I brought home a lot of books from the library and they have
been such losers. One was South of Ressurection by Jonis
Agee. The writing was good but the characters were so hopeless and had so little to live for that I skipped to the
end rather than follow them through their travails. One book
of short stories was called Wake and it was depressing. I
hate characters who have no gumption or get up and go. These
books won all kinds of awards. I don't know when an absorbing
story got to be old fashioned. I still have some more in my
book bag, the law of averages should mean one good one.

I, too, have been organizing and trying to get a lot of housework done. I cleaned some of the grout in the bathroom
with white vinegar, (you have to let it set and then scrub a
little but it works. Now I need to do the shower.

Bobby's surgery is Monday. He wants me to keep the girls
since it falls on Martin Luther King day and they are out of
school and he doesn't want Ellie to stay at the hospital
all day and no one to stay at night. I may go and stay at
night anyway because I think hospitals make a lot of mistakes.
When I had knee surgery they were prepping the right one and
I asked why they were doing that and they said the Dr had
told them they would be doing the right one. If I hadn't
raised hell I would have had a heck of a mal practice suit.
However the republicans have put a cap on medical mal practice in Oklahoma. I think it is 300,000. which wouldn't
be squat if you couldn't work again. Grr!