Portland, Oregon

Portland, Oregon

Monday, August 22, 2016

Brain Fried

While it was 55 degrees this morning I went for a crisp walk. While I'm mostly reading books these days I do still listen to books while walking. That's controversial but I still do it.  I use only one ear bud, telling myself I'll be able to hear anyone coming up behind me, not, but I kid myself that way.

Currently I'm listening to A Man Called Ove, a book I can highly recommend.
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I've decided some Americans are brain fried. I see the subject of transgender bathrooms is in the news again. Since I'm having such a hard time understanding why so much media time is being devoted to this subject I decided perhaps there was something important about transgender people that I've missed throughout my 74 years. If something bad is about to get me I certainly want to know about it. How do you know you're in the bathroom with a transgender person? I've never seen one that I know of, but then I don't go around looking under the doors of bathroom stalls.

I decided I'd better check into this so I went to my first source of all knowledge Wikipedia, and looked up the term transgender. I discovered there was a lot I didn't know about the subject, and I was able to determine that I'm in no danger from using a bathroom with a transgender person.

I'm at a total loss to know why Senator Ted Cruz is so panicked that a transgender person might enter a bathroom his little girls are using. I suppose I would counsel him to stand at the bathroom door and check the genitalia of all persons entering and see where that gets him.
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Tomorrow I will be calling the cardiologist's nurse to report on Bob. Not sure exactly how that's going to go but I have to give it a try.

He doesn't share my idea of how you weigh when you're dealing with fluid retention. He prefers to weight on at least two sets of scales so I've eliminated that problem by hiding our second set.

One time he will weigh wearing shoes, jeans, billfold, keys, and belt.

Next time may be underwear only.

Sometimes it's socks jeans, billfold, keys, and belt.

Other times it's socks and jeans.

Accuracy is not a word in his vocabulary.

21 comments:

  1. I must have a short attention span, or inability to commune with myself for long periods of time because when I walk I always listen to an audio book. It helps me put aside the whining after the first 15 minutes.
    You have my vote on the transgender issue. I figure they have a difficult enough life already without being fixated on what I'm up to in the bathroom.

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    1. I go through periods when I prefer to walk and think but most of the time I prefer an audible book.

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  2. My sister-in-law when she was dealing with water retention had a scale that emailed her weight to her doctor's nurse and if they didn't like the numbers they'd call and adjust medication. Amazing. Have you tried weighing Bob's shoes, jeans, billfold, keys, and belt to show him how much difference it makes if he doesn't get weighed under the same conditions each time?

    Ted Cruz is screwy on the topic of transgenders in bathrooms. 1) If a pervert wants to dress up like a woman to go into a girl's bathroom to abuse a child a law isn't going to change him from doing that. He'd going in there to break a law already on the books.

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    1. I hope we don't come to scales that report to the doctor though that might shape him up. He doesn't pay a lot of attention to me, perhaps he would a nurse.

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  3. Isn't "A Man Called Ove" wonderful? I'm reading it only before drifting off to sleep, so you'll finish it long before I do. Obviously Bob has never belonged to Weight Watchers or he'd have perfected the are of removing all ballast before stepping onto the scale.

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    1. I ordered a copy of "A Man Called Ove" sent to my sister-in-law in Houston.

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  4. I'm like you and can't see the fuss about gender bathrooms. Of course genitalia checkers would create jobs. Maybe a full body scanner would do the trick. Mercy.

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    1. There are people who can't seem to function without an enemy to fight but I don't think transgender people qualify as enemy. Seems like some have decided to try bullying.

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    2. Brilliantly worded in your 2 sentence directly above me! :)

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  5. Bob is a never-ending source of amusement. I hope you get great feedback from the nurse.

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    1. All the medical people we have contact with love Bob. The nurse will not be at all surprised with my tale. They've long accepted he is who he is and they roll with it.

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  6. I have "Ove" downloaded on my Kindle, waiting in the wings. I can only manage one book at a time, and right now I'm reading "The Nordic Theory of Everything".
    Every time I hear "bathroom" news on TV or radio, I cringe. First, they are restrooms, as the signs say. No bathing takes place there. In Europe we would call them toilets, but we are too delicate for that. Secondly, the president's directive is for single use restrooms only. Multi-potty stalls are another matter, but I hardly see them as a danger either. It's all just another dumb dispute over nothing. But the morality police have to have something to dither over.
    I have no advice for the Bob issue. Good luck!

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    1. You are right. They are not 'bathrooms' and I would contend they are not 'restrooms' as we don't go there to rest. That puts us back to 'toilets.'

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  7. It's amazing to me that some folks are so fearful regarding the use of bathrooms. Genitalia checks at the door? That got me laughing out loud! On a more serious note, I'm glad that so much progress has been made in our country to fight discrimination. Obama gets a lot of credit for his forward thinking and actions.

    55 degrees! We had a cool day today as well. The high was only 69. Fall is on its way.

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    1. I'm pleased Obama has led the country forward in fighting discrimination of all sorts. We probably do need Clinton for the next four years to protect those changes and to appoint Supreme Court Justices. If the Republican Party continues to move in the direction of a white nationalist party we will need all the protection we can get because discrimination is the name of their game.

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  8. The transgender issue on bathrooms is so simple it's stupid. I can't understand why it's not more widely understood.

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    1. Republicans have always made themselves the moral police and boy are they weird about it.

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  9. I think "Cruz thinking" is basically black and white on most issues -- hasn't kept up with scientific knowledge or rejects findings -- may even still choose to believe the world is flat.

    Sounds like the best Bob provides is a weight range since he is consistently inconsistent with attire and possessions on weigh-in.

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    1. It's amazing that a man could graduate from Harvard and have learned so little. He's a slick and dangerous operator.

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  10. I just never got the obsession with bathrooms. I remember when the Equal Rights Amendment was being voted on and the argument against it always included that it would force men and women to use the same bathrooms. Perhaps we should just eliminate public bathrooms entirely and solve that problem.

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    1. Eliminating all bathrooms would be interesting that's for sure. Just imagine the good that could be done if all these people turned their creative thinking to good rather than evil.

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