeated it for Leslie and Bill today, that I want to eat as much sweets now, in the event that I am stopped by diabetes in 2-3 years!
Gerty suffers insulin-dependent diabetes, yet continues ingesting sweets. Maybe insulin-dependent diabetics only need to adjust their insulin injections to accomodate high blood sugar!

(acerca de 6:_7 P.M.) By the way, domestic spying is nothing new: It was rumored, and may have been proved, th__ J. Edgar Hoover and the F.B.I. wlretapped the leaders of the anti-war movement, as well as civil rights leaders! Martin Luther Kings,Jr’s telephone was bugged! Hell, investigation would probably revealed that the “Founding Fathers” did pre-electronic wiretapping!
One afternoon in Tallahassee, FL (1997), I took Anita Matlow’s chow-chows, “Tricia” (or was it “Peabody,” “Tricia’s” grandson) and “Keeper” to the vet, located on North Monroe, next to an Auto Zone store. The vet’s services cost almost $150. Anita was amazed, but “consoled” herself with the fact that I am an animal lover (and now that I think of it, it was free dog care for two of Anita’s dogs).
While helping me move in, Leslie warned me against trusting Dr. Moulin: For he probably does unnecessary services on Deah just so that he can get more money out of me.
Surely, though, I am not to conclude that Leslie and Anita Matlow are similar? Or is it that all vets are venal?
Vets and pediatricians: Those have to be the most mercenary of health care providers! The first “plays” on the “fears” of desperate, gullible owners, the latter taking advantage of panicky parents!

(30th, About 5:36 A.M.) When Milt brought me home a week or so ago - at least two weeks - he, upon seeing the outside water faucet on the front of the house covered by a styrofoam protector, asked me who had covered the faucet. Milt well knows that I take things from the shop for my own use, although I usually “report” the item or items I am appropriating, to Milt.
But Milt thought the water protector came from C.A.C.C.! Not that I don’t have the opportunity! In fact, now that I am reminded, one of those water protectors are waiting in my office/closet for me as we “speak”!
When Leslie and/or Joyce mentioned the extra Coping saws that Eric supplied to the inmates for the purpose of Cutting into Tara’s new office, yesterday, it was decided that Eric would more likely “adopt” the excess Coping saws for his own personal use. At this point - I was sitting at the table, between Bill and granny, south east; Joyce was standing in the kitchen - that I exclaimed that Milt “steals” from C.A.C.C. just as much as Eric does!
When Eric brought me home last Monday, I was carrying the magnifier-on-a-stand. Eric considered what I was taking home, although he never once referred to the lighted magnifier.

(acerca de 1:22 P.M.) According to Marvin, the reason Ronnie Harkins and Jim Cornell “left” C.A.C.C. when they did is related to the Bettye Carroll Graham building on the Alex City campus.
Marvin had only recently returned from Talladega. He and I were in the shop office in conversation. Marvin was in the desk chair, and the north wall backed the chair I was in.
Either the building went way over budget, or it shouldn’t have been built in the first place.
Marvin also told me that Ronnie didn’t really “like” Marvin’s work style of not “kissing ass,” but because Marvin is a friend of “Boots” and “Boots” and Ronnie are or were “tight,” Ronnie hired Marvin, since, as early as March or April 2004, Ronnie had plans to “retire.”
Should I believe Marvin? I was under the impression that my legal action against C.A.C.C. in the summer 2004 resulted in Ronnie’s abrupt “retirement”!
Joyce told me that Ronnie wanted to make sure that I had benefits before he left C.A.C.C. That’s not the “environment” I “absorbed” during my final conference with Ronnie in his office! For Ronnie had then informed me that an increase in my work hours was not part of the “deal”!
Marvin pointed out what I probably was denying: That Eric doesn’t have to follow any rules, being that Andy and Ms. Salotto think that he (Eric) knows what he is doing! Marvin and I agreed that Andy’s “career” will suffer as a consequence! And maybe Ms. Salotto’s!

(acerca de 2:4_ P.M.) Milt informed me of a fact that I don’t know whether to believe or not: A pig doesn’t have blood vessels, which is the reason pigs can’t be poisoned. A snake bite will not affect a pig.
A pot-bellied pig is more akin to a wild pig (boar) than is a regular domestic pig.
Chances are, Milt is incorrect, but you never know!
Milt told me these “facts” in the shop office, prior to my conversation with Marvin. In fact, Milt had the seating that Marvin later took!
“Shining (or smiling) a salute to the American race.” This theme song to AMERICAN DAD (8:30-9:00 P.M., Fox) is a satire, but you’ld be surprise at the number that consider “American” a race unto itself!
FAMILY GUY (8-8:30 P.M., Fox) was also on my agenda yesterday. As with DAD, it has been awhile since I last watched GUY! Maybe there was something about yesterday, but it didn’t feel right turning over an hour beyond necessity to television!
I was sitting on the chair/wagon in the shop this morning, “deframing” air filters. Eric, who happened to be in the shop, came to see what I was doing.
He “pretended” that the air filters were still used. I had stated to him that I had found the box load in the dumpster.
Even Marvin agreed that the air filters would never be used! Hell, the many boxes have been in the warehouse since before I got to C.A.C.C.!

