Rant #3,977: Digging Your Scene

Wow, we seem to go from the ridiculous to the completely absurd when it comes to our weather the past couple of days.

We went from historic more than 100-plus degrees days this past weekend to what we had yesterday, which was monsoon-type rain, at least in my neck of the woods.

We also dropped in temperature by about one-third, which means that it was 108 degrees on Saturday afternoon, and on Monday, it was in the 60s.

Nothing brings us all together more than the weather, and we really got hit on Monday.

There were, happily, no power outages in my area, but in other places, they weren't so lucky.

Also, there is a bug going around that my wife actually has right now, and no wonder ...

When you have temperature differences like this, people tend to get sick.

And then there are people who are just sick, period ...

As a family was shot at in Coney Island in Brooklyn, and several children were hit.

On Monday, my wife and I went to the doctor for the beginning of our annual checkup, and I have to say, so far, so good.

We will hear about how our blood work came out later in the week, but right now, everything else came up roses, thank goodness.

Our blood pressure is very good, everything else appears to be good--I even lost another pound or two--so we just await the results of the blood tests we had and if that comes out good, well, then ...

We are good to go, at least for six months, when we have our followups.

I, personally, have had enough negative health news this year, and maybe, just maybe, I can report something a bit better now that I am done with that trio of operations that I just concluded a month ago.

I sure hope so.

It just takes a lot out of you when you have such uncertainty swirling around your very being.

I need some good news on the health front.

As I have told you, I still need to get things done, but for right now, everything looks OK.

Time to move on.

After fasting until about 12:30 p.m. so that the blood work is genuine, I went right to work, wrote and edited a story, did some digitizing of my records--an endless job that I will, quite frankly, never finish because I have so many records to do--and I just took it a bit easy on Monday.

I am still in the middle of the "CD shuffle" I told you about the other day, but that is going to have to wait until I can get more storage units to put the letters L-Z into.

I decided that I had to clean out the trunk of my car, since it has basically been in the same state of mess since 2023, or when I first hurt myself.

I was doing it back then as we were moving to a new dwelling, but I got hurt, and it has remained the same way since then.

Now, it is time to clean it out, as honestly, I was using it as a storage space for some things as we prepared to move from the house I lived in for roughly 50 years.

Some things were added to the mess since then--like the brace I wore on my left leg for six months or so--because we had no place to put this stuff.

So now is the time to clean it up.

I kept shopping bags in there, too--New York State forces you to shop with vinyl bags and you have to pay for anything else--and when I finally clean out the trunk, there should be plenty of room to put the bags back in there.

But other things--like my son's first laptop computer from about 20 years ago and which doesn't work--remain in there, ready to be discarded.

It is truly amazing how much stuff you can squeeze into your car's trunk, but the time has come to clean it out.

Who knows what I will find in there?

Money, other riches, a pot of gold?

I doubt it, but the more you dig, the more you find.