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Drs Appointments

I had my 2 doctors appointments this past week. The first one was an interrogation of the ICD device, no problems or alerts noted. The device is only pacing the upper chamber less than 1% of the time.

The appointment with the cardiologists also went well. No problems noted there either.

I had a ECG done at both appointments, and nothing was noted on either of those tests.

I have appointments set up for April and the appointment with the cardiologists will be the 5 hour nuclear stress test.

So far everything is going good.

We might have another winter event this coming Monday night into Tuesday, but so far the weather people are not predicting anything major, they say that it is too far away to say what it will be.

More later

Winter Event

Well our winter event turned into an Ice event overnight. With the rain and sleet we got about 1/4" of ice on everything. Jessica and I went out yesterday (twice) and she had a lot of fun.

Here are some pictures. She made two snow angels, she had fun. We tried to make a snowman, but the snow was not packy enough for that.

Winter Event

We had our first winter event of the season (at least that is what the weather people are calling it). Here is Northern VA we don't ususally get much snow, but we got about 3 inches.

Jessica and I went out twice today, She made snow angles, and threw snowballs at me, of course I had to make them, but it was a lot of fun, Jessica had a good time. I took some pictures and I will post them a little bit later. When we were getting her ready, she said she looked like a bubble.

I had my check at the Arrhythimia Associates and they said that everything was good, no pacing or any recorded events were noted.

My next one is on Thursday with the cardiologists, but that should be a good visit also.

The Proposal

"The Proposal"
When a company falls on difficult times, one of the things that seems to happen is they reduce their staff and workers. The remaining workers need to find ways to continue to do a good job or risk that their job would be eliminated as well. Wall street, and the media normally congratulate the CEO for making this type of "tough decision", and his board of directors gives him a big bonus. Our government should not be immune from similar risks. Therefore: Reduce the House of Representatives from the current 435 members to 218 members and Senate members from 100 to 50 (one per State). Also reduce remaining staff by 25%. Accomplish this over the next 8 years. (two steps / two elections) and of course this would require some redistricting.Some Yearly Monetary Gains Include:$44,108,400 for elimination of base pay for congress. (267 members X $165,200 pay / member / yr.)$97,175,000 for elimination of the above people's staff. (estimate $1.3 Million in staff per each member of the House, and $3 Million in staff per each member of the Senate every year)$240,294 for the reduction in remaining staff by 25%. $7,500,000,000 reduction in pork barrel ear-marks each year. (those members whose jobs are gone. Current estimates for total government pork earmarks are at $15 Billion / yr)The remaining representatives would need to work smarter and would need to improve efficiencies. It might even be in their best interests to work together for the good of our country? We may also expect that smaller committees might lead to a more efficient resolution of issues as well. It might even be easier to keep track of what your representative is doing. Congress has more tools available to do their jobs than it had back in 1911 when the current number of representatives was established. (telephone, computers, cell phones to name a few)Note: Congress did not hesitate to head home when it was a holiday, when the nation needed a real fix to the economic problems. Also, we have 3 senators that have not been doing their jobs for the past 18+ months (on the campaign trail) and still they all have been accepting full pay. These facts alone support a reduction in senators & congress. Summary of opportunity:$ 44,108,400 reduction of congress members.$282,100, 000 for elimination of the reduced house member staff. $150,000,000 for elimination of reduced senate member staff. $59,675,000 for 25% reduction of staff for remaining house members. $37,500,000 for 25% reduction of staff for remaining senate members. $7,500,000,000 reduction in pork added to bills by the reduction of congress members. $8,073,383,400 per year, estimated total savings. (that's 8-BILLION just to start!)Big business does these types of cuts all the time.If Congresspersons were required to serve 20, 25 or 30 years (like everyone else) in order to collect retirement benefits there is no telling how much we would save. Now they get full retirement after serving only ONE term.

Recipe

Here is a recipe that I found for baked apples

Baked Apple in Sauce
Created by The MDM Team, Monday, January 14, 2008 Description -->
When you're in search of a diabetes-friendly recipe, this is sure to be the apple of your eye. It's good to the core and will fit in with your healthy eating regimen.
Ingredients
2 cans sugar-free Comstock apples, pre-slicedSweet 'N Low, to taste 3/4 cup butter, softenedCinnamon, to taste Nutmeg, to taste 2 tsp. lemon juice 1/2 cup sugar-free maple syrup 3/4 cup flour 1/2 cup oats
Methods/steps
Heat oven to 375 degrees. Butter a 13 x 9-inch baking dish. To apples, add lemon juice, Sweet 'N Low, syrup, cinnamon and nutmeg. Blend well. Put into prepared baking dish. In separate bowl, add oats and flour, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg and Sweet 'N Low. Add softened butter and blend until dry ingredients and butter become crumbly and well mixed. Pour over the apples. If more topping is desired, increase ingredients. Bake for 45 minutes.
Additional Tips
Ready in 1 hour
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Sunday

Well, its the end of Sunday, that start of another week, we had a good week. Debbie is learning about the Knifty Knitter loom, so far it has been a learing experience. We had to search YouTube for videos on how the stiches are done.

We (Josh, Joela, Jocelyn, Jessica and I) took Debbie to dinner for her birthday, we went to a Chinese restaurant that does mongolian BBQ, it is pretty good. The dinner was good and the girls all made cakes for Debbie, it was pretty cool. We all had a good time.

Want to say Hi to Sam, HI HI HI HI HI HI HI, glad you could join us.

Josh is going to try to work on a program for cataloging coins along with a price list.

Debbie and I painted the master bedroom last week. It came out pretty good.

That's all for now. See you later.

Exercise

Debbie and I got the Jilliam Michaels work out game for the WII and we used it last night, it is a pretty good game. you can vary the intensity of the workout (light, medium, hard) and choose different type of workouts, (weight loss, aerobic, etc). I thought it was pretty good.

Amelia

Amelia was in the hospital for 8 