Terbulant Times

This is Tuesday May 19th and it's Malcolm X's birthday.   These past few weeks have been a real soap opera around here.  In the national news more of the country and also countries of the world have opened up to business.  The pace is proceding far too slow, though. It's going to  take forever for things to ever get back to normal.  They promised us NBA basketball by Mother's Day.  That didn't happen.  It seems now the whole summer is shot and the NFL itself is in jeopardy.

Let's discuss what's been going on in my world around here.  They steam cleaned the rooms and our room was done Thursday April 30th.  It was one of the early ones.  You had to pack up ALL of your stuff into either bags or boxes and they would take it out into the hall.  For me that took me over two hours and I still wasn't done yet.  They finished the job.  I was first told our stuff would be gone fora week.  That wasn't the case.  They didn't take our electronic stuff.  They were after bed bugs again.  That's the other ongoing crisis here.  Most of the stuff not clothing related was returned around dinner time.  But one plastic bag had a hole in it so things were missing, like a padlock I'd owned since thespring of 1993.  We were told by Sarah we would have to get rid of a lot of our stuff.   The next Monday I had a conversation with Glen who repeated the demands.  I thought they were doing the inspection on Thursday next.  It still hasn't happened.   At the same time my E mail account was hacked and I was locked out of my own account.  I had to pay fifteen dollars on a toll number for them to fix the problem.  It would have been fifteen a months but relatives talked me out of that idea.  The next big event was Wednesday and the great books transfer.  I had books piled on top of one another on two big shelves plus the bottom drawer of my night stand.  I got help from Tim for transportation of them to his place and also Natale and another guy for lugging all of the books tothe car.  Of course Tim could not come in here himself due to the Corona virus.  We're still in lock down.  That will go on "two to four more weeks" according to Glen.  Others have said it would be July and they aren't even sure about that.  The next big event was the return of the laundry on a Saturday night a week and two days later.  Just about everything was returned.  However some connecting cords that I wasn't using anyhow were missing from the dresser drawer.  Then I discovered my camera was missing just before bed.  There was an NBA game on between the Warriors and the Cavileers.  The next day the camera reappeared.  I was sure glad.  But it was in a different place in the middle of a bunch of clothes and not on the bottom of a drawer as you might expect.  I had taken all of the batteries out of the camera and recharged them but didn't put them back in.  Now the camera worked because some wholly different batters were put in the camera.  We skip to Thursday.  This is two weeks after April 30th and now we all have to wear face masks whenever we're out of our room.  This is a pain to remember.   There is one more thing.  Due to all the stress this  has caused me I got a PRN prescription for Ativan.  This is an anti anxiety medication.  The danger is becoming addicted to it.  I was going to past over all of these individual items in their original form, but that would have taken too much space.  This thing istyping off screen now and I wonder why. I hope to get back to doing political blogs one day.  Thom Hartman has started to get political once more.  The convention isn't until August moved back from July.   Now I learn Dr Saran is here right now.