4/26/23

 Wednesday, April 26, 2023

In bed at 9, up at 6, but 6 pss, foggy brain, perseverating on the chorus lines of JO's It's Over,k Goodbye the last couple of days.  34℉, sunny morning, partly cloudy afternoon, wind N at 5 mph, 2 to 9 mph today, gusts up to 15 mph, high of 45℉.  The sun rose at 5:51, sunset at 9:47, 13+54.

Jane Olivor - It's over Goodbye

It's Over Goodbye
Can't say that we didn't try
In all of those years
hiding our tears
and the sorrows we felt deep inside

Standing so close to you
Yet we are alone
never sharing the life that we knew
you know that it's true
we only grew apart
and it hurts so bad
to find the love you lost you never had

and it hurts so bad
to find the love you lost you never had

There's children you know
That makes it so hard  to go
And I'm sure it comes as no surprise
And I must have seen it in your eyes
A hundred times or so
It's over goodbye
Time never was on our side
And though I may live to forget
I never will forget the days I spent with you

And it hurts so bad
to find the love you lost you never had

And it hurts so bad
to find the love you lost you never had

[An incredibly sad song.😞]

Chronic Pain was bad yesterday.  It's been a problem since my last therapy session at the VA.  It was problematic during the night also.  Keeping my fingers crossed for today.  I know I'm not fit company for anyone, i.e., Geri, when I'm experiencing hours of discomfort and pain.  

This morning's JSOnline:  New downtown Milwaukee plan includes a focus on removing I-794 and a renewed MacArthur Square.  My first thought on reading this lead article in this morning's paper was that I will be dead when (and if) these redevelopment changes occur, which supposedly will be by 2040 when I would be, God forbid, 99 years old.  My second thought is that redeveloping the downtown living working, and entertainment spaces seems a bit like a misplaced priority.  Milwaukee's biggest challenge is poverty and crime, both largely race-based.  A beautiful downtown area (including the Marquettte campus) loses a lot of luster when it is largely surrounded by an inner city that is home to violent criminals who prey on people attracted to the lustrous venues.  I can get to the VA in 20 minutes on a good day but I fear going on our multi-million dollar I-43 because of increasingly common freeway shootings usually involving, I suspect, inner-city drivers.  In Fritz Lang's Metropolis, the privileged people lived in the city above ground, while the workers lived and worked underground.  In American cities, the privileged people live in condos and apartments downtown or in fine single-family homes in the suburbs while hoi polloi, the plebs, the great unwashed, live in between in the Inner City.

Three Lakes, in Oneida County, is where my fishing friends and I would head in September or October every year for muskie fishing.  The other days I could not remember the names of the 'regulars' which, for some unknown reason, came to me this morning.  George Wangaard, now dead, Bill Dombrowski, originally from Chicago, Ken Halvorsen, John Gerlach, Doug Wenger, Bill and Ron Meltzer, and one other, his name escaping me now.

Peripheral Neuropathy/Lymphedema.  Nasty tonight, even with compression socks on for 10 hours or so, worse on my left foot, but my right foot also.