(acerca de 3:07 P.M.) Nicknames came into the discussion I was having with Marvin and Milt last week. I asked Milt if his brother is named “Ivory Joe,” or is that only a nickname, as is “Boots” for “Glen”: A real name. Marvin told me “Ivory” is a common name. I almost declared, “Maybe in the African American community!”
I commented to Doug Stearns that the video history of the Vietnam War that he features each Friday must have been produced 20-25 years ago: The historian Doris Kearns Godwin is much younger than she is now!
Milt told me that pigs can “see the wind.” It was all I could do from laughing!

(acerca de 4:19 P.M.) Marvin “confessed” that the child that does less for the parents is, in almost all cases, the one that is favored, gets the most in the will. He told of his brother that is “shiftless,” and that the father passed on family land to him.
I tried to explain to Marvin that the father probably saw himself in his “no count” son, whereas Marvin intimidated him.
I began the topic when I related to Marvin what Joyce had told me about Lesia McGaha: Lesia claims to be the child of Betty Jones (E-1), out of four, that cares for her mother mostly. As far as I can tell, that isn’t the case!
Joyce made the comment in passing: Jane has always been granny’s favorite, but it is Joyce that provides care for granny! Although Joyce wouldn’t have it any other way I’m sure! Not that Joyce cares about granny so much. As she (Joyce) demands control!
I was out of salad dressing and creme cheese. Notice the verb: I went to Winn-Dixie and paid $3.65 in cash, so, yes, it is “was”!
Everything was o’kay until around 10:35! That’s when the Rain, Thunder, and Lightning Combined to halt the highlighting of the “C.A.C.C.”!
The sky had adopted a blackish appearance while I was able to work. I was confussed Apparently, They arrived for a surprise inspection!
The upper-50⁰’s (F) never wavered from their stand, not even when Lightning and Thunder attempted to alter their (upper-50’s) course.
The sand is remaining in place. However, the wheat straw border gives in to Rain and Wind too easily. I will have to use something else for a border!
N.B.C. NIGHTLY NEWS (5:30-6:00 P.M.) and A.B.C. WORLD NEWS TONIGHT (5:30-6:00 P.M.) didn’t let me forget that the world is still the only
representative of, as far as we know. “Intelligent” life. And that’s a sad comment on what many believe is the masterpiece of “God”!
If that’s the best S/He can do, then one has to wonder why anyone would kiss Her/His ass!

(acerca de 6:27 P.M.) I’m sure I told you this during the time it occurred, but I now repeat it from a 15-16 year distance: A male was hired by Carson and Barnes Circus in, what, 1988 or 1989. With him was a female. A “masculine”-looking female. Being that circus people are not known for social liberation, the rumor that made the rounds of the Circus was that the female was actually a male in “drag”!
I imagine it is no easy task to adopt a Charles Dickens’ novel to film or video! The editing is undoubtedly a terrible task, the sense that the editor has to include the entire adaption within a limited time frame, and Dickens’ novels (as well as short stories, etc) are prolix and involve complicated character relationships!
No doubt, “Bleak House” (9-10:00 P.M.) is a fine adaptation by MASTERPIECE THEATRE (P.B.S.), but I must read the novel to unravel the confusion I find myself in, through no fault of Michael Davies (?), the adaptator!

(31st, About 5:33 A.M.) The day I have been waiting for all year - actually, since the Thursday before the winter “break”: Payday! The extra hours couldn’t have-come at a better time!
I will tell you more about my “___” later.
Milt was operating the state “C.A.C.C.” pick-up truck. He was coming from the dump area, and I was standing on the ground. We discussed the relative ease that the “C.A.” could be altered to a “S.U.” if Southern Union Community College does, indeed, assume management of C.A.C.C.!
The “C.A.C.C.” sign on the hill/bank I refer to. Even if the “U” ___ the ___ look (“V”), although Milt is correct for once.
A re-patching with sand and “p___”: “S.U.C.C.”
Yesterday, Marvin, in the shop office,“reminded” me that my pay rate is based on my grounds position, not my academic credentials. He is probably closer to the truth than I would like to admit!
I finally completed the reading of“Moby Dick,” yesterday evening. It’s nothing as I remember!
Chapter 132 discusses Free Will, sort of! George W. Bush claiming “God” wants him as president, my belief this “God” controlled my clowning output: I got the felling when I read the chapter that such beliefs are more common than is good for humankind!

