Today should be a special day for 7/11 employees everywhere.
It fits.   Free slushies for everyone!

Yesterday was Chick-fil-a’s Cow Appreciation Day.  Since any corporation or organization can declare (or own) a specific day or an entire month, 7/11 should be able to do so to… if they haven’t already had.

Another day of self and environmentally imposed exile.
It’s something like a 70% chance of rain… which is really 100% since it already rained this morning.  I’ve placed the gym off-limits as I don’t want to get stuck in the rain riding my bike.

I might be able to make it to the gym, but may not be able to come back because of the rain… but I don’t know if the bike will fit in Jason’s car.   That’d be really awkward and I wouldn’t want to leave the bike there overnight.

I suppose I could always Uber or Lyft….  but that’s like $8 to $10 dollars.  That’s like lunch money.

So here I sit because I’m too much of a prude to cough up $10.
I thought Uber was supposed to be the cheaper version of a taxi.  Guess not.  It’s kind of like how online textbooks were supposed to be cheaper than real books.   Good intentions, but Hell is still Hell.

Not listening to the Talking Heads today – or at least not yet.    I’m finding a compilation of Final Fantasy music to be more to my liking.

Whatever reprieve I got from the twinging shoulders came back today.  I’ve downed some aspirin.   That’s about all I can do.

I just want to clarify something.
When I say I’m hurting — I’m hurting.   The pain becomes an impairment.
And, actually, I’m kind of proud of my pain tolerance.

When I weighed 80 pounds and my blood was leaking from my veins, I thought that was pretty neat, even before I knew what it was.  When my skin was so thin that a bump would cause it rip and bleed,  I really didn’t care.   It was annoying, but the pain was nothing.  I wasn’t concerned.   It was just a new way of ‘how things are.’

I’m just not that smart I guess.
So, when I say something hurts, it hurts.  I guess I’ve just been blessed that way.
Course… I never really want to put that to the test.   I’m fully anti-torture.  I do enough to myself that I don’t need anyone else to help.

It’s just a handful of days before I return to Indiana.  Maybe two weeks-ish.  I don’t know if I’m looking forward to it or not.  Maybe.

Course I miss sister, brother, and everyone, but this trip has been going pretty well up until recently.  Jason and I are getting along well.   If there’s an issue, it’s probably me.  I tend to sour when I feel like I’m stuck somewhere — like I am right now because of the weather.

It doesn’t help that our only options to do any actual walking are a maul that I’ve spent seriously too much time in and a grocery store.

But, I guess the important thing is that I’m there with Jason.   It’s a bit of a downer that all we do is look at our phones, but what else are we supposed to do? Talk?  =)
There’s only one so much can take about politics, BE, and GoW.  =)
It’s all good.   Sometimes, people don’t need to say anything to enjoy each other’s company.

And the crazy world goes on.
The DOW is up and the citizenship question might be executive ordered.

I’m okay with that.  Those who are not Americans shouldn’t have the right to vote, determine electoral votes, or sway which areas get the most benefits.  I don’t think those incarcerated should be able to vote either.

That’s part of the whole thing of going to jail.
Some rights are restricted.  That just happens to be one of them.

You know, when I was in the House, the presidential election was rolling around.  Although I wasn’t going to be there, I suggested to the powers-that-be to allow everyone to absentee vote.  The management was against it, as they where most of my suggestions.

They thought that voting would upset some sort of delicate balance that was supposed to be nurturing everyone back to health.   i.e. reprograming.  Since I was leaving, I really couldn’t push the issue, but hoped someone else would take up the banner.  Boy was that placed messed up.

It’s 11am.    I should try to do something today.
I suppose getting dressed would be a good start.