Dinner up town!

We decided to go out to dinner with Chris and his family tonight, and Loyce chose the restaurant..... But I didn't object a bit!!

White Cheddar & Bacon Stuffed Filet* 

A tender 7 oz. Flo's Filet stuffed with aged white cheddar and hickory-smoked bacon, served over a savory brown herb sauce.   $19.99 

Then we came back to our house for Ice Cream and cookies.... Well the grandkids had the Ice Cream and Cookies, while we began to watch TV.... And what do we end up watching?? The cooking shows on the Create Channel....! 

And then the grilling shows after that... I was stuffed, but Chris said he was hungry all over again looking at the grilling...

I thought about taking the scooter out again today, but from looking at the weather forecast, we were to have 100% chance of rain at about 2 PM....  And along with that we were scheduled for a frontal passage with much cooler temps behind the front..

While it was raining, the temperature fell to 66 degrees and we had some heavy winds....  By then, I was glad that I had decided to stay put on the bike and just watch out the window..

Last month Loyce had purchased and hauled home some book shelves at the Ikea store in Phoenix...  Which I had calmly avoided like the black plague when they were unloaded in the garage...

But I noticed that they had made it into the dining room early this week..  And casually it was mentioned that they needed to be assembled...  "So when are you going to start" I countered?    Of course that went over like a lead balloon...

I did manage to put the first one together this afternoon before the rain started, but the second will be for another day.....

Tonight its barely 70 outside, and I had to go and find some long pants for the restaurant tonight....  Hope its not the end of short pants weather........

Retired Rod

I did ride the scoot to the hospital after all....

Today my trip down to the hospital to leave some specimens was on the motor cycle....   And I wasn't drunk like the Doc said I would be yesterday either....

Its 22 miles each way so that becomes a longer ride but not like the luncheons with the Romeos..  But even so, it  was officially rather hot again..  97 in the afternoon, on my way back home....

I go thru the city streets which is slower than on the interstate, but the drivers are paying more attention, or perhaps are going slower paying about the same attention, but that makes me feel more reassured...  I don't mind highway speeds, but when the concentration of vehicles is bumper to bumper like it is in a big city and you are at highway speeds, that doesn't work as well with a bike...

That did take up a good portion of the day, along with the yard work we did this morning, and even my son Ben came over and helped with some of the trimming and blower work while I mowed the yard...  That was a nice touch because it was beginning to be rather hot even early in the morning....

Then of course we had to sit inside and catch up on all the things that have happened for the last week...  Seems we never run out of stuff to talk about....

So since this is a boring blog, I'll hang up for now and say have a good day...

Retired Rod

Out!

The word versed, can mean experienced or practiced, as in being versed in a profession...  But!!!!........

That would be if the word were vurst ,  but if the word becomes ver sed' pronounced ver said', that becomes something very different.....

Its this latter word that became the center of my day and experience this morning.....   I mustered into admitting at the University of Kansas Hospital at 9:30, almost a civil time rather than those way early AM operations..   But still I was ushered into the little pre op cubical with a draw curtain and a bed on wheels...

I've been thru this dozens of times, so I don't need to have the instructions about the hospital gown tying up the back.   And today the only thing I lost was my shirt because they were doing a scope of my upper GI tract...

They started an IV in my hand and gave me something to calm me....  It didn't do much, but then they gave me some gargle.... WOW!  That was way stronger than anything I have experienced at any dentist....   In only a few moments my tongue and teeth and throat were gone..... Completely numb...

Next I was rolled into the room where the scope procedure was to be performed....  They hustle and bustle around you and open all sorts of little sterile packages......  They had me roll over on my left side and then told me that I would be receiving the Ver Sed.   That's the drug of choice to send you to bye bye land!  Just like that I was gone.....

I kind of remember being rolled back into the curtained recovery area where I started, but only faintly.....  And in about a half hour, I was putting my shirt on and being told that everything seemed to be ok except for a computer glitch which lost all the pictures they took..  I guess we'll have to take his word for it, as he doesn't get  a do over from me,   anyway..

I was teasing that I could ride the motor scooter down there for the procedure, but there was no way I could have ridden it back home....  Heck I was drifty dreamy as Loyce drove home...

I ate a few crackers and some sprite once I was home and began reading blogs.................        ...................   zzzzzzzzzz.   ......... zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

It was after 5 PM when I finally came to....

Even tonight, I'm not on the top of my game here, but at least we know that bad things aren't growing in my upper GI tract...

And in reading the Romeo forum about yesterday's ride, it was overcast and almost spitting rain for most of the way down to Warsaw, Mo.  This must have deterred most of the riders, as they only had about 20 folks show up...   That's way down from the 60 or more that come on normal days.... So perhaps my decision not to stress myself on the day before the big hospital procedure was quite prudent....

Retired Rod

Chicken

It could have been a good post about going to the romeo luncheon, had it not been so far away this week...  And we just came back from central Missouri too....  But the ride was to Warsaw on Truman Lake and almost 100 miles away from our house here.

I argued with myself about going..  Just too far to enjoy!!  But you will enjoy the ride so why not go...?    I had the tank full of fuel and the riding gear over the seat.....

But then way late in the night, I saw the weather forecast for high 90s and perhaps 100......  Do I really want to ride back to KC in high 90s for two hours after a big lunch....?  I'm fair complected, and a long ride like that in the hot wind burns me to a crisp....

So I never even stirred this morning...  On these hot days many folks hit the road at 7:30 and eat a late breakfast rather than lunch, so if I wasn't on the road early it would have been a done deal, and I managed to talk myself right out of it...

Now I did go out later in the afternoon about 4 PM thinking that most of the heat was behind us, but no it wasn't because as I buzzed thru the city streets, the gauge read 98 to 101 depending where I stopped....  And I managed to find a street that had construction with new asphalt going down.....   Wow....  Turned off at the very next intersection, even though it wasn't the right way home....

Then tonight I went back over to Wal Mart after a prescription that I had delivered earlier, and the humidity was about 90 percent.....  And it was still 90 degrees....  This can't last long, and I am sure in only a few weeks I will be writing about how cold it was riding on a luncheon, but for today it was just too much...

Tomorrow, I have some more of those tests at the hospital.... So I will have to get up earlier than I want to, and subject myself to being put under yet again....

Perhaps I will still know my name when I wake up, but then again maybe not....  I've lost count on how many times it has been....  But I do know that they told Loyce to drive me because I won't be able to drive home.....  What?  No motorcycle??  Not even in my dreams, she answered......  Is she on their side???

Retired Rod