Mom took dad to his first doctor's appointment after being discharged from the hospital today and it's all good. Dad is doing well and he's even going to be allowed to use the recumbent bike (very low resistence and speeds). He even had a glass of red wine with dinner today (it was pasta from Heifer, with whole-wheat bread and salad).
He's still on about 8,000 pills and doing his breathing exercises with the blowing machine.
Things I have learned from the TV at the folks' house:
- Inspector Lynley's girlfriend is such a pain in the neck. When will he realize he and Havers are meant for each other???
- Chuck Dovish no longer does "Travelin' Arkansas." Well, he does, but for public TV.
- Some chick named "Susan" or something has local news ratings all wrapped up, and there's nothing Ann Jansen can do about it, nor her partner in anchordom Andy Richter (not his actual name, but what he looks like).
- Arkansas Mid-day news has hired a little gay Asian man — and I didn't think Ark. was ready for that!
- Norman Lear is still funny for the "Celebrex" ad crowd. Until you find out it's the one where Edith was raped, and then it's time to change the channel.
- CMT proves that just because Loretta Lynn is cool don't mean she has to surround herself with cool people in her "Country in my Genes" video. Also that there is a group of ugly, over-groomed men trying to look cool and hetero (their obvious non-heterocicity is not tied to their ugliness — I fully believe they recognize they are not hot and made a marketing decision to go for the only music scene that accepts conventionally ugly men as stars) and people are, apparently, buying it.
- No matter what you're age, that 1 1/2-minute Hillary Duff video demands you watch it if you stumble across it. Is it her new veneers?
- Pulaski Heights United Methodist Church needs to up its lighting for its TV ministry.
- Antiques Roadshow NEVER gets old. And mom knows the theme song for "History Detectives." Or she made one up, which is a scary thought.
Dad is almost done with his Hamilton bio. Mom compared his obsessive reading of it to her students who read Harry Potter or "Red Wall," whatever that is. Mom is working on school stuff. Shelby just wants a place to lay his little head, that poor old leprous dog.
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