A bit hot today. In Westminster, it was 90+, and in downtown Baltimore, where we were, it was 95, except in the Hopkins parking lot, where It was 104!
I saw a Hopkins dermatologist and he said my legs looked ok. I am to continue wearing Jobst support stockings each day, and he suggested that I buy some more so I won't run short while a couple are being washed.
While at Hopkins, we also got to see Nurse Kelly Carnacio (sp?) ... I gave her one of my Joe Vaughan Fan Club pens and congratulated her on the award she got from my write-up. She is a great nurse, and a nice person.
After Hopkins, Elaine and I went to the nearby Hollywood Diner for lunch. Elaine had a bountiful spinach salad, followed by chocolate cake. I had a vegetarian omelet, grits, and two orders of wheat toast with butter and preserves.. all washed down by about 5 cups of decaf coffee. Good Baltimore stuff.
We left the diner at 4 pm and got caught in a super slow traffic backup.. by masterful taxi driver maneuvers, I was able to extricate ourselves from the snag.. and we made it home by 6:30 PM. Two and one half hours for a one hour drive. Oh Well... I'll bet there are still some cars left in the backup.
New Bedford Shindig
We got an invitation to help celebrate the "homecoming" of the whaling ship The Charles W. Morgan to its former homeport of New Bedford, Massachusetts. This was the ship that I played on as a kid. On June 28, there will be a Homecoming Gala, consisting of a tour of the refitted vessel, cocktails, dinner and appropriate seafarer entertainment. I'd love to go, but our medical situations would not allow it.
Westminster Circus
Carroll County election officials raised the devil last week about candidates and their helpers blocking the Senior Center entrance and taking up all the parking spaces.. and also acting like it was a "circus" instead of a serious attempt at early voting. But the circus atmosphere did not seem to deter people from voting.. so far, the total votes cast early has exceeded those in 2010. (I wonder if it's anything to do with all those people who switched from Democrat to Republican to game the system, like folks may have done for a certain big-shot candidate from Virginia.)
Supremes on Guns
The Supreme Court has now ruled that the Federal Government can strictly enforce laws that ban a "straw" purchaser from buying a gun for someone else. The case concerned a Virginia man who bought a gun, with the intention of transferring it to his uncle in Pennsylvania.
African Violence Again
In Nairobi, Kenya, Somali Al-Shabab members went door to door in a coastal town. They asked the inhabitants if they were Muslims and spoke Somali. If not, the men were killed as their wives watched. (The year is 2014, and we still have monsters killing their fellow humans.. and, of course, stealing young girls. Civilization.. where are you?)
Interesting Person
Sixty years ago, Martin Rothblatt was born. At age 34, he had sex-reassignment surgery and became Martine Rothblatt. She has been married for 32 years, and has four children. In 1960 she founded a company that evolved into Sirius XM Radio. Currently, she has teamed up with a biotech company to develop pigs with genetically modified organs for transplantation into humans. She has a lot of money and has the motivation to use it for the good of all. Let's hope she and Bill Gates give more money to cancer research.
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