Afternoon folks!

There's some interesting stuff here this week. Starting off, there's a 90's album from Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown followed by an album from Chicago blues guitarist Jimmy Rogers with Johnnie Johnson handling the keyboard duties. After that, we move on to blues rock with Little Feat and a compilation of studio artifacts and demos that cover their career from when Lowell George first left the Frank Zappa band to more recent years - it might mean more to a Little Feat fan than the general public, but it's still interesting stuff. After that we've got an album from a Canadian artist, Colin Linden, that never got his due in the U.S. market. It's a really pleasant album worth a listen. We finish up with an album from former Monkee, Mike Nesmith in his folkie/country period.

Enjoy the tunes and have a great weekend!

Good morning, good people!

Well, it is pretty clear that I and JtC are experiencing life altering events. We think of it as a temporary setback. We will grow older, and crankier, and way more likely to stand our ground against TPTB. And effing cancer.

I am occasionally distracting myself from, ya know, hubby health issues, and decided to clip out invasive vines from two crepe myrtle trees, since the guy I offered $20 to do it had just received internet for 30 days, wanted to play games. I did it, saved money, got exercise, and got some drive by horn honks and thumbs up for being so bad ass. Yeah, I am just all that! LOL!

I appreciate all the good will JtC has received.

So, my client divorcing her bad, bad, cheating husband makes her living posting stuff on Only Fans.

Her divorce settlement is agreed, so I do not have to go to court with her wearing her video outfits.

What my parents danced to:

Happy Friday everyone. Welcome to Friday Night Photos your once a week escape from the day to day insanity of the world we live in. Post any photos, memes, music or whatever else you find of interest that helps tune out the madness.

I filled up the tank in my car at the beginning of the week. The price had been holding steady at $4.19 for the last few weeks but jumped to $4.39 overnight. I recently read that due to the lack of oil refineries the prices are expected to top $5 or more in the near future. Can't say I'm looking forward to that. Gas isn't the only thing getting expensive. On Wednesday I went to lunch with 3 friends. $178 + $40 tip. A little pricey, but the food was excellent.

Before meeting with my friends on Wednesday I went to the Water Conservation Garden in El Cajon. Here's a link to their website that explains what they do way better than I can.
https://thegarden.org/

Informed Consent and Libraries of Everything!

Here's a couple of interesting articles I want to bring to your attention. The first is by Matt Bivens, M.D. It's called 'The Dishonesty of Our 'Informed Consent' Rituals' and features a couple of experiences he's had recently. A patient comes into ED with a dislocated shoulder. It's painful. He's been given pain drugs already, but all he can do is ask for more. Because it's so painful. The doctor treats the shoulder, but has to ask the patient for formal consent. The patient just wants to have less pain, to be fixed! He gives his consent, stop asking him for it! But the Doc can't, because he MUST ask for this kind of consent.

From here at cagle.com