(acerca de 1:14 P.M.) I was wrestling with Deah yesterday evening, in the living room. At one point I held her in my left arm up against my chest. She started squirming, so I put her back on the floor.
The look she “shot me,” as if to say, “How dare you!”, as if she is my sexual partner! “Keep your hands to yourself!”
Although Deah may have been reaching to the fiber glass particles embedded in my clothes and skin, left over from using air filters as Weed Barriers.
Would someone please tell me why Milt is certain that a plastic sheet would be as appropriate “Weed Barrier,” equal to air filters? A plastic sheet would prevent water from draining, “endangering” the sand arrangement.
My recollection of “Moby Dick,” until I read it again, was “Quequeg” holding up something, sacrificing his life for the welfare of the “Pequod” and crew. But that’s not how things happen!
I wonder how many other novels I remember incorrectly? Does this mean a massive re-reading project? I have the books for it in my personal library! Which is why I am cutting back on magazine subscriptions: To allow more time for re-doing my literary past!
Telemarketing is an “invasion of privacy”: Inch by inch, row by row, the right to privacy has been eroded ever so slowly since the United States has been a country. It will only get worse!
I don’t know what show it was, but I was scrutinizing the television at Joyce’s house Saturday, and there appeared a male that moved his mouth similar to the way Josh Jackson does! I pointed this out to Joyce.
C.A.C.C. deposited $7_4.79 into my cash cache at Superior Bank early this morning. And I deposited $40 of the 3-check-$45 birthday haul! So I have over $925, as of today. But Month II is already waiting with open arms!
THE NEWSHOUR WITH JIM LEHRER (5:30-6:25 P.M., P.B.S.): Always a good source of modern history!

(acerca de 2:37 P.M.) Joyce explained why Roy Moore will most likely be the Republican candidate for governor: There are many Southern Baptists in this state who would like nothing better than to turn Alabama into a theocracy, complete with religious police (as opposed with police who are religious)!
Could it be that Joyce, a Southern Baptist, was hinting, Saturday, at her support of Roy Moors?
There are too many anti-feminist in this state for Lucy Baxley to “win.”
For all his talk, Roy Moors has only one issue, as did George Wallace. And Adolph Hitler.
I think I heard Joyce state that somebody will “pay” for her/his actions in the future?
Joyce is well-aware that I am an agnostic. “You” wouldn’t think that she would be as respectful of my anti-religion as she is, being a Southern Baptist! Or Leslie, for that matter, although most likely Bill “complains”!
In the shop office yesterday, Marvin declared that vice-president Dick Cheney is out of office due to his lebsian daughter. Then he (Marvin) condemned homosexuality as anti-biblical!
If Dick Cheney leaves office before January 2009, it won’t be because of a “gay” daughter!
Marvin and I also discussed the fact that Eric only buys things when he feels like it or when he needs something. Marvin and I were commenting on the hardship of getting Eric to buy supplies (toliet paper, paper towels,etc)!

(acerca de 4:30 P.M.) Something about completing a novel (reading) leaves me with an “empty” feeling! There seems to be too many hours in a day when I don’t have the enslavement by a book!
Dear me! Reading is escapism, a “drug”! And addictive!
A gorgeous sunny day to end Month I! The Transitional Team has the low-60⁰’s (F) to either continue, or make more “wintry.” Something tells me that Month II has the latter in mind!
$2.15 for a pack of Marker Cigarettes from the Convenient store on the highway.
Robert Jackson, the prosecuting attorney at the “Nuremberg Trials” on AMERICAN EXPERIENCE (8-8:51 P.M., P.B.S.) stated that one shouldn’t use the court system if one is not willing and able to accept a “not guilty” verdict. The Bush administration should have kept that in mind before it arranged for a trial for Saddam Hussein!
One mustn’t pin one’s hope on democracy as the cure-all for a country’s ills if democracy results in something that is irksome to the pro-democracy party!

(acerca de 6:28 P.M.) I have a lot more respect for Herman Melville after having read “Moby Dick” as detailed as I did! Contrary to popular opinion, Melville wrote much more than a story about a fish!
It will be interesting to see if “The Old Man and The Sea” by Ernest Hemingway is as “Zenish” as “Moby Dick”!
I eagerly await further Melville reading! But first I have criticism and analysis of “Dick” to get to!
Should I peruse a biography of Herman Melville? Could ___ capture the ___ of the man?
Joyce told me Saturday that a male had condemned C.A.C.C., years ago, for flyinga torn, faded American flag, exclaiming that a flag in such a condition is terrible publicity for the college!
Can’t C.A.C.C. do anything right? I know the answer to this question, and I’m sure you do too!

