Going to the doctor today. Might have to tell him I have had pain today, but I am afraid he will put me in the hospital again. This is my regular doctor, although I have not seen him in two years. Long story. I had a lot of trouble coming up from the train and then again when I was moving some equipment. I probably won't tell him though. I don't want to spend any more time in the emergency room. That is just a sad and lonely place. Very annoying as there are lots of sick people there and they let you know they are sick. Not all, but enough to make it where I don't want to go back.
I suppose I should get private health but I am not sure there is any advantage in that. Yes, you get better access but then again, maybe not. I don't know, I have never had it.
William had another job he had to turn down. Not that he should have but it was something he was not prepared to do. I didn't find out about it until after he had turned it down. I found out, or I think I found out, when his mother called and told me he was upset because he had to turn down another job. As far as I can tell, he was going to be by himself with no one to help and it was a kind of technical work thing. From what I gather, reimaging computers but he said no one was going to show him how. I find that hard to believe but that is what he was upset about.
I was also told it was on the weekend, so I could have helped him but I guess he did not think of that. I think he was just scared of doing it or did not want to do it, so he turned it down for any excuse. I will have to find out when I get home, assuming they let me go home.
What I would really like is for someone to look at my foot and leg and now it has moved up into my knee. It hurts all the time and I have gotten used to it but that does not mean it does not hurt anymore. I can barely walk from the train to work anymore. And it is worse going back to the train and that is downhill. It hurts a lot to go downhill, so it takes me much longer, although I do not have to rest but it hurts so I think about just stopping and waiting. Problem is, the train does not wait, so I have to get there by a certain time or wait half an hour for the next train. So I keep walking, no matter how slowly.
I am leaving early today to get to the doctors. I have to leave by 2:30 but I am thinking I will leave at 2:00, which is in half an hour. That way, I can take my time getting to the train. I have to take the horrible train, the one to Kippa-Ring. It stops at every stop along the way, and there are a lot of them going that way. On my normal train, after Petrie, there are only four stops. On the Kippa-Ring train, there are eight or nine stops. I hate going on that train. Juanita is supposed to be picking me up at the station but it would almost be worth it to go on the normal train to the car and then drive over to the doctors office. Means I would have to leave now, but to get off that train ride, it might be worth it.
I hate talking about work all the time, so I am going to refrain from it, although I thought of several things to say. I hate talking about me instead of the kids, but they don't do a lot lately, so there is really nothing new to talk about. William is getting all excited about going to the EKKA next week. He found out that his school day at the EKKA is the same day we are going, so he hates that he is not getting an extra day off. I knew that they had split the school days this year, half the schools go on Monday and half on Wednesday. My school's day is Wednesday, so I have that off as a holiday. William thought his was Wednesday also, but they changed it to Monday. So now he has to go to school on Wednesday. He was upset about that also. I thought about switching our day to Tuesday but now it is too late. You had to switch before yesterday and I didn't do it. I probably should have.
He was looking at all the showbags they have. They have 385 this year. I hate the showbags but everyone else seems to think they are great. I have no idea why. Heavily overpriced junk that is not worth the trouble it takes to cart it around. The only decent things are the ones with candy in them but they are way overpriced for the candy you get. Every other bag has that cheap knockoff stuff with some logo on it or something. All of the bags are themed, so you get a bunch of stuff that has whatever it is you are buying tattooed on it. Things like Harry Potter, Barbie, racing, sports clubs, all sorts of things like that. There is a bag for everything. I didn't see the Dr. Pepper bag this year but I did see one with A&W root beer in it. Last year, they had one that you could mix and match for the Dr. Pepper and A&W, so I got a can of each. Not that I like it in the can but that was the only choice.
Speaking of Dr. Pepper, they have started selling big two litre bottles of it in Woolworths. Not all Woolworths, but one of the ones near me. The bottles are very strange. I don't know if they are that way in America, but they are tall and skinny and very thin plastic. You can't really hold one and drink out of it as the plastic crushes in and will make the Dr. Pepper shoot out. You have to pour it into a glass to keep that from happening. Of course, it is a two-litre bottle, so you wouldn't really be drinking out of it anyway. Or would you? The other issue is it is very very sweet. I don't remember it being that sweet and I know it is not that sweet in the cans you normally get. I don't think it is different, but it just seems extraordinarily sweet from the plastic bottle. I don't like drinking from cans when I have a choice, but this stuff is almost too sweet for me to drink. It only cost about $8 for a bottle and you might be saying $8 FOR A 2-LITRE BOTTLE. But that is cheap compared to the $4.50 you pay for a can and the $6 you pay for a 600ml bottle. I have never bought the 600ml bottle as it has always seemed way overpriced for me, but I might have to try it to see if it is sweet as well. Compared to all other soft drinks, they are about twice the price for regular stuff like Coke, but the Dr. Pepper is 'imported' so it costs more. I am not sure where it is imported from, but it is in the exotic section of the shops that sell imported stuff. That is another reason it is weird to find it in Woolworths.
Of course, now that I have gone on and on about Dr. Pepper, it is time for me to leave. I guess I do not have time to type anything else, so I will just end it with that. Maybe I will have more news from the doctor tomorrow, or more news that the kids are looking forward to the show. I never finished the talk about the showbags, so there is that. But I have to go, so toodles.
Until next time,
Later
Remember
It will all be ok in the end, and if it's not ok, then it's not the end.
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