Sleeping and healing on another hot day. Enduring

obvious twisting of the facts by hosts on MSNBC, the New York Times, PolitiFact, and the Washington Post, of the few that I even know about.  It is hard to accept clear interpretations of fact or opinion designed to make your political opponents look as racist, sexist, xenophobic, selfish, greedy, homophobic, and intolerant as possible.  This tactic is used every day by the left and it seems to never be recorded and reflected back to them.

Medved's NYT picture of Ryan is a perfect example of intentional bias in supposedly unbiased news reporting.

I guess I should shower and go eat at Henri's and simply get out of the house.

I have eggs and suasage and bread here, but I want to go out.  Or maybe not.

Feeling better on Wednesday. I was taken off the list

of being able to go to the free dinner at the Odyssey because I have attended several in the last few months, or so they say.  I don't want to go any way, but I still feel rejected.  Funny how that feeling pops up at the least suggestion.

I can swallow better, but it still hurts.  I shopped well and got Taco Bell, but it was less than I hoped for.  I used to think that I loved Taco Bell, but I don't think so much any more.

I found two wonders of the universe shows that I haven't seen before and I am downloading them as I write.

I really miss the calendar and clock from Win7 but we'll see.

Tuesday stayed home. Slept a lot. A bit better.

Exceedrin helps.  Lots of sleep and a bit of food.  Going out at 8pm to move my car and get more milk and ice cream at Wal Mart.

Hard times at the dentist. It hurt a lot, both before

and after, and still now at almost 6pm.  The Novocaine hurt, the nitrous wasn't effective much, and I still have a very sore tongue, even after a chocolate malt and a chicken top ramen and a salt water gargle and an Exceedrin.  Not doing well here.  I hope it goes away.  Hard to pay $3,000 and still feel so poorly thereafter.

I even slept and still no joy.

It hurts a lot when I simply swallow.  Doesn't sound right to me.

Time will tell.

Good sleep Sunday night. Up at 7am feeling well

Getting ready to go to the dentist.  Leave in an hour from now, after a shower.

I got the 27 inch monitor to show a clock and a calendar as a slide in window on my desktop, but, and this is a big but, it is an eighth of the whole screen and does not float on top of the main desktop window, but takes up 12.5 per cent of the whole window.

Not a satisfactory solution.

Good Sunday. Too late to the Museum of Natural

History, but I went to Roll N Rye for lox and cream cheese on rye, and it was excellent.  Then to Fry's for $20 of videos and home at 7pm to be ready for tomorrow at the dentist.

Having a good retirement, so far.

Up 915am feeling well. Called Les to no avail.

Looking to have a great day.

Not sure what I'm going to do today.

LA Zoo?  Too hot.

Museum's down town or in Orange County?  Too far.

Be ready to be at the dentist tomorrow at 1030am.

I'll be looking for something to do.

Saturday up at dawn, i.e. 6am feeling not rested.

Only relieved to be out of the freaking car and able to go eat.  Poor trip around Las Vegas looking for a country kitchen to eat breakfast in.  I got gas and settled for Macdonalds, took my pills, threw up two of them in the parking lot, and went to Hoover Dam.

Excellent tour of the Dam.  More than 200 pictures and all was well.  Hotter than the gates of Hell, but it was wonderful.

Walked across the big bridge above the Dam and it was exciting.  Still gives me the jelly leg when I get close to the edge of the bridge.

Left the dam at 3pm and got home at ten pm, ate breakfast at Lancers and went home to watch the Carpenter's video and sleep about 8 hours very well.

Friday drove to Las Vegas, had a great trip, but

couldn't find a place to park near the Venetian Hotel so I walked about a mile to the Phantom Theater.  Only one show on Friday night so I was out of luck.  Walked back to my car the long way and drove to the Wal Mart Market and ate in the car and tried to sleep in the hot car.  It was one of the most miserable nights I have ever spent in a car.  I should have bought a room for $49.99 at Motel 6.

Live and learn.

Up Friday at 8am feeling well and off to Nevada!

Hoover Dam and Las Vegas and The Phantom of the Opera here I come.

Now almost 9am and I'm just taking the Metamucil and about to shower and go out the door.

I plan to have a great trip.  It is not even really hot today.

Good Thursday. Up at 9am, washed car, and went

to the TOPCC and signed up for the beginners photo class with Mike Sugar that starts on Sept 12, 2012.

