Now it seems Chuck is feeling worse; I'm feeling better. I think poor Chuck is going to insist on my obtaining a full clean bill of health before I ever visit here again! Poor thing now has a temp of 101. And supposedly that is a MILD flu because he had the flu shot.

I was NOT SICK until I got up from my nap. When I first arrived in Tucson I wasn't sick, just tired. I sat on the porch and talked about wildlife with them both for a while, then lay down for a nap. I woke up and BLAMMO! I was run over by a truck.


I and about 300 septa- and octagenarians just enjoyed a Christmas (YES, I say CHRISTMAS,
not that infernal word HOLIDAY) concert. It was mostly Christmas carols, with some Andrew Lloyd Weber, some church music by Bach, and some traditional Hannukah music also. I do say the word Christmas, even though they weren't all Christmas carols, because I'm so sick of the sanitizing of everything by the ACLU and like-minded thought police. Where I live in Cincinnati, some of the people who celebrate Ramadan have said, "Let those people say Christmas already! We're not "offended" because we see a sign that says "Merry Christmas" on it!"

I mean what is so offensive about a city posting "Merry Christmas" on the street...The ACLU constures that as "endorsement of a religion"...sorry, no...no one is forcing me to have a merry Christmas, after all. If I so prefer, I can have a fracking sucky one if I want to. It does get my panties in a wad when those same people say it's just fine and dandy to post all the ads for porn (see Larry Flint's places in our area; also Bristol's in Monroe) just anywhere in the public claiming it's freedom of expression. It is just fine and dandy to send pictures of people doing utterly undoable things to each other on a 12-year-old's I-pod but NO, that 12 year old MUST be protected from the image of the Baby Jesus!!!! I mean after he sees that image he may just decide to be something WAY WORSE than a porn addict....he might actually decide on a RELIGION....he may actually, because of that image, decide to be (gasp!!!!) a Christian!!!!
SO.
There ya go.

If you don't like what I have to say, then:

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!! MAY TEN THOUSAND MANGER SCENES GROW SPONTANEOUSLY BETWEEN YOUR TOES! MAY ANGELS "HARK THE HERALD" IN YOUR EARS FOR THE NEXT THREE MILLENIUM! MAY YOUR RELIGION-FREE SANITIZED BORING HUMDRUM OF A LIFE BE INTERRUPTED REPEATEDLY BY A PARADE OF CLAMORING, CLANGING, OVER-THE-HILL PEALING SILVER BELLS WHOSE ECHOES NEVER DIE AND DRIVE YOU INSANE ENOUGH TO RIP OUT YOUR OWN NOSE HAIRS ONE BY ONE!

Ok, I will stop now.
Have a Merry Christmas and see that as many others as possible have one, too.