February- Childersburg,/Sylacauga, AL

(1st, About 5:53 A.M.) “They” list me as having used ninteen gallons of water between 20 December and 16 January. Along with Sewage, my water bill is $20.40.
How much was my toliet “running” extra during this time? Turning the water off that does duty to the commode probably kept the water usage to ninteen gallons.
What if my meter is not registering, as was the case with my power meter? What are the odds of two meters going on the “blink”?

(acerca de 1:_4 P.M.) After the “official” celebration of my birthday (an inter-ruption, for my colonoscopy has been re-scheduled for this Friday morning; I had called, since no action was being taken on the rescheduling by Dr. Hakim’s nurse or assistant, and in a few minutes - not the “after 5:00” that I had been told, the receptionist for Dr. Hakim phoned with the new day and time) anniversary but while still seated at the table, this past Sunday, Joyce handed out belated Christmas presents to Leslie and me: Black Angus Bankers Portfolios with a sheet of four uncut $1-bills and a picture of George Washington, both from the World Reserve Monetary Exchange.
Joyce had ordered the portfolios - she and granny are sharing one, and David has a portfolio all to himself - before Christmas, but they had only been delivered recently.
Unfortunately, the bills have “In God We Trust” in plain view! If only Joyce had procured for me pre-1954 money, which is free of the “God” caveat!
I can’t say that I’m finished, cause no project at C.A.C.C. is ever finished, but most of the sand of the hill/bank sign is highlighting the “C.A.C.C.”: There remains 3-4 uncovered areas. The emp___, the pr__, the fatique: It all combined to affect my mood! On these days I can’t bear Eric McLain: It’s all I can do to tolerate him when things are going good with me!
I am filled with frustration that, instead of really tackling major beautification projects, he has the inmates waste time and energy on worthless duty!
Using sand and weed-killer to remove the gar___ and, as Milt calls it, “wild grass” from the campus! This, when most of the restrooms are out-of-order! Which, by the way, is his way of fixing them (Eric’s): Covering them with out-of-order signs!

(acerca de 2:18 P.M.) The constant ringing of the telephone - another invasion of privacy - most of which were telemarketers, made me realize that napping was an exercise in futility!
One would think that Melanie Bolton sent her son, Seth, to work with Eric, in order to repair and prevent damage to C.A.C.C. by Eric! But as Marvin and I concluded in the shop office, Eric will undoubtedly convert Melanie by “buttering” up her son! Eric is brilliant at that sort of thing!
Marvin compares what Andy and Eric are doing to C.A.C.C., to what the Bush administration is doing to the United States! It is exactly the way I feel!
Or did Marvin remember that comparison from one of my diatribes?
George W.Bush delivered his annual State of the Union address yesterday evening. A.B.C. was my vantage point, including analysis, until about 9:45 (I began the “research” at 8:00).
Milt’s father was name “Claude”: I was telling Milt and Marvin that David is built, physically, a lot like his father, Claude Baxley.
In the shop office - Milt, in the desk chair; Marvin, up against the west wall; I in the north chair - Milt and Marvin, yesterday, were complimenting me on being in better “shape,” physically, than people half my age. I told them that David hopes he can do half of the stuff I do, when he (David) becomes 50!
Milt’s mother’s maiden or middle name was “Jackson.” I informed Milt that my paternal grandmother’s maiden name was “Jackson” (I think; wasn’t that Mammie Jackson, Rufus’ wife). Milt was amazed that he and I have a lot in common!
Keep in mind that Milt’s surname is “Wilson.”
I recall the first I heard of “surname”: It was uttered by ex-aunt Edna, in granny’s house in 5th Avenue, about thirty years ago! Leslie was a child.
I was sitting in a padded chair, the __st of the living room. Edna was opposite, on a Couch. I think Edna asked Leslie’s “surname” (asked Leslie directly).

(acerca de 3:37 P.M.) All I need is four Delcolax, but the smallest (fewest) number Winn-Dixie sold by box is twenty-five.
I recall that when I underwent a colonoscopy in the fall of 2004, C.V.S. sold me just the four. Though it’s probably less expensive to buy twenty-five.
$16.72 from Winn-Dixie: In addition to the Delcolax, I bought, from the pharmacy (in fact, all my purchases were paid for at the pharmacy), two bottles of Fleet phospho soda, a can of chicken broth, and a can of beef broth.
I guess the bad-tasting “f___” is better than the alternative: Colon Cancer! Once every 18-24 months “ain’t” too invasive in my life style!
A telephone bill of $34.05: I may be overlooking charges for extras that I unknowingly agreed to! Joyce and I discussed this possibility Saturday. For a non-caller like me shouldn’t have such an expensive phone service! Although I am renting long-distance, which I may never use.
The upper-50⁰’s (F) are not a bad opening for Month II. Phoebus made it a gorgeous day, and Phoebus is still at it!
THE NEWSHOUR WITH JIM LEHRER (5:30-6:25 P.M., P.B.S.) as usual, but the Alabama Public Television doesn’t carry any special broadcast of the NEWSHOUR, as it didn’t for the State of the Union speech yesterday evening. Are these special NEWSHOURs too expensive, or do public television-watchers in the state not interested in national politics? I wouldn’t blame them if they weren’t!

