Check-up

This morning I had my semi-annual check-up with my cardiologist.  He wants a cholesterol test to see how my arteries are doing.  My total cholesterol was the highest that it has ever been.  Being troubled over that, Dr. Dahl ordered another test.  Having another finger pricked for a blood sample, and having the test done took six minutes.  Test results were the same.  Now what?  More medication, changing my eating habits, or what?  I told him what medication I was taking.  One that he prescribed was missing.  On my last check-up six months ago, he prescribed Lisinopril, which is used to lower ones cholesterol l.  I thought he had me take lisinopril instead of the Zocor that I had been taking.  He then gave me a prescription for Zocor.  I hope that takes care of it.  I will see him again in six months

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The nurse took my vitals and they were all good, other than I had gained seven pounds.  I asked him to tell me how many years in this life do I have left to live.  We then discussed cancer patients who take various treatments and then they are told they may have five years or so.  Without medical intervention a patient may be expected to live three months or so. I asked him how many years I have left.  He thought a moment and said thirteen.  My date of death based on that statement will be 14 January 2024. That should give me plenty of time to repent.  I probably should repent now!  I will be 86 years old.  That probably won’t be too bad.  There are a lot of people who die before that. If I live six additional years, I will be able to witness the two hundredth anniversary of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day-Saints.  That will be kind of fun if I have all of my faculties.  I suppose that I will just have to wait and be productive in every way that I can.  He also told me that it would be alright to expand my business.

Eternal Marriage and Gay Couples

Fox news reported this morning that passport applications have been changed to be gay friendly. Instead of asking for parents of the applicant, they now ask for the name of parent one and of parent two. This pricked my brain a little bit and I wondered about birth certificates. There are a lot of babies born where the mother does not know whom is the father of her baby. How is that listed on the birth certificate? I suppose the words ‘unknown’ would be written on the line asking for the name of the father. Those that are adopted in the state of Utah, and probably most states, the adopters are listed as the parents on the birth certificate. It is easy to know who the mother is but there are times when no one knows who the father is.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day-Saints does proxy baptisms for their dead ancestors. Consider this scenario. A gay couple either male or female now adopts one or more children. Or in the event of female couple one or both of them become pregnant by artificial insemination using an oniminous sperm donor. Twenty or thirty years later a child of a gay couple, marries a person of the opposite sex. They have a family and their parents eventually die. After their parents are dead, the couple joins the Church. They go to the Temple and are sealed for all time and eternity. This presents a problem of being sealed to their parents. They may know who the mother is but they don’t know anything about a father. What is going to happen?

In and Out with the Junk

I have been doing some cleaning in my office, and coincidently I also sleep there. Not because I work 24/7, but because my office is in our bedroom. For many years we have brought many different things into our house and office. Clothes, magazines, dishes, food, etc. are examples of some of the things. There is not much that leaves except the usual garbage, such as cereal boxes, newspapers, empty cans and wrappers, and so forth. I could make a long boring list, but I will not. Today I got rid of old magazines and catalogs. I have a nursery and receive all kinds of magazines and seed catalogs concerning the nursery business. I did not weigh them but I am sure that there would be seventy-five pounds.

Don't get me wrong. Carol keeps a clean house, but I have over run the bedroom with all my junk. I am now trying make it look more like a bedroom than an junkie office.

Cleaning, I found things that I haven’t seen for years. I found a small book the belonged to Carol’s father that I don’t ever remember seeing before. There were some magazines and catalogs and calendars that were twenty years old. Some were still in their wrappers. When I put them away many years ago, I was sure I would read them at a later time, but never did.

If you take more money out of your savings account than you put in, there will come a time that the savings will be depleted. That is not a sustainable program. Is there one word that describes that behavior? If you spend more that you earn, you get deeper and deeper in debt then comes the time that you are so deep in debt you cannot do it any longer. That is not sustainable.

On the other hand if you take more out of the house than you bring in, you will eventually end up with a house that is completely empty. There for you want to get to a point what you bring in equals what you take out. Probably it will never be equal. You may have a deficit part of the time and a surplus part of the time. If you buy enough groceries to last a month at the first of each month, by the end of the month they will all be gone. If you pour water into a tub it will eventually fill up any you pour a quart in a quart will run our over the top. Is there a word for that?

Today I brought the mail and a newspaper into the house. And I took yesterday’s newspaper out of the house. Good job. I kept ¼ of the mail and ¾ of it went into the garbage.

Is there one word that describes the act of keeping a near balance of what is brought in and what is taken out? Is there another word that describes bring in more than you take out? Is there a word that describes taking out more that you bring in?