Two days post-op

Well as the old parts need fixing at this point, I went in for a hernia repair on last Friday. Had a good doc who explained everything to me and used robots to do the work.  I did not see them (the robots) in that I was asleep right after my wife kissed me goodbye. Waking up in recovery was next munching on ice chips.  I good friend of our has a significant other that was going through the same procedure at the same hospital at the same time.  We all met up in the waiting room for some tentative conversation in that this was not the usual party atmosphere we all were accustomed to.  The really weird thing was that he and I were next door neighbors in the phase two of recovery and bid each other bon voyage upon departure. Now feeling pretty good in the am but sore in the evening.  Enough about this.

Where is the warmer weather?  Snow came down in some areas this morning.  Come on, we are playing baseball and the youth soccer fields are muddy.  At least give us 60 degrees. At least at this moment, the sun is shining.

In my diminished capacity, driving is not advised.  I am pissed that I couldn't get the paper from 7-11 this morning.  We will go and visit Shannon at her residence later today, can't move her around either.

On Thursday last, we had a lovely lunch with my last surviving teacher from high school and his wife, Mr. Carmine Palmieri and Mary Ann.  He is hail and hearty somewhere in his eighties and full of stories of his life.  I was shocked that when we graduated in 1968 high school teachers pay was $4800 a year.  That's not 100 bucks a week.  He had to leave our district to teach in Detroit because the pay was at least livable.  He and I had some past familial history because he attended the same church that my grandmother took us to in Highland Park, St. Benedict.  Our wives got along great despite their age difference.

So Joe Biden had entered the race.  I don't think he as the starch to defeat this guy.  The rest of the clown car of candidates are not capable of pulling together the country.  There are too many opinions and causes and global generalities not many solutions.  I like Mayor Pete but he is gay.  He has the qualities for the job and is young enough to have the stamina.  But today's America won't support him due to his orientation.  Sad but I believe true.  I don't know where that leaves us. 

all for now.