Disclaimer: I'm writing this under the influence of a drug that starts with "oxy..." In the middle of the night my mouth woke me up screaming, "The dentist did NOT fix this." At 9 a.m. Pam went up to Walgreen's to fill the Rx he gave me after Tuesday's root canals. I don't know what's going on in there; it can't be either of those teeth because they've been officially pronounced deceased. It must be an infection in my gums. Whatever it is...OUCH.
Soft foods and pills right on schedule until I can call when they open tomorrow morning.
The year isn't starting off well on the crime blotter.
The Chief of Police called in to say he'd just accidentally shot his wife with his service revolver. Twice.
Uhm....
Meanwhile, a guy in Mass. killed his wife with a kitchen knife after an argument about his failure to get her a Christmas present. Then he went out to the garage and tried to kill himself by stuffing a rag in the tailpipe of his running car.
Why? The only thing that's going to kill is the engine.
But a guy who doesn't get his wife a Christmas present isn't exactly a Mensa candidate.
Uhm...wait a minute.
I turned the heat on this morning. When I got up at 3 a.m. it was 63 degrees in the house and I knew it was going to continue to drop, so I swallowed my Scottishness and hit, "Heat." Got it up to 65 and shut it back off. It's held there since, and we do fine with sweatshirts and lap blankets.
If you can't chew, if you get hungry mid-afternoon, and if you're wife is going to the grocery store, you can manage to get a big donut out of the deal. Pain trumps paleo.
One of these is the forecasted temp graph for Sun City and the other is the temp graph for Grand Rapids, MI.
Click to enlarge to see the scale on the left. You'll note that we're in an unusual cold snap (see "turn on heat" above) that will last another three or four days. Grand Rapids is above normal now, but that will change. And if you can't make it out, the low point on that upper graph is 1. As in one degree Fahrenheit, without factoring in the effect of the 10 mph winds they'll have on Wednesday.
The other thing that strikes me and baffled me for the 17 years we lived there is that in Grand Rapids there's no connection between daytime and temperatures. It's the only place I've ever lived where the sun comes up and the temp goes down, or visa versa.
God never meant people to live where the temperature can be said with one syllable.
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