The Good & the Not So Good

Are you having a good day today?

I really never know how to answer that question. It’s rather like when my mother ask me What’s wrong? Usually I have to then as myself Is there anything wrong? Most of the time I have discovered that there is nothing wrong.

 

Are you having a good day today? is like that. Most often as I reflect upon the events of my day—I do that every evening—I find some (usually most) of the happenings to have been good and some have been not so good.

 

For example, below are a few of the things that I have encountered in the past 24 hours:

This is good: over 500 cats and no cages (Cat House on the Kings) 

The link to the video below was emailed to me by a friend in Arizona. The hyperlink above takes one to the website of the Cat House on the Kings.

This is not so good: Russia announces rearmament 

Mother Russia Statue

The BBC reported Tuesday that Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has announced that Russia will initiate “a comprehensive military rearmament from 2011.” The rearmament will begin “all our strategic nuclear forces."

 Is the arms race back—or is this an attempt by Russia to check NATO on the great chess game called “diplomacy?” Medvedev gave the reason for Russian rearmament as concern regarding “NATO expansion near Russia's borders and regional conflicts.” Hmmmm. Me thinks the answer is that it’s a grand chess move. After all, the Russians are the best chess players in the world.

This is good: the natty muscle in my right thigh is 90% healed.

The doc from MD2U come to my house early this morning. After doing bit of testing of my right leg (that I injured) back in January, we concluded that my leg is at least 90% healed and it is safe for me to drive. That good because I have two VA medical appointments on Friday at two different locations.

This is not so good: While the doc was here, she found that my blood pressure is elevated. I have never before had elevated blood pressure! Usually I have had low blood pressure.

This is not so good: I have created a Cookie Monster-like furball.

I snapped the photograph below on the third time in less than half-an-hour that Alex invited (read: clawed) me to go to his feeding station on top of our his kitchen table. If you will note his two-sided dish, you can tell that both sides are fairly well covered by food. That’s the way it looked the first, second, and third times that Alex invited (read: clawed) me to go to his feeding.

Alex does not want cat food. Alex wants Kitty Kat Treats! He jumps up on the table and sits looking at his dish until I open his jar of treats and place a few into his bowl. This has been going on for several weeks and Alex has already eaten a complete jar of treats and has gotten well into a second.

The treats are supposedly good for cats and, among other things, freshens kitty kat breath. However, they are damned expensive!

This is good:  and very, very, very like Alex!

This is good: coming out of the darkness.

This is very good: Earth Day, April 22^nd