Life's Little Frustrations

You've heard it before..."Old age is not for sissies." Just burn that into your brain. As you head down that road to your twilight years, buckle your seatbelt, for the ride is indeed bumpy.

I had my annual checkup on the 26th and am learning that I am falling apart - even more than I thought I was. At the start of the year, I was taking 3 meds - two for blood pressure and one for diabetes. Suddenly, I'm taking SIX. ARRRGH! This morning, it's off to the hematologist/oncologist. I don't have a CLUE what that's about, but the speed with which the appointment was accepted kinda bothers me. Hmmmmm...

Oh...and every person of a "certain age" should have a good podiatrist. I can't emphasize that enough.

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My daughter is working as an extra on One Tree Hill, which is a series on the WB on Tuesday nights. So far, two shows into the new season, my local WB channel has carried something other than One Tree Hill in that time slot. It was basketball last night. As if the Wizards are worth watching. This frustrates me. Very much. In fact, it PISSES ME OFF!

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I installed a new hard drive on my computer last night. I bought a nice, shiny new copy of Windows XP to load on it. Everything worked like a charm...except for my sound card and Ethernet connection. So, I'm going to have to go back to Sony and grovel for the drivers. Damn! Actually, I already did that this morning. $31 later, a CD is supposed to be on its way to me via two-day express. The product description for this CD does NOT list my model number (and does warn that the software is model-specific) - but why should that be an issue? After all, my model number appears NOWHERE on Sony's website. But, the human being said this would work. I am waiting patiently for a positive outcome.

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I continue to be amazed at the local NBC affiliate. The Pope's in the hospital. You may have heard that. Apparently, the local news folks figure that since they are in such close proximity to him, they should do some in-depth reporting on this one. So, they sent one bright young woman out in the pre-dawn darkness to stand on the street in front of the Capitol building, where she announced (again) that the Pope was in the hospital. Then, broadcasting live, she introduced a series of file stories on the Pope.

While...standing...in...front...of...the...Capitol...building.

Then, they cut to another bright young woman who was broadcasting live while standing on some street corner downtown. She said something about how this Pope has touched so many lives, yadda, yadda, yadda. (Traffic going by....) Then she introduced a canned interview with some guy who wrote a book about the Pope. She carried on again about the Pope's communication with the world. And then she signed off as more traffic whizzes by her.

Does this make ANY sense?

I didn't think so.

Why don't they just do a clean, sophisticated report from their damn anchor desks and quit trying to impress people (certainly not ME) by doing live reports that have nothing whatsoever to contribute to the issue at hand?

I don't know why these people get to me, but they do.