(acerca de 4:22 P.M.) Artur (?) (Davis, a representative in Congress from the Alabama district which includes Birmingham, sat on Senator Joe Lieberman’s right during the State of the Union yesterday evening. The camera captured Senator Lieberman and Representative Davis several times.
The two were among the many in the audience in the chamber of the United States House of Representatives.
Mr. Davis shook hands with the president, spoke to him, and patted him on his (the president’s) back.
Although Artur (?) Davis is “running” for re-election and the histrionics were only for campaigning, I still felt proud to be from Alabama! For I have no doubt that Artur (?) Davis will one day be one of the United States senators from Alabama! Or even governor! He would be the first African-American senator or governor (wouldn’t he?)!
As I told Marvin this morning, the tax “refund” is the direct cause, in my opinion, of the sharp increase in prices, almost overnight! Supposively, the tax “refunds” resulted in more money being in circulation, thereby convincing business people that they should have the monetary “surplus” !
The majority of Americans trust George W. Bush (damn, I don’t know why!) to provide protection against a generic terrorism. But the “war” in Iraq is “undercutting” that trust! When it comes to a specific action, then Bush loses support!

(2nd, About 5:34 A.M.) It could be a fancy car, given the amazement and awe it elicits!
James Cline, Ralph Cline’s son, and another young male, brought some no-longer-used printers, or some computer items down to the shop on a dolly, yesterday. I was on my way to spread the former “C.A.C.C.” covering - pine straw and dirt - on the hill/bank, but postponed my departure in order to help Jimmy and friend.
I lifted the northern-most overhead door. On the way out, James’ friend commented on the bicycle on his right. James, on my right, inquired, “Isn’t that yours?”
Is a bicycle a class-symbol? I always thought bicycles are for paupers, but not in my case: That was not the first time that someone has expressed awe that I own a bike!
In commenting about my “obsessive” work habits Monday, Milt stated that “C.A.C.C. will be here after you and I leave!”
I stated to Marvin yesterday - in the shop as with the above - that nothing will get done on campus after I am gone. He assured me that the campus won’t be a concern of mine then! Marvin declared the ___ nicely: My transcription gives you the wrong idea!

(acerca de 12:__ P.M.) I come to you with my back in a regular chair, not the fold-up “camp” chair I purchased months ago from C.V.S. The office - green padding - was scheduled to be given to the dump at C.A.C.C., but I rescued it from the black trailer parked on the north end of Building “D,” outside Eric’s shop. It has been at the shop for ___ 2-3 weeks, awaiting a ride to a ride to my apartment.
Rain convinced me to telephone for a pick-up this morning: Marvin “sent” Milt to get me, in the gray C.A.C.C. van. Milt drove the chair and I to the apartment in the “C.A.C.C.” pick-up truck.
The chair has the chrome extension that won’t “tear” the carpet, as a chair rest with four “legs”: The weight of a sitter is distributed over a large area.
I also brought home another roll of toliet paper: I will be starting my regiment of laxative in less than two hours. And I want to be prepared, just in case.
Milt and I discussed food in the shop office this morning: Pig p___, deer (venison), cow, camel, etc. Not food that I crave, even if I can eat only broth and/or clear liquids - “deer” not in “color,” but in substance - and bread.
Eric told Milt and me, in the shop office, that insomnia brought him to work at 3:00 this morning. Of course I believe the statement!
Pretending the declaration by Eric to be true, my non-working routine - writing, reading, juggling, music - are more than enough to keep me at my apartment!