I am thinking of driving to Hoover Dam for the tour and to Vegas for Phantom tomorrow.

I need lots of water,

Check the brake fluid and coolant water,

pack up the babies and grab the old ladies,

Take the pillow, Metamucil, shampoo and soap, tooth brush, hair brush, comb,

Five kinds of pills,

lotion and cream,

shaving razor and shaving cream, possibly not.

The blue quilt near the door.

I have the binoculars in the car already,

My Fujitsu, power cord, the three tablets, and have a great time on the trip.

Be sure to be back for the dental appointment Monday morning at 10:30am.

Try to be back to Orange County Bowers Museum for the talk there Sunday at 1pm.

Be careful.  Take a ton of pictures.  Enjoy every bit of it.

Looking forward to All Things Space September 7, 2012  Then drive to Ventura, CA for the boat trip to San Manuel island for the day with the Cabrillo Museum.

Wednesday to Nixon Library to hear and see

Bruce Hirshsenson.  He was clearly in not so great health.  His talk was negative about Obama's foreign policy.  Big surprise.

I listened to two hours of my recording of the Diamond concert in my car on the drive.

Twice enjoyed.

Big sobs all around.

Excellent.

Tuesday Neil Diamon was excellent. Good drive 2

Made it to Anaheim.  Wonderful trip.  Recorded everything on the iPhone.

I couldn't be more happy.

Up Monday 9am feeling well. Changed dental

apt to Monday, August 27 at 1030am for about 2 hours of work with nitrus oxide.

Call twcable and fix the billing situation.

Eat at Chick-fil-A and go for the touch screen sig at Margie's house by 630pm.

Tomorrow Neil Diamond in Anaheim.  Be there or be square.

Sunday up at 5am feeling well. Now to go out for

breakfast at Lancers.  Then...

We'll see.

Palomar?

San Diego?

Computer History Museum?

Palm Springs Tram?

Neil Diamond Tuesday night in Anaheim.  I am so happy again.  All this joy may mean that I get heart ache to compensate for all the joy?  I hope not.  At least not right now.  Let the heart break begin in twenty years, if then.

Saturday installed Win8 Enterprise and it is great.

Almost flawless computer.  I love Win 8.

Got Thrive dock, case, and extra battery.  Thrive updated to Ice Cream Sandwich and it is much better than Honey Comb.  I can now move around the o/s, more or less.

All is well.

Friday stay at home day after Englebert. Great

Englebert was excellent, except when he was merely ok.  Good drive.  Poor seats but it was a casino.

Slept well to regain energy.  Hot day.

Great Thursday so far. Up at 9am feeling well.

Englebert Humperdinck tonight at the San Manuel Casino in Highland, CA.  I am full of anticipation.

I've watched and downloaded multiple videos from youtube on Englebert and they bring lots of tears of joy to my eyes.  Hard to believe, but they do.

I also ordered a dock, an extra battery, and a case/stand for the Thrive.  It won't be here until late next week, but that saves me ten dollars and why am I in a hurry.

I still have to call the time warner cable collections department, but that can wait until tomorrow.

Now to get ready to eat and drive almost to Palm Springs to see Englebert Humperdinck live in concert.

I am more happy than I can express here.  This is a once in a life time event.

Good Wednesday. Slept well. Got Thrive and

went to the linux sig after doing two loads of whites.  John V is too pushy for my taste.  Knowledgeable about linux but he should be more accommodating.  Otherwise it was fine.  John couldn't get his router, Ethernet cable, or much of anything else to work.  I was very concerned that I had lost my cable for the Seagate drive, but I found it before we left.  Raspberry Pi worked well, but John is so convinced that he is perfect that he read the details wrong on my laptop and we almost had an argument about the size of the partitions on my own computer.  Hard to believe.

Otherwise, dinner at Taco Bell and a great time was had by all.

Good Tuesday, up at 11am feeling well. Cabrillo

Museum was fine.  I drove over the Vincent Thomas Bridge with a bunch of trucks and it felt scarey.

OK Tugnet meeting followed by another good liver and onions at Lancers.

I got the internet turned back on by paying $52.99 to TWC and have to call twc collections tomorrow to get the billing fixed.  Some company they have.

Good ssa check this month.  Almost 1.6k

Get pension paperwork done soon.

Wash clothes

Clean apartment

Get Toshiba Thrive tomorrow from ups.

Attend linux group tomorrow at Dave Sanbornes house.

