June 23, 2011
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Message to Biggles and Banyuls: Thanks guys- today, June 23rd is my 60th birthday.
Shhhhh!
Kidding.
It's kind of weird in that I took off from June 22 through July 4 from work to try to relax but I've got some pneumonia and I've spent the time just lying down trying to cough and I have to go back today for another inhalation thingy to help clear my lungs. I knew something wasn't right Saturday night but after two sleepless bed-ridden days Sunday and Monday I went back to work and then used my first morning of vacation to go to the urgent care place since my doctor is on vacation.
Vacations. I think I remember those from the distant past.
I'm all right, well, more or less, just a little down.
PLC has had a return of some of the worst auditory symptoms that make concentrating on anything else difficult and he is understadably depressed --as am I. He nonetheless had his home health guy drive him to a store and surprised me with a small chocolate cake last night.
I'm just sitting here in my small room in the back of our "modular unit" in my bathrobe aware that I haven't posted anything of any interest outside of personally important maladies and bummers except to leaven the output with the occasionally politically depressing malady or bummer.
Hey- no end to the good times when I'm hangin' around- there's always a lotta yuks!
Depending on what's happening PLC and I are planning to go to the East Bay Friday and see "My Morning Jacket" at the Fox theater in Oakland. We've never been there and it's supposed to be spectacular since it was saved from the scrap heap of the collateral damage of progress and restored. The next day my Mom wants us to come over for a dinner and I want to of course.
The pneumonia thing sounds from what the doctor said to be a drag but not a prevention from doing some things. Before this happened I managed to drag PLC with me to see our first Giants game in San Francisco's newish AT&T park a couple of weeks ago. We got to see our World Champs win but they got another in a seemingly endless string of their players hurt. Perhaps it's the infamous "Sophomore" jinx after this team finally became freshman winners last year.
The park was very nice and we had good views from our seats and I have to say the SF Giants are one of the better looking teams in baseball or sports in general. Not every guy is an Adonis but they have something for everyone it seems. PLC and I have been culling through the Giant's roster to discuss our latest heartthrobs. Ace pitcher Tim Lincecum has been an especial one for PLC- I always tell him "your boyfriend's pitching" when Mr. Lincecum's turn in the rotation arrives. We also have noticed new shortstop Brandon Crawford and another of their great young pitchers, Madison Bumgarner.
Tim
Brandon
Madison
Well, I will try to get back here as I do have a few days off. If they decide my initial treatments aren't working up to snuff I may have to check into the hospital but that seems unlikely to me right now. Even then maybe PLC can get our laptop to me so I have a means of entertainment till stuff settles down. Otherwise I'll try to get here for at least an episodic post or two about this or that.
If I could wave a wand and change things I'd love to prove that gettin' old IS for sissies.
Just for the hell of it I'll leave you with some web-steals of pictures of gemstones- I look at
and lust over. For me it's the web's geological porn.
The last one is a shot I actually took of the sky one morning before I went inside to my job.
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Wishing you a speedy recovery.
There is a magic about looking at gemstones. The color and beauty that speak their own language. I wear quartz crystal necklaces every day. Different colors depending on how I feel. I got most of them from the Tibet Nepal store in Davis Ca. There's also a magic about baseball players with long hair. 
Take care you guys and have fun at the theater.
A bobcat also looks a lot like a LynX.
I turned LX last July. Besides outliving my father by 13 years, I didn't feel any special thrill. Maybe I should have been more ecstatic. After all, ending zeros in your age only comes by once every decade. That alone should be reason to be overwhelmed, no? No?
Speaking of yuks, I may know on Tuesday if I'll join your club (lung problemites). Don't care much to talk about it for now. But hoping you unyuk soon as per this one goes.
I hope you can get to see that show at the Fox Oakland. On Google maps, their pics seem to have been taken when it was under renovation, that is prior to 2009, but the theatre's site has nice pics and a lot of information about it's troubled history and almost miraculous revival (all things considered). It looks like a beautiful hall. There are some wonderful art deco cinema halls here which have been transformed into pharmacies and the likes. A crying shame. I see it's near Lake Merritt. I didn't have a clue where and at that was until another Xangan you may know, Johnpierre, moved to Oakland and talked about it on his blog. To be frank, I didn' t have much of a clue about Oakland either, besides that scene in The Graduate. The Internets is a travel agency with such incredibly (and wonderfully) cheap fares.
I think I already mentioned I seem to have similar tastes as PLC's as per cuties go, and Mr Lincecum doesn't break the rule. But seriously, his name really is LinceCUM? My goodness....! (in the hot meaning of the word).
I always wondered how gemstones could end up having all those wonderful colors. Why them, and not all the other zillions of zillions of bland rocks? Still so much to learn...
I wish we had that kind of sky here tonight. For us, when it looks like that (in the evening) it means a wonderful day to come. I'm never up early enough to know if it works for the mornings too.
where and 'at' that was = where and 'what' that was
You know, you really don't have to present your ass to us to get our attent—oh, wait…that's the cat's ass. Nevermind.
Timmy, on the other hand is something else, though—woof.! 
Seriously: hope you and PLC will be well.
And geez Louise—there's not an opal in the entire bunch! What have you got against us, even if we are s'posed to be unlucky?
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