Spiky Bugger
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In about 1986, MiniSue was in 6th grade, and this happened at dinner one night.
MiniSue: Dad, why is it that they schedule installing ice shields (to protect the giant microwave “dishes”) on microwave towers in the winter...when there’s ice on everything and helicopters have to hover and snow and ice chunks are flying everywhere...and then make the linemen climb creosoted power poles in the summer (in the desert) when their safety belts and boots and clothes get covered in gooey creosote in 100°-plus weather? Wouldn’t they save money on time and equipment and everything if they just reversed the schedule?
MrSue...throwing his knife and fork on the table and jumping up from his seat: Dammit to hell, [MiniSue], with thinking like that, you will NEVER have a career in civil service!
Well, she HAS BEEN working in civil service, for about five years. Over the weekend, we got “Good News” from our Congressional Rep, telling us about the new, right-in-our-neighborhood VA primary care clinic. And today, I sent MiniSue this email.
VA medical care...locations
1–Where we have been going:
a) primary care—16 miles from home.
b) main center—29 miles—hospital, lab, radiology, specialists, pharmacy, big stuff.
2–Our NEW, close-to-home clinic:
a) primary care—5 miles from home.
b) main center—28.2 miles, waaaaaay across town—hospital, lab, radiology, specialists, pharmacy, big stuff.
ERGO, to take advantage of the much closer primary care, we must be willing to drive through down-f’ing-town Los Angeles and to the West Side, both directions, every time we need an xray, certain blood tests, and MOST services old folks need, like vision testing, eyeglasses, hearing aids, PT, OT, and so on...to “save” 8/10ths of a mile.
This was designed by someone who, in 6th grade, DID NOT figure out that it would be best to work on creosoted power poles in the fall and winter. Just sayin’...
MiniSue: Dad, why is it that they schedule installing ice shields (to protect the giant microwave “dishes”) on microwave towers in the winter...when there’s ice on everything and helicopters have to hover and snow and ice chunks are flying everywhere...and then make the linemen climb creosoted power poles in the summer (in the desert) when their safety belts and boots and clothes get covered in gooey creosote in 100°-plus weather? Wouldn’t they save money on time and equipment and everything if they just reversed the schedule?
MrSue...throwing his knife and fork on the table and jumping up from his seat: Dammit to hell, [MiniSue], with thinking like that, you will NEVER have a career in civil service!
Well, she HAS BEEN working in civil service, for about five years. Over the weekend, we got “Good News” from our Congressional Rep, telling us about the new, right-in-our-neighborhood VA primary care clinic. And today, I sent MiniSue this email.
VA medical care...locations
1–Where we have been going:
a) primary care—16 miles from home.
b) main center—29 miles—hospital, lab, radiology, specialists, pharmacy, big stuff.
2–Our NEW, close-to-home clinic:
a) primary care—5 miles from home.
b) main center—28.2 miles, waaaaaay across town—hospital, lab, radiology, specialists, pharmacy, big stuff.
ERGO, to take advantage of the much closer primary care, we must be willing to drive through down-f’ing-town Los Angeles and to the West Side, both directions, every time we need an xray, certain blood tests, and MOST services old folks need, like vision testing, eyeglasses, hearing aids, PT, OT, and so on...to “save” 8/10ths of a mile.
This was designed by someone who, in 6th grade, DID NOT figure out that it would be best to work on creosoted power poles in the fall and winter. Just sayin’...
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