Today is one month to the day since I had my knee replaced. Everyone keeps asking me how it feels so lemme tell you: It feels pretty good. It hurts now and then but so did the old one for the last few years. Unlike the old one, this one is getting better and better. The leg needs some working-out and exercising and I need to get back into wearing shoes. I've been mainly wearing slippers for the whole month and yesterday, when I put my shoes on for the first time since 9/28, it felt very odd indeed.
The medical bills continue to mount but fortunately, so do the insurance payments. At the moment, the total bill stands at about $180,000 and my current outta-pocket cost is $58.19. I have spent more than that for old issues of Sugar & Spike.
I don't think I'm going to watch the Republican Debate tonight. I'm not going to watch the Democratic ones, either. Whatever is worth hearing will be on highlight reels and YouTube excerpts. I'm growing increasingly bored with so much of this contest. The most interesting part of all this to me is when Ben Carson starts discussing the debt ceiling and makes it clear that he really doesn't understand what it is. Let's see if anyone explains it to him before he gets asked about it tonight. I would also expect that Donald Trump thinks he can finish off Jeb! Bush once and forever as a contender just by forcing Bush to defend his brother's record.
Hillary was on with Stephen Colbert last night. She came off as funny and down-to-earth and I still don't think it serves the public good to have candidates go on talk shows for little "witty and charming" spots which can easily reflect the work of writers more than the reality of the politico. Colbert asked nothing too hard (or hard to anticipate) and it was all pleasant and entertaining and I think people running for public office should be facing tougher interviews than that.
Back later. Maybe.