Friday 24th January

I heard today that this has been the coldest winter in the US EVER.   It is certainly colder than anything I've been used to here.    But I've just seen the temperature for tomorrow is 62, so that should be better.   I am off to a day Retreat on the other side of Oklahoma City in the morning.

This morning I was at the hospital doing my chaplaincy rounds.   There are a lot of patients in with pneumonia - do we admit patients to hospital with pneumonia?   I didn't think so.   Of course it is understandable with babies and children but I thought adults just stayed in bed and took antibiotics.  However, I don't think the doctors here do house calls so perhaps pneumonia patients need to go into hospital.

I had lunch at the hospital by myself.  Chaplain Bill went off to audition for the local choral society, which produces outstanding performances, I usually go to them.   I am quite sure with his gifts and his education - he majored in music at OBU - there is no doubt he will be snapped up.

For weeks I have been putting up with very bad television reception while the changeover from analogue to digital has been going on.  Early in the week though, when I could hardly look at anything over the weekend, it reached a whole new level of frustration.  The cable company kept sending technicians out, but it's Sods Law that the picture was always alright when someone came.  However on Monday I stomped into their office and said I knew - because I'd been told - that their subcontracting technicians from Missouri were paid for each job they did, so it was obviously in their interest to keep coming out to my house two or three times a week (there was a little pursing of the lips at that) but I wanted something resolved ONCE AND FOR ALL, like somebody going up in the roof where the aerial is, and checking the connections.  I was told they would send an in-house technician.   As the access to the roof is in a corner of my closet, and very tight, it was on the tip of my tongue to tell them to send someone young, slim and agile.   But I thought that might be misinterpreted.  The guy who came was middle aged and a bit fat.   I showed him the entrance to the roof, looked at his tubby, portly figure and said I didn't mean to be rude BUT..............He went out to his truck and I think he took some clothes off, and his big belt of tools around his middle, he looked a bit slimmer when he came back in with his ladder.

Anyway, he said the connections had been loose but he'd tightened them, and my reception and picture should be alright now.  But he gave me his telephone number and told me to ring if I had problems with it over the weekend.   Considering I am such a martinet people are surprisingly kind to me.

The local weather came on while I was doing this.

 

 

The only thing which kept me sticking to the cable company instead of running to a satellite company, was the knowledge that the other companies didn't have the Weather Channel, and I love the Weather Channel.   I certainly can't be without it when a tornado is advancing, I want to know exactly where the tornado is.