Saturday Evening Musings

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Normally this weekend I’d be coming to you tired and direct from my hotel in Columbus, Indiana. Unfortunately, I hyperextended my knee the other night while changing bedsheets. I don’t think there’s anything too seriously wrong (it’s more of a “Hmm, that didn’t feel right” thing than a “holy cow, call EMS, I can’t walk!!” thing.) I have an appointment Monday afternoon to see if I’m correct that it isn’t anything too seriously wrong. Anyway, this is the first time in 22 years I haven’t been at the Legends tournament. February and August are dermatology months for me. I made a huge mistake and took his very first appointment in the morning (7:45 AM), because if you’re not the first appointment you’re going to be running late. I’m not complaining: I think it’s outstanding that he spends time with his patients. I want him to answer my questions, and I should therefore not expect him to ignore everyone else’s questions while he’s in the examination room with them. Anyway, he lobbed off three moles, and the biopsy said they were fine. Good to go for six months, unless it’s snowing in February. Then he’ll have to do a hotel room house call on me in Florida. The bad thing about that appointment — first thing Monday morning — is that I’ve been a day behind all week. I will say this: I know EXACTLY why so many people in this world are pissed off. Being up at that stupid hour of the day AND expected to function will do it! Like the comic strip Dibert said, “Who arbitrarily decided that 8 AM was a good starting time?” The photo of the sign was taken at the dermatologist’s office. Isn’t it the truth! I’m hoping to get a week or so of traveling snuck in before Labor Day. Where? Heck if I know! Last year I drove to St. Louis just to get out of town and ended up in Montana! Two years before that, I did the same thing and ended up in Maine. I’m thinking about Vermont, western New York, or the like. But I’m like that line in the song “Everybody’s Talkin’,” I’m “going where the weather suits my clothes.” Apparently new webcams get added daily in Florida, which makes the evening sunset viewing so much sweeter. Yesterday, since the weather was so incredible here, I was outside watching our sunset (and it was beautiful). In the past few years we’ve had this “sneak peak” in the middle of August, then it’ll get back to blast-furnace hot by the time the State Fair rolls around. I’m skipping that this year. The State Fair is too much of the same old same old to justify going over there. Also, given the unseasonably hot political weather, I would rather not be around those booths where the right-to-lifers get into arguments with the pro-choice coalitions. No kidding, they’ve actually been across the aisle from each other. At least the people doing the booth assignments have the common sense to put the Democrat and Republican booths far apart. Y’all have a slap-hap-happy Saturday evening!!! Here’s Harry Nilsson doing “Everybody’s Talkin’,” given that I mentioned it: