I am trepidatious

[paulman]

I have my laptop here; it seems to have a camera, but the software says it doesn't.  I have a message into my friend the systems analyst to see if he can suss it.  If not, I order a monitor-mount camera tonight.

Peter (whose test from yesterday, BTW, came back negative)

Sent you a PM on this.

[cozmik_cowboy]

Thanks, Roger.  I Googled the specs, and what I took for a camera is a light sensor.  Ordered a Logitech camera/mic that sits atop the screen; She'll put it in the next shipment of clean clothes (along with some books; just finished the one I had & will be going crazy for a day or 4 until salvation arrives).

Peter

[lbpesq]

I am glad someone on this forum knows Pogo.

With holiday season approaching we can all get together (virtually, of course) and sing:

Deck us all with Boston Charlie,
Walla Walla, Wash., an’ Kalamazoo!
Nora’s freezin’ on the trolley,
Swaller dollar cauliflower alley-garoo!

Don’t we know archaic barrel
Lullaby Lilla Boy, Louisville Lou?
Trolley Molly don’t love Harold,
Boola boola Pensacoola hullabaloo!

Bill, tgo (whose father read Pogo to him as a little boy)

[cozmik_cowboy]

I am in no way surprised to learn you are a brother Pogoist, Bill.

Peter

[pauldo]

Peter,
Being confined to a room now would try anyone's patience.
Medicinal use could be very applicable for your situation...

Keep venting... also keep believing that you will get better.  Mind over matter and all of that.

[cozmik_cowboy]

Peter,

Medicinal use could be very applicable for your situation...

That's a big 10-4!  And a number of the practitioners here concur.  The suits, of course and alas, have different ideas.

Peter

[paulman]

Pogo

I am glad someone on this forum knows Pogo.

With holiday season approaching we can all get together (virtually, of course) and sing:

Deck us all with Boston Charlie,
Walla Walla, Wash., an’ Kalamazoo!
Nora’s freezin’ on the trolley,
Swaller dollar cauliflower alley-garoo!

Don’t we know archaic barrel
Lullaby Lilla Boy, Louisville Lou?
Trolley Molly don’t love Harold,
Boola boola Pensacoola hullabaloo!

Bill, tgo (whose father read Pogo to him as a little boy)

My mom had a bunch of Pogo books.  I didn't realize they were so old when I was reading them.  More Pogoists than I would have expected....on a different forum...weirdos!

[cozmik_cowboy]

I have not touched a guitar in 21 days.

This puts me out of sorts.

Peter

[cozmik_cowboy]

Change of plans.
I've started losing strength in the hip flexion for the good leg, so they're moving me back to Good Sam in Downers Grove so the guy that broke me can run some tests to see how I'm broken.

[cozmik_cowboy]

Oh yeah - yesterday I tested negative for the 2nd time since the 2-case outbreak on the ward.

 I think that makes my 12th or 13th negative test this year - and if you've ever had the pleasure of a Trump Plague test, you understand what I'm saying.......

[pauldo]

Best wishes for the results of your further testing...

And best wishes that we won’t have to say, hear or think about the T word ever again. 

[lbpesq]

I wouldn’t mind hearing the T word a lot next year ... on Court TV!

I got a letter yesterday from the assisted living facility I helped my mom move into when I drove to NY last month (stopping at the Cozmik ranch on the way) that two of the staff have tested positive.  Now I have to keep my fingers crossed for the next two weeks.   And the US Corona Virus Task Force hasn’t met in over a month!    Everyone needs to VOTE today, if you haven’t already done so.

Bill, tgo

[StephenR]

Peter, good to hear you are getting out of the rehab place you are currently in, hoping the facility in Downers Grove is free from Covid cases, stays free of Covid cases, and can find a way to patch you up.

Bill, keeping fingers crossed for your mom!

[paulman]

"Let the Cozmik, be unbroken....". Hope its going ok!

[cozmik_cowboy]

It turned out to be a very rapidly-growing infection; yesterday they opened me back up & basically power-washed a metric sh*tload of pus out of me.  Currently on general IV antibiotics while they grow the cultures to ID the bacteria/um so they can use targeted ones.  They'll put in what they call a "pick line" (I guess a sort of log-term IV in the upper arm) for once or twice daily antibiotics over 2-4 months, then probably daily oral ones for life.

Monday or later back to the rehab place to start over.

This is really starting to wear on me, I gotta tell you Brothers & Sisters..............

Peter (who last touched a guitar Oct 11)