It’s been a crummy couple of days. I’ve had some sort of intestinal virus and have been crapping my guts out non-stop since early in the morning when I pooped myself while sleeping. How embarrassing!
I can’t remember the last time I was sick. It would have to be a couple of years. I did have a short-lived bout of vertigo earlier in the year, but that passed in a couple of hours. Other than that, no colds, no flu, and basically nothing that put me in bed for a day or so.
So, today I’m resting here at home, with my three Boston Terriers keeping me company while Charlie goes to a lunch party with some girlfriends.
Update: My crapathon ended on Sunday night, thank goodness. That was a shitty couple of days!
BTW, I’m bowling in the Bear Creek league again. We started on Monday. I’m on a four-person team with Leslie, Mary, and Cathy…all pretty ladies. They aren’t very good bowlers, but this league is a social one, not competitive, so they sit together and chit chat, and, occasionally roll a ball. I thought it might be distracting, but I had a 604 series (201 average) on Monday, so…I guess not.
Speaking of Bear Creek, Charlie and I have lived here for almost 30 years. We’ve seen and done a lot in this master-planned, country club development…more than most. But, we’ve never seen a recall of the entire Master Association Board of Directors…until recently. Quite the news, it was. I understand that homeowner association recalls are quite rare, and our recall election wasn’t even close: the Yes proponents got 90 percent of the vote! Hopefully, things get simmer down around here, and the new Board of Directors will actually listen to property owners instead of working on pet projects and propping up the legal industry.
The big news of the week was the Senatorial race in Alabama, where a Democrat named Doug Jones beat Republican child molester Roy Moore. Incredible! The people of Alabama have done a lot of disreputable things over the decades, but they redeemed themselves yesterday.
Actually, the white voters in Alabama overwhelmingly supported pedophile Moore, but, for a change, the election was tilted against the ex-Judge by a big turnout by black voters. It seems that the only thing that Alabama can brag about anymore is their great college football teams, well-populated by black athletes.
This election delivered a well-placed, steel-toed boot to Donald Trump’s ball sack. The President campaigned for his fellow sex pervert, and now enjoys a razor-thin 51-49 majority in the U.S. Senate. This will make it all the more difficult to achieve the Trumpian legislative goals, while Mr. Grab ‘Em is hearing noisy footsteps from the many women he has sexually harassed.
Speaking of the Prez, did you notice that the would-be-Emperor recently had the audacity to declare Jerusalem the capital of Israel? That will surprise the folks in Tel Aviv, the actual capital of that country. One wonders how Donald Trump came to assume that the President of the U.S. had the authority to do such things? Anyway, predictably, Muslims throughout the world are incensed, as Trump added fuel to the fire by signing the official decree in the White House…surrounded by Christmas trees. What a tool!
Within a week, a consortium of Arab nations adopted a resolution declaring Jerusalem to be the capital city of Palestine. Tit for tat. What was accomplished?
Interestingly, the whole Middle East conflict was started by the Western powers just after World War II when they re-drew the political map of Palestine to create Israel, among other ill-conceived moves. The region has been at war ever since. So, President Trump’s “declaration” is particularly offensive to the Middle Eastern world.
If the Prez can’t start-up a new ground war in Palestine, maybe his taunts of North Korea will bear some fruit.
On another subject, I have completed mapping out a preliminary itinerary for our 2018 Road Trip. Initially, I was going to head north toward Oregon, beginning around the first of May. However, I am now thinking of taking a week to reconnoiter Payson, Arizona, where my Wood Mountain teammate Joe Wood resides. He raves about the place. Charlie and I will be looking for a winter haven if/when we sell our Bear Creek home, and Joe claims that Payson is a very pleasant place at that time of year. The altitude there is about 5,000 feet, so it is cooler than other parts of Arizona in the summer months. I like the idea of re-settling there as it would only be a day’s drive from Southern California; so, if we had a family or business event to attend, it would be doable.
We had a nice dinner last night with Terry and Barb, who used to be neighbors here on Lochinvar Court. They moved to Temecula awhile back, but Charlie still does the bookkeeping for Terry’s companies. Anyway, we had dinner and talked about their recent trip to Italy. It was a surprise from Terry to Barb, and I had helped Terry plan the itinerary. They had a ball, and are now talking about doing another trip, maybe to Spain, in 2019. Charlie and I might be interested in that one (Spain is one of our favorite places), but a lot of things may happen in the meanwhile, so we’ll have to let that idea marinate for the time being.