Subj : Little Bo-Peep Has lost h
To   : JOE MACKEY
From : Daryl Stout
Date : Wed Sep 16 2020 10:59:00

Joe,

 > and the other woman exclaims "Oh!! You mean I'm driving??!!" <BG>.

 JM>   And the one about four little old ladies who were stopped by the
 JM> highway patrol for going 95 mph.
 JM>   The trooper asked did she know how fast she was going.
 JM>   She said yes, she saw the 95 sign (for I 95).  A woman in back said
 JM> he should have been around when they were on RT 150.

  ROFLMBO!! I needed that today.

  With medical and other unexpected expenses, I had to hold off on getting
the lawn mowed by my yard man (it's hard surviving on $1150 a month on
disability -- then you have these greedy [idiots] in Congress, who lament
that they can't survive on $250,000 a year...they don't have a clue. They
aren't worth the powder to blow them up, and it's a waste of good gunpowder.

  Well, I got cited by Code Enforcement for having the lawn too high. With
being allergic to stinging insects, having heat intolerance (I can sunburn
in 10 minutes), and now after hernia surgery, can't lift heavy items (such
as a lawn mower), I'm screwed. I told them I'd provide proof of income, and
the medical condition deal. I have no one to help me, and my yard man has
basically "quit"...but I said "I can't afford to pay him $120 a week to do
the lawn ($500 or more a month)". I helped him and his wife when her
cosmetology business was closed due to COVID-19...now, he won't return
the favor. So, not only do I have to find a new lawn man, but a new barber.

  If worse comes to worst, I'll shut the BBS down, and just use a Wi-Fi
card when I have to do ham radio communications...that'd save nearly $100
a month. I had to cancel a testapel implant, and go back to shots, because
of the cost. I've been eating only 1 meal a day as it is (much to the
consternation of my PCP), so I guess I have to fast and starve now. I do 
need to lose weight, but that's not the way to do it.

  To make matters worse, a ham radio operator (who apparently is in the 
hobby for his ego, in seeing how many nets he can check into, was angry 
that I shut down one of these "nets" early. Checkins had "dried up", and 
I had made plenty of calls for checkins. And, I can't see holding a net 
open, just to accomodate someone thinking they can be "fashionably late". 

  I basically "reamed him a new butt", and told him "if you don't want to 
check into any of my nets, that suits me just fine". He sent a reply, but 
I put it "into snooze mode", as I'm not in the mood to deal with it right 
now...and may not be for awhile. 

  So, I'm not a happy camper right now. I feel like the T-shirt with an
angry vulture on it, that noted "Patience, my [butt]...I'm going to kill
something". If my middle name, J.D. (my late father's name) stood for 
"Jack Daniels", and I was into drinking, I'd be going after it, or the
Jamaica White Rum that my in-laws (and my late wife) would drink on rare
occasions (my mother-in-law passed away at the end of August).

Daryl

.... I drink too much. My urine sample had an olive in it.
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