Wednesday, March 30, 2016

Help Wanted

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CONROE

 
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Caregiver needed in Conroe (near FM 1488 and I-45) area for quadriplegic woman. Part-time: 7:30-11:30 AM, M-F. (Sunday 6:30 AM to 8:30 AM also needs covering.) Must be 18, have valid Texas Drivers License (or ID), and pass a background check. No experience necessary. Personal care (including bedpan), food preparation, and other assistance as needed. To apply, e-mail to: confessionalgal@ATT.net This position is paid by the State of Texas through an agency. I have little say on the pay rate.

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Monday, March 14, 2016

I Have Been Home from the Hospital since the Sixth. I just have not posted anything.

I am not particularly fond of hospitals, BIG surprise! I am particularly not fond of the nighttime environment. Sleeping is a full-contact sport--complete with blood tests at random times and other pleasantries.

Everybody knows about this. You all know about the frequent intrusions and the background noise.

If you have entertaining ways to cope with these features of hospital life, leave them in a comment. It might be fun to compare notes.

Don't get me wrong, Nexus Hospital in The Woodlands wasn't a bad place fact, for the first three or so weeks, there was no better place for me. I was quite sick! Between the blood clots in the pneumothorax and various other nonsense, it was quite dodgy.

And yes, I developed coping skills for night times in the hospital. Since people keep wandering in at random times, turning on the lights, waking me up; I left the lights on. It's easier to sleep with lights on than to go back to sleep after startling awake because of light pollution.

Background noise and constantly wondering what time it was convinced me to watch The Weather Channel on my long. When I couldn't sleep, it gives me something to look and listen to. At other times, it was "white noise" of the highest quality.

The programs overnight are SOMETHING. In spite of myself, I got addicted to one offering that seem to come up at 2 AM or something. It is perfect 2 AM fare!

Watching other people work is fascinating.

Thursday, July 30, 2015

Khet 101





Several people have suggested that I would enjoy playing chess. I think I would, too… Except for this little problem. I tried learning chess when I was about eight. My competition was my younger sisters, and I had the advantage of four or five years. Add to that, if two of us were playing… The third would be left out, so we resorted to trying to invent three-handed chess.



It wound up being more like, "The Red Queen and the White Queen were best friends. They decided to take their 16 children on a campout with knights and bishops while their husbands, the Kings did boring stuff with the economy…"



Now, I can't take chess as some sort of battle simulation. I have found something that I enjoy more…