Enemy of Entropy

Pain Doc Day

29 April 2008, 6:24 pm. 4 Comments. Filed under Family, Health.

Today was the monthly visit to the pain doc, which requires trekking across town to Fas­cist County. It was some­what amus­ing to see “Drought Threat Level 4 Mea­sures in Effect!” right next to CVS water­ing their lit­tle patch of grass.

The doc­tor dou­bled my break­through pain med, so that I’m allowed to take it more often. Maybe that’ll help.

It’s always nice to have that time with Sam, although I feel bad that he has to take time off to get me there. We try to sched­ule mul­ti­ple appoint­ments, but one of Katie’s doc­tors just totally flaked today, so that one had to be resched­uled. The ortho­don­tist appoint­ment had been resched­uled to allow for that appoint­ment, so now we have that to look for­ward to, too. Oh joy.

When Katie and I were out on Mon­day, we found that two places we needed to go to were closed for Con­fed­er­ate Memo­r­ial Day. Excuse me? Since when is it a state hol­i­day? I know we didn’t take that day off from school when I was grow­ing up, not even in Alabama. When did this resur­gence occur – as back­lash for MLK Day, maybe? I find it ridiculous.

4 Comments »

  1. avatar Alice. 29 April 2008, 7:12 pm

    Con­fed­er­ate Memo­r­ial Day has been a state hol­i­day for as long as I’ve known. My dad was a state employee so he always got it off. How­ever, I’ve never known any­one except the state offices to take it off, the schools never closed for it.

  2. avatar cyn. 29 April 2008, 10:11 pm

    Really? I guess I don’t notice unless banks, post offices, and/​or schools are closed. And yeah, one of the places we needed to go to Mon­day was the driver’s license office. The other was a Dekalb county office, though.

    Some schools do, it seems. Not that I’ve had a great deal of expe­ri­ence with pub­lic schools in the last few years, but Katie tried high school last year and they had it off. It’s on the cal­en­dar for this year, too.

  3. avatar Alice. 30 April 2008, 6:02 am

    Really? That’s sur­pris­ing. Is that Cobb County? I guess since I went to Atlanta Pub­lic Schools, they were quite a bit more pro­gres­sive. :p You really can’t see them tak­ing it off! And, Dekalb County doesn’t take it off, either.

  4. avatar HopeEvey. 30 April 2008, 10:39 pm

    Con­fed­er­ate Memo­r­ial Daty?! That’s a new one on me.

 

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