The constraints of being a Curmudgeon on health and welfare.

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.

Quote: Fleastiff

Penny wise; pound foolish?? Or just getting senile??
I hate being so stupid.

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?

Quote: Fleastiff

I do know there is some medical talent on the WOV and DT boards so if anyone has ideas about post prandial somnolence please let me know. Its often thought that even a light meal can induce the body to shunt blood away from the brain and send it to the stomach but that is a myth and has always been a myth. Something biochemical induces post prandial somnolence and I hate having to deal with falling asleep if I just look at a picture of a bowl of sugar, much less actually consume any food.
I swear even coffee seems to put me to sleep. Too much xanthine oxidase? Too little xanthine oxidase? I don't know which. Wanted to head to the local Seminole casino but made the mistake of eating breakfast and then slept for five hours after just having had cereal and milk. Strange. And annoying!!

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.

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.

Quote: Fleastiff

I have this Mini-cycle and I can't even do basic subtraction using the previous days ending mileage.

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.

glad to hear good news

Quote: Fleastiff

Mini bike and now a treadmill. Can't even keep up with treadmill's minimum rate of 0.6mph.

must be something wrong with it, 2 mph is basically a stroll

Quote: Fleastiff

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.

Why would they evict you.

Quote: Evenbob

Why would they evict you.

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.

Quote: Fleastiff

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.

Lots of other programs out there, he who looks, finds.

Quote: odiousgambit

glad to hear good news must be something wrong with it, 2 mph is basically a stroll

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..