I('m So Cold

Today's Link
Gemma's Greyscale Territory

Saying for the Day
Some folks never exaggerate - they just remember big. ~Attributed to both Audrey Snead and Chi Chi Rodriguez

Picture of the Day
Snow in Church parking lot

I am so cold.
I feel like I am encased in a block of ice and am waiting for Betty to come with an ice pick or a hair dryer to get me out.
This is really odd because it is warmer outside now than it has been for a long time.
All winter I have gotten up every morning warm and toasty.
I didn’t even have blankets on the bed.
But now I am sleeping under a heavy woolen blanket and I am still freezing.
Every morning I wake up freezing.
I wonder what we did with the electric blanket.
This is all the fault of progress.
You see I had an old clunker of an oxygen concentrator that supplied my oxygen every night,
It was noisy and ( this is the good part) it threw off all kinds of heat.
It was like having my own little furnace.
But then Apria, my health providers, decided I need a new concentrator.
It is sleek, it is quiet, and it throws almost no heat.
So because of progress I am freezing to death.
I miss the noise too.
I swear that as I lay there at night listening to it I could hear it say “Johnnn, Johnnn, Johnnn, Sleeeep, Sleeeep, Sleeep.”
The new one isn’t talking to me. It just provides oxygen.
I wonder if I should get one of those new super electric heaters I see advertised on TV.
I could fight progress with progress.
It might even make its own noise and sing me to sleep.
One can dream can’t one.
Now if Betty would get here with that hair dryer I could start to thaw out.

News from Pigeon Falls

The little town in my basement where the trains still run, dragons fly, and life is back to normal.
Eino’s friend from Homeland Security shared the following e-mail which Homeland Security intercepted during the holiday season. It was shared because of the strange reference that might point to Pigeon Falls.:
“ Yes Virginia!
Santa Claus v5.8 exists and will soon be doing its thing.
For the first time it will move from the computer to the operator.
We will have control.
Watch for the falling pigeons. It will start there.
Remember Santa Claus covers the world.
He can make little boys and big boys be good.
We know what good is .
Don’t we Virginia.
It will be a real blast in the end.
Your Uncle,
Al
Eino doesn’t know what to make of the whole thing.
Elsewhere in Pigeon Falls little Reginald Watkins is still saying he doesn’t know why he put the big firecracker under the can Sunday afternoon and blew the can to the top of the Masonic building. That’s the same answer that kids have been giving to why they did something wrong for as long as recorded history. In any case Reginald is grounded for a week and has lost all computer privileges.

Wrap UP

Got up and got dressed early this morning then went to Perkins for the breakfast. In honor of their first year in business in Neenah they were giving away a free breakfast made up of two eggs, three pancakes, and two pieces of bacon. It was very good. Took my breathing treatment when we got back. My sister Dawn called in the morning. She said I sounded up so I must be doing better. We didn't work on the layout because Betty went to therapy in the afternoon. I visited some of my links. Now I have to go and do some work on my other computer. Then I will have to have a breathing trewatment.
GBYA

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