Should we worry about the new report from the medical community? Women don't need breast cancer screening as often as previously believed? Hm.... http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE5AF5BP20091117
Could it be a ploy to pay less heath care dollars on women's medicine? Don't women pay enough already? They pay more for their health care; medications aren't tested on women, they're tested on men, thereby cheating women of equality in care; women aren't usually covered for birth control medications while men are covered for erectile dysfunction (viagra) meds (I could go on but I'm not feeling like researching). Is it now that the health care industries are in financial straits.. or about to be.. could it be those companies are looking for ways to cut their costs? If women want tests for breast cancer it will cost them more than it does now because the health care companies can cut back on standard coverage. Hm...

Observations on my birthday:

There might be water on the moon, but it isn't RENEWABLE. Once we use it up, which seems like like the 'plan' - it's gone and there ain't no way to get more. LEAVE IT ALONE for god's sake.

Why are 'we' trying to find extra-terrestrial life? If they are advanced enough to "hear" us - you know our silly broadcasting in to space - if they can hear us & find us & get to us - we should be afraid, be very afraid. It won't be good for us... don't 'we' know that whoever they are they will be able to strip us of our resources? Yes, I assume they will be as ruthless and uncaring as we are.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_MISSING_FLORIDA_BABY?SITE=VABRM&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

How does this happen? Woman beats her kid, gets 10 yrs in prison and the sentence is reduced to 80 days, that's less than 3 months. Oh, and they figure out she is beating her kid when another kid is reported missing - and never found. She was free to do it again... report a child missing, that is.

Day 51 -
I have painted 1/2 the office - only half because my office stuff is still in there but Naomi's is not. Her desk was old and crikety and the computer finally took a dump, so it was mid-winter's "cleaning" for her. Everything out. We picked a green color and now it seems very bright, yet pale and she isn't liking it that much. I hope to finish her half today... maybe move my half into the middle and finish the whole room.

I've been getting to the gym on a mostly regular schedule and the only thing I have accomplished is aggravating my knee. I think I'll be talking to my doctor about Synvisc at my next visit. My hip, actually, my sciatica, wakes me up two or three times a night so I am not sleeping well. And sleeping in? Let me tell ya, one does not sleep in once retired. Because of the sciatica, I get up as soon as I can because being up is less painful.

Retirement is OK, but it is really only a staycation.