July 26, 2009
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So–I was in Indiana for another wedding last weekend. Yes–ha–gone three years and now 2 weddings in 6 weeks. Which means I probably won’t go anywhere for the next five years. Well maybe not the bad, but who knows? The weather behaved again. Was 70s/50s, though everyone had some cold thing, which I caught and am still trying to get over. Mainly a minor cough, but it only seems to bother me when trying to go to sleep-then kills that.
It was ex coworker Monica’s wedding. Saw some other friends too, and went to 2 county fairs. Tenderloin sandwich and fresh cookies were good at one.
Finally got to see what the Purdue golf course grounds keepers did to their side of the Celery Bog. Oh well-in a hundred years the trees should grow back, if allowed.
Bus trip less eventful than the previous one. Bus driver on one stretch did do a sniff test on us, because she thought she smelled booze on someone. And all that sitting in one place is hard on the nethers after awhile.
It’s been a cooler summer here. Supposed to be low 80s this week and rainy. And now that the lakes are full–some judge has ruled Atlanta/Georgia has no right to Lake Lanier water–that the Corp “overstepped their bounds.” Which is utter bs, since all my life I’d heard, and even read in encyclopedias that Lake Lanier is Atlanta’s water supply. So, the three states have three years to arrange something. If you can’t control people with real drought–make up the equivalent. (I said back in high school–Atlanta should just build a desalinization plant on the coast and be done with it. But who am I?)
And speaking of control–given the carefully orchestrated panic over swine flu and vaccinations–all this happened before in 1977. Swine flu was going to be the next next pandemic, and I along with others got vaccinated. Except back then after an explosion in Guillain-Barre Syndrome–the vaccinations were stopped. GB causes nerve inflamation and paralysis; some people recovered, some didn’t. And this time the government has granted itself and the companies legal immunity. Companies which stand to make a killing–ha–off the profits.
Well in a normal flu year, 36K die in this country, and maybe a quarter to half million worldwide. And all the info on the current vaccine research, testing and production–uses words like fast tracked, quick, managed risk (?!). Lets just say–I try to be more careful what I consume than perhaps in the past.
Squirrels had been unusually scarce last few days–but I think they just replicated-again. Anybody need any/a dozen?
Unfortunately last phase of a cold for me is the sinus headache due to residuals. I think some aspirin /substitute is taking care of that.
So far from garden–I have harvested one small medium green pepper, and a cherry tomato. Hooah!
Comments (4)
Hope you get past your cold soon. They seem to linger for far longer than colds of years gone by. That cough thing is really going around. I am past the age of weddings. My friends and I have the death an dieing of parents thing in common these days. Morbid but true.
been cool here too – so much for global warming! you can keep your squirrels – i have enough shrub munchers of my own. hope you’re feeling better soon. peace, Al
It’s been unseasonable cool here, too, all month. July has only had 2 days over 90F. That’s practically unheard of and will be a new record if it stays that way.
Twice to Indiana in six weeks and not once to Colorado in SEVEN YEARS. Ahem… I don’t know if swine flu hysteria was orchestrated or not. I do know that for about the last six weeks of school, if a parent called in their student as absent because s/he was sick, our attendance secretary had to notate it as “not flu-related.” The simple fact is that if a particularly virulent strain hit the U.S., the public health system would be quickly overwhelmed and there would be catastrophe. All these Hollywood producers are making the end-of-the-world flicks with landmarks and monuments getting destroyed spectacularly, but if the world was to end, it’s not going down like that. One supervirus takes off and wipes out our species, all those buildings left standing, and it will be like that show Life After People (check it out).