Wednesday, June 24, 2026

     I wake up with an itchy eye lid. I keep rubbing it and it keeps itching. Time to take another allergy pill. Foggy cool morning. My roommate leaves early and the house is mine this morning.

     I am struggling with doing my daily exercises this week.  A familiar stubbornness comes up and I have to argue with myself. Maybe it is time for a time out. A mental health day like my kids would take during the school year. If I knew I had one free day a month would life be better.

     My roommate found a free metal table and six chairs on facebook.  She straps them to the roof of her car and drives home. Now they sit by the potato patch in the back yard. I am amazed.

     Sitting in my car waiting for my roommate I listen to podcasts. This time a podcast about bladder cancer treatments. Always checking for new treatments and to monitor the treatments I am getting. Bladder cancer is unpredictable. All good so far. I am now reading volume 4 of Solvej Balle’s seven book series ON THE CALCULATION OF VOLUME. The final three books are being translated from Danish and should be out soon, I hope. An intriguing, refreshing novel with lots of new ideas.

 

Tuesday, June 23, 2026

     According to the New York Times obituaries, people who die in their 90’s die of nothing. No cause of death is given, just old age, or the causes might be too grim to share.  Maybe dying of nothing is a good way to go. I have 4 years to go to reach death with no cause.

     It always takes me a couple of days to recover from big events, like watching soccer games and eating carrot cake.  I am just about fully there.  Still the naps keep calling at me.

     A young friend brings a tasty Elroys salad for lunch at my home. Of course, we talk on and on about our lives. She has to return to work and I have to take a nap.

     My most anticipated movie will start streaming this week on prime.  Yep, THE SHEEP DETECTIVES. I had been challenging friends to watch it with me for my birthday, but my birthday is passed.   And now they are free from that obligation. we watch two episodes of YOUR FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS in the evening. Why do I like this dark show so much. So cynical, such beautiful houses and cringy difficult people. I start reading Elly Griffiths new detective novel, THE FROZEN PEOPLE.  Ok so far.

 

Monday, June 22, 2026

     Sunday just disappeared. This morning the Sunday paper is still outside, now with the Monday paper. I stop by the front door, should I go outside and pick it up or wait for someone else to do it. Yes I am always a day behind reading the paper.  Today maybe two days behind.  Doesn’t really matter.  I could be a year behind and the news would seem current.

     Foggy morning, just sitting here this morning, planning what to do today.  The usual tasks of washing dishes, putting bags of garbage and trash by the front door for the next person to take out, pay bills, open Amazon boxes filled with incontinent supplies, put away the Meals on Wheels daily meals.  My daily life is predictable.

     I want to go back to my daily exercises. This last week has been busy and the exercise routine was sacrificed to watch soccer games and eat carrot cake. I haven’t given up.  Today is a new day.

    My personal librarian comes over with her puppy. We watch an earlier episode of CLARKSON’S FARM. The puppy helps my roommate with farm chores in the back yard. In the evening, we watch the last two episodes of the German show, MURDER MINDFULLY. Humor and murder and overall creepiness.