Update Season VI - "A New Day Dawning"

[Joe Biden 2020]

I'm going to do something quite different for me.  I'm normally not a golf person, but my Uncle who is still here while his wife is in Florida is a huge golf fan.  After I take a nice walk, I am going over to Grandma's with him the next four days and watch the 2013 Master's Golf Tournament from Augusta, Georgia.  I would love to hear his commentary on the biggest golf event of the year.

I started reading this paragraph thinking "Wait, Bushie isn't going to golfing is he?"  Then by the end, I realized that all was right with the world again when I read that you were only going to watch it on TV.

I would like to go golfing one of these days, but at this time I'll be a sofa spectator.

Are there any outdoor activities you have an interest in, other than walking?  You have all this free time between now and the start of your schooling (minus trip to Kenya).  Is the Oklahoman summer so miserable that it's wise to just hide inside the air conditioning all day long, or might anything entice you to go outside?

The main one is not really exercise, miniature golf.  Summers are hot, but you get used to them if you've lived here long enough.  I would like to try to take up real golf, but I don't want to go swimming for my balls!  I don't want to pay for lessons, either.  I don't care to rock climb or go on a ropes course.  Now, at a church camp in Southern Oklahoma I did swing out over the creek like Tarzan in 2009.  That is no joke!  I guess my weight has a lot to do with my lack of interest.  I can't swim, so I'm afraid to do much around water, although I would like to go to the Great Wolf Lodge in Dallas, an indoor water park.

[Joe Biden 2020]

What about finding a basketball court somewhere (whether inside or outside) and shooting hoops?  Not necessarily the most strenuous activity in the world, but at least it's better than sitting around all day at a computer or TV.

What about frisbee golf?  That doesn't require any knowledge other than how to throw a frisbee.  Are there any frisbee gold places in your area?  Any friends who might want to play that with you some time?  Again, not the most strenuous exercise, but at least it gets you outside, walking around.

Also, you live in a supposedly first world country.  How is it that you can't swim?  Didn't they teach you  how to swim in gym class when you were in school?

I occasionally shoot hoops, especially on Wednesday nights after church.

I love frisbee golf, I forgot about that one, but I don't know of any organized activities for that around here.

I took swimming lessons 2 years in a row from a private, certified instructor at her home pool in the early 90's in a group of about 4 other kids, but they never took hold, because I never learned to relax and trust the flotation devices. I was too focused on not drowning that I never learned to swim.  I never had swim lessons in gym class, it was all activities that required sneakers and gym shorts, not swim trunks such as foot races, tag, freeze tag, basketball, softball.  I got a lot of exercise in grade school gym class, but the gym classes stopped after the 6th grade and i never took PE in Junior High or High School, because I hated to run.  As strange as that sounds, as a kid, I did not like running, and I hated my parents see me run.  I still don't like it and that is one of my big problems.  In fact, I hated performing for my parents in most anything.  It was a big step just to take band for 7 years, and it's only been in the last few years that I have felt comfortable singing in front of people.  I only took band because I came from a band family.  My father played the baritone, my mother played the clarinet, my brother played the french horn, and I played the tuba in our respective high school years.

[Joe Biden 2020]

What kind of American public school has its own pool to teach kids how to swim in? Most Americans learn to swim, if they do, through private swim classes. About half of the population can't swim, and this is especially true of poor people.

I went to Choctaw schools, and the high school adjacent to my east, Harrah High School, had swim lessons in their PE classes since they have an indoor pool that is open to the public every year from June 1-July 31.

They even have a swim team.

[Joe Biden 2020]

I'll be watching it all afternoon today, about 3 hours worth tomorrow, and Saturday and Sunday remain to be seen.

Tomorrow evening, I'm going out to eat with some high school friends who live nearby.  There two older kids have autism, and the only place they will eat is at a certain Mexican Restaurant in Midwest City, so I will have Mexican food tomorrow night.

[Joe Biden 2020]

I know the question will come up, so I'll just answer it now.  I'm leaving at 13:30 to go over to my Grandmother's for the Master's, so I'll take a walk at 12:30.

[Joe Biden 2020]

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So you walked at 12:30, your time, eh? 

I went out and walked a bit earlier.  I just got back in.

[Joe Biden 2020]

Besides, I'm always online even when I'm not at the computer.  I never log out of the forum on my own computer.

[Joe Biden 2020]

I'm about ready to head out to watch the last few hours of Round 1 of the Master's.

[Joe Biden 2020]

We're taking a break from the Master's for supper.  We'll probably resume about 5:30.  We're watching it on DVR so we can skip the commercials.

[Joe Biden 2020]

We're taking a break from the Master's for supper.  We'll probably resume about 5:30.  We're watching it on DVR so we can skip the commercials.

You really sat down at your computer, typed that out, and thought people would care?

I've been tracking the Leaderboard on my tablet, and when we broke for dinner, I switched over to the forum.

[Joe Biden 2020]

We're taking a break from the Master's for supper.  We'll probably resume about 5:30.  We're watching it on DVR so we can skip the commercials.

You really sat down at your computer, typed that out, and thought people would care?

I've been tracking the Leaderboard on my tablet, and when we broke for dinner, I switched over to the forum.

I'll call CNN.  Paul, can you contact MSNBC for me?

We'll watch the last 3 1/2 hours of the tourney after we eat, which we'll eat in about 5 minutes. 

[Joe Biden 2020]

When I read God's Word, He used a murderer (Moses), an adulterer (Abraham), a coward (Gideon), an adulterous murderer (David).  I don't find any body who had it all together.

[Joe Biden 2020]

I am fully behind Freddy Couples if Tiger can't win. I've been pounding bourbon and mint juleps all day so I am reafy to go!

We're going for Mickelson, Garcia, and Couples in that order.

We do not like Mr Woods.

[Joe Biden 2020]

It's not that, Duke.  It's just personal preference.

Anyway, we were about 40 minutes from being finished with the DVR of Round 1 and I had to bail out and head home because my knee was really starting to hurt.  I'll go back again tomorrow for a bit from 3:00-5:30 for Round 2, but then I'll have to leave to meet my friends for dinner at 6:00.

[Joe Biden 2020]

What does your knee hurting have to do with going home?

I could have changed chairs, but I didn't.  I had to come home and take some Tylenol.  Grandma only has Regular Strength Tylenol and that stuff laughs as it goes down and doesn't touch anything.  I need at least extra strength Tylenol and even that is not really that effective.

[Joe Biden 2020]

What does your knee hurting have to do with going home?

I could have changed chairs, but I didn't.  I had to come home and take some Tylenol.  Grandma only has Regular Strength Tylenol and that stuff laughs as it goes down and doesn't touch anything.  I need at least extra strength Tylenol and even that is not really that effective.

I... I... I don't... really?  You drove home to take extra strength Tylenol?  Why didn't you just take an extra (or two) pills of the regular Tylenol?

I could have, but that wasn't the only reason.  It was already starting to approach 21:00 and I had a baseball game I wanted to watch from 21:00-00:00, so I came on home.  Since the doctor took me off Aleve, that has taken away the drug that helps my joints the most, so now I have to resort to ES Tylenol.  I may see if I can take Advil which is supposedly a little stronger than Tylenol.  I don't know if its outlawed in the no Aleve and no Ibuprofen order from my doctor.

[Joe Biden 2020]

1. You never mentioned the baseball game... I honestly think you didn't know you could just take more Tylenol.
2. Aleve is naproxen; Tylenol is acetaminophen, and Advil is ibuprofen (as is Motrin).  So if he's banned Aleve and ibuprofen, then no, you can't take Advil (these are basic things that you should know, by the way).  But why were you taken off Aleve and ibuprofen?

He took me off Aleve because I'm already taking prescription Naproxen as my anti-inflammatory, and to take Naproxen and Aleve would be hard on my kidneys.  My mother already has bad kidneys, so he is trying to preserve my kidneys as long as possible.  He's taken her off Aleve and Ibuprofen.  Prior to this last appointment, I was just taking the prescription Naproxen as needed for headaches, but now that he has told me to take them every day as an anti-inflammatory for my arthritis, he doesn't want me to double up on Naproxen and Aleve at the same time.  I thought Advil and Motrin were ibuprofen, but I just wanted to make sure.  I'll just take ES Tylenol for now.  Perhaps I'm dumb, but what about Bayer?  Is that ibuprofen?  I'm trying to find something stronger than Tylenol without violating the doctor's orders.  It's probably a fruitless search, but it doesn't hurt to try.

As to your first point, that is true, I didn't know I could take an extra pill or two or RS Tylenol, but I still wanted to catch the Rangers/Mariners game last night at 21:00.

[Joe Biden 2020]

Now, if you'll excuse me, I am going to take a walk for a bit.  I'll be back by the top of the hour.

[Joe Biden 2020]

I assume you mean Bayer as in aspirin (although they also make Aleve), in which case, it's aspirin.

Leave him alone, he's walking........oops, no, he's online........nevermind!

He leaves his computer on and logged in... he mentioned this a day or two ago.

Somehow it magically posts stuff on facebook too!  I want one of those laptops!

I just posted on facebook that I was going to take a walk right after I posted it on here and haven't posted either place until now.  I just got back from a 35 minute walk.

[Joe Biden 2020]

bushie is your grandmother in better physical shape than you?

I would say I'm in better shape than she is.  She has scoliosis for one, plus she is a survivor of both breast cancer (1994) and bladder cancer (2007) as well as memory loss (1989).  She has fallen twice in the past 4-5 months, but neither fall producing more than a scratched up face.  I have started taking her trash to the curb every Tuesday Night.  She can only go one or two places in a day otherwise she gets tired out too easily.  I have a lot more stamina than what I let on.

[Joe Biden 2020]

I had a much enjoyable afternoon and evening.  I watched the Master's again for a couple hours this afternoon and then spent a nice evening with my best friends from high school, enjoying some pizza, watching Kitchen Nightmares w/ Gordon Ramsay, and playing UNO Attack.  I may watch Round 3 of the Master's on my own tomorrow or I may just watch baseball.  I'll probably get out in the morning and take a walk to work off some of this pizza.  The thing is now, I may have a workout buddy that I can do this with, so it should start becoming easier to stay motivated.  She has been trying to lose weight for a few weeks now since the end of February and has only been able to lose four pounds.  I haven't asked her, yet, but I may go over to her house occasionally and walk with her and her youngest son who will be 4 in June.  She's got a nice neighborhood we can walk in, or I might go with her and her son to the zoo some this summer and just get some exercise in.  I'll probably ask her over facebook tomorrow if she would like to be my workout buddy.

Oh, and Duke, don't get any ideas because she's been married for nearly 10 years.

[Joe Biden 2020]

Why would one take prescription naproxen when it's sold OTC extremely cheaply? Just as with the tylenol, take an extra pill or two to get the dose you want. Not complicated.

Well, when you get the Naproxen at no charge to yourself, then it's cheaper than the OTC Naproxen.

Anyway, I'm headed to bed, folks.  I'm going to try to be awake before 10:22 like I was yesterday morning!

[Joe Biden 2020]

Do you have relatives in Iceland Bushie?

I did at one time, but that was back in the 90's.  My cousin's husband was stationed in Iceland.

[Joe Biden 2020]

Bushie is seducing a married woman?? What a great plot twist!

You'll find this funny, but when I was dating Susan, this friend told us point blank that if she had not married her current husband, she would have married me.  I was flattered, but very embarrassed at the same time and I had to scramble to douse the situation, because Susan was getting a little hot under the collar...  Talk about awkward...

[Joe Biden 2020]

Bushie is seducing a married woman?? What a great plot twist!

You'll find this funny, but when I was dating Susan, this friend told us point blank that if she had not married her current husband, she would have married me.  I was flattered, but very embarrassed at the same time and I had to scramble to douse the situation, because Susan was getting a little hot under the collar...  Talk about awkward...

Oh - well then that's the perfect person that you should be spending even more time alone with!  You could "work out" at her house!

She's happily married and has three kids, the older two are non-verbal autistic.  So, that dream will have to remain a dream.