getting a little busier

In my last blog, I described how exciting my weeks are, which I may have to do more often because I think I drew the sympathy card and the next two weeks are going to be pretty busy. Tomorrow which will be Friday, me and Sue are going out to dinner at red lobster with a good friend of ours, which we used to do twice a year with our wives, but it's been several years, since he moved out of state for a while and now is back,so we have a lot of catching up to do. When we went there in the past we would usually spent about four hours there, and conversation was never a problem. I love their food there and their quantity, but I would still have to watch out what I eat, but there should still be enough choices.

The weekends are usually pretty quiet, however my Tuesday morning gamers said that they should let them know that if nothing is going on, to give them a call and if it works out we can do some weekend gaming. That's the life of retirement, having free time most of the time, but the one thing that trumps gaming is the grandkids.

Next week Tuesday, I'll probably have my busiest day ever. Starts with the gamers from 10 AM to 12:30 PM, then off to the hospital for the support group from 1 PM to 2:30 PM, this is going to be followed up by another MRI and a blood test, and then I have a couple of friends coming over at 6 PM that are bringing over dinner, then we are going to watch a movie, which after that day hopefully I'll be able to stay awake through it. I better go with an action-adventure movie so I don't start doing the famous nod.

The next day on Wednesday, I got someone coming over to do Reiki on me, which will hopefully be relaxing and helpful.

On Thursday, at 10 AM, I have a massage specialist who specializes in people that are disabled coming over for a couple hours to work me over. At 3:30 PM, I have a doctors appointment at the hospital to go over the MRI results and the blood test. I will be interested to see how the results end up, because I've been on this aggressive peroxide therapy for quite a while now, plus about a week ago I started a special supplement which is supposed to expose the cancer cells to my normal immune system. So I'm pretty optimistic that things will be stable and would be great if it showed signs of the cancer shrinking. I will keep everybody up-to-date by next Friday when I will blog again.

The next day on Friday, my red lobster friend will be over all day for a couple games of chess.

Then on Saturday, February 27 we will be celebrating my youngest daughter's birthday which was actually January 31, but as we say in our family, better late than never.

So when that social calendar starts opening up again, I'll have to blog again on how boring my life can be.

I can't end without letting everybody know that once again the world of electronics and technology let me down again. Sunday night, AT&T u-verse went out again for the fourth time in a month.I got on the phone with them Sunday night to let them know how happy I was with their service( sarcasm)and the earliest that they could get here was Tuesday morning. Well I got to thinking and then I realized that Monday night was one of the two nights where we have all the shows that we watch and so I called back the next day and actually got a very friendly and helpful person on the other line. She was able to get somebody over here on the Monday noon to four slot. She checked our history and said that they would fix the problem permanently this time, and of course my comment was shouldn't it have been fixed permanently the first time. She was in total agreement and spent extra time and put in extra notes to make sure that it was done correctly. The guy that came out was very thorough, was inside the house outside the house, check every wire and connection and found multiple problems. He seemed confident that everything should be back to normal, but just in case, he gave us his business card and said to call him directly if there is any problem. So far so good.

And of course my computer went down on Tuesday where I lost my connection to my business which I heavily rely on and of course it was payday for the staff and boy if you want to see a group of people panic when you tell them the computer is not working and I can't get the payroll done, but who can blame them. For several hours during the morning I tried to fix things, but with my usual skill with computers, nothing worked. However, I had to leave for a while and when I got back everything was working fine. The only really fancy thing I did was unplug the printer and then plug it back in and that must've fixed the printer and the computer. I'm not going to argue about it, just as long as it works.

So my next blog will be next Friday and hopefully I'll have nothing but great news from the MRI.

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