Greetings World's !!
I can't believe it's been a whole week - since I last sat here & posted anything !! I would lie & say I've been rushed off my feet... doing this, that & the other - but, to be very honest..... I've just not got around to sitting here & putting fingers to keyboard !! Sorry about that !!
Anyhow - it's been a week.... 7 days - some were good, others not so - more of that later, first "The Family" !!
As I type - I'm the only one here. B - My Wife & Dearest Friend - has just gone out, for a couple of hours, to attend a weight-watching group. I told her, that as far as I was concerned, she didn't have to go.... but, I think she felt obligated to show up, so........ off she went !!
So - as it's only the 2 of us, living here now..... I'm on my ownsome, listening to some random Cd's..... I've just picked a bunch of them, off the shelf & I'm working my ways thru' them. At the moment, it's one of Mountain's 'Official Bootlegs'....
It was recorded in Passaic, NJ on December 30th 1973. It's only a single disc, but it's pretty good. The tracks are:
1) Introduction
2) You Better Believe It
3) Theme From An Imaginary Western
4) Never In My Life
5) Get Out Of My Life Woman + Band intro's
6) Nantucket Slieghride
Ok - It's been a very long time, since I played this Cd.... but, for some reason - which I cannot remember... there are tracks, listed on the sleeve, that are not on the disc !! Some time, in my distant past, I probably knew the reason why.... but, for now - I'll just make do with what I have !!
Especially as 'Nantucket Slieghride' clocks in at just shy of 25 minutes !! You know me & long, live recordings !! Great stuff....
Going back, to part of the reason why I've not posted anything.....
In a nut shell - I've not really felt 100%.... also, to try & cheer me up, B has taken me out, on a couple of trips !! One of which really brought back some memories !! To explain.....
I'm not a big "train spotter" type of person - but, we're very lucky, here in this part of the South West of England, to have a 20+ mile steam railway. Going back, many, many years - I used to visit the thing, several times a year.... it was one of my all time favourite things to do !!
I got to know a couple of the people, who looked after one of the stations & I used to just go & sit with them, for a couple of hours.... just talking & watching the trains go by !! It might not sound like a great deal of fun.... but, for me - well, I really enjoyed it !!
Anyhoo - last Thursday, B took me along to the main station & we bought a couple of return tickets. It was really good - to ride along the track, along part of the beach area - then, inland, to the "end of the line".
It took about 4 hours, in total - and I really, really enjoyed myself !!
It was going, to the railway, with my Ex-Wife, that first got me attracted to building a 'N Gauge' model railway. I still have loads of bits & pieces, which I've kept.... but, it's been a very long time, since I actually built anything, that really works !! Nevermind......
Now that J - our Son - has decided he still hates my guts, enough to want me out of his life completely.... well, maybe I should use his room, as some kind of "Man Cave" & build myself a new model, in there !!
His feelings towards me... well, I wish he knew, just how upset B has been, about all of this !! It was on the train, last week - that he (J) sent B some pretty nasty text messages........ apart from actually dying - there isn't much else I can do, to satisfy his wishes !! Oh well - I just hope, that his hared of me, doesn't spoil his relationship, with his Mum, long term..... that has to be his decision !!
I'm quite happy, to stay out of his life.... I really am - but, as the old phrase goes "No man is an island" - so, he will have to decide his feelings, for himself !! Good luck - that's all I can say...... well, maybe that & "*!"& **£ &%^ "£$!*.... but, that's just being spiteful !! Oh well - moving on...
I'm going to pay, for that last bit..... moving on !!
As mentioned, many times, before - I am officially broke.... and, it seems, on the point of being made bankrupt !! But - so far, the advice that I've been given, has been very confusing... to say the least !!
On one hand, I'm being told to one thing - then, the following day or so, I'm being told to do something else !! All of this having been told to me, by a so called "help" centre !!
