slow news day

I slept in this morning, and found myself delighting in the flawless launch of the space shuttle Endeavour, a swan song so to speak. As one of a generation of Americans who have found shock and awe in the ability to man spacecraft and shoot them into space, it was a real treat. I still have a mental picture of where I was when I witnessed the first man step onto the moon. Ya'll all know there are still some toothless people in the hills around here that insist that was a hoax and Elvis is still alive. I also watched our president give the commencement address to the senior class of a Memphis high school that formerly had one of the worst graduation rates around. To me, that is just as much a miracle as that hydrogen fueled rocket. He was supposed to tour flooded areas so perhaps that's what they did from Air Force One after Steve Cohen and the others boarded. Or maybe they just had a meet'n'greet. Cohen is the champion of lottery in Tennessee, and I must say it's a win win except when you factor in how many folks spend their government checks to play, just like in the casinos. Which are all shut down indefinitely due to the flood of the century you-know-what. I have been to a casino exactly three times in my life, twice as a companion to my friend who was a frequent patron before her hubby died. She paid and I was just kind of her sidekick. She did mention that I seemed to be snakebit, but then my heart wasn't really in it so there ya go. Reap what you sow. If it had been up to me, I'd have taken the money and run back to pay the rent!

I'm better today....as in, for the first time since this whole ebola like illness began two weeks ago I can actually take a deep breath. Being a laboratory person and knowing about the virulence of certain organisms only adds to my suspicion that some new kind of germ warfare was released upon my body. Hmmm...it was right about the time Osama died that it struck..coincidence? High five to the pharmaceutical giant that engineered moxifloxacin. I'm not the least bit worried about tendon damage or sun exposure, especially since it's 48 degrees and overcast here on the lane. "They" say that the sun is gonna come out tomorrow, but I'm skeptical. Doesn't matter a whit to me, as I'm housebound with the DVR and keyboard plus a couple of sleeping dogs.

All is quiet down at the red log cabin as far as I can tell. Daddy made it home and they settled into the same dull routine involving clocks, meals and the remote. I'm beginning to see how payback works where your rebellious unruly days come back to bite you in the arse. I'm glad I got it all out of my system then, because if we didn't go with the flow around here, we'd all be chasing our tails. You know what they say....the only thing certain is change.

Peace out ^j^