Grateful Dead & expecting to be shot... Ho-hum.

Hi Everybody !!

I hope you are well, in your bit of this Universe....... the one we call home. It's a very bright, Sunny day, here in the wilds of England. I've just waved B off, from the front door.... well, to be honest - from the living room window !! I could of stayed, by the door... but... !!

She - B - has gone into town, to do a bit of shopping & to pay some cash, into the bank. I'm guessing she will be home, in about an hour, maybe a little more. So - with the "kids" out... ME is working a late shift & J is over in Wales.... that just leaves me here, on my ownsome... playing some more Grateful Dead, so - life is good !!

Well - it would be.... if the news was a little better, concerning my back. To tray & explain !! As best as I can.....

As long time readers will know, I saw a plastic surgeon, in the hospital, down in Exeter. That was a while back now.... maybe 3 weeks or so ago. He - at that time, said he wanted me to have another "Vac-pump" fitted, to help with the healing process..... I know, I've written all about this before...... !!

Anyhoo - last week, I think I had a nurse come to visit me & she was going to ask her boss, what she thought was best - if I needed one or not. In a nut shell, they wanted me, to call the surgeon guy & ask him - myself - if he thought I should go back, on the pump !! That was one step too far, for me...

It's not my job, to call up Consultants, because the nurse doesn't want to !! I might be wrong - but, I think the nurses are running scared, mainly as the Consultant wanted a pump, put onto my back & they didn't get around to doing it !!

As far as I was told - they were coming today, to fit the pump. Nobody has confirmed any of that - I'm only working on what I was told, by another nurse..... about 10 days or so. Sooooo - that's why I've not gone with B, into town.... I'm working on what I've been told - that the pump was going to be fitted today !! It's now about 2.20pm & - so far - nobody has got here !!

On top of all of this.... I had to have my dressings changed, again this morning. The nurse there - in my local surgery told us, that as far as she knew - the pump nurses were coming here, on Wednesday - two days from now !! It's crazy - at this rate, my blooming back will have healed over, before the Consultant gets to operate on me..... if that's what he decides to do !!

Sooooo - I decided to work on what I've been told, to my face, by the nurses who have been to the house, to see me. If they decide, not to come today - well, at least I can honestly tell them "I was home...." !!

If they come on Wednesday... well, I probably won't be home. I have to go into town, to see another Consultant. As I've re-booked that appointment, once already - I'm not going to cancel it again !! I'll have to do what I can.... and today, I can only sit here & wait for them to get here !! Oh well.....

Back to music...

As I mentioned above, I'm listening to another Grateful Dead album. This is a 3 Cd set, recorded at the Fillmore East On April 28th 1971. It's called 'Typical Daydream' & - I'm guessing - it's probably a bootleg. The tracks are:

CD 1

  1) Truckin'
  2) Beat It Down The Line
  3) Loser
  4) El Paso
  5) The Rub
  6) Bird Song
  7) Playin' In The Band
  8) Cumberland Blues
  9) Ripple
10) Me & Bobby McGee
11) I'm A King Bee
12) Bertha
13) Casey Jones

CD 2

1) Morning Dew
2) Me & My Uncle
3) Deal
4) Hard To Handle
5) That's It For The Other One
6) Sugar Magnolia
7) Dark Star
8) St. Stephen

CD 3

1) Not Fade Away (medley)
2) Alligator (medley)
3) China Cat Sunflower (medley)
4) Greatest Story Ever Told
5) Johnny B Goode
6) In The Midnight Hour
7) We Bid You Goodnight

Some of the tracks on CD 3 are from April 29th..... and, yep - it's a bootleg. As always - don't buy bootlegs, buy the official stuff, that bands put out !! This is a good set of Cd's tho' - when I last played it, I have no idea, I'm guessing it was some time ago !! Oh well.....

Before i sign off....

I see that Mr Puck-tin is having another go at the Eastern part of Ukraine !! How the guys, who stand there, facing the camera's on "Russia Today - International" can stand there & read the tripe they say. How it's the Western Countries, who are stirring up trouble & how the Ukrainian people are not doing any of the stuff, that we see on the TV stations !!

Come on Mr Puck-tin.... step back & take a good look in the mirror. If you think, that the person you see reflected there, is right & the rest of the (so called) "free" World is wrong.... well, you need to go see a Dr...... I'm certain they will find a nice padded cell for you, with one of those nice white jackets, the ones that lace up, at the back..... You and your ego will be quite happy there..... better there, rather than trying to delude the rest of the World, especially the Russian people !!

I must go - I think I've had enough for one day !! I can only slag off one dictator at at a time, before my fingers start to ache - time to turn the computer off & the music down to deafening !! Besides.... I'm expecting to get shot, sometime very soon !! Ho-hum...

I thank you all for logging in & reading my words..... from America, all the ways across the World.... and back again..... until next time..

Bye Bye