This may be the last for a bit. Doing some necessary things today, as tomorrow, early Friday morning, is the long-planned surgery at the big hospital down the street. And their plan is that they send me home late Friday evening, barring complications. But even so I expect I’ll be feeling a tad loopy for a few days. They’ll shove me out the door with a big bag of painkillers in my hand of course – they promised. I guess I’ll watch old movies on cable. I’ll feed the Just Above Sunset sites when I feel nominally observant again. So commentary will resume next week, sometime next week.
UPDATE – Sunday, July 31 – The surgery went well, although I missed most of it, as they put me out and I was effectively in Iowa or something. But now, here at home after whatever the heck that was, it seems best not to resume the daily columns just yet. Detailed discussion of the subtle implications of current events is hard to manage given the current regime of quite pleasant painkillers – wonderful little white pills. One’s mind does wander. And they tell me not to drive just yet – so no photo jaunts for a few days. The idea seems to be to move slowly. Yes, everything hurts. Oh well.
Wishing you an easy and speedy recovery – I will miss your posts while you recuperate. Just remember: pain medication is your friend; no one gets gold stars for suffering. I’m a nurse, so trust me on this.
Get well soon
Wish you well. Do not over analyse the surgeons they mean well.
Quick recovery.
Just wanted to let you know that I really look forward to your articles.
Got my fingers crossed for you.
That ain’t much return for the time I’ve spent reading your posts, let alone the work you put into writing them (and living a life that let you write them), but … what I can do.
Take your time. Get better.
Thanks. Working on the getting-better thing. Things just hurt now. But that’ll pass, and I’ll get my ass in gear pretty soon – “soon” being relative of course.
Please be patient and let Recovery run its course. The artificial Debt Ceiling crisis will be over by the time you recover — allowing focus on Meaningful Issues.
That seems good advice. The House just passed whatever that thing was, and the Senate will do the same in the morning. And there’s nothing new here. Governments can finance their operations on revolving credit – forever. And unless they’re locked into someone else’s currency – like Greece and the Euro – they can coin new money until conditions improve. There is no debt crisis unless you say there is. You manage the debt as you go along. Sometimes it’s big and sometimes it isn’t. To make it a big deal right now was arbitrary. The world was lending us money at record-low rates, buying our Treasuries as a cool safe haven. All was well. And then there was this. And now it’s over. Sigh.
i trust you are on the mend / maybe this will pique your interest :
http://www.theatlantic.com/james-fallows/ specifically the pawn/pawned debate on Obama and his handling of the debt ceiling negotiations
James Fallows is an everyday read for me (as are you) and the current discussion on whether Obama is pawn or was pawned or is a master is invigorating (Fallows doesnt have a comment thread but posts on key subjects from time to time)
I bet you already read him !
Looking forward to your return
Just best wishes for a quick and full recovery from a UK reader.