Helenka, Queen of Outer Space

On the good side: our blind book club's first Zoom meeting. I took pleasure in torpedoing the book, though I did credit the author with a couple of good ideas. But, in essence, I thought the author was both lazy and stupid! To think that this … thing won the Pulitzer was a shocker.

That was my morning. There was a communications Zoom call scheduled at 2, but only the Prez and I showed up, so he cancelled it. I then found church-John had tried contacting me from Costco. He couldn't find one of my supplements. I answered him, but heard nothing more. Uh-oh. Is he stranded somewhere or did he give up. I guess I'll hear from him tomorrow.

Another nice thing was getting a FB message from our mutual friend Cory who's an actor. He ws wondering how things were going. So I replied to him.

After the good things, I was fighting pain all day long. I managed to distract my body with the meeting and then later was engrossed in last night's N.C.I.S. which left me in tears. Oh, I knew I was being manipulated, but they do it so well. Also, consider the subject: Christopher Lloyd guesting as a 95-year old who's trying to get recognized as a survivor of the USS Arizona at Pearl Harbor so he can have his ashes interred with those of his brothers' in arms. Turned out he wasn't delusional or cashing in on his estrangement from his late brother whose ID he'd stolen in order to enlist while underage. Jimmy found fragments of shrapnel in his skin - confirmed as actual pieces of the ship - and Gibbs made sure his wishes were honoured after he lost the fight due to a massive heart attack.

After that, the pain roared back. Stupid, stupid pain. Just abo take my pills and hope for better results. Sigh.