Thursday Oatmeal and Coffee Time

A good night’s sleep and a pain-free morning equals a good day. We are certain now what cures the pain, an anti-inflammatory cortical steroid. Now we need to figure out what’s causing the pain, so we’ve added an antibiotic to my daily, increasing pill intake. I’ve never hoped I had a bacterial infection before, but I am now. If the inflammation causing the pain isn’t an infection, that means it could come back. I will live in fear of that event for some time,  like the victim of a violent crime.

What’s also interesting is the pain which hasn’t gone away. My neck still hurts, as does my right thumb joint. Being it such, Ipso facto, ergo, the pain in my neck and my thumb joint are not caused by inflammation, otherwise the steroid should have worked on them too. So if inflammation isn’t the cause of the pain, why is there pain? I must be old because I have an old man’s medicine cabinet chock full of the fruits of the pharmaceutical industry. But enough about me.

• The Waukesha School District is talking about closing three more schools. Remember when one of the things you used to pick the neighborhood you lived in was by the school your kids would attend?
• In a year where I’m not getting a COLA in my pension and reflecting on recent events, have decided to avail myself of the opportunity provided by the federal retiree open season in November to opt into one of the dental insurance plans available to me, the Waukesha School District is raising their part of your property taxes to the max.
• E-mailer Steve Edlund says:

Well, it’s official. This evening the Waukesha School Board approved a tax rate increase of 10.9%. 6 voting for, and 1 good neighbor with a conscience against, Patrick McCaffree. 2 board members were absent.
How does anybody charge their neighbors a double digit tax increase in the middle of the worst recession for the right to stay in their home? I hope the Larry Nelson’s teacher union is dam proud of their guys and gals. To the young man who asked me if the protest sign was mine and why, and responded to me by saying he was honored (to be a student in WSD);  son you are sooooooo screwed by the debt you owe and don’t yet realize it.

• The government ran out of flu vaccine. Why do people trust the government to do what they say they’re going to do?
• The “jobs” delivered by the the trillion dollar stimulus plan, for instance. Government is the problem.
• Lock your house.
• Pewaukee is still hemming and hawing about the police. Pull the trigger or bite the bullet would seem more than appropriate to say.
• In something of a controversial move for the über-conservative Waukesha County Museum, they have decided to display that white deer shot in Waukesha County.
• The Tuesday and Wednesday police blotter.
• Wigderson presents the only current announced Democratic candidate for governor. An 18-year old.
• Tom Barrett is the leading unannounced Democratic candidate, but why? Because the City of Milwaukee is going so well? I don’t mean to tell the Dems their business, but their candidate should be Dick Leinenkugel, Dept. of Commerce secretary. What yahoo cheesehead is going to vote against a Leinie?
• Thursday Sound Off.