Notes from August 2018

I got a notification this afternoon that my insurance had declined to cover a nerve test ordered by Dr. Verheyden. That I was to call primary. Mosaic directed me to call insurance company. The lady there found it odd I'd call. But she told me that there was no activity displayed, nothing since coverage of my initial visit to The Center. Mosaic then found that they'd referred my case to the wrong insurance company. I don't understand any of this. I'm just making a note of it. - sent to The Center 4:29 PM 8/1/2018

Heartless and inefficient is a bad combination. Stay healthy if you live in America.

The tincture of time these days is for the health actuarial businesses, where eventually a certain number of people will stop being a problem.

The Overton window in America has moved so far to the right that people aren't satisfied not helping anybody. They're worried about the moral danger of anybody getting help. Serious but not important -- an American diagnosis

Why, look you now, how unworthy a thing you make of me! You would play upon me; you would seem to know my stops; you would pluck out the heart of my mystery
  - Hamlet

Would restaurants be legal if invented today?

The RICO president

email to safeway It's becoming more clear that the National Enquirer is not appropriate in a supermarket. The publisher has an immunity agreement with federal prosecutors who are investigating potential crimes at high levels. The publication itself presents an ugly face to the public -- false and defamatory. Please consider removing this magazine from your stores.

Doug called me "mean." He was emphatic and vicious about it. But this is what Doug has always done. Every time I've had problems that Doug has known about, he's always had something hateful to say. He turned on me in '97. What if paedophilia is a principal motivation for religious order, an evolved mechanism for placement of the sexually abnormal? Trump not invited to McCain's funeral

When I returned to a conservative American town from a decade in the EU, I found that my C.V. was almost if not entirely useless. Bakeries here didn't show any positive interest in my experience elsewhere, and if anything it inspired suspicion. (To be fair to them, though, I did hear a *lot* of "what are you doing *here* in Ireland and elsewhere, as if America is the place to be.) Anyhow, "Wow! You guys certainly know how to drink!" reminded me of one employer, who saw the Netherlands and Ireland on my paperwork and said "you've been to some fun places." I knew he'd never call me.

I've asked Mom to apprise me of any suggestions that Jeff or Doug make regarding the property. I told her that I'm going to be keeping contemporaneous records.

twigged it this morning: Deanna over here swinging big balls for Jeff is coherent consistent with something Mom said a couple of weeks ago. Jeff was rather forcefully (drunk, say I) suggesting Mom "downsize," and he was going to mo=ve in here with some woman either Deanna or this other one.

on sunday, amid hateful accusations toward me, Jeff suggested that the economy may decline and this may be a good time to sell the property. Last Friday, Deanna was over here to impose order. A couple of weeks ago, Jeff suggested the downsize.

on sunday when i mentioned Deanna's visit on Friday prior, Jeff and Doug verbally attacked me. Doug has turned against me every time in previous 20 years i've had difficulty so that's just background noise except his comment through vicious teeth thart i'm "mean" And Jeff's on the bottle these days, i must caveat. the bottle and right-wing talk radio Jeff said something. the economy, might not last, might be a good time to sell the property A couple of weeks ago, Jeff was over here and talking with Mom quite assertively about "downsizing." She said he said something about himself and a woman moving here Deanna or his current housemate, He hadn't been clear/she wasn't sure

The Irish mind will unpack implicit humor, first scanning for the funny interpretation of any oddity. "Soap for me hole" translates itself in Ireland.