The Boss & some final words.. Ho-hum !!

Hi everybody..

I've taken a few days away from my old keyboard - apart from feeling physically crap, mentally - well.... I'm struggling !! Hell - after all of these months - going on 2 years now, I'm wore thru' !!

Nevermind - it's a Wednesday.... B - My Wife & Dearest Friend - has just gone out, to meet up with a friend, over a cup of weird tea... I don't know exactly what !! I know it's cold out side...... so, I'm here - at 9.30 in the morning, the heating is on & life is warm, if not exactly too good !!

B will home, in a few hours - then, once again, I have to go to the hospital !! Bummer !! To explain how things have gone, over the last week - a kind of pick up & go, on the events of the last 7 days !!

Last Wednesday - we drove all the way to Exeter, to see the Consultant.... and he wasn't there !! So - a nice nurse, bless her made a right cock up, redressing my wound.

Last Friday - a district nurse came over & put the Vac-pump, back onto me.... by the weekend, I had thrown it in the bill.... twice !!

So - we come to Monday.... and, I allowed one of the better nurses, at the hospital, to redress the wound - including re-uniting me with Colin - the Vac-pump........

Yesterday - which, for whatever reason, I thought was Sunday (?) - I gave up, on Colin again. He kept alarming, for hour after hour.... 3 times, in 20 minutes, at one time.... so - if a bin had been handy - he would of been well & truly in there !!

Today - Wednesday..... well, it's hospital times again !! This time - Colin is packed, ready to go & they - the nurses can keep him !! I've had enough.... I really have !!

So, at 2pm - B will drive me, to the hospital & they will say this, that & the other..... me - I'll just tell them to give Colin a good home & I'm walking away !! My local nurses can deal with things, from here on in..... I really have had enough !!

After 17 months and 8 days... well, screw it all..... I've done everything asked of me.... now, I'm going to do it "My Way" !!

As for the music of  the moment...

Well, that's some good ol' Bruce Springsteen !! The tracks are:

  1) Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)
  2) The River
  3) Thunder Road
  4) Atlantic City
  5) Dancing In The Dark
  6) Born In The U.S.A.
  7) I'm On Fire
  8) Glory Days
  9) My Home Town
10) War
11) Fire
12) Born To Run
13) Brilliant Disguise
14) Tunnel Of Love
15) One Step Up
16) Tougher Than The Rest
17) Spare Parts
18) Born To Run (acoustic)
19) Human Touch
20) Better Days
21) 57 Channels (And Nuthin' On)
22) Leap Of Faith
23) Streets Of Philadelphia
24) Murder Incorporated
25) Secret Garden
26) Hungry Heart
27) Dead Man Walkin'
28) The Ghost Of Tom Joad
29) The Ghost Of Tom Joad
(From The 'Tonight Show with Jay Leno)
30) Highway Patrolman
31) If I Should Fall Behind
32) Born In The U.S.A.
(From Charlie Rose)

A heck of great tracks, to choose from - take your pick & play them loud !! As long as you go out happy - screw it all & everyone !!

President Abraham Lincoln said - on December 1st 1862:

"The dogma's of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present"

He was kind right on that.... !! I'm sorry if I've got dates & stuff wrong !! As I say, I thought yesterday was Sunday..... what do I know !! But nevermind - in 100 years, I'll be gone - so, my words will get lost, in time... probably completely !!

I'm printing this old blog of mine - to stash away some place - for people to read, when my computer is way past it's sell by date. If, by printing it - some one gets to read these words, in a dozen or more years.... well "Hello" to you !!

I mentioned - more than once - 'Project '87'...... well, the original, typewriter printed list, is now safely framed, with pictures of 'Los Desperadoes'..... + part of the original album + the lyrics to that fantastic & - for me - very helpful song !!

B finished it off, last night.... it really came out sooooo much better, than I ever expected it to !! In the beginning, it was a joke - but, now - I realise just how important it was & is to me, as an individual !!

Right - I best be on my ways - oh I forgot.....  I e-mailed our Son - J - last night, to see if he intended "coming here for Christmas".

He replied:

"I am not coming home. Don't worry about Christmas Gifts if they crossed your mind. I don't have room'"

At least he called here "home" - for that, I guess B should be grateful !! Me.... well, he's not coming home - so, the Government will get another £104 a month out of us - on top of the £104 we pay for ME's old room. It's not a "bedroom tax" - as the Government keep telling us.... it's a "spare room tax" !!

No big deal.......... B gets her "Craft Cave" & with J's final words on the subject, it looks like I'm going to get a "Man Cave" - shit happens....... after all, it's only money we would use to feed ourselves, but what is food, when you have such an understanding Government ?! Fuck 'em all !!

I thank you for logging in... I'm sorry I've not written for 4 days.... I still think yesterday was Sunday.. until next time....

Bye Bye