Sorry I've not had anything to say. I've been dealing with a bit of pain all month from the constant pressure of sitting in my wheelchair. 14-16 hours a day takes its toll. Think about it, you guys get up constantly walk around go out to the kitchen for a drink, stretch the old legs. I don't. Its day after day of pretty much sitting in one position.

Some may say go lay down. And this sounds like it should be the appropriate response. But my life has become so sedimentary now, spending time laying down just doesn't seem like the best plan. I get anymore sedimentary I might as well stop breathing and be done with it.

Prior to the big mistake of 1994, I was actually very active. But than I destroyed my shoulder started using wheelchairs and it was downhill from there. I once visited my old Doctor, Dr. Lambert in his home back in Chicago. He had retired by then. But he warned me even back then that what I had if I stopped using it would take its toll on me. Apparently he was right.

So Thursday I get to go see my current Doctor for a prescription of anti-depressants. Just lovely I think. Now I get mood altering drugs. The real problem are the idiots that I have to deal with. The stupid Medicare rules that do not consider any activity outside the home as being medically important. The providers of equipment who are more concerned about the bottom line than my bottom. I just fired the last group. Thats number 5 in 4 years. I'm more concerned about the pain in my butt and lower back than how much profit they were making.

Enough about me.

Its going to be a very long 4 years if every time I turn around some black person is going to inform me that I'm either a racist or a coward. Since when is it the governments job to tell me who I should associate with? I'm thinking that the real racist are those who keep prying a wedge between the rest of us. My black neighbor and I get along just fine without the need to discuss racism. He calls me whitey, or honky I call him Joe. I would not dare call him anything else for fear that would be intolerable. So maybe that was the AG's point. We white folk do not stand up to the racial slurs like we should. Personally I see no real reason to stand up to these racial remarks. I'm not insulted by them.

Funny when I go to Smokey Joe's BBQ I'm not going there because the guy running the show and cooking is black. I go because the BBQ is good. Does Smokey Joe come to my home, or hang out at the local tavern with me ( if I drank that id ), no he does not. But not because he is black, no except for some mighty fine tasting BBQ Smokey Joe and I have nothing else in command. I like his BBQ he likes my money.

My suggestion to any group who feels racially picked on. Try fitting in.