"I would go out with women my age, but there are no women my age." - George Burns

Because the dr. said I shouldn't do anything that raises my pulse or BP I stayed home from church this morning. Sure felt weird! I did meet the family for lunch at our usual - Carl's Jr. - afterward. I'm getting cabin fever and a serious case of boredom, so that felt like a major outing. They all agreed church went very well, especially in light of how quickly alternative plans had to be put together.

BTW, because they use lettuce leaves instead of chopped lettuce like McDonald's and BK, you can order any hamburger "low carb," which means it comes as a lettuce wrap instead of with a bun. Paleo.

I didn't post last night because those restrictions mean I lead a pretty boring life with no fodder for a post. And I had another bleed in the afternoon, this one requiring that their dressing be removed and replaced with my own. Grrr. That left me feeling out of sorts, not in a frame of mind to write.

We're really hoping this all turns the corner tomorrow. If the dermatologist gets the all clear from pathology early enough in the day the plastic surgeon will put me on his schedule for surgery that afternoon. I don't know that I've ever been this eager for surgery. I also don't know when surgery will happen if that all-clear doesn't come soon enough, or if he has to go back in to take more tissue. But we're not even going to think about that.

Because I had plenty of time on my hands this morning I watched both Meet the Press and Face the Nation. I've also been reading The Beast and Slate, two of my five or six regular news site stops. It's interesting to hear/read various interpretations of what happened last Tuesday. Those two web sites are both decidedly liberal (it's good for me to read their perspective) and are almost a caricature of the extreme at the other end of the spectrum (Fox). Conspiracies, big money, clever deceptions, and public ignorance explain this set of outcomes. Those two news shows try to play to a much broader audience and therefore take a much softer approach. Howard Dean appeared on one of them - don't remember which one - and he was his usual outspoken self. Ripped on his former employers, the DNC. But for the most part the panels of pundits were so polite that we got neither heat nor light. Oh well.

It doesn't make much difference.
The election, I mean.
Two years from now, or four if the pendulum swings more slowly, we'll have the opposite outcome. The Republicans have proved themselves every bit as capable of screwing things up and the Dems, and after a few years of being the Ins the voters will throw them out and bring the Democrats back.
They are all politicians in a democracy grown so complex and tangled that they both screw it up from different ends of the spectrum.

I used to be fairly engaged in political developments but I find myself increasingly ambivalent. It's still interesting to watch, but outcomes don't make a lot of difference. Sort of like the NFL.

Go Cards!