Attend web sig Thursday when I find out where it is.

Attend touch screen sig next Monday as well.

Join LA Astronomy group.

Up Monday 10am feeling well. No Santa Barbara

trip for me.  I didn't have enough time to sleep and get ready for the 2hour trip, so I'll stay here and eat my pancakes, wash clothes, clean my apartment, and get ready for the astronomy sig tonight.

I feel pretty good, a little disappointed that Ryan and Romeny will be savaged by the media and the Democrats.  This too shall pass.

Monday am go to Medved broadcast in Santa

Barbara.  I almost forgot this one.  I should leave by 10am at the latest.

Good hot Sunday. To Cabrillo Aquarium, but it was

full, so, I went to a hot Lake Balboa for a quick walk and then to Hanson Dam, and then to Lancers for a good breakfast of corned beef hash, eggs, and pancakes.

Slept poorly last night.  Unpleasant dreams of a bear on a leash which was attacked by some sort of squid creature.  Otherwise all was well.

For Monday, reschedule Dr Fields and astromeny sig and Tuesday tugnet meeting as well.

Toshiba Thrive should be here Wednesday.  Thursday is Englebert Humperdink near Palm Springs.

Next week is Neil Diamond.

Keep on having a great life.

I have three fans moving air in here and the a/c on full blast and it is now good in here.

Good Saturday. Up @9am feeling well. Les called

Trying to get him back on the line.

I plan to go to the Simi library at 2pm to see if there is a linux group there.  Then to the 2016 movie, and then to where ever I want to go.

Hanson Dam and Lake Balboa are still places I want to visit.

I love my calendar on Google.

I took AJ and Rey out to Denny's for dinner last night.  I also bought AJ $11 worth of food so he could eat until Friday when he gets paid.  Poor kids.

Friday finally up at 1230pm feeling a bit tired.

Going to see the movie 2016 and take AJ and Rey out, I suppose.

Wash my car, fill it with gas, and have a good day. 

Cabrillo Museum tomorrow, or the linux group?

We'll see.

Good Thursday as I huddle in my house from the

heat.  Attended the photo sig at Margie Burnett's house in Granada Hills.  ok, overall.

Good dinner at Wendy's.

Saw Dr Fields and paid for all of my dental work.

Had my upper plate re lined and it is mostly good.  Mostly much better with one adjustment still to go.

Waiting for the Thrive, Raspberry case, and

I should also do the Mass Mutual paperwork and get ready to negotiate with Dr Fields office help tomorrow at 8:30am.

Wednesday up late due to heat and lack of sleep.

Got Glove Club gloves in DHL and all is fine.

I plan to take AJ and Rey out tonight because I have plans for the dentist tomorrow, a tugnet meeting Thursday night, and a Friday night movie of 2016.

Lots of things to look forward to as well.

I also called the CCU and told them they made an error on my rent check so I paid $300 more than I had to.  I wanted to be honest.

Tuesday slept late due to heat and little energy.

Went to TUGNET for a session on the iPad, most of which I knew already.

Excellent dinner of liver and onions at Lancers.

Monday pm hard time sleeping due to heat and else

Slept fairly well, overall.  No events tonight.  It was 103 or 102 degrees outside today.  Good reason to stay inside.

I can now go eat at Chicks or at Sizzler, or Lancers or where I want to go.

Now to get out of here.

I forgot to mention that I had a good breakfast at Lancers yesterday and bought a Reason mag at Bookstore.  Lots of HULU on the computer as well.

Sunday now at 315pm. Going out soon.

Checked, read? the web til now.  Anxious to get out of here.

Sizzler or Lancers are on my list of choices.

I think I like Chrome better than Firefox due to the errors Firefox makes all the time.  We'll see.

Now go.

Up Sunday at 11 am feeling fine. Thank God again.

I want to take a shower in my own shower, not in some squeaky clean motel room shower, and not in some pay shower at a camp site.

I could go to Woodly park and set up the tent and the air mattress to see how they work and to check out the concept of camping out.

I could go to San Simeon and camp out there while visiting the Hearst Castle.

I could join KOA and go camp out where ever they have a camp site around here.

The big thing I am concerned about is my ability to take a comfortable shower.  We'll see.

I guess I should take the guys out soon, as well.

Mail the Mass Mutual paperwork.

Call Inga and or Terry.

Call Allan soon.

email Derick Gonzalez soon, and go see him in Boise, Idaho.

