Rant #3,976: He's Got the Whole World In His Hands (Not)

How was your 4th of July? 

Mine was pretty quiet, even with hearing the fireworks in the distance.

My son worked--in the second straight day of more than 100 degrees of oppressive heat--so I had to take him to work and pick him up later on.

My wife and I had a quiet barbecue--just hamburgers and hot dogs--and that was pretty much it.

I digitized some records--honoring the holiday, I digitized some Paul Revere and the Raiders stuff, and getting into a New York groove, I did the same for Dion and the Belmonts--and I also watched some baseball--which I quickly turned off, as the Yankees were getting firecrackered by the Twins.

And that is pretty much it.

On Friday, it was 108 degrees, and on Saturday, it was 101 degrees, so my neck of the woods was frying.

These are not official temperatures, as the official readings come out of Islip, which is in central Suffolk County, many miles away from where I am--

But I go by my car thermostat, and where I am, it was what I said it was.

We are a bit more wide open where I am, so the readings are going to be higher.

I don't know how my son works in such weather, but it is his job, and he does what he has to do to keep cool.

He is drinking plenty of water--I think on Saturday, he said he drank seven bottles of water during his five-hour shift--so he is hydrated.

Sunday was just another day--and another day of work for my son--where the temperature finally fell.

In the morning, it was in the high 70s, but the problem was that the humidity was about 100 percent yet it wasn't raining.

It got into the low 80s in the afternoon, and still no rain.

It was warm, but Mother Nature was a little more reasonable in the heat department.

And people were parked all around where my son works, as the air show took place on Sunday afternoon.

Cars, trucks, people all over the place!

And today, we all come back to reality--

And I certainly do, because for the first time in a few weeks, today, I have a doctor's appointment.

Nothing major, but I still have to go to the doctor to begin my annual physical, so I just hope that the doctor doesn't find anything else wrong with me.

I still have up and down days related to my last surgery--not even a month ago--but I am feeling better.

I still have my eye problem, which is going to have to be taken care of later in the summer.

So I am not 100 percent--which is my ultimate goal--but perhaps I am getting there.

And that is that.

I go to this latest doctor's appointment with some hesitancy, but not with complete and utter fear like I had during the other such appointments and procedures and surgeries.

And today begins work again, not that July 4th stopped me, as I still handed in work and also edited/wrote something that I handed in today.

It's July 6th, and this mixed-up world we live in continues to revolve--

And you and I are just minor pieces of that puzzle ...

A puzzle that needs to be put together, and put together with every piece in its correct place.