Fresh New Day Lies Ahead, Possibility for new Routines

 I fell asleep on the narrow living room couch last night and woke up around 1 AM, feeling itchy and irritated.  By after three I was procrastinating getting up, but just before four I finally arose, and after running in place on the rug for 8 minutes, here I am on this chilly morning! Yesterday I had a pretty eventless chemotherapy infusion session at the UF Health Davis Cancer Pavilion, taking care now to avoid excessive eating. Spending a lot of money to do Dunin' Donut mobile app order seems to be taken off the table, too. We're expecting some good company to visit  us tomorrow.  I'll see if I can't put in a solid block of reading Khan's monstrosity novel Shadow Magic for today, March 18th.  Maybe all the unlikable characters (and I don't like any of them) will get wiped out and I'll be spared the anxiety of a suspenseful plot development.  Averaging about 20 pages of reading per day should keep me on pace to finish the book by month's end, and that is very possible considering how quickly I tore through the first four Harry Potter books at Books-a-Million 25 years ago.  And how about all those Stephen King/Richard Bachman novels? Of course, I tended to like those stories, and King has always been a master at character development.  Melissa has expressed expectation of me finlly getting my updated voter registration card in the mail today (or soon)...let's see if this can happen without me having to come out of retirement.  Yes, I'm tired of Trump on any level, and may the Iran ordeal settle down.  Our president seems to be content settling into Netanyahu's errand boy role, and the USA might get sucked into an expanded conflict against Hezbollah on "Bibi's" behalf.  Well, let's just see what today will bring: hopefully more and better sleep...

Mailed Off Ballot, Avoiding Political Stuff in Media

Today I decided to fill in my absentee ballot for the general election and mailed it off...good, glad to be done with it.  In a couple of days or so I'll track its progress online, until it's safely received at the Alachua County elections office.  I am confident in the ability of the United States Postal Service to process the mail-in vote for this election, but as you can see I didn't think that waiting any longer was called for...for the main races, with the presidential election obviously the most important...I had plenty, plenty of time and input over the past weeks, months, and years to make a clear decision.  And I'm a bit flustered as to why anyone at this late stage would still be undecided and dependent on what's going down in this final month before Election Day on November 3rd...such a voter is the prime target for late-hour shenanigans and manipulation that's going to plague the news and social media as the two sides jostle for advantages.  Justice Ginsburg dies, President Trump has coronavirus, looks like they're going to process a new Supreme Court justice...what else is going to happen before the "big event" 31 days from now?  Well, I proclaim myself to be out of the race as of now...if somebody wants my opinion or help I'll try to give it in an appropriate way, but I'm not going to allow myself to get pulled into the ugly, divisive political morass that is only growing and thickening. I'm happy that I can now watch sports on TV and tend to avoid the cable news channels with their "red meat" issues and spin intentionally designed to inflame the passions of viewers...you know, reading and listening to good music are also pretty good alternatives to the boob tube.  Oh, I'll still get my news and stay informed...I just think I'll stay away from others running everything into the ground with their analysis and dubious theories...