(acerca de 2:39 P.M.) Eric was in the shop office complaining about the only-yesterday purchased tree branch clippers (on a pole) being non-operative and the paint scraped off in places! As usual, he held an inmate responsible.
As I was leaving work yesterday, there were inmate Jeff and Seth Landers pruning the trees bordering either side of the road from/to Buildings “F” and “H,” to the shop. Inmate Jeff swore he didn’t mess up the clippers.
As I said, E ric reported to work at 3:00 this morning (yea, right!).
“You” solve the case. I have provided “you” with all the evidence you should need!
Milt told me later in the shop office, after the departure of Eric, that Eric will try to exchange the non-operative clippers for an unused clippers! What moron would make that swap?
THE NEWSHOUR WITH JIM LEHRER (5:30-6:25 P.M., P.B.S.): But only about forty-five minutes of it!
While in Building “C,” near the west entrance to classroom “C-1,” I discussed the American flag situation with Doug Stearns. Milt had suggested Doug, yesterday in the shop office: Doug is retired military and probably has more “pull” and influence at C.A.C.C. (who doesn’t?).
I don’t think Doug Stearns was aware of the absence of the flag. But as a recipient of federal funds, C.A.C.C. is obligated (not by law, though) to fly the American flag, which, incidentally, should only be on the flag pole in the evening if illuminated with a spotlight.
Doug didn’t “sound” encouraging to me, but Milt told me in the shop office later that Doug Stearns approached him (Milt) and said that he (Doug) would talk to Ms. Salotto at the soonest opportunity.
I had gone to Building “C” for the expressed purpose of speaking with Doug. It had been my third “visit”: The previous two didn’t find him in his office.

(acerca de 3:14 P.M.) A female student was in Doug’s office with him, so I didn’t stop. Not long after ___ the west door, however, Doug and the exiting student called me back.
The women’s restroom next to Doug’s office was (is?) “backed up,” odorizing” the building.
Louis Gates, Jr, presents a documentary on AFRICAN AMERICA LIVES (8-9:53 P.M., P.B.S.) that received its first airing yesterday evening.
I can’t believe Gates, a professor, labelled conjoined twins by the uncouth name, Siamese twins! And I am shocked that African Americans are called “colored people” by both Dr. Gates and guest star Oprah Winfrey!
As I said, it has been, and is, a rainy, raw, dreary Ground Hog’s Day: The lower-50⁰’s (F), pushy wind, etc.
Today - no tomorrow - is the mid-point of Winter 2005-2006. I suspect that Month II will show us what Winter is in truth!
As I told Milt as he brought me home - we were passing Taco Bell, still on the highway (the truck) - that it may snow this month!

(acerca de 4:05 P.M.) A lot of elderly endure colonoscopies periodically; so I am wondering why the Dulcolax tablets are such a pain in the ass to free from their plastic housing? I was forced to rely on a small paring (kitchen) knife to break into the four domed coverings!
There has to be a better way! What are near-blind “feeble” old people to do if I experienced such trouble?
Milt made a point, in the shop office, of “praising” Camel meat! He and I also discussed the fact that pork-eaters usually have ___ for every part of the pig: Tongue, tail, feet, etc.
A person can choose the size ___ s/he desires, according to Milt, and have it prepared for her/him!
Why is red jello and orange jello a no-no if one is on a clear liquid diet, as I am temporarily? The female pharmacist at Winn-Dixie hinted at this restriction on red jello, yesterday. The receptionist at Dr. Hakim’s office, who telephoned earlier to remind me of my plumbing job tomorrow morning, stated neither red nor orange jello, when I inquired.
I wish I could go get jello from Winn-Dixie, but that would put me too far from a bathroom for too long!

(3rd, About 4:27 A.M.) The only way I could ease the nausea yesterday evening, was to go to bed: It was a little after 7:00 that Deah and I sought comfort in bed.
Of course, such an early “retirement” doesn’t mean that Sleep conquered the “squirts”!
Elizabeth Mitchell called Marvin from her office yesterday morning: He was given a ream of copying/printer paper to “haul” to Talladega when he went for daily clean-up.
Elizabeth Mitchell teaches at the Talladega center. Marvin, Milt, and I could only wonder at the reason Elizabeth Mitchell couldn’t “haul” the paper herself!
Marvin refuses to acknowledge the fact, but the management of the Childersburg division of C.A.C.C. is gingerly “forcing” the “janitorial co-ordinator” position on Marvin, even though Marvin has declared that he doesn’t want the job!
Joyce used “gingerly” Saturday (?) in reference to Skinny the cat descending from the coffee table in her living room. I was amazed that she even knew what “gingerly” meant!
“Gingerly” is not a term that I regularly used.
I never realized how good bread taste until yesterday! Bread was the only “solid” food that I was allowed to eat!
I imagine a diet of bread and water, the “pretend” diet of convicts (we all know that convicts eat better than non-incarcerated people) can’t be as bad as it sounds!
I don’t remember the exact detail, but Sunday, during the birthday commemoration, some topic came up for discussion in the realm of mathematics that reminded one of the “___” analytical question on aptitude test; “If a train left San Francisco . . .”
This was at the kitchen table. Leslie had uttered the “protest” when I articulated the above.

