We made it

I'm sitting in a parking lot somewhere in college station having dropped Zoe off with four women who are going to take care of her for the next 3 hours. She will be suffering from overbearing attention I suspect. She's going to get EKG and and all kinds of blood tests and poked and prodded and loved on and she will be completely traumatized by the time I get her back around noon. Meanwhile I'm headed to a local coffee shop for some pastry and coffee where I can read for a little while and just hang out and wait for them to be done.
The drive down here was uneventful although driving on a dark unfamiliar two lane road at 75 mph ( which means we pass cars at 130 mph 5 ft away ) at 7:00 in the morning was a little harrowing. Fortunately I'm in Dana's RAV4 not in my smart car. Sometimes it's nice to have cruise control and lots more metal.
Will be back home around 2:00 or so and Zoe and I can take a serious nap. Looking forward to it.

Generally a success

Now I know where the place is, what it is, and how to get there it won't be such a stress.  For me.  Zoe was not a happy camper.  Two hours in the car is not great for her.  Seeing a vet is worse.  She has developed a lot of vet anxiety so first of all would not pee.  The entire day.  I tried and they tried and she DID NOT until she came home.  Plus she was just shaking.  She does this now with any vet.  So they could not get her echo cardiogram complete and could not get a urine sample.  

But otherwise she is apparently in good shape pending the blood sample analysis.  

We had a discussion and they suggested I get with our usual vet and get her a trazadone prescription so we can zone her out before vet visits.  I like the idea.  I've hated taking her to the vet for a long time as she just trembles and sheds the whole time.  No way to calm her down.  

So we're going to see about some doggie downers and resked the echocardiogram.  

Meanwhile I think she's going to be good for the trial unless they find something in her blood.  

And now she's eaten and peed and had a lot of water and is sound asleep on my office floor.

Tough day for her but I got a free t-shirt!

Don't look at the news

The downside of retirement is income that you don't much control, that is at the whim of, now days, any politician who feels like they need to prove something.

So we have social security checks that are threatened.  And military retirement pensions that are threatened.

And partially as a result of the above, stock market going down.

Thank you for your service.  You don't mind if we ruin your month, or two, by refusing to raise a debt ceiling that we've already obligated ourselves to spend, do you?