This is Monday after two on the second day of confinement to our rooms. It’s also elector day, which is December 14, 2020. I had the live coverage on this morning and Trump was leading 55 votes to Biden’s 27. They also had a thing on the eight biggest daily disasters in the country and the Galveston Hurricane wins it hands down. 9 – 11 nosed out Pearl Harbor, which surprised. Pearl Harbor was still in the two thousands. Trump still has a few tricks up his sleeve. He may have been turned down by the Supreme Court including his three appointed justices, but now Ted Cruz gets on TV and says he will lead a movement not to approve any of Joe Biden’s cabinet appointments. That’ll fix his wagon, and it’s never been tried before on such a massive basis so there is no precident. But more significant than that is today is NOT the day that Biden is certified as president. That comes when Congress on January 6th actually certifies the vote count and declares him president. In the shabby deal of1877 a lot of Hanky Panky went on by where the southern slaves lost all their rights they had just won in blood. The poll numbers don’t look good for a broad concencus of support either. They say 78% of people who voted for Trump don’t believe he is the legitimate President. All of this bad news for Biden is good news for me for those who have been following my blogs and fleeces to God. In terms of Biden’s style it’s constructive. He is not pie in the sky like Obama was. And he isn’t pushed around by fears of a Republican backlash but seems inclined to follow his own agenda. In other news there are spring tides causing flooding. The basketball season has started up again after a brief two month hiatus. The Cleveland Indians are another team that intends to change their name. I even heard another report that the “Boston” Braves were going to change their name.
Yesterday
afternoon I watched the LA Chargers and the Atlanta Braves duke it out. There wasn’t that much scoring later game
since yesterday’s report. The Chargers
scored a touchdown making it seventeen all.
It stayed that way for a while.
Finally the Chargers got a last chance to kick a 43 yard field
goal. They kicked it right down the
middle and won the game with two seconds to go 20 to 17. For once the Chargers actually won a close
game. For dinner we had sloppy Joes but
the meat was bad. I didn’t like it but
nobody else noticed it. I didn’t get
sick from it or anything. We had a
cucumber and onion salad and a chocolate chip cookie and that was it. Dinner was served around four thirty which is
normal eating time for me. I’ve been
really going through the instant coffee and I mean the new jar I just bought on
Saturday. It was dial twirling and then
the KNXT news and the CBS network news.
I got drowsy as the evening progressed even without the Ambien, but only
to a point. After six thirty or so I
turned to the Sunday Night football game between the ‘49ers and the Washington
Redskins. Sixty Minutes had three
interesting segments. There was a thing
on how Arab nationals in this country get away with murder. This seems to be standard Republican operating
policy since 2001. They get whisked off
to the safety of their own country with well executed escape plans. Then there was a thing on how Hospital prices
are skyrocketing and services are getting no better. Then there was a thing on how the police give
this drug Kennington or something like that.
It’s a powerful knock-out pill that’s probably as powerful as these
drugs you see in old movies they shoot people with and turn people into
zombies. Only in this case they will
give you a drug for double your actual weight and it kills you, and they’ve even
invented a new disease to go along with it.
Then it was something on two and I switched to the Simpson’s, which ran
past eight thirty. How do they keep
coming up with new shows? Then it was
another show briefly. Finally I got my
sleeping medication and all the rest of my meds. I rang the bell and came down but was told to
go back to my room. I was told there was
some big emergency that apparently lasted two hours because that was the
delay. It was close to twenty to
nine. After a while I went out and
smoked and I even made coffee not knowing how long I was going to be staying
up. Taking Ambien late like that has the
advantage though because it means it doesn’t wear off as fast as normal.
The
vaccine is on it’s way. Last week it was
rolled out in England and we all cheered.
This week it’s being rolled out in the U S. It’s a good thing too because the death news
couldn’t get any worse. Today they say
we will surpass three hundred thousand deaths in the US. Just last week it was 275,000. They made the decision to confine us
apparently in the dead of night on Saturday.
And it took effect immediately.
News from Orange County is bad.
They say that the growing surges of the viruses are only going to get
worse and are no where peaking.
I
made coffee when I got up for my cigarette at ten till two. I actually made the coffee before I went out
for the cigarette. I believe coffee
increases serotonin, which creates a sense of personal confidence and helps
relieve anxiety. That’s why I take
it. This was a morning to try our
patience. I rang the bell for service at
not quite five thirty. Almost
immediately Alex came in and turned off the light and said Christian would be
up in a bit to give me my Ativan. That “bit”
turned into nearly a three hour wait where my tension only grew. The hours passed and I wasn’t worried at
first. But it became clear their
timetable for today was not like yesterday.
Yesterday I got all of my medication at twenty to seven. Today they didn’t come for the early cup of
coffee that they do till nearly seven thirty.
Nothing was going on in the building.
I had KNX ratio on and off during the morning but got bored with the
news. I had this odd feeling of being
abandoned and trapped. We got our
breakfast a little past seven thirty. By
then I was pretty jittery. We got milk
and OJ and coffee and out main tray but they could have thrown in a box of
Raison Bran just as easily and they didn’t.
We had French toast and butter and syrup and two sausages for the main
meal. I also ate Joe’s sausages. Earlier Joe gave me potato chips. I wandered around the building. I came across that lady with the accent downstairs
on the east hall after eight. She gave
me my medication then but she didn’t have to.
She could just as easily told me to go back to my room. She
told me she would get the Ativan as soon as she was done with that
hallway. I went back to my room. A few minutes later when I had about given up
hope the redhead showed up with the Ativan.
It was eight fifteen. The drug
takes over an hour to take effect. My
other symptons this morning included inflamed sinuses and feverishness.
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