(acerca de 5:24 A.M.) As long as Milt has been at C.A.C.C. - over twenty years - he didn’t know who Sheila Mitchell is! The name Elizabeth Mitchell triggered the remembrance that the staff telephone directory list at least two Mitchells.
If Milt really doesn’t remember, it explains why he hasn’t remembered to “gentrify” the campus all these years!
Milt told me, also in the shop, that Ellen DeGeneric (?), whose talk show was then on the air, would be the top talk show soon, given the ease that DeGeneric (?) involves the studio audience in talk, dance, etc.
My conversation with Marvin and Milt - the former in the desk chair, the latter in the north west chair - degenerated to such an extent yesterday morning that we discussed sex! Milt stated a fact that I’m still confussed as to the point he was trying to make: A female with her back to “you,” bends forward, her sexual apparatus moving to her “back.”
First I had to establish where the “back” was (the term is only a noun in a few cases; otherwise “back” is the furthest the speaker, opposite “front”).
Whenever a person of either sex bends forward from the waist, the butt shifts in the opposite direction to guarantee that the center of gravity is not violated. Of course the sexual organs “relocate” to the “back”!
The pubic hair has the same origin as the hair on the head. So claimed Marvin and Milt in the shop office yesterday: I had “asked” whether it is true that one can know the true color of a woman’s hair by examining her public area.
Technically the pubic hair and the head hair do not originate from the same source. For there are many cases in which the pubic hair and the head hair don’t match in color!
But I found it interesting that two so-called “religionist” can be reduced to such a “crass” and bestial level! Though I never expected otherwise!

(acerca de 12:29 P.M.) Everything’s all right, everything’s fine/and I want you to sleep well tonight . . .”
Dr. Hakim found no polyps, but he tied off a hemorrhoid with a blue rubber band.
And I suffer diverticulosis, which is dietarily controlled by eating a high fiber diet. How can I eat a higher fiber diet than I do? Many are the times that I have salad as the main course, with side dishes of “normal” food items!
What has really happened is that I have inherited from granny the diverticulosis. Thanks a lot, granny!
The only consolation is that I will probably not be swallowed by Daddy Mack’s legacy of diabetes!
Joyce took me to the hospital and stayed with me, bringing me home afterwards. But not without buying me lunch at Wendy’s in Sylacauga and having her oil changed.
My hunger pangs and nausea didn’t let me get the best out of THE NEWSHOUR WITH JIM LEHRER (5:30-6:25 P.M., P.B.S.), and the need for a ___ of the Commode inter-rupted the final 4-5 minutes.
The operational nurse was the same one I had in the Fall of 2004, my previous colonoscopy: I recognized her by her laugh.
The sleep I enjoyed! I was reluctant to leave the bed!

(acerca de 2:53 P.M.) I had question as to the checks I wrote: 831-834. Superior Bank made it known to me that three of the checks went to Winn-Dixie.
I sure didn’t realized that I ate so much!
Superior’s A.T.M. was out-of-money, or something: I tried twice to make a withdrawal from it. But I finally had to write a check for $15.
I sent off my telephone bill; I handed in a check for my water and sewage “rental.”
From Dollar General I bought two liter colas, a package of muffin mix, and a card for Bill’s birthday anniversary “party” tomorrow, all for $2.70 with tax.
From a drink machine near Piggly Wiggly, a 25¢ drink (Root beer).
A $2.16 pack of Marker cigarettes from the convenient store on the highway.
The Monarch Notes to “Moby Dick,” the analysis by Lawrence McPhee, was borrowed from the library.
The phone bill cost 39¢ to send.
David sent me ten dollars for my birthday celebration.
Your job is to figure out what the day cost me, including the $75 co-pay at the hospital this morning!
Too much for you, huh? Don’t feel so bad: I am confused, too, and I had control of the monetary outlay!
I’m sure many so-called “Christians” wonder why a lot of Muslims are upset about the depication of Mohammed in a Danish newspaper (actually, twelve editional cartoons, and reprinted in seven [?] European newspapers). But what about all the “Christians” that are furious with N.B.C. for having a character of “Jesus” in THE BOOK OF DANIEL series?
Although these “Christians” consider Islam a non-religion, eligible for ridicule!

(acerca de 5:16 P.M.) I doubt if there was anything Dr. Hakim could have done to my ass then could be any worse then the pre-colonoscopy regiment yesterday evening!
Pre-production is the same way, to be Melvillian Production is a “breeze” if everything is pre-arranged in “pre-prod.”
If the administration had done more advance work, the war in Iraq would be proceeding much better than it is!
Milt stated to me yesterday in the shop office - I was seated in the north chair, Milt was at the desk - that the only reason George W. Bush keeps the troops in Iraq is to control the population. The army wants to leave.
Let’s pretend for the sake of this discussion that Bush has such power: I don’t think so, but Milt “swears” he does!
I remember stating to Jack Shelton, director of the Wesley Foundation, the Methodist Student Center at the University of Alabama, that the Viet nam War was fought to “cull” the human population.
This was the fall of 1968, in the downstairs of the foundation.

