A slight caffeine departure

I made the mistake of making high test coffee instead of decaf this morning, so forgive me if I am suddenly coherent. I make more sense when I am on a caffeine high. My ADHD....

Hey Barry, whatever happened to macros? I would love to have a series of keystrokes recorded instead of having to do all this repetitive stuff all the time. Am I missing something?

The Christmas photo is someones idea of overkill for the holiday. They live on the other side of east Pete. You should see the helicopter on the left side of the house.

I spent the last week working with my wife to make sure she is comfortable. I had both sets of grand kids here over two days, but had to make sure they didn't jump on my wife.

I have to say that I am off my game. I gained just a few pounds because of my sedentary nature these past few days. I want to go out, but my wife takes my time right now.

I went out to the garage yesterday to take the scooter apart, but it was way too cold to work for long. The cold cuts me to the bone. I had thought about taking one of the little space heaters out there, but didn't. I got a good look at my Helix, and started to take the millions of screws off in order to remove the body panels.
This scooter probably has more weight due to screws, nut and bolts, than it does for the plastic panels that cover it. You can't imagine how ugly this bike is without panels! But whoever designed it really had no idea of how to be frugal. They put screws in where there was no need. The neat thing about it is, each panel fits together just right. There is no need for all the screws.

So, I decided to treat myself and order the lower panels online instead of just painting them. The plastic is a bit brittle and worn. One of the pieces broke apart in my hands yesterday. Looking at the picture, this is just about the lower panels for now. They are the ones colored black. The upper panels are worn too, but much more expensive to replace right now. They do have 3 choices for upper body panels:

1. White
2. Black
3. unfinished

I will go for the white panels. I always liked white. This will make the scooter look brand new again. The lower panels will all be black or gray, I'm not sure which.
The biggest worry I have is that the panels were made for the Chinese clone of the Helix. Those parts are usually way below standard quality. The unfinished parts require me to have some skill in painting, and even with the spray cans, I am not that good.

So, what does all this have to do with Bariatric?

Well, I'll let you figure that out until the end of this post, and then I'll answer the question.

During the week, I wanted to write, but was too brain tired to do it, so I just did housework and prepared myself for the onslaught of kids.

My wife got her "buzz" haircut yesterday. I must say it was shocking at first. I am now married to Kojak, or Yul Brenner. She has a super nice wig, as well as some really great looking caps to cover up, and after the initial shock, I don't mind at all. She seems to be taking it well too. We expected her hair to fall out, and were ready for it. But, it still affected us.
I took her to Weis yesterday while she was wearing her wig, and she had no trouble talking with one of our neighbors there. They made no indication that they knew she was wearing a wig. It looks very natural. I won't post a picture here, but if you email me, I might send you a picture.

Oh, good coffee!

Looking at our finances, we are in trouble. I need to get a "real" job to cover for our losses, but with the want ads only 2 pages big (usually 20+ pages) things don't look good. I tried my hand at one of those online thingies, but they don't really work. I can't figure them out. I must be too dumb or something.
I also signed up for Upromise, which is a reward program to give my grand kids money for their future education, but it doesn't work for me. You see, with the new diet, I don't buy a lot of what they give discounts for. So far, I think I have 2 cents in savings. I'll check my lottery ticket this morning and if I win, I'll make sure they have enough for their future. If not, I'll just pray they do OK on their own.

I have some ideas for a book, but as listed above, I just didn't get to it yet. I'm gonna fix that soon.

So, I will write another blog entry about all of my accomplishments in the past year because of my Weight loss. And more important, what I want to do next year. It is a good feeling knowing that there is a good chance that I will achieve my goals.

Life is good!


Oh, by the way...... I would never have been able to complain about all of this if it wasn't for my Bariatric weight loss. That's worth a lot to me. I would probably have been dead now and my wife would have had to make her journey herself. At least, I am here to help her. As down as I feel right now, that is worth everything I have lived up to this point.