Rant #3,595: Relax

So, I had that growth removed from my scalp ...

Evidently, it was already removed when I was at the dermatologist a few weeks ago, which I wasn't told when I was called by the receptionist and she told me I had a pre-cancerous lesion, and that I had to come back to the office to have it removed.

So during yesterday's visit, I just had that painful freezing spray applied to the area, and I was done.

I don't know if I was in there for a minute.

It wasn't much ado about nothing ... more like an anti-climax, but whatever the case, at least it is over and done with.

I just want to be whole as we enter the final days of the year.

I am still having some after-effects from the prostate procedure I had done, but otherwise, I am doing pretty well.

Work--even the remote kind that I do--has been impossible lately, so I have been quite busy with that, and it is good to be busy, but not crazy busy, like this.

In between, I absolutely do not sit in front of the TV all day; I try to at least keep moving rather than sitting.

I digitize my records--I might be 150 before I am done--but yes, I do watch some TV.

One of the shows I used to watch on occasion was The Michael Kay Show on the YES Network, which was simulcast from its radio origins.

Now, after 22 years, Kay--the Yankees TV announcer--has moved on to another show, and at least right now, YES is not simulcasting either the new show replacing the original Kay show, nor the new Kay show, so if I am not overloaded with work to do at 3 p.m.--as I was pretty much all of last week--that option is now out.

At 7:30 p.m., once all of the local and national news shows are over for the early evening, I usually cast something to my TV to watch.

I have been doing this for months at this time of the day, and I have bounced around from one old TV show to another, from "The Abbott and Costello Sow" to "Mr. Ed," and seemingly everything in between.

For the past few months, I have been casting every short I can find from YouTube and Daily Motion related to the Our Gang/Little Rascals comedy shorts.

Of the more than 200 shorts, maybe about 50 are available on these sites, and I have watched two each night.

Thus was an incredible series to begin with, and watching these shorts between 80 and 100 years after the fact demonstrates how well these shorts have held up over the years.

They are still very funny, the kids remain engaging, and the scripts are generally very clever, even all these years later.

Sure, some of the humor is a bit over the top fir today's audiences, but taken for what they are, these shorts are not only funny, they give us a clear view of where we were as a society in the pre-World War II era and during the early war years.

They are a real cinema treasure, and even though I have probably watched most of these entries about 100 times each, if not more, I still marvel at these episodes, as I do continue to marvel at the kid actors, everyone from Farina to Stymie to Spanky and to Buckwheat--

What a talented bunch of kids they were!

So now that this health episode is over and done with, I hope that when I do have some time on my hands, I can really relax and when i have the time, watch what I want to watch when I want to watch it ...

Without a care in the world.