So - as I really do not know, which way is up.... I'm just waiting for a couple of forms, to reach me, in the post & I'm going to make the appointment, to see the legal eagle, who will actually make the final dot on the i & the cross on the t.... so to speak !! If - and I say "if" - mainly because I'm flying blind here - that person decides that I am not bankrupt... well, I'm not really sure where I go from that !! Such is life, I guess.....
All of the above & I'm going back, into hospital - in 2 weeks & 6 days... for my next surgery !! It's not like I'm under any pressure here, or anything !! Hopefully, I can get everything sorted, before September 8th & I can go, into the surgery, with it all sorted out !! Time will tell, on all of that...
Rightly, or wrongly - I've bought myself a new Cd recorder !! "How can you be broke & buy something like that ?!" I hear you think - well, quite easily really. I have some money, in the bank & I decided to buy the thing - before I lose it (the cash) all !!
If it's decided, that I can't have it.... that I have to pay the cost, of the recorded, as part of the settlement... well, that's no big deal. It looks good & it seems to work - but, as yet, I've not had any reason to use the thing.... so, if it turns out, that I have to forfeit the thing, or the cost of the thing, so be it !! It would be a shame - but.....
Just going back, to music.... B bought me a 4 Cd set, by the Eagles '1972-1999... Selected Works' which has their "Millennium Concert" on Cd 4..... It's only an hour long, so I'm guessing it's been cut a bit... but, it's quite good. The tracks are:
1) Hotel California
2) Victim Of Love
3) Peaceful Easy Feeling
4) Please Come Home For Christmas
5) Ol' 55
6) Take It To The Limit
7) Those Shoes
8) Funky New Year
9) Dirty Laundry
10) Funk 49
11) All She Wants To Do Is Dance
12) The Best Of My Love
I've not had the chance, to play it all yet - but, I've put it onto the Mini Egg, so - if nothing else, I can listen to it while we're driving around !! Something else, that I've put onto the Egg...
That's a really good 3 Cd set, from the Grateful Dead called 'Sunshine Daydream' !! It's a concert, from August 27th 1972 & those tracks are:
CD 1
1) Introduction
2) Promised Land
3) Sugaree
4) Me & My Uncle
5) Deal
6) Black Throated Wind
7) China Cat Sunflower
8) I Know You Rider
9) Mexicali Blues
10) Bertha
CD 2
1) Playing In The Band
2) He's Gone
3) Jack Straw
4) Bird Song
5) Greatest Story Ever Told
CD 3
1) Dark Star
2) El Paso
3) Sing Me Back Home
4) Sugar Magnolia
5) Casey Jones
6) One More Saturday Night
I've probably written about this set before... but, it's well good !! Heck - with 'Dark Star' clocking in at over 30 minutes.... it has to be good !!
Something that B spotted & we bought... is a sign, for the front door - which basically tells everybody that might come knocking at our door, to politely go away & leave us alone !! It was only a pound or so - but it has already made a couple of people smile.... including the nurse, who came yesterday !! She thought it was good.... hopefully, it will stop all of the "door to door" sellers & the such like !! Time will tell, again, on that one !!
Tomorrow, the head nurse, is coming over, to look at my back wound - to see how things are going I guess. If she decides, that it no longer needs the 'Vac pump' dressing... well, she will have to sign a bit of paper, to say she took it off..... !! I'm not going to have the Consultant moan at me, for something I've not done !!
He wants the dressing left, as it is, until the surgery.... sooooo - if this nurse decides otherwise, she can deal with it.... I will not have anything to do with that kind of decision !! She can fight it out, with the Consultant herself !! I'll let you know how things go... !!
I can't believe it's less than 3 weeks, until the next & hopefully last - back surgery !! It has come around so quick - considering how much has happened.... nevermind... I best be on my ways !!
... for now at least !!
As always, I thank you for logging in & taking the time, to read my words. It's good to know that you are all out there... until next time..
Bye Bye
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