Sunday ; Sunny and hot.
Joanne has an inner ear and Eustachian canal infection that is slowly on the mend. I have a severe toothache under a capped/crowned back tooth. Decay ? Abscess ? Cracked tooth stub ? I need to see a dentist on an emergency basis VERY SOON !
This morning we left Sky Valley Resort at 11:30 AM heading east to Indio, Palm Springs’ most easterly “suburb”. We had lunch at Lala’s, a waffle, crepe, and milkshake restaurant that is a favourite of Joanne’s. Food was good, service not so much. After lunch we drove a short distance to attend a matinee performance of Neil Simon’s “I Ought To Be In Pictures” at Desert TheatreWorks. Great story, only three characters, two of them horribly miscast in this production, lots of “flubbed” lines, inept sound management. Well beneath Desert TheatreWorks’ usual standards of excellence.
Maybe the two gay owner/operators of Desert TheatreWorks should not have cast their thirteen year old daughter in the role of a “young woman”, perhaps an eighteen to twenty year old character. Perhaps they should employ a more competent sound manager than their young adult son. Ah, well … nepotism is obviously still alive and well in the theatre world in Palm Springs!
After the play ended we drove a short distance to Vallarta, a nearby Mexican supermarket, to see how it compares to the Vallarta supermarket location in Tulare, California, our favourite Mexican supermarket. We did not know until recently that there was a Vallarta location here in the Palm Springs area. We browsed the Vallarta store, replenishing groceries, including buying some new (to us) types of pan dulce (Mexican pastries).
We arrived back home shortly after 6 PM, after nightfall, tired and both suffering from our maladies. Some drugs and later a light supper helped us feel a bit better.
Monday ; Sunny and hot.
Another routine day filled with mineral pool exercising and soaking, napping, exercise walking, preventive maintenance chores, reading, photo processing and posting, online doomscrolling on Twitter, watching Olympics on TV, etc. … HA HA HA !
Tuesday ; Sunny, chilly, extremely windy.
After an early lunch I headed into Desert Hot Springs to have the truck fluids serviced. A week ago I gave up on the “quick lube” type businesses and made an appointment at an old fashioned auto service station in nearby Desert Hot Springs. The quote given a week ago for truck fluids service was $350, the time estimate was 3 hours. The actual bill today was $455 and the service time was 4.25 hours. I’m not certain that I made the right decision !
Wednesday ; Sunny, chilly, and windy.
After almost two decades of spending our winters in the United States we have had a long held belief, based on watching prime time TV commercials that U.S. “big pharma” creates a lot of “solutions” to problems that don’t exist. Tonight we watched two back to back “medical advertising” commercials, a concept that doesn’t really exist in universal healthcare Canada. The first one convinced us that “now we’ve seen everything”. It was for a new product, a $90 “personal” ECG machine, so that “now you can take your own ECG, daily or even twice per day”. HA HA HA ! Just what old guys with cardiac conditions and OCD … like me … need ! ! !
And then … <sputter> … the second commercial came along, and blew away the first ! HA HA HA HA HA … a new drug that helps … “along with daily exercises and stretching” … straighten out “bent” erections. Maybe I should get me some of that ? ! ? <ROFLMAO>
And the third commercial in the series was advertising a new Palm Springs area “Disney themed residential development”. HUH ? ! ? What the hell is a Disney themed residential development ? ? ? A neighbourhood with fire hydrants that look like Goofy ? Stop signs held up by a scowling Donald Duck ? ? ?
This afternoon Joanne went shopping by herself in Palm Desert. It’s the first time in a very long time that she has driven the truck. And an even longer time since she’s driven it by herself in an “unfamiliar” urban area. She did fine !
Thursday ; Sunny and cool.
We didn’t go anywhere or do much of anything today. Joanne continues to feel unwell due to an inner ear and Eustachian canal infection. And I continue to suffer with a toothache. <sigh>
Friday ; Sunny and very warm.
Good weather has returned. So we today we had a long exercise session in the mineral warm pool and followed by a soak in the mineral hot pool. And just before dusk we went for a long walk.
This morning I phoned our family doctor back in Canada and made appointments for each of us in two months, immediately upon our return home. This afternoon I received a phone call from the Palm Desert dentists’ office where I had an “emergency” appointment for next Monday morning to deal with my toothache. I didn’t like their attitude, I didn’t like their “displeasure” at me not having dental insurance, and I didn’t like them asking stupid questions that I had already answered in their online new patient questionnaire, so … I cancelled Monday’s appointment ! Later in the evening I did some online research, then made an appointment to see a dentist in Nuevo Progreso, Mexico in a few weeks when we arrive in the Rio Grande Valley in Texas.
Saturday ; Sunny and hot.
SO … we had another lazy day.
DSK
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