I’VE BEEN FEELING “FEEBLE.” Still unable to do anything for myself except eat food, swallow pills and brush my hair, I have to rely on Sam for damn near everything and can’t even scratch an itch without his help. Plus, I’ve been catheterized since May 2017 and need a bedpan for the rest of it. (If you don’t know what “the rest of it” is, I feel sorry for you.)
I USE OXYGEN ALMOST ALL THE TIME NOW. Accord Hospice provided me with an oxygen generator (and a portable emergency unit) when they took over my medical care last spring. I didn’t need oxygen very often back then and used it only occasionally overnight. Everything changed a couple of months ago when I realized I actually needed help breathing, and now I’m hooked up about 75% off the time. Sam even bought me a fancy “comfort” cannula (with a soft and squishy nosepiece) from a local medical supply store … because I only want to stuff the finest plastic up my nose!
MY FAVORITE FOODS ARE CHOCOLATE CAKE AND RAMEN NOODLES WITH FETAL SHRIMP. I wouldn’t joke about this. My taste buds are shot to hell, and the only flavor profiles I like any more are Maruchan’s Big Bowl Hot & Spicy Ramen Noodles with Shrimp (70¢ at Wal-Mart) and Pepperidge Farm’s frozen chocolate cake. Also sometimes fried eggs.
I CAN NO LONGER MOVE MY LEGS. There’s nothing else I can say about this.
But if we fast-forward to 2019, Quark’s high-end features are now equivalent to (or better than) InDesign’s, and Quark is even offering a competitive upgrade for only $399 (60% off) … and that’s the total price. NO MORE MONTHLY RENT!
I downloaded Quark’s free trial software last night but couldn’t get it to launch, so tomorrow I’ll call the company’s 800 number to find out what’s what. If we can get the free trial resolved and I’m comfortable with the application, I’ll definitely move forward and buy it. This is exciting! According to Quark’s introductory video, Quark XPress will open and “convert” InDesign documents and also has many image manipulation features from Photoshop and Illustrator … which means one program can take the place of three. And hopefully Quark is faster, too, because faster always rocks. (And InDesign can be SLOW.)
Please stay tuned for updates. Thank you.
Perdue’s ready-to-eat chicken nuggets were produced on October 25, 2018, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service. The nuggets are gluten-free and have an expiration date of October 25, 2019.
There have been no confirmed reports of anybody choking to death on the wood chips, although it’s possible for an individual to choke to death on lousy food and nobody ever knows about it because the person was single or a loner or maybe by himself (or herself) on a boring vacation with chicken nuggets.
Perdue is describing this as an isolated incident, saying only a “minimal amount” of packages may contain pieces of wood, but they’re recalling all their nuggets, anyway, out of an “abundance of caution.”
Caution? That’s very decent of them, isn’t it? Maybe if they’d been more cautious during production nobody would be choking to death on their stinking CHICKEN NUGGETS WITH WOOD CHIPS!
I think I should go now. It’s 10:30 Sunday night and I’m hungry, which means I’ll have to turn on the TV and wake Sam (he’s asleep on the sofa). I want something incredibly tasty. Maybe beet borscht with sour cream or a can of three bean salad with a fork. Or maybe both!
Thank you for reading this, and please feel free to do whatever the hell you want with the Alamo because I really don’t care any more.
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