We've all got trouble sometimes, but when it's trouble with your kid, well it messes with you in ways I can't even describe. Last week there was an incident at school, the details aren't that important, Danny tried to hurt himself and we can't have that. We already had the name of an excellent child psychologist who specializes in kids on the spectrum and he was willing to clear some time to do an emergency risk assessment and see Dan right away.

You guys are getting the short shrift tonight, not because I want to, because I thought I'd get up and with an urge to write, but what I got up with was an urge to pee. Not that strange, happens to a lot of people, but when I went to pee...oh, problem! It would seem I have a UTI, or as we say at chez triv, the pissers and, yes, I am a little pissy.

As most of you know, I am on SSDI, and I spent a good portion of the day yesterday debating with somebody who was either being deliberately disingenuous or possibly just moronic.  I kind of doubt anybody is quite that stupid, though. This person just continually insisted that the  "superlative" CPI the president is proposing is not a cut. I beg to differ. Oh, and so does anybody with a lick of sense and a rudimentary understanding of math.

WTF, Canada? Why are you sending all that cold air down here? Look, I watched the weather last night, I know it's you. My kid wants sidewalk chalk in his Easter basket. How the hell is he supposed to use it on a cold, wet patio? Now, it's supposed to be Spring, knock this shit off.

Yeah, I'm a little crabby. It all started with a little tingle on my lip, so I started the Abreva right away, and that usually works, but not this time--fever blister. Next, pressure in my face. Hey, aren't you supposed to get the sickness or the fever blister, not both? Why am I getting both? 

So, I go to the doctor yesterday and towards the end of the visit I mention--hey, I've been watching every single thing I put in my mouth for a good six weeks now and that damn scale hasn't moved. I do not understand it! I'm doing the same exact thing that has always, always worked for me before and nothing! Is this because I'm fifty now? I mean, wtf?