Schlemiel

Let me make you laugh some more.  Yesterday I took my broken Polaroid camera with the seized up lens to the repair guy.  He fixed it in about ten minutes.  This after buying a new camera the night before.  I am a schlemiel.

Yesterday morning I took a run.  Walking back through Country Club College, I passed through a group of summer camp kids.  "Hey, look," one of the little tykes sitting with a group of boys said, "it's Fabio!"  I laughed and kicked over his project.

Only part of that is true.

The Filipino model I shot with the night my lens seized up told me that she decided to loosen up her life after watching the "Spartacus" series on Starz t.v.  Last night I watched the first three episodes.  Oh my.  I can see how this might affect a young woman.  Sex and violence and special effects.  Nothing else.  All the things we've been warned against.

I told her to watch "Rome."

My night ended with a Paul Newman's white Pizza Pie cooked in the oven for twelve minutes and a couple Heineken.  I was very content and the whiskey put me to sleep half way through the third episode.  I have become way too lazy and comfortable living alone.

Oh. . . I shouldn't forget.  I got the bill for my hospital visit and overnight stay.  $10,000.  Got the bill for my crown.  $1,100.  Both the hospital and the dentist did unnecessary procedures.  The dentist did a full set of X-rays I did not want.  The hospital put me in their CAT scan machine.  Health care in the U.S. is the most expensive in the world, yet it has slipped to #37 in quality of care as rated by the World Health Organization (source).