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I’m at Ophthalmology Consultants waiting to pick up my new glasses. Business must be good. There are many others ahead of me. Oh, hey, I’ve just been waved over to a chair at a fitting table. I’d better get over there.

Here I am, in bed yet again.

It seems like I do this almost every day. Or rather, night. I don’t take my cozy bed for granted, however. I appreciate every sleeping moment. I just get (or should I say take) too few of them. I usually find a reason to stay up a bit longer. The problem with that is I don’t compensate for the late hour on the other end.

Now I’m starting to dream as I punch this into my Droid. Must be time to finish this and get to sleep. Good night. Same place and about the same time tomorrow . . .

Well, so much for democracy. Greece”s prime minister reneged on his promise (so to speak) to let the masses determine whether the world should be thrust into a deep and long-lasting depression. I wonder how the “typical” Greek feels about this development. I also wonder how North Americans would react if we were told we could help make such a monumental decision, then were told “Well, upon second thought, the entire rest of the world thinks you’ll make the wrong decision, so we’ll make it for you.”

I admit that I was one of those doubting that the Greeks would vote for me and not their hearts. But we’ll apparently never find out for sure. Let’s just sit back and watch the stock markets go crazy now with irrational and temporary optimism. I hope the Greeks take some spiritual sustenance from that.

I suppose I should blame the Greeks for causing stocks to plummet in value over the past several days. It seems logical, since they’re the ones holding our future in their hands and they’re the ones recklessly risking our future by holding a referendum to allow their citizens to determine whether they will go along with what the rest of the world wants them to do.

It’s a little ironic that the birthplace of democracy is now ridiculed for exercising the democratic process. It only shows that although democracy is good, it’s not quite as good when it interferes with my plans.

Hey, I forgot about the world ending on October 21. I must have been pretty busy that day because I don’t remember worrying about our imminent demise even once. Perhaps it happened and I’m really in Hell right now. I’m pretty sure it’s not Heaven, and I’d bet a few bucks that I won’t even be considered for Purgatory.

Well, next time the world is going to end I hope someone reminds me. I’d hate to be caught unprepared.

I downloaded the Redbox app for my Android Pro last night. It works so well it’s kind of frightening.

I was looking for The Walking Dead Season 1. I watched the first two shows of that season using On Demand on my Frontier FiOS TV. For some reason, the AMC network pulled the 3rd show from the On Demand listing. Shows 4, 5, and 6 are still available. But I refuse to skip a show because I don’t want to lose track of characters and risk confusion.

So I checked the nearest Redbox, which is inside the Scott’s store at Illinois Rd & Scott Rd. The Walking Dead had been checked out.

I did a search with my Android and discovered and installed the Redbox app.

Using the app, I set up a list of “favorite” Redbox locations within a short distance of my house. Then I searched for The Walking Dead within that list. The app told me that only two Redboxes had the DVD, and both were located at the Walgreen’s on US 24 at Liberty Mills Rd. That was last night. I checked again this morning and the app showed the DVDs as still available.

I drove to Walgreen’s this morning and, sure enough, The Walking Dead was there. I rented it for $1.07 and returned home. I again searched for The Walking Dead using the app and discovered that it was no longer available in the Redbox I had just visited.

Now, isn’t that kind of frightening?

This is only a test of the auto Facebook posting.

OK, as I stated earlier, I biked to work this morning. The temp was 31. Pretty chilly. The only appendages that got really cold were my thumbs. I wear mittens stuffed with hand warmers when it’s really cold, like this morning. But the thumbs are isolated from the heat of the warmers so they suffer a bit.

Now the sun is shining. I’ll wear fewer layers on the ride home.

Oh boy. It’s under 32 degrees F. The coldest morning yet this season. I have my mittens, my hand warmers, my Under Armor, and my balaclava at the ready. Frost covers the lawns in this neighborhood, but I’m prepared.

One good thing about riding to work in the cold: no sweat. So I don’t have to worry about tidying up upon arrival. All I have to do is thaw my toes and fingers and expedite the making of coffee.

A guy nearby brews flavored coffee each morning. The resulting fragrance is
not only offensive, it is downright nauseating. I don’t know what the flavor
is, but if it tastes half as bad as it smells, it must provoke a gag reflex
in the imbibers of the noxious concoction.

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