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Daily Journal, May 28, 29, 2019,

Tuesday/Wednesday post-holiday edition. We had good fun over the Memorial Day weekend at my parents’ in Athens, Ga. I bought a short stack of bargain bin records at a cool little thrift store . We ate hot dogs walked quite a bit and some of us swam.

ICYMI

Over the weekend I this posted on AL.com:

https://www.al.com/opinion/2019/05/the-top-15-my-vinyl-countdown-posts-at-the-half-way-mark.html

And Tuesday this posted.

https://www.al.com/life/2019/05/thank-you-judy-buckner-for-telling-us-how-bill-died.html

I used to think that when people use the term World War III, they are being hyperbolic. Not so sure now.

Reading this worries me:

https://www.al.com/opinion/2019/05/give-peace-a-chance-stay-out-of-middle-east.html

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Daily Journal May 20, 2019

So one person says there’s a Walmart commercial featuring Cocker that may have spurred some interest.

WalMart? Interesting. What song?

Another reader suggested was an American Idol singer, Wade Cotas, who did a spot-on version of Joe Cocker’s version of the Beatles ‘With a Little Help from My Friends.’ Cocker sang it at Woodstock.

(Cotas is good but after side by side watching I have to give Cocker the edge. )

Nobody seems to put more into a song than Cocker.

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Health-wise, I’m noticing my fluctuations. I’ll be a little shaky and a little more cloudy one day and on the next day I feel much better — almost feeling like I don’t have a disease. I am thankful for any time I get pre-disease clarity and try to time it to my work.

Sounds more difficult than it is — even though there have been some posts that I accidentally published with missing words and stuff.

Reminder Hoopsters: Assemble teams for Mike’s Madness only two months away. Here’s the link:

https://mikemadness.org/

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Daily Journal — May 1, 2019

9 am Good night’s sleep. Although my snoring apparently chased Catherine out of the room. Well, can’t have everybody happy.

Little acidic tummy this morning which I squelched with a couple of Tums. One thing this disease has done — or aging, or both — is slow down my metabolism. I’m gaining pounds just walking by the refrigerator.

6:34 pm: had to run off this post to go meet some folks with the LBDA. There was some basketball. I know sounds strange but I have a good story to tell
I still don.t know what happened.

Now I’m going to play again in my Old Man Hoops League.

Stay Tuned.

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Daily Journal April 30, 2019

Hunting and pecking this morning. It’s 7 a.m. I’m going to get some coffee and hope the meds kick in before Cat takes me to work..

9 a.m.: Got to work, hands better. I’ve got several things to do but here’s where the Lewy kicks in. I can’t make up my mind on what to get started on and I can’t seem to find my To-Do list. Now that would be funny except I need it. A lot of people ask me about symptoms and I can tell them about deterioration (mild) of fine motor skills. But it is harder to describe the thought processes and how they are changing. It’s like shagging fly balls when I was a Little Leaguer. I wasn’t super in the outfield. The fly balls would keep coming from the coach, faster faster. Run this way, run that way, here comes another one. Well that’s kind of how I feel sometimes that my mind won’t focus one thing. I try for one fly ball but then stop and check out the next one.

It’s funny we switched cable companies last week and had some problems with the transition. After working for while, our signal dropped out. The screen told us to check the input. Sure enough it was the old ‘wrong input’ ploy. Well I feel somebody’s (Lewy) is messing with my input. Like the Cable Guy I am trying to fix what is being processed by my brain using information that comes in through the input. I do this because the output, how I act talk and do what I do, is working like the movie on the telly. I’m feeling confident I have got this thing under control. (I may not be HD however.)

If you missed myvinylcountdown column on AL.com here it is.

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Daily Journal April 28, 29

As you can see I missed my 4/28 post. Well to be honest I forgot; I mean I actually remembered about mid afternoon but put it off and then forgot. Actually I was probably distracted by the afternoon lunch/brunch prepared at our house by dear friend Mary Porter. I had two helpings of a delicious dish of quinoa in a coconut milk sauce and chicken. Delicious and healthy. Also Sunday, Cat and I went for a long walk around HP golf course. If you take that walk you might consider strapping on a helmet for that part on Clairmont. We had one golf ball sail over out heads. Few minutes later we heard a golfer shout FORE and I nearly did a barrel roll on the sidewalk. Back when I was driving I remember a ball went over the fence and bounced right in front of my moving vehicle. Survival in the big city. Bye for now,