Another 🙏 for brother Frankie.

Mornin' dudes... 🌫

Next five days are to be colder and generally wetter than normal.

Off to the shpo.

I won't brag about the D-Back being 2-0 on the Dodgers since Al is having surgery. Good luck buddy.

Working until Sunday morning then flying to CA Sunday evening and working till the following Tuesday and back to work Weds. Today was going to be my packing day but I left my checklist at work. I always forget something important so I need to work off a checklist. I'll just have to do a little every day.

Booked a parking space at ohare. I usually park at the Ohare Marriott because they have had the best rates in the past. They still do, but everybody raised rates so there goes another $200. I hate flying in/out of ohare, much prefer Midway with onsite parking for $15/day and shuttles that run continuously no waiting to go back/forth to the parking garage. Ohare's shuttle lanes are a mess and the Marriott shuttle is just every 30 min.

Then I cut the grass. I think I had a stroke. 😟

Would it not be cheaper to take a shuttle like Uber, Lift, or pay someone to drop you off?

Maybe. I looked jnto it a year or two ago and the cost to hire a ride was $80 each way. If I could even get an Uber or whatever.

I asked wife to do it she said no.

I live about 1.5 hours from the airport and I'm flying in and out pretty late at night.

I think they run 24 hours a day with pick up and drop off every 30 minutes. Great deal. Tolls alone to drive into Logan is probably $30, then add in gas and the headache of driving and parking at the airport - ugh. Logan is pretty painful to get into and out of traffic wise. I'd rather chew on aluminum foil for 2 hours than drive into Logan. I'll leave the hassle up to the bus driver. The bus company must have some deal or related to the state and/or the airport and/or the airlines.

The busses are nice too. It's a tour bus type of vehicle. Clean and the seats are more comfortable then the ones you're gonna be seated with on the plane (I'm not rich enough to buy 1st class seats).

I don't think I'll drive myself of ask anyone else to drive me into Logan the rest of my life. Way easier and cheaper to use the bus shuttle service.

When I go back to WI to visit family usually the best prices are flying into O'Hare. Then take a puddle jumper from there to Green Bay. I also look into Milwaukee and Detroit but typically flying into Chicago and a transfer to the puddle jumper to GB is cheaper.

Decades ago I used to use Midwest Airlines and fly out of Providence, RI (or was it Hartford, CT?) and flew into Chicago Midway Airport using Midwest Airlines. Back in the day Midwest Airlines served patrons real food and warm chocolate chip cookies. Sadly they are no longer in business.

If we go to a wamrer climate, will drive to Milwaukee, then to Detroit, Minneapolis or Atlanta.

I went to the hospital, went into pre-op and was dressed in a hospital gown, lying on the hospital bed, hooked to an IV...before the anesthesiologist arrived, my Orthopedic doctor who scheduled the surgery back in June, came in to see me.

She asked how I felt and what was going on with my wrist and thumb...I told her that after she injected the area with cortisone back in June, the wrist and thumb has felt better and the pain was minimal...that was the purpose of the cortisone...to reduce the pain until surgery...I told her I could now do most things with my left hand but it isn't as strong as before....I demonstrated the flexibility by touching the tip of the thumb to the tips of the other fingers, which I was unable to do back in June.

She looked pleased and said that although she enjoyed doing surgery and had a lot of experience doing the procedure, she said my wrist and thumb seem to be much improved since my visit in June. She poked and prodded and agreed that a bone spur at the base of the thumb, which was prominent then has disappeared. She said in rare instances the bone and cartilage improve and fuse, resulting in less pain and improved function...and this could be the case. She said there was no guarantee that surgery would make things better, and there was a risk that it would make things worse. Her best advice at this time, what she would tell me if I were a family member, was to postpone the surgery for a while. She said if I need the surgery down the road, she would be ready.

I agreed, got dressed and left the hospital...relieved and hopeful the wrist and thumb remain healthy and relatively pain free.