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The constraints of being a Curmudgeon on health and welfare.
June 24th, 2019 at 9:32:57 PM permalink | |
Fleastiff Member since: Oct 27, 2012 Threads: 62 Posts: 7831 | Penny wise; pound foolish?? Or just getting senile?? Missed my Meals On Wheels today because I slept thru an entire hour of my alarm clock beeping at me. The clock was in the living room, I was in the bedroom but because I was too darn cheap to spring for a second clock, I missed the delivery. Now I've splurged but that means i'm not only out the money but also the meal. I hate being so stupid. |
June 26th, 2019 at 6:27:46 PM permalink | |
Fleastiff Member since: Oct 27, 2012 Threads: 62 Posts: 7831 | Okay, now I gots two alarm clocks but the new one only goes for eight minutes and has no hope of waking the dead, so what use is it to me. And now every time there is a transient voltage fluctuation, I have to reset TWO times and TWO alarms. Well, Food Bank day approaches so I guess I got something to look forward to, but I still don't see why the social workers won't authorize a black jack tutor. I need a new car and even though the casinos around here are Seminole owned they are my only hope for money or a new car, but if I can't retain basic strategy in my noggin, how am I agonna win? |
August 19th, 2019 at 6:00:16 PM permalink | |
Fleastiff Member since: Oct 27, 2012 Threads: 62 Posts: 7831 |
Had Little Red Beans in tomato sauce (trace amounts oregano, pepper) for lunch. Not certain of exact time but think it was before 1:00pm. Irresistable desire to lie down next thing I was aware of was waking up at 6:15pm feeling quite groggy and thirsty. Entire afternoon gone! Going to get some cat scan of my heart later this week but for some reason I have to go and listen to them yack at me about it first. Don't know if cardiac output is related to sleep or not. |
September 21st, 2019 at 6:31:07 PM permalink | |
Fleastiff Member since: Oct 27, 2012 Threads: 62 Posts: 7831 | After my Quack-induced injury, my math skills were even more woefully lacking than before. I have this Mini-cycle and I thought I had done a half mile on it but the math worked out to ..449 instead of .559. I can't even do basic subtraction using the previous days ending mileage. |
February 29th, 2020 at 1:10:36 AM permalink | |
Fleastiff Member since: Oct 27, 2012 Threads: 62 Posts: 7831 | Mini bike and now a treadmill. Can't even keep up with treadmill's minimum rate of 0.6mph. Food bank garbage saps my energy, but I am too broke to turn away free food: two yellow boxes of fully thawed Keep Frozen Fish Fillets, One unrefridgerated package rapidly thawing chicken drumsticks, one unrefridgerated package of rapidly thawing chicken thighs, two moldy onions Can after can of sugar-laden junk food (i'm a diabetic), Several packages of last-forever milk, cheese or primarily-contains-cheese. (forbidden dairy products by EvenBob and by Quacks) on edit: also two packages of snack-bread stuff, not een one day past its sell-by date, but actually so moldy i'm swilling coffee to kill the taste. /edit So I have to bake and pan-fry the thawing stuff all day long.. You ever eat fish fillets and NOT get extremely thirsty in the middle of the night?? The Poor House won't supply better quality food and the Poor House won't supply a slower treadmill. HOWEVER, I do have some GOOD NEWS: The poor-house is NOT going to evict me at the end of next month, I've been awarded emergency housing for three months. |
February 29th, 2020 at 5:14:29 AM permalink | |
odiousgambit Member since: Oct 28, 2012 Threads: 154 Posts: 5094 | glad to hear good news must be something wrong with it, 2 mph is basically a stroll I'm Still Standing, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah [it's an old guy chant for me] |
February 29th, 2020 at 11:15:27 AM permalink | |
Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25011 |
Why would they evict you. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
February 29th, 2020 at 12:44:15 PM permalink | |
Fleastiff Member since: Oct 27, 2012 Threads: 62 Posts: 7831 | For non-payment of rent, once the city stops paying my rent which under a program expiring at end of this month. I pay but a portion of the rent, the city pays the rest using state funds, but recipients are limited to two years, mine being up at the end of the month. I would have to pay rent and utilities and my social security is less than the full rent. |
February 29th, 2020 at 1:49:47 PM permalink | |
Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25011 |
Lots of other programs out there, he who looks, finds. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
February 29th, 2020 at 3:46:51 PM permalink | |
Fleastiff Member since: Oct 27, 2012 Threads: 62 Posts: 7831 | Most treadmills have a minimum speed of 0.5 or 0.6 mph. And if 0.6mph on a level surface is too fast a walk for me, perhaps you are getting some notion of what those quacks did to my cardiooutput and why my brain is so addled that I can't remember Basic Strategy. I can do only FOUR minutes at 0.06mph.. |