Well, it's been a few days since I've written anything about what's going on. So let me bring you up to speed. Where to begin? I began working on my grandmother's home theater. It's really going to be kickass. I'm talking to a man at a theater store about B & W speakers. I had only read about them a million times, so my heart was set on them. But when I finally got the green light to spend some money—even though it was someone else's, I couldn't wait to go listen to these speakers in person. WOW! That's all I can say. I mean little ceiling speakers that sound as good as any middle of the line floor speaker. It blew my mind. Then I looked at TVs, and fell in love with a 70" Sharp TV. Amazing picture, and in case you're looking for the same thing in a TV I am, it has the least reflective screen. I sure hope the manufactures of TVs take note from Sharp on this one. The matt screens are where it's at. So this has been taking hours and hours of my time, planning it all out, taking photos, getting bids from contractors to remodel my grandmother's living room wall to accommodate all of this. Taking measurements and asking and answering questions. If you want a great system for not a lot of money, and you don't want to see anything but the TV, you have to do your homework. I'm still waiting on two bids to come through and I'm going to talk to another home theater installer this week. I looked at his website and if the pictures are of projects he's completed, then he's pretty talented and worth a look. That'll be next week sometime. I expect to be finished with it all by the first of August.
What else? I had two doctor's appointments this week with doctors I've never met before. I liked one of them. He's the dermatologist. The other is the Endocrinologist I'm seeing because of diabetes and other things. I didn't really like him. He's foreign and sounds like he just got off the boat. I have no idea where he went to school, but I can't imagine it was in America. Who knows really?! All he did was order some more blood work. That's it. I'm looking at the folder in his hand of my medical information and it's close to two inches thick…the guy didn't even know I was already taking medicine. His solution was to stop taking the medicine and then take the blood tests again. WTF!!! Just listen to me for a second and put away the statistics and let's play ball. He's worried about my cholesterol and other things and doesn't want to the increase the dosage of my drug. The side effects include cancer. Take a good long look at me doc. I smoke, I'm a recovering alcoholic. I live a precarious life. I'm not real worried about dying; I'm worried about the quality of the life I'm actually living.
Also today was the last day my mother had to work before vacation. She has the week off and it's paid. I seriously doubt she'll be going back the following Monday after vacation. Also, I know the manager where she works. We're kind of friends I guess you could say. I've worked there myself. We all can't stand the dumbfuck asshole that through some cosmic and mystical way ended up owning a business. I promise, and this isn't exaggerating, if the President of the United States could meet and spend a little time around this man, he would give and executive order to reopen all mental hospitals immediately. He's that big of an asshole. I mean to the point I truly believe they make no medicine for someone like him. Only straps, a strait jacket and a padded room…maybe even a little EST thrown in just so the staff could have some fun. I mean if they had to guard him all day, you gotta throw the dog a bone and give them some sort of relief. I'd say give them drugs for watching him, but I'm afraid he'd take advantage of the situation (like he does everyone around him, btw) and escape. But enough about him, I'm not going to go into how I think blowing his knee caps off would be fun. Or how one employee wanted to superglue his mouth shut, or how another one wanted to stab him to death with a butter knife. The point is, he's a dick! So me, my mom, and the manager are all going to get together sometime this weekend and have a get drunk boss bashing party. I think it'll allow us to vent and then my mom can enjoy the rest of her vacation.
Oh yeah, I had a birthday a couple of days ago. I'm the big "none of your business." It was fun. We all went out to eat and had a nice time. I got lots of fun gifts. So that's cool.
I think that's all for today. It's enough, anyway.
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