package! (and gym, and the latest news on the guy who got hit by the snowmobile)

We have a package of delights from daegaer! :) One of the most odd things is a little notebook with blank pages that looks very much like a passport at first glance. Also, an eraser that looks like a lipstick, with Betty Boop on the side. :)

We were good and went to the gym. We both felt our performance on the treadmills was rather miserable, but there you go - we haven't been in months. (Okay, I've been, but not much.) Hopefully we'll improve. Our current plan is to cook lots of food tonight so that we'll have leftovers for dinner tomorrow and be able to take at least a short trip down to the gym rather than having to cook.

I went up to the hospital to see Darrin (which I probably should have before now, seeing as I only live three blocks away, but I'm a bit shy about visiting people), and he was alert and talkative. In fact, I barely got a word in edgewise, and then he shooed me out saying he just doesn't have enough energy to concentrate on anything. Thanked me for thinking of bringing him books, and I think he was really on the verge of taking them, but then he said that he really couldn't even follow an episode of Sponge Bob, and maybe magazines were much more his speed. And he showed me the shattered leg, which was pretty gross looking.

Word through the grapevine (though he didn't mention it) was that they might have to take it off. That must be an unpleasant prospect for someone who used to be a dance instructor.

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I'm going to pimp eor's review of Charles Fourier, because I think he gives a nice, quick, summation, although it takes ages to even scratch the surface of Fourier, really. (I've also been reading a book about Fourier, though a much shorter one than that which Eor read, and I've gotten bogged down.)

I meant to mention on my post re Darrin that he said he's heard that the Manager who he asked to tell us where he was and that he would like visitors got reamed out for passing that info on, even though he had asked her to as a friend. Eor says that's not surprising, as there's legal issues with a Manager doing that. He thinks the only way around that would be if it had been in the form of a written note which had been posted, and then probably it could not be done by a manager. Well. I suppose this is where having an email network would have been of great use.

Reminds me... I need to find out if anyone's arranged a card. It will never be done through official channels because having a heart is not allowed by the gov't.

Oh... mu. I just remembered that I, um, should have arranged myself a ride to work tomorrow, if possible. I guess I could probably still phone Pheobe. I don't really want to ride the bus if I don't have to. The van is getting the heater installed. Hopefully for real this time. (Possibly some of you remember the debacle of... I think it was last spring - where the RV people kept it for two weeks and then never actually DID the work they were requested to do, "because it would cost you too much money." Sooo... you pass up the chance to make money because you don't want to do the work? Yeah it will cost a lot, but that was what we originally asked you to do. Idiots.) We're taking it to someone else this time.