Okay…not to say grrrrrr…. Funny about Money is still online, despite the momentary threat to its existence.
So far no one has tried (actively, anyway) to force me to take the site down. So…I dearly hope THAT dust has settled.
Just back from a Ruby-free hike around the ‘Hood. It’s too, TOO hot to take the little dog out in the late morning sun. Matter of fact it was rather too hot for the Human, too…
Well. It really isn’t THAT hot. Only 100 degrees in the shade of the back porch.
O’course, I wasn’t in the shade…I was walkin’ around in the full blast of the sunlight. 😀 By and large, Arizonans can’t tell the difference, eh?
Visited the shopping center just to the north of us. Saw nothing of interest. Failed to go in and pester the bike shop guys. Ohhh well….
Even though that place isn’t far from here, in the heat it sure seemed further than normal. 😀
LOL! Maybe we could convince my honored coreligionist that a jaunt up to the local shopping center in 100-degree heat IS an attempted suicide, eh?
I’ve calmed down a bit from that passage of flaming bullshit. Whether the flames will flare up again remains to be seen, but at least right now I’m no longer in such a f*cking rage that I’m ready to throw everything in the campfire. 😀
My son has co-opted my bicycle. So I went up to one of the big general stores in that shopping center to see if I could find a similar bike, and if so, how much it would cost. Answer to Question No. 1: nope. Answer to question No 2: irrelevant.
Sheee-ut!
So after I cool down and after the atmosphere cools down a bit, I’ll have to make a run on one of the big department stores — or on the nearest Sears — and see if I can find a bike to replace the purloined number.
That assumes I stay in Phoenix, though. This bullshit has stretched my patience beyond its limits! Just now I’m considering whether I should sell the house and move out of easy driving distance from North Central Phoenix.
Sun City, maybe?
Ugh! I hated living in Sun City. SDXB is out there now and has enjoyed it until recently. Just now he’s too ill to enjoy much of anything, and it remains to be seen if and when he will recover.
However…any number of other pleasant enough venues await. Far more pleasant, as a matter of fact:
* Fountain Hills
* Moon Valley
* Marginally livable districts in Tempe
* Paradise Valley
* The Encanto district
* The Alvarado district
All of these are more than good enough places to live, with all the amenities an old bat needs to survive more or less comfortably. And…none of them is Sun City. 😀
When my parents lived out there, we found that the medical care was…well…beyond abominable. There was my mother, dying of cancer — something that was OBVIOUS to anyone who saw her and anyone who knew her — and those effing greedy quacks out there were telling us it was all in her pretty little head.
No kidding. Terminal cancer: imaginary.
I guess we all imagined she died, too. And that she was cremated. And that an urn full of her ashes resides in the Sun City mausoleum.
All in our pretty little heads, right?
That episode, among other things, is a primary reason that you could not pay me to live in Sun City. Nay, not for a zillion bucks. I hate that place, and wouldn’t go near it if SDXB and NG weren’t out there now.
Horrible.