A very tiring week is nearly over.  Between my much lowered mental and physical stamina (the result of long years of psych drugs as well as normal aging) and my still-not-healed foot, getting outside is not easy.  Well, getting out is easy, just making it all the way back home is not.  The nearest bus stop is nearly a half-mile away, which means at least a mile of walking no matter what, and when I get downtown or elsewhere there is ofter a lot of walking from place to place…  usually, because of this, I only schedule trips out into the world once or twice per week, but today will be my 4th consecutive day out.  Added to that the fact that I got almost no sleep Monday night before starting this hectic week, and insufficient sleep the following two nights… I got to bed a full 6 hours early for me last night, and the result is I am up before sunrise instead of my usual Stroke of Noon.  Hopefully I’ll be able to relieve my brain of sufficient amounts of stuph that I can go back to sleep soon.  I’m not due on the bus today until 1:10 (which means leaving the house at 12:55 at the latest).]

My podiatrist is now saying that my foot may not be fully healed until as late as October; prior to the surgery he stated that it should only take a couple months to heal, now it’s a full year.

My mother is home now… happened last week, I think Wednesday, but I didn’t mention it here.  Now she can drive Dad crazy because she is home rather than because she is not, LOL.

I did spend another 3 hours of facetime on URTV’s “Mad Scientist’s Tea Party” yesterday.  I also was told that the odds are that the “Ellen B Show”, which my interview appeared on the first AND second weeks of January, was likely to have run 3-4 times other than the usual scheduled slot each of those weeks.  The URTV schedule has very many open slots still.  (To watch URTV, you have to live in Buncombe County NC *and* be a Charter Cable subscriber.)

Asheville Homeless Network has yet to find that special individual or two to run our volunteer programs.  We’re still getting applicants, many of whom do not write back when I answer them.  I don’t know if it is that the job(s) is (are) too huge or that I sound a tad bit pessimistic about someone wanting to do them.  Never was much of a salesman, but you can’t accuse me of not painting a full picture, if perhaps leaning a bit on the blues.  Our donations this year are about 50% above what our usual was before that huge donation in July… hard to get excited after that one, and wish we could get more like that.  I’m ordering a book on grant writing, maybe we can hit Bill and Melinda up for a few dozen grand…

Hugs,
Me