(acerca de 6:15 P.M.) I would like to think that maybe it was Milt’s first step to free-thinking and intelligence, as i_ my Vietnam War’s population control statement was for me, but I don’t think the declaration was Milt’s first baby step!
An unseasonably upper-60⁰’s (F) was on hand today, along with Phoebus; however, Winter ___ Clouds to stop Spring, in the same way the United States is trying to stop Iran in its g___ day_ peaceful use of nuclear energy policy before Iran copies the United States in temper tantrums!
I never thought about it, but I guess one can say a cheetah is a professional hunter! “Professional” in the sense that a cheetah can only live via hunting!
Page 10 of the February 2006 issue of “National Geographic,” top of the left-hand column, the paragraph already in progress from the preceeding page, created the image with the wonderful sentence “. . . as they (pair of cheetahs) scrutinized a hundred Thomson’ gazelles with professional interest.”
Now that what writing should do, Robert M. Poole! Creat an image! You, Mr. Poole, are to be commended!

(acerca de 7:57 P.M.) As a test of sorts, Milt asked me, Thursday, in the shop office, if I would “defend” April Hunter’s thinness. Marvin was also present.
A logical question. Would I defend April Hunter if I was involved with her?
I explained to Milt in the shop office yesterday, after he had uttered the Iraq war-for-population control declaration, that there is an episode of STAR TREK, the television series, that has future war forbidden, so the federation of planets has a periodic Call-up of people that must die in order to keep the population in check.
“Heat” lightning whitens the sky at times, this evening. Is Rain planning a tryst with Phoebe?

(4th, About 7:13 A.M.) Thunder did it: “She” seduced Lightning and Rain - a female and a male - to “join” with Her yesterday evening! The threesome lit up the air!
Phoebe wasn’t around to stop Rain, so “he” looked elsewhere, and found it!
Dr. Hakim issued me a prescription for pain killers - as I told Joyce, the prescription was given to me to negate any charge of mal-practice - but as with the majority of physicians, Dr. Hakim wrote the prescription in Chicken Scratch, sort of like my penmanship. But I think I can discern “L___-_;__v r___15 L__.”
If “you” recall, I näively traded my pain killers prescription that was given to me after the hemorrhoidectomy in July 1997 for a taxi ride to Tallmadge Guilliard’s house, on Ponce de Leon Street in Tallahassee. FL.
The hemorrhoidectomy was a “free-bie” at Tallahassee Memorial Hospital (?).
Well, there is no taxi-ride necessary this time. So what should I do with the prescription?
The morning after the State of the Union address - 1 February - Marvin informed me, in the shop office - he was in the north west chair, and I had the north chair to myself - about the temporary “arrest” of Cindy Sheehan for trying to enter the House chambers, the venue of the speech, wearing an anti-war tee shirt.
It seems that Joyce and I are “closer,” now that I live apart from her. Granny was most likely the source of the tension between Joyce and I.
In answering the “prep” nurse yesterday morning, I officially admitted in front of Joyce, that I have been smoking about six cigarettes a day for twenty years. But I don’t take any medication. So I may not be putting my system in as much danger as people think!
When I was asked if I had any pain, I replied “none, other than hunger pains!”. Joyce and the nurse laughed.
Of course, that’s hunger pangs, not hunger pains. The former general, generic, the latter specific, esoteric: Is that the simplistic difference between “pangs” and “pains”?

(acerca de 7:55 A.M.) As you probably figured out, I didn’t go to work yesterday. Therefore, I was only twenty hours at C.A.C.C. this week.
I told Joyce that I can make up the four hours in later weeks. However, Joyce said each week is a separate entity and “making up” work load can’t be done. Although I think she was referring to a listing of the four hours on my time sheet, while I was declaring that I would work an hour or two each week until I made up for the four-hour deficit: For example, 25-26 hours next week, 25-26 hours the following week, etc.
In other words, I am determined to get my allotted 24 hours a week!
Contrary to what Milt stated, Joyce is being forced to move into the office being vacated by Tara. Joyce admitted to me yesterday that Andy and Tara don’t wish her (Joyce) to listen in on C.A.C.C. business.
As you recall, I “explained” to Joyce 2-3 weeks ago, that Sheila Mitchell was probably “asked” to relocate to avoid her (Sheila) having access to “private” C.A.C.C. goings-on. Joyce had dismissed my declaration. But I understand a door will be cut in the wall between Andy’s office and the office that has been renovated for Tara (Sheila’s former office). The wall is “paper thin” as it is, and Sheila was able to “ease drop.” (continued)




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