31 August 2020
Two days in a row of early morning back pain and testicular pain after getting out of bed. Why in the morning I don’t know. Usually, by noon or early afternoon, it moderates to the point I don’t think about it. Still on the sulfa drug. Wasn’t it Bette Davis who said “Get ready for a bumpy ride?”
No show on the construction team (father and son). However, late this afternoon I got a call from the Citizens representative who wants to stop in Wednesday and see what the progress is. He also said everything has been ordered and confirmed it would be 6-8 weeks before the upper cabinets are installed.
I decided today to not wait on the construction guys. I did my 2 mile walk and then did yoga stretches and swam laps in the pool. That’s the first time I’ve done that since construction began in the kitchen. I felt loss at not being able to do that. Good thing I went ahead since they didn’t show.
When I did swim my laps, I was pleased to note my right arm was not giving me any problems. Every so often, I over do things with my arm and it reminds me I had surgery on it. Mostly, it seems to be where the tendon meets the biceps muscle towards the elbow. It’s not extreme pain – just enough to let you know you over did it. I suspect I’ll be feeling effects of this for another year but today was great with the workout I did in the pool.
I’m beginning to worry about my palm trees. First the coconut palm in front died and now the huge Bismarckia is looking a little ill. It that thing dies, it’ll cost a fortune to have it removed. It’s a beautiful palm and provides a great deal of shade. The fronds are huge! I would estimate they are around 8-10 feet in length and quite heavy. If one were to fall and hit you, it would be curtains.
Although the state of Florida reports decreases in the number of Covid cases, the number of new cases keeps going. For 31 August, Florida reported 621,586 cases of the virus with 2, 583 of those as new. There are now 11,263 total deaths in the state of Florida.
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It reminds me of the AIDS epidemic, particularly in the early stages where parents were so ashamed their child died of AIDS they asked the doctor to list the cause of death as something different. There really is no way to tell the number of people who died with AIDS in the United States because of false death certificates.
The same can be said for the number of deaths in the Great San Francisco Earthquake of 1906. It’s suggested that the number of recorded deaths may be only a fraction of the real number.
What’s the old saying? There are three types of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics. I worry that we are turning out generations of young people that no idea how to question what they read or see on the internet. Today, any asshole can have an opinion and publish it on the web. I tried my best to explain that some sources are not reputable and some are and some fall somewhere in between. I admit I wasn’t taught how to discern this in my schooling but somewhere along the line, I figured it out before I went to college.
I remember writing a college paper in history on Pago Pago in Samoa. The professor was irate I had written Pango Pango. I was stunned that I got a C on the paper and that was basically the only criticism. The reason I wrote Pango Pango is (1) that’s how the Samoans pronounce it and (2) that was how most of the journals I used as reference spelled it. I had used very reputable journals. The only problem, my paper was an historical paper and I used very old references where the spelling was Pango Pango. Liver and learn!
It was like that all through my college experience. I remember in graduate school one of my buddies dissertations was returned to him because he used the term “ascertained.” His major professor returned it to him and said only God can ascertain.
Stay tuned and stay safe!
