The Allman Brothers Band.... again & again !!

Hi everybody.... may your World be as good to you as you are to it !!

Well.... here I am, just lit the fire to warm the place up - it was really cold over night - and once AGAIN, I'm listening to the Allman Brothers.  This time it's one of the 'new' concert recordings that came earlier in the week - I've been trying to listen to them, but today looks about right to give them a good going thru'.

B has gone out to a carers meeting, ME is at Uni placement & J is at work.... which leaves me here alone, playing music & typing these words - life IS good this morning !!  Better than yesterday at least............

I had to go into hospital for a pre-op & - once again - they're not sure if I'm well enough to have the surgery I'm booked in for !!  How can I be too sick to have an operation which, hopefully, will make me feel a bit better ????

OK, I know officially I've lost just shy of 23 pounds since November & that I'm not feeling too brilliant, but come on !!  I'm not going to worry about it - I'll keep flapping these old arms of mine - we'll just have to wait & see how I am on the day of the surgery.  Hopefully it'll go ahead, but time will tell !!

I spent a lot of last night wondering about it all & I've sort of came to the conclusion that it's out of my hands.  I'll have to see what the doctors say....... as it is, the little so & so's are keeping me in for a week after the surgery, so that's a bummer !! 

I was kind of 'upset' that they couldn't do the surgery under a local anaesthetic, that I had to be knocked out - now they tell me I'll be stuck there for up to a week afterwards..... what is wrong with letting me go home the same day ?!  Oh well - I'll cross that bridge when I come to it, I just don't feel too happy about being away from home - maybe you can understand that ?

Onto other things..... Yesterday evening I was going thru' some old tapes & I found a copy of 'Pictures At An Exhibition' by Emerson, Lake & Palmer - one that seems to be different to the official release.  So I

e-mailed a friend & used his knowledge of the band to try & tie down where it came from.  It is a bit of a strange one, as it's really well recorded - but, where it came from I have no idea !!  I love finding old tapes & this one is a good one..... now if I can find out more about it, I will be happy - happier !!

Bye Bye