New cardiologist

No time for breakfast, 10 am appointment. Got there 20 minutes early to fill out 5 pages of forms. Why don't they put these online do I don't have to scrawl by hand????

Nurse took vitals, got my history and did an EKG. I suggested she might want to scan my pacemaker, but she said not yet.

Cardiologist is DDG. And smart, and great personality & sense of humor. A real heart throb. She spent a lot of time going over my meds and history. Come back in a month so she can get info from my former cardiologist, whom she knows (his clinic is upstairs from hers). She agrees he's great.

Halfway home, nurse calls, Dr. says she does need to do the pacemaker scan, how about Monday? OK, 4 pm works for me.

Home, just messed around online and watched random TV. Lit the fireplace, Ma'am parked in front of it. Spook isn't interested.

Delivered was 12 3-oz Scharffen-Berger 82% bars. And a certified letter from the park management with a Sept. 24 postmark on it. WTF? And hose attachment for shooting soap and plain water.

Silver cat came up to the back door to yell for food. So I gave them some.

Beautiful hummingbird on the feeder, a friend IDed it as a Costa's.



It likes the sage bush, and posed for me for several minutes.

The outdoor cams are working well, but I think I need one more for the back door.

RPCV zoom was fun, we showed each other on Google maps where we served. My 2nd posting is gone, absorbed by the university next door and a military base.

Streamed for 90 minutes. Good chat visitors showed up late.


Plans for tomorrow:
Read trashy sci-fi because FB and TV will be all Jesus phony birthday crap.
If it's not too cold, watch the hummer feeders
 

Just another boring day

Way too much red & green but mostly red on FB. Bothers me that Jewish relatives are celebrating Jesus' pagan birthday (he was actually born in the Spring). And it rarely snows in Bethlehem.

Ma'am slept with me most of the night.

Lights went on as scheduled 8:02, I wanted to stay in bed because I felt like a (common) cold was coming on, ( Read more... )

so I got up  and took care of business and took a long hot shower. Replaced the band aid with a Curad knuckle bandage. I now have 300 assorted Curad bandages.

The cats surprised me. Spook was sitting on my lap, and Ma'am came running to attack her. They both made rude noises, Spook jumped off my lap and Ma'am went back to the tree. Odd reversal of roles.

I was going to watch the Saints/Vikings game but Twitter was all about Kamara's 6 TDs, which meant the Saints were gonna win, so I skipped it.

Noodles for lunch, salad and cheese on sourdough for dinner. Egg nog and Swiss Miss alternated all day.

1 am carport cam showed a raccoon. Afternoon there were two of them, both went under the house. I need to call animal control. Cats I can deal with, raccoons not so much. Tried to hose them down but only got the tail of the second one and just drove them deeper under the house. :-(

Amazon Fire - watched some episodes of The Expanse season 5. Had not seen any of it before. Very violent, lots of photography in the dark, poor graphics for the in-space scenes. Cool hologram effects as actors gesture at the air to view what's on their tablets. Some truly bad acting. Too many of the actors look alike, actresses too. And the bad guys keep winning. I'm done.

Turbo Tax finally got the IRA section up and running, and it looks like I may get a refund. Won't know for sure till the end of January when I can download from my brokerage, but I'm satisfied it won't be a shock.

Nothing delivered today of course.

Streamed for an hour, had a couple of chatters.

Took some shots of goldfinches through the front windows, and  more of the Costa's hummer outside.

Running the dishwasher.

Ordered Soda Stream diet cola syrups.

Plans for tomorrow:
Groc (salad greens, tomatoes, red onions)