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THANK GOD IT'S SUNDAY

 Yesterday began as the worst day of my life this year.

  • I awoke at around 3AM to go to the bathroom, but my right knee hurt so much that I had extreme difficulty just getting there.
  • When I returned, I tried to turn the TV set on.  The cable box was okay, but the screen stayed black.  Oh no, just when I wanted to see who won presidency I need to buy a new TV set.  But how, as I could not even walk.
  • So I tried to go back to sleep.  As I was finally dozing off, it occurred to me that, maybe, the batteries in the remote control were dying.  But why one and not other?
  •  I finally woke up at around 6AM.  The TV still could not be turned on.  So I did change the batteries.  Voila.  The TV worked.
  • Joe Biden was pronounced President-Elect.  The TV was okay, Biden beat Trump, but my knee still hurt, badly.
  • I hobbled around with a cane all day.  It was around two years ago that a similar thing happened to me. But it was my right hip.  I got so concerned that I went to Amazon.com and ordered a walker.  It was a pain to put it together, but folded up it is under the sofa bed.  Do I take it out?  Can't because of my condition, but I can call someone from maintenance to do this for me.  But I just used that cane.
  • I thought about calling the clinic to come up to take my temperature, something we had to do every day, but instead, with unbelievable fortitude, using a cane, got to throw out my breakfast trash and went down to the basement to get my temperature taken.
  • Watching TV, there was no pain when I sat, except that getting up was a problem.  In any case I remained happy, for Biden had won.
  • At 6PM I began watching the University of Hawaii vs University of New Mexico football game.  Getting to the bathroom was another big effort.  We were behind 20-8 in the first half.
  • Then, at 9:45, Hawaii won, 39-33.  Got up to take a shower and my knee pain had largely disappeared.  Still delicate, but no cane.
  • Got up this morning, and no knee pain.  Biden was still President-Elect and Hawaii had won.  The TV set works well.
Thank God it's Sunday, a day I like most in the week anyway?  Why?  Because I rest my body and don't do any morning knee therapy or afternoon conditioning exercises.

Incidentally, for those wondering why it took so long for Georgia and Pennsylvania to count their votes, note that the former is at 99% and latter at 95%.  In comparison, Alaska (less than 60%--here is an explanation as to why so low), New Jersey (80%) and California (87%).  It just takes a long time for states to do this.

I usually skip inserting Sunday data from Worldometer data, but:

From Worldometer:

        DAY  USA  WORLD   Brazil    India    South Africa

June     9     1093    4732        1185       246          82
July    22     1205    7128        1293      1120         572
Aug    12     1504     6556       1242       835         130
Sept     3      1094    5886        830     1083         174
            9      1208    6222        1136      1168          82
Oct      8        957    6420         730       967        160
          20       952     6169           662       714       164
          21     1225     6849            571       703         85
          27     1039      7023          530       519         45
Nov     4      1199       8192          276       511         74 
            5      1201      9067          622       704        46
            6      1248      9082         256       576         72
            7      1031       7445          251       557         40


Summary:
  • Those above graphs are of the World.  Clearly, Humanity is into a bad new wave.  
  • 124,390 new COVID-19 cases for the USA.
  • France had 86,852 and Italy 39,809 new cases.
  • China had 33 new cases with no new deaths.
  • Japan 1132 new cases and 3 new deaths.
  • Hawaii 128 new cases and 1 new death.
  • Illinois 12,438 new cases and 91 new deaths.
  • Florida 4452 new cases and 87 new deaths
The New York Times this morning showed how bad hospitals are being affected in Europe, which is symptomatic of what will be happening to the USA in a week or so:



From TNYT today:

Since Hawaii, above in Honolulu, welcomed tourists back in mid-October — as long as they had a negative coronavirus test — more than 100,000 people have rushed to the islands from mainland states. The travel industry and the islands’ authorities say it may be a model for reopening international travel. But some locals object to being part of the experiment.

    I worry, too.

    I'm now at #51 of my favorite songs, and these are finalists:
    Smoke Gets in Your Eyes     was written by Jerome Kern and Otto Harbach for the 1933 musical Roberta, featuring Bob Hope, George Murphy, Fred MacMurray and Sydney Greenstreet.  The song was sung by Tamara Drasin, and first recorded by Gertrude Nielsen.  Yesterdays was another memorable song from this show.  The first hit release was by Paul Whiteman the following year.

    Roberta (RT: 86/65), the film, came in 1935, starring Irene Dunne, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers and Randolph Scott.
    Dunne not only sang my #52 song, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, but also Yesterdays and Lovely to Look At.

    Some of you might only remember the Platters' 1959 recording of Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, which peaked at #3. You might not have heard of the Glenn Miller version, recorded at Abbey Road Studios (same place as the Beatles) in 1944, but with his death, was not released until 1995.

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