My Assumptions Once Again Remind Me to Get My Head Out of My Assumptions

The old broad is ranting again!  education, academia, the younger generation, and OMG I'm my mother - all wrapped up in one.

Don't ever tell me astrology is a hoax - the only thing that can explain my stubborn idealism is that I'm an aquarian.  I'm 60, have no computer training whatsoever, literally finger picked my way around computers and the web and I can do more stuff and comprehend more hows/whys/whats than the 20 year olds I'm talking to who have been around computers all their lives!!

I Have a Stalker and She is SMOKING - Get Thee Behind Me Cigarette Sin

Ms. Pearl Aufrere, pictured to the left, 1915, is thought to be an ex English chorus girl who traveled to America, was widely photographed, graced many cigarette cards, was engaged to royality at some point and is thought to have married "very well" and thereafter blended herself into the obscurity that the "very well" of the time demanded.  Would that cigarettes and their devious hold on me fade as obscurely and as well!  Lawsy - I still want to light one up.

Old Broad Attitude - Positives and Negatives of Facebook

2009 was the year I ventured into "social networking" with Twitter and Facebook. Going into 2010, the old broad already has some attitudes - big surprise there, right folks? - about both. Going to talk about Facebook today and will save Twitter for later.

Facebook could turn into a real love hate relationship for me, can see it already. It has reconnected me with some dynamite people that I'm really happy about being reconnected with! From the 1970's thru the last few years. We haven't become born again bff's, but it's been great to touch base, see where life has taken them and maybe, build on foundations already in place.

On the otherhand, my old hippy idealist side is a bit aghast again.

Thank You Joseph Heller for Writing "Catch 22"

It is one of those books I am seriously glad to have read when younger.  The more years that go by, the more appreciation for the book and it's message.  It really helps to see the absurdity right off the bat and be able to enjoy the actual silliness all along, rather than suffer all the negative emotions from running in circles or hitting brick walls.

Buddy Guy and Muddy Waters Sounding Good - Must Be Getting Better! Finally!

Don't know about you but the music playing in the background says a whole lot about my mental and physical health.  Lately it's been a pretty continuous backdrop of low volume big band, elevator light jazz, or generic oldies.  Translation = either the pain meds are keeping me in a nice unfeeling limbo or I'm trying to keep myself there while biting the bullet.

While cruising around my little internet radio this morning, found myself turning up the volumne on Buddy Guy's "She Got the Devel In Her", then a bit more for Muddy Waters "Rollin' and Tumblin'", then cranked it up some more for Popa Chubby doing "San Catri" - who I'ld never heard of but wow, that's some nice guitar playing - and now am drifting on Aynsley Lister doing some pure blues with "Need Her So Bad".  

Okay - finally - back to my Montana Radio Cafe and, as they say, "we play the music you won't hear anywhere else" and all my other off the wall stations!  I must really, really, finally be getting better - can tell by the music! 

And in case you'ld like to check out the station mentioned above? Here's the link - !

http://www.montanaradiocafe.org/

My First "John Wayne" Moment - A True Sign of Getting Old?

The news this morning has hit a  depressing milestone for me.   For goodness sake - the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, if thought about for any length of time with even minimal intelligence, should be enough to shut down anyone's sanity all on it's own!   Never mind the other tidbits all the tv stations have thrown out for nibbling on!  So I wildly punch the remote, hoping for some hidden pearl.  A 10 year old antique roadshow? An arts documentary? Some religious, historical, conspiracy threaded piece of fluff?

Hip Replacement Update from a Vintage Cyborg Old Broad

Figured I better play a bit of catch up here. About one month since surgery and 3 weeks since leaving hospital. Just had my last in home therapy session - one step finished!! Start out patient therapy this week and am looking forward to that. If nothing else, it will get me out of the house 2 or 3 times a week!!


The hip replacement appears to have gone well - so far so good. My delay in recovery time is not from the hip but from having to repair damage done to nerves and muscle by the hip being bad for so long.