Whew! what a trip!

I took time away from the keyboard & net today to roam far and wide... Okay, not so far, but certainly wide. I'm thinking about losing some weight, though.

ex sailorette had an appointment at the VA hospital in Iowa City, so I hopped on board her van to keep her awake on the drive (those early morning appointments can be killers, when there's a 2-hour road trip before you can walk in the door).

Ex sailorette promises she's going to blog about the issues she'd been having as a woman dealing with the Veteran's Administration and some of its lesser bureaucrats. I won't step on her toes over that, because she has some real tales to tell -- as well as some good guys to laud. She's just been having some trouble with (a) her health, and (b) her computer, so she has had some difficulty getting any blogging done, so far, but we're working on getting her set up to get some venting done soon, or at least to spend some time braving things out in blogs. She's a lot tougher than some people think she is, but, sadly, she's not so tough she can sit at a computer all day with a degenerating disk or two in her spine.

But I can say, the VA psych ward had some marines who were real sissies (wink wink). We were sitting in the waiting room, doing what the name of the room says we're supposed to do, and we got to talking about pet woes, with ordinary "mommy" problems like big hunks of ear wax in the ears of our fluffy nutty bunny-heads, and like one of her shih-tsus finding tasty baby ruths in the kitty litter box. No big, right? But the guy two seats down from me got up and moved across the room.

Apparently, one of these big hulking fellows -- who, by the look of him probably saw active duty in 'Nam -- had some trouble listening to the conversation between a pair of bipolar, pet-loving females. Squeamish? Horrors!

If anybody hears about this from the guy's perspective, tell him we're not ashamed, but I apologize if he was too grossed out. There was no malice in our banter. We don't pick on servicemen, active or other. We're just a leeettle nuts, is all.