no The dementia, diaries, IX
February 19, 2023
my brother, who is eight years younger than I, and I are compiling a list of places where our family lived. My brother who was two years younger than me passed away so he can’t help I’m sorry to say. I believe we have 10 places before I got to high school.
that made me think of all the offices I had at FAU. I occupied at one time or another 10 rooms there. I ended up in temporary buildings about a half a mile from the rest of the department. I moved around to different places after the large recording donation was made… no one else really cared about the records. I needed to have an office where I could store the records and that’s why I ended up in the temporary buildings. They had been built in 1943 when it was an air base. my last office in T10 had been a radar training facility.
in the end, the library took the collection. I requisitioned the school truck to move the recordings from my office to the library. It was an exciting day because we discovered the school truck had no brakes, and we therefore could only go fast enough so that we could coast to a stop at a stop sign.
here’s a dementia joke for you that I just made up. Why do dementia patients make the best forgers? Because they paint the same picture over and over again. Why is it easy to play a dance in the dementia ward? You only need to know half of one song, and none of the words. I have to put my jokes down when I think of them because I forget them very quickly that’s another one huh? as I say if you don’t put your jokes down, someone else will.
our avian vet passed away suddenly around a month ago at the age of 69. Saturday was his ceremony of remembrance. I couldn’t go. Kathy went. I couldn’t go because I don’t go to funerals. I didn’t even go to my brothers. Why don’t I go? I’m not equipped emotionally for it. My wife brought home the card from the ceremony and I cried when I read it. I would have been a mess there. it is some consolation that I was there for him two times when he needed help desperately. Once was during a hurricane when I went and sat in the Long gas lines so that his generators could keep the birds, warm and alive. the other time was when he needed to move his office to his new facility, and he had waited too long. it was one of those sitcom deals where we had until midnight to get everything out of the office and then into the new one, including all the birds, sick and or being boarded. we made it his new facility which was so wonderful. And I am grateful that he got to use it for some years.
March 27
I live quite a ways off the interstate. Probably 3 miles. I’m in my backyard in my hot tub, and I hear all the cars revving their engines and running through all the gears as fast as they can. this goes on in the middle of the day, and in the middle of the night.
I have a theory about the people who have these cars. If I tell you many of them have very large pick ups it would be a clue. I would be willing to bet $25 at least 3/4 of the people doing this are white males out of high school and in their 20s. I could go further out on a limb, and say that they are all Republicans, MAGA, and white Christian nationalists. But then I repeat myself.
I am old and crabby so I can say that I’m happy that the people that are doing this craziness are the same people that want the country to end. Ironically, many of them do meet their end.