Warren Zevon & other stuff....

Good Morning Worlds !!

Yep -'tis morning, here in old England...... a very bright, if misty morning - I can look out, across to the village school, but once into the trees beyond, it gets all kind of misty & unclear. There is no chance of seeing the beach this morning.... maybe later, when the Sun burns it's way thru' !!

It's actually a little before 9.45am.... so - it really & truly is morning !! I've found, if B gives me my morning pills & potions, while I'm still in bed... well, I tend to go back to sleep, only waking a few hours later, to find the biggest part of the day has gone !!

So - today - I decided to get up, take the horrid assortment of things I have to take..... and "damn the torpedoes" !! If they didn't taste quite so bad - well, that would be one thing, but.... that, plus the fact they knock me sideways... well !!

One reason, for getting up early... I wanted to be up and about, before B went out. She has a gym class, at about 10am... so, I really wanted to be out of bed & down the old stairs, before she left !! So - with B gone... that leaves me here, alone with my thoughts..... J has yet to surface & ME is going to be in bed, for most of the day, as she has to do another night shift, this evening.

I will probably be on my own for a while - J doesn't normally get up too early.... what he will be like, once he gets to Uni, in September - well, that's another story.... he will have to get up bright & sparkly then & that's for sure !!

The music of the moment... well, that's the late, but great Warren Zevon & his 'Werewolves Of London' !! I started playing some of my WZ Cd's yesterday & - much to my displeasure  I found several of them.... well, they were "kaput".... some of them simply refused to play - while others were all over the place.... skipping & messing up big time !!

Anyhoo - as I had put a few of them, onto the Mini Egg - I'm sat here, with the headphones on.... so as to not wake up ME...... playing the Egg, as loud as I can, to check for "cock-ups" !! So far - after 31 tracks - there is no bad news - but, having just said that, I'm sure one or two tracks will now play up !!

I was looking at the BBC news, web page, this morning.... they found some stuff, which was contaminated above "the FSA threshold for horse meat" !! Does that mean, it's all right for food to contain horse meat, as long as it's below a certain level ?!

It does beg the question tho'..... when is 100% beef Ok - it is as long as it contains less than FSA threshold ?! If so - how can it be classed as 100% !! Oh well - the stuff was found in ASDA - so, as we have not shopped there, since last August..... as far as that stuff is concerned, we don't buy their brands anymore.

I don't doubt, that other shops are in the same position.... but, what the heck - we got to eat !!

The web page (BBC News) was full to breaking, with Maggie Thatcher stuff....... "Hello" BBC - we didn't all worship the water, you seem to think she walked on - mainly as, at the time, we were all too busy trying to keep our heads above the shit, she & her then government were putting us thru' !! Honestly..... come on guys - as I said yesterday, a shed load of the population didn't vote for her - so, give us a break please !!

CNN was even worse - on their TV reports yesterday. They were worse - in sooooo many ways.... at least most of what the BBC reported was factual - if very bias... CNN, well - they needed to get their stories right !!

As far as I know - and I'm open to being proved wrong.... Maggie Thatcher was not a relative of the Queen - so, come on America.... get your facts right !! It makes me sick..... almost puking as I write about it !!

Actually - thinking about it..... If we all started, from one tribe of Africans, who moved out out of their home, many many thousands of years ago...... then, I'm related to the Queen as well.... we all are !! How cool is that - not !! Moving on..... very fast.....

It's one month, to the day - that I see my Consultant again..... one solid month !! So, if you go back, to December, when he said he could do the next surgery.... I've been - well, will of been waiting 5 months - to this, hopefully last "Yes or No" meeting !!

He wanted me, to have all the tests done, the photographs & the meeting with the second Consultant. All of those, I've done & now.... it's down to the first guy & this meeting in May - as I say, one month from today !!

I've past the tests - got the "go-ahead" from the second guy - so, it's down to what he says now...... hopefully, if he says "yes", it will get done as quickly as possible - but, if he says "no"... Well, after I've killed him, for making me wait 5 months, for a negative answer..... I will tell him, to get his butt, into gear - to replace the implant that was taken out, in December - so I could have the MRI - as quickly as possible !!

It was put in, last march.... just over a year ago and, now it's missing.... well - I need it back in !! It's a thing that increases my quality of life, sooooo much - it's unreal !! The crap I've had to put up with, since it came out... well - it's not been a great lot of fun.... so, the quicker it goes back in, the better !!

But - that is under a different team..... so, i shouldn't get my hopes up..... it took a couple of years, to get it implanted, in the first place - so, I better not hold my breath !!

To be honest - if he says "No" to the surgery... I will be gutted !! I know it's a very dangerous surgery - removing a wedge of my spine - but, I have put sooooo much "hope" into getting it done.... I really will be at the end of my days, if it doesn't go ahead....... time will tell !!

Tomorrow - I have to make a quick trip to the hospital, to get a new neck brace thingy. Again, I was fitted with it, in December - and now, it's starting to play up a little bit.... it's getting too slack !!

B 'phoned the place, to see about getting it sorted out & - to my surprise - I wasn't on their records !! I shouldn't be too surprised really - it's just another day, in the life of a patient !! Why should they have me on record ? After all - I've only spent a fair bit of my time, stuck in the place, over the last 10 years or so !!

Anyhoo - after explaining the situation & a fair bit of panic, at the other end of the 'phone, they found me - on the computer & exactly what I was fitted with..... which it turns out, should of been changed after a couple of months...... and, I'm going in, tomorrow afternoon. Once again - life is good..... well - for a while, that is !!

Listening to the Mini Egg.... my iPod thingy..... on the headphones, is a good bit of practice. If, and at the moment, it is an "if" I do have the surgery... I'm not sure which headphones to use, in the hospital. At the moment, I'm using the full (over the ear) Sennheiser's ...... but, as much as I love them - I'm not 100% sure, I want to trust myself, with them, in the hospital !! Given how much they cost... well - I'm thinking I should just use some cheap "in ear" things.... incase I break them, or worse still, they get stolen !! Time will certainly tell on that one !!

Oh well - after the hospital, tomorrow... we're going to visit some friends, who live outside of Taunton. They don't know we're going.... but..... Last year, we hardly saw them, at all.... and, when we did see them, there was a little bit of "something" in the air - if you follow my meaning.

The guy said we didn't see enough of each other... so, we've been going out of our way, to call around, to see them.... even if they are out at the time. So - we're going to do the same, tomorrow - just call around & say "Hi"..... to see what the situation is. To try & find out, if we've done something wrong - or if there is anything we can do for them...... you never know - we might be able to do something for them, to help !!

B just wants to know why they didn't send the kids a birthday card, this year..... after all, they are our children's Godparents !! That could be an interesting visit.... but, we will have to wait & see.

The Godparent thing - well, it's no biggy really..... the others (Godparents) never remember anyway, so.... !!

Ok - I must away.... I still have a massive heap of Cd's, over to my left... which need to put into some kind of order !! I did quite a few, yesterday - but.... in the end, I had to give up - I just got too knackered !!  I'll see how far I get today !!

I thank you all for reading my words..... until next time......

Bye Bye