Excellent Saturday at Henderson Lake w/VDH

Hal went on the hike with VDH and Throntorn.  I stayed in the car and read Brad Thor.  My knees hurt and I couldn't get enough oxygen in my system until I rested in the car.  Probably because of the 7,000 height and me being out of shape.

Good car ride with Hal, good ride both to and from Fresno.  Hal went back home Saturday night and so did I.  Did eat at a very crowded Chick-Fil-A.

I forgot to bring the power cable for the 27inch monitor, but everything else was close to perfect.

Thank God for small, or large favors.

11am Friday. Monitor and computer packed up.

Now to shower and leave. 

Fill Master Cylinder first.

Eat at Lancers first?

Friday 8am final prep for the trip to see VDH and Hal

Pack camping stuff and computer stuff.

Fill master cylinder and perhaps wash car.

Calling kp.com re insurance right soon.

KP.com now ok.  Refills ordered by mail.

Now to pack, shower, eat, and go.

Up Friday at 5am feeling rested and anxious to go.

Rechargable air pump is now ready to go.  It charged all night.

Call KP and see if I can't access the web page today.

Wash clothes and pack car.

Eat at Lancers and and leave for Fresno no later than noon.

Pack the Fujitsu, all power cords, a big monitor, probably the 27 inch one, a sound system, and even an extra hard drive all in the car to set up before Hal gets there.

Thursday pm. AAA office closed at 5pm. I got there

at 501pm and was sol.

Bought new twin air mattress, exchanged for new sleeping bag, ate at Chick-fil-A, and bought more underware.

I also bought a rechargable air pump for the air mattress, which goes inside the tent, over the tarp, all of which I bought last week.

Watched Windows Weekly and to bed early.

Thursday up at 9am feeling well. Things to do today

Laundry for the trip tomorrow.

Return and replace the sleeping bag and the air mattress

Eat at Chick-fil-A

Fill the brake fluid reservoir.

Complete the Senior Advantage paperwork.

Complete the Mass Mutual paperwork.

Call the China trip folks to see about reservations for my tour of China.

Complete the passport application and make an appointment at the Federal Building.

Get maps from AAA of CA, AZ, and NV.  Possibly ID too.

Call back east when I get home next week from Northern California.

Continue to be happy, healthy, and wise.  At least as much as possible.

Wednesday later on in the pm. Doing laundry now

Saw Dr Fields and he wants $1,000 to do the caps on my wisdom teeth.  I only have to pay him the total of $500 cash as a discount, I guess.

The two bridges can be done later at extra cost.  My share is still about $130 to the doc for the initial x-rays and cleaning.  Still seems like a lot of money for not much work done.

I will go back next Thursday at 830am and get an impression done and get my upper plate back at the end of the day.

I also ate a turkey dinner at Lancers since Chick-Fil -A was too busy, so nobody goes there anymore.

Then I bought a 30 degree to 50 degree sleeping bag at Sport Chalet so I could get a ten dollar gift certificate at Sport Chalet.  What a deal.  A three percent discount on every three hundred dollars you spend.  Oh, well.

Now to do some laundry, do the Kaiser and Mass Mutual paperwork, and sleep from 11pm to about 8am or so, and wake up refreshed and anxious to go.

I can do the passport application tomorrow and look at the camping gear again.

Wednesday pm. Hal booked a Vagabond room for us

in Fresno.  He likes to live high on the hog, it seems.

Lots of stuff to do with the Nexus.  It hurts my eyes the text is so small.

A young person's machine.

I have 45 minutes to be at the dentist.

I told Hal about my plans for the trip to China.  It seems almost impossible to believe, but there is no reason not to go.  Go and enjoy your self.

Passport and visa

Complete Senior Advantage paperwork.

Complete Mass Mutual paperwork.

Call Terry and invite anyone back there who wants to go along with me to be ready.

Up Wednesday 8am. First day of the rest of my life.

I feel better than normal today.  Now taking pills and getting ready to do some laundry before going to the dentist later today.  I want two crowns, possible implants or bridges in the back lower jaw area, depending upon the cost, and I will skip the veneers, also because of the cost.

I may have to spend up to $4,000 for my China trip if I can't get someone to share the room with me.  So be it if it has to be.  I can afford it.  Take lots of pictures and videos.

Thank God I feel well physically.

Thank God I feel well emotionally.

Thank God I love my apartment.

Thank God I love my car.

Thank God I love being retired.