Not the b...

Not the best couple of days.androkles continues in poor health and is very low on the mood-swing meter. The tempest in a teapot that he got into on another person’s journal, which was in part a result of his own testy mood but mostly the result a plain nastiness from some fuckchop he has had no previous interaction with, hasn’t been helpful. He was off to the eye-hospital early this morning to see if they can provide some treatment for the painful aftermath of shingles in and around his eye.He needs a lot of support, both physical and spiritual and after my recent bout of ill health. I’ve been feeling that I haven’t been up to par on both fronts. This has caused me to be feeling a bit low too.I sometimes feel that I’m not doing as well as I should but I realise that feeling guilty isn’t going to help and that no-one else is likely to volunteer for the position. Besides, cuddle-wise, the job has its compensations.All the more reason to be thankful to all of you who provided me with such fun in response to the recent “brush with fame” game . It lifted the spirits.I’m finding the California recall saga nearly incredible but then I remember they made Reagan Governor, then President. Arnie wants to savagely cut-back on spending,(read welfare, services, poverty programmes), which will translate as more poverty, more drugs, more crime, more high-security enclaves for the rich, even higher incarceration rates if that’s possible and even more money for cash-strapped superstars). The cost of his teeth alone could pay off the national debt of a small country. In the Us, as here, it seems that when an administration finds that a state or country is living way beyond its means, the first resort is to whack the poor, not the grasping CEO’s or bloated fat-cats. Why shouldn’t the wealthy pay proportionally more for the provision of services to the public?. It’s the same public that comprise the market from which they derive their often obscene benefits.That’s all for now because, as we’ve been told, bellyaching is Bad !!! (Actually, from my observations, it is one of lj’s most beneficial, cathartic, therapeutic functions.)