Attribute to L. Neil Smith’s The Libertarian Enterprise

What a week. Multiple trips to see various doctors and hanging out for a long time in the hospital lab while they tried to get all the paperwork worked-out. It was eerie being there with it so quiet and empty. They didn’t let us in until we’d had our temperature measured and answered a bunch of questions (“have you been to China lately?” and so on). Left the house about noon, got back home around 6:00 PM. Long day!

Then we had a doctor visit via computer, which was less stressful, except what with our slow too-far-away-sorry DSL we frequently couldn’t understand the question. So it goes.

Then, right near the beginning of a movie DVD, the DVD player up and died. Some days ya should have stayed in bed all right. However the following day, I remembered that my old notebook computer had a HDMI output. And the TV the kids gave us a couple Christmases ago has HTMI imputs. Hum…, I wonder? And it worked. I can play a DVD on the notebook using VLC media player, and there it is on the “big screen” (these things are relative, of course). How about that. Of course, the battery in the notebook has gotten worn out so the thing has to be plugged-in all the time, but what’s a feller to do?

And, in addition, one of the doctor people changed one of my wife’s blood-pressure medications. The new pill costs $297.98 for a 30-day supply. We decided to pass on that, and the technician at the pharmacy said she would notify the doc in case he wanted to do anything about it. The odd thing is the new Rx is the same thing she is already taking, but just a stronger dose. Something seems a little fishy about that. Or is it just me?

And the results of all them blood tests are starting to come through. Mostly normal. A few high or low. Perhaps someday they will explain what that is all about.

So: stay deplorable, y’all!