Saturday

"Idleness is sweet, and its consequences are cruel."
John Quincy Adams

I guess this would describe the welfare system in this country.   But the cruel consequences are to the people who are footing the bill.  

We have a problem in this country where not working and squandering your money is rewarded.   As anyone who has sent a child to college will agree.   If you work hard, don't overspend and save money you will not get any financial help.     BUT............If you live beyond your means and have huge bills you are entitled to cash.     ???????????????  Figure that one out.

Also people who are healthier  and younger than me are on the dole.   People on welfare still have money for tattoos, cigarettes, beer and lottery tickets.   Gold chains too.    One day a person came for surgery and also paid cash for liposuction (several thousand dollars) and was on Medicaid.  Go figure out that one.   There is always some was to beat the system but it would never work for me.

 

Wednesday

"Youth is not a time of life - it is a state of mind. It is not a matter of red cheeks, red lips and supple knees. It is a temper of the will; a quality of the imagination; a vigor of the emotions; it is a freshness of the deep springs of life. Youth means a tempermental predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over a life of ease. This often exists in a man of fifty, more than in a boy of twenty. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years; people grow old by deserting their ideals."
Samuel Ullman

This seems to sum up how I feel.   Age is an attidute.    Some people are old  when they are young.   People who are miserable when they are old were also miserable when they were young.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sunday

"What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance."
Havelock Ellis

"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities."
Voltaire

"To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can have."
Theodore H. White

Tuesday

“Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.”
Omar Khayyam

I guess this applies to your life in general.   People wait till retirement to do things and when they get there one of them dies.   I have not made any grandiose plans.    Just to keep busy.  

Sunday

"The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy."
Theodore H. White

I think Theodore hit the nail on the head with this one.

"Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak; and that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws."
John Adams  

     Funny these words are as appropriate today as when they were written in the 1700's

 

 

 

Sunday

I guess the copying and pasting was a temporary thing.    The space is there but the image is gone.  I wonder where it went.   Floating around out in cyber space I guess.

Back to work tomorrow.   I feel that I could do three days.  The prospect of doing hearts, heads and trauma is not a nice one.    That is why I accepted a job in a community hopital long ago.   The people who work there have been doing community hospital surgery forever.   Where will they get the people with the experience to do this??     The administration comes up with these bright ideas and I guess they don't consider who will do what they dream up.

 

Saturday

 

Someday are like that.  Great,   I found out that I can highlight and paste pictures into my journal.    I will go crazy now.   There are a lot of things I downloaded and wanted to move over into here and now I figured out how to do.   Not all that bad it only took 2 1/2 years.   I guess that is better than never.

Saturday

Proof  that marriage exists in the animal kingdom...  

Monday

It is the last of a stretch of days off.........It was a welcomed respite.  Although I had appointments every day at the end of the week.  Lucy does not have to see the kitty ophthalmologist.   Nor does Claudia have to pay a huge bill for it........Lucy's eye is looking much better.   Her vet said that the problem with her eye is a auto-immune problem that will need medication her entire kitty life.   I wonder how many of those nine does she have left????    JUST KIDDING LUCY...MEOW  MEOW

Emily starts back to school tomorrow.   She has three Math and one Science and one  English.    Still has to get her admission things in order.   I am hoping she had an epithany and takes this seriously.   

I am on second call today and so far so good.   You never know what will happen.   Since it is a three day weekend there will be a lot of leftovers from the weekend.    A emergencies or semi-emergencies.   Work one day and then off and then work two more.  I am still glad I am not taking call.   Although I did nothing I just didn't want to be there........

I think fall has arrived.  It is always a surprise how it will be coolish and then extremely hot when summer arrives and then hot and suddenly cooler with the arrival of September.   My daughter and I both like sweatshirt weather.