Balance issues, sore wrist, worsening vision, you name it! Life goes on.

The day is half over and no blog.  Many reasons.  My wrist began acting up, the right wrist crucial for a right handed guy, and Monday as I tried to insert the coffee basket into our espresso machine the pain was so intense I  almost fainted.  A new complication that required a trip to the doc, and my regular could not squeeze me in so another diagnosed it as something that with time will go away, and for the nonce gave me a prescription for a regimen of six days and six pills.  And then we two went to my husband's eye doctor; we were by the way banned from the house because our oh too exhausting energetic cleaning lady was on site.  Eye doctor said unexpectedly "time for a cataract operation"!  New complication that tomorrow at six am husband goes under the knife.  Luckily he can walk to the doc, I can't see to drive in the dark.  My first class is tomorrow at 11:00 AM.  New complication: the books needed for a little classroom show and tell are too heavy and badly weighted for me and my famous "balance issues."  Angel of Mercy!  Student in the class shares a trainer with me, who told her of my predicament.  Trainer arrived this morning with a book bag on wheels so the balance issue is no more!  I will give her an A!  [NB: the institute does not give grades]  Friday a dear friend arrives from NYC for the weekend.  Complication: it is freezing cold and probably will remain so.  My wrist and his eye eliminate stove cooking.  Question: will friend endure barbecue chicken from store?  does she still prefer gin?  Typing this is a pain but would be more so if I were not prescribed this dubious medicine which a friend once told me can render the user psychotic.  Am I mad, even now, or is it true that they are saying that our President-elect was up to all sorts of sexual shenanigans in Russian hotels and the scene was video taped by Vladimir?  Am I to believe this?  Seems our darling out going Mr. Squeaky Clean gave a farewell to the nation president's address just as the incoming guy was talking to the press over the back ground reports of every kind of sexual game known to man. Well, well, well, some build up to the Inauguration.  How would George Washington have handled this?  As Bette Davis famously said in All About Eve, "Fasten your seat belts; it's going to be a bumpy ride."