Friday 21 February

I haven't been able to watch television for the last two or three days, the signal has gone again and the picture is very bad.  The staff in the cable company office are all extremely hacked off at me stomping in there, demanding to know if I am PAYING for all the television I can't get.  And they are not sending someone out until the 28th.  I think they are giving up on me.

Went on to the hospital for my chaplaincy round.   I'm the only volunteer there on Fridays so go round both floors, and they were both full this morning.   There's a high incidence of pneumonia.  I'd never heard of patients going into hospital with pneumonia, I thought they just got better at home.   I don't go in the rooms with precaution notices, not even with gown and gloves and mask.  I told Bill that being uninsured I can't take chances, and he said that is fine, he totally understands.    

This evening I unplugged the television for a while, and that seems to improve the signal, but it doesn't last, it will be bad again tomorrow.

I love the way Bubbles sits and watches television.  Here she is looking at all the abused animals on an advert for the ASPCA, no doubt thinking how lucky she is.

This advert is followed by one for vision testing and spectacles.  Someone is at her patio door in her nightdress, calling her cat indoors, and because she can't see properly a racoon trots in and settles down on the bottom of the bed (I hope my eyes never get that bad).   That's where Bubbles gets her ideas from.

Looks like quite a nice day tomorrow.