Loud music & back to hospital.. Ho-hum !!

Greetings Worlds !!

I trust your part of the Internet Universe is treating you well ?!  I'm becoming fast to the opinion, that my little bit of the "galactic empire" is giving up on me & I should take it one hour at a time..... more
later !!

Ok.... it's another Monday.... it's very bright outside & very cold with
it !!  B & I went into town earlier & it was blooming freezing.... tho' I did warm up a bit, as I pushed myself around & about.

Unfortunately, B is doing more & more of the pushing these days.... as my old body still seems intent on falling apart !!  I remember, when I got my current wheel chair, how I used to "zoom" off down the paved areas..... all under my own power !!  Now, about 12 months later, I'm struggling just to move a few yards at a time !!  Oh well, it's better than just being stuck... at least my chair gives me a bit of freedom !!

My computer seems really slow today - maybe it's feeling the cold itself.... or old age - it needs one of two things. (1) to be upgraded or (2) a hammer to it's shell... just to remind it who is the "boss" around here !!

Anyhoo.... the family !!

J is here, looking after me.... making sure I do as I'm told.... and the ladies of the house have gone shopping. ME is on a 4 day break & is probably getting fed up of being home... so, she wanted to go out & she dragged B along for the ride !!

Having said that - B does want a new top... for when ME has her graduation, later this month.  hopefully she will find one she likes !!  At least, with ME taking her, she will make sure B actually goes into the shops, to have a look.... MY Wife & Dearest Friend hates shopping - especially for her own clothes !!

Anyhow.... that's where they are, at the moment....... leaving me home, to blast the music thru' the homestead !!  At the moment I'm playing Hawkwind's old 'Space Ritual' 2 Cd live set.  It came out, on 2 Lp's way back in the early to mid 70's... now I have the 2 Cd version, with extra tracks tagged onto the end.

Going way back.... I actually met the bad, in 1971.  They played a gig & my friend & I supplied the music, before & after their set.  They were a great bunch of lads & signed a copy of their first album for me - which went missing a while later !!  I could never prove it, but.... I'm pretty certain my friend took it !!  Oh well - that was a long time ago & I'm now happy to have it on Cd !!

just staying with music.... I have part of another Zeppelin concert, from today in 1969.  It's only a few tracks, but they are:

1) Communication Breakdown
2) I Can't Quit You
3) Heartbreaker
4) Dazed & Confused
5) How many More Times

It's a great show, recorded in Kansas city......as always, don't buy bootlegs, buy the official stuff instead !!  More tomorrow....

Yesterday, being Sunday, we went to Church & had quite a good
time !!  Being the first Sunday of the month, it was Testimony Sunday - where, if you feel you want, you can go to the front & say a few words.

Well, something clear in both our minds, has become obvious..... this past 2 weeks have been very hard, for both of us.  Going to the 'new' clinic has, well.... as I say, it's been 2 very hard weeks !! So - B helped me, in going to the front & one of our leaders bent the mic down to my level (as I couldn't stand) and I said a few things.

It might sound totally dumb, but I felt really emotional.... and I told how hard these past weeks have been & how the Missionaries visits, to our home, have brought us so much joy.  When I had finished, I asked B if we could leave & we left early..... mainly as I was well & truly "out of it" !!  Which brings us back to this morning !!

As mentioned, last Friday.... I went to the hospital & I was really pleased to have been told, how I needn't go back - unless I was poorly.  This meant a lot to me.... finishing the year off, with a break from any hospital visits.... well, I was wrong !!

I had to go to the local Dr's again, this morning... the result is, I have to go back to the hospital..... tomorrow !!  Bummer !!  I knew I had been feeling poorly, but.... I have to go back & have some X-rays taken, to check a few things out..... as I say, bummer !!

I guess it's no big deal.... but, just when I though I had finished with the hospitals, for another year at least, I have to go back again !!  Oh well - what is the saying... "Don't count your chickens etc etc" !!

It really has got to me.... going back again.... but, it's only a X-ray.  If all goes well, we might get some answers to some of the pain problems & - if we do - in the short term - that will be a big bonus !!

Anyhoo - enough about hospitals & pain stuff........

Back to music...

If all goes well, I should have some more Cd's by Therion this week !!  I hope to have 2 more live sets by them, so I will let you know what they are like, when they are here !!  If any of you - my readers - know any of their albums & could recommend them, I would be grateful !!  At the moment, I'm sticking with their live sets, to try & get a feel for their work.... but, as I say, if any of you know any good (or bad) studio albums by them, let me know !!

I have always preferred 'live' albums.... even when I was first buying albums !!  As I couldn't get to many concerts, I bought a bands live collections, as a kind of substitute, I guess !! Then - from the live albums, I would pick the tracks I liked & then tracked down the studio albums that those tracks were actually on.  It meant I bought a bundle of recordings I probably didn't like - but, at the time, it was a great way to listen to many bands !!

Ok - my plans for today.... I have a few things to label up.... but, as I will probably run out of printer ink, I won't be able to do too many of them !!  Never mind - I can get some more ink, tomorrow, when I head back to the hospital..... no big deal !!  Just a little expensive !!

Apart from a bit of printing... it's going to be a quiet afternoon.... well, it would be, if I turned the music down.... and that's not going to happen !!  I must away... until next time...

Bye Bye