I'm only able to keep up with the minimum right now as I'm lethargic and sleeping a lot. Since I knew I wouldn't get much done, I went to a doc today for a yearly heart check. I'd gone to a nearby tiny clinic a couple of weeks ago because a pharmacy read my blood pressure at 150/100. The doc at the clinic said you can't rely on those digital tests and did a manual and got 130/85 which is good but said I had bronchitis. He also said I had an irregular heart beat and to check it out with an EKG. Today the cardiologist at the nearby public hospital, the newest and most modern in Bali, said it was 150/100 and to take some mild blood pressure med. But he said the EKG was good. My heart's fine, beats a little slow and the irregularity isn't bad and I've had it a long time (he could see my whole medical history). So I went back to the clinic and the young Saturday doc there said my blood pressure was 110 over 70 (unusally low) after he did a manual and said they only do manual and my irregular heartbeat is normal, not bad, because it adds a beat which makes up for it being a little slow. He also said that lethargy following bronchitis is normal especially for my age because there was a battle going on in my lungs and bombs were dropped and so forth and now it's being rebuilt. He drew me a picture of normal and good irregular and bad irregular and explained that the top number in blood pressure is systolic, the blood to the body, and the bottom one I forgot the name - like pistolic - is the blood to the lungs. Never knew that. Anyway, walked four kilometers going from place to place which made me feel better than lying down. Still only on cardio aspirin. Oh - total cost of the today's doctor's visits and EKG was about thirty-four bucks. - DC
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Conceptual Art on the Prairie
My sister Susan wrote and asked if I remembered the Cadillac Ranch.
Yes I do. I've been there several times. The Ant Farm did that Cadillac project just off some road of Stanley Marsh's ranch in Amarillo. All the cars were vandalized but that didn't really detract from the overall impression from the road. I took a piss off to the side and got a heck of a shock when it hit an electric fence. The 2nd time I was there it had been moved behind the fence. I went on a
tour inside the ranch. That was only one
conceptual art piece. There was a peace symbol large enough to be seen
from airplanes, a huge banana, a huge pool table with bean bags for ball
and cue, a mesa with a fence running along it painted the usual color
of the sky so that the top of the mesa seemed from a distance to be
floating. The tour was conducted by a cowhand named Stanley who said he
got the job because of his name. He said after what he'd seen in the
cattle biz he wouldn't eat meat. He said Stanley Marsh got a trademark
on the name Cattleyak and his cowhands had try to force breed cattle
with yaks. They tried other mixes, one with the largest type bovine with
the smallest type. Stanley Marsh was a madman. There was a feature on
him in that Texas magazine that was so good called the Mad Hatter of
Amarillo (or something). That's because he attended Cullen Davis' trial
for murders in Amarillo with a different hat every day. He also got in
trouble when he was old for past pederasty. Stanley cowhand said that
during Davis trial he and other cowhands had to move the pool table to
the top of a building that was within view of Cullen Davis' jail cell,
that they had to change the positions every day, and that Marsh told the
news people that he was secretly communicating with Davis that way. Stanley cowhand said it was a most interesting job.
Here's more on him: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Marsh_3#
Saturday, July 8, 2023
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