Dreams and Things

Thursday, December 30, 2016, 5:08AM PST : I am barely awake having just arisen about 45 minutes ago. Still, I think this as good as any to begin the diary of my trip to New Jersey to celebrate New Years Eve with my brother and his wife Denise. I sensed a tone of disappointment in my brother's voice wen I called him on December 26, the day after Christmas. The truth be told, I was pretty much out of it when I heard my phone vibrate while napping. I have a terrible cold Fir which I have been taking frequent naps and a steady diet a of cod medication. I explained this to him but I could hear the huff in his voice.. Oh well, I cannot take back what happened but only move or war. At this point my biggest concern is traveling with this cold..And my fe.ar of flying and all of the surrounding hassle of travEl. I took Pippin to The Animal Store to board him. It was a ma∆or hassle getting into his blue travel cage which he is terrified of. He hasn't been groomed for too long an...

[It's been a while since I last blogged. Sorry to all of you out there who follow me. But I've have had my head deep up my ass during this political season.] I supported Hillary Clint0n since before she even declared her candidacy. When Bernie Sanders decided to challenge her in the primary I was very disappointed. For one thing, he only had one message: All the money is at the top. No kidding. He had a splattering of other domestic ideas like a minimum wage hike. All good progressive ideas. But c'mon man. Did he really think that he could win the primary and even if so did he really think the American people would elect a socialist? All that came of his run is divide the Democratic electorate into so-called "left" and "center-left" camps in which young people would follow him down his rabbit hole and continue to protest up to and through the convention. What a waste of time and resources. There was a lot of talk in the media about how Sanders had ...

Monday, November 23, 2015. It's the Monday before I leave to visit my brother and sister-in-law in New Jersey where they live now. My plan is to stay through the 29th. I am staying in a hotel this time. I don't want a repeat of the terrible events that took place last Christmas when I visited them in New York. I fell ill at that time and instead of receiving sympathy and compassion from my Brother he became a raging maniac angry at me like it was my fault. He took away my Klonopin and my Valium thinking that I was abusing these. He thought it was because of this supposed abuse I was falling down and incontinent all the time. In fact, it had nothing to do with those drugs, not that he had any business taking them away from me. He screamed and raged at me and physically threatened me and threatened to smash my cellphone. I was terrified on top of feeling very ill. I resolved to never stay with them in their own apartment again. So this time I will be tucked safely away in my own...

Thursday July 9 2015 10:30AM . I am sitting in the SFO terminal after having checked in waiting for my flight to board. Gate 61 at 10:40AM! The checkin process was a bit of a hassle. Despite having checked in the night before online and printing my boarding pass I nevertheless had to check in again at the baggage checkin counter. It cost me $59 for what I don't know. In any event, after some waiting during which several people went ahead of me I was able to to get my duffle bag checked in. I now have a sheaf of papers one of which is my actual boarding pass. I went by a deli to get food for the flight. I bought a Coca Cola and what sounds like a nice sandwich. I plan to eat this during the flight instead of paying for food on the airplane. I have a bag with my food and drink in it and I am hoping there won't be a hassle about bringing it on the plane along with my black carry-on bag. I'm going to keep my iPad in the food bag so that I don't have to dig it out when m...