Month: May 2002

NBA

Been a while since I followed b-ball. Was a big fan of the Celtics back in the day. Larry Bird, Kevin McHale, Robert Parish, Dennis Johnson & Danny Ainge, that’s how long ago. For nearly the last 2 decades the Celtics have been bottom dwellers and I’ve stopped watching. But this year they have made the Eastern Conference Finals, so I have jumped back on the band wagon. Well that’s not entirely true, I can’t name any players and I have only started to check the score to see if they win or lose, so I’m not on the wagon but I know where it is parked.

Watched them get beat tonight by the NJ Nets in between watching some of the X-Files movie on FX, oh well, next year maybe. Couple of observations: 1) Hey NJ! What’s up with gray uniforms? Hoping maybe because they aren’t bright the other team will have a hard time keeping an eye on you? and 2) What’s that other half circle in the paint? Like a hockey crease? Can only stay there for 2 seconds as opposed to 3?

138/90

Nearly normal today, I guess the BP medicine is doing it’s job. I even had some moments where I felt quasi-normal this afternoon. The PA called this evening with the results of my CAT scan. There were no traces of kitties – she said there were no abnormalities! OK, so why did my BP go sky high? Blood work fine, which eliminated liver or kidney problems. CAT fine, no tumors or weird internal things. I have a stress/echo test scheduled for the 18th (soonest I could get in) to see if my ticker is malfunctioning. If that is clean, that only leaves like one thing, my head. No new stress inducers have been applied. So is it 46.5 years of aggravations have building up to a meltdown? I would have thought that ranting here would be taking care of that. Or male menopause? Or a gene that mutated?

Ron Jeremy

I guess it was just a matter of time. Stumbled onto an infomercial this morning on cable somewhere for a penis enlargement pill called Extenze. Porno Old-Timer Ron Jeremy was the “Moderator” of a panel 3 folks who were also probably in the adult industry. I guess that is perfect demographic marketing, the folks who watch a lot of porn probably have size issues and would be easily convinced that this stuff would work.

At least TV hasn’t advanced so far as that we could get before and after pictures from satisfied customers….

152/98

Had the nurse at work take my pressure this morning. Down a bit, but not enough, so I called the Doctor’s office and they said take 2 a day of the medicine they gave me. Tomorrow I get a CAT Scan of my abdomen to see what they can see. I want to take the test so we can find out what is wrong, but then again I don’t want to know, you know.

Romulan Cloaking Device

Almost didn’t drive the Miata today either. Lazed around the house all morning. Friends came over for the mandated-by-law Memorial Day grilling of hot dogs and hamburgers. Then afternoon nap followed by watching some of the X-Files marathon on FX. Caught a couple of good ones including 2 of my all-time favorites – “Bad Blood” and “Small Potatoes.” After Small Potatoes we went out for a drive to check the Aiken Bicycle Club mail, buy some CD labels and take a walk. Beautiful night for a drive, temperature was around 80 with low humidity. The only problem is even though I had my lights on, I must have had the Romulan Cloaking Device going without knowing, as 2 cars made me slam on the brakes to avoid hitting them as they pulled out in front of us.

Started down, still down.
Top Transitions sine 02/02/02: 119

Red Sox

They are playing the dreaded Yankees this weekend and it looks like the 4 game series will end up a draw. The Sox won the first two, the Yanks won last night and are now up 8-5 in the 6th tonight. I have had my heart broken by the boys who play at Fenway a lot and I have now become fatalistic that they are never going to win the World Series. Now it looks like they won’t even win the division again this year. I know you are saying that they are still up by 2 games over the Yankees, but I can feel it. This is just like last year, the Sox were on top until sometime in June then the Yankees went right on by and finished ahead. I think that NY does it o purpose, they give ’em a head start, just to make it look really bad when they over take them. Or maybe it is the Boston players themselves, they are thinking like me, they know they can’t win it deep down and around the middle of the season they look around and realize they are in front, then remember that they are losers and just collapse.

Circadian Rhythms

It is the only thing I can think of that is controlling my BP ills. I felt fine last evening, but at around 3:00 PM I woke and couldn’t get back to sleep because I felt feverish, pounding pulse, blah, blah. This morning I felt pretty good. About mid afternoon I started with the symptoms again. Here it is 10:30 and I’m feeling better – not 100%, but not bad. When I think back to the onset of this malaise it happened around 3:00 PM and except for Wednesday, about every 12 hours I get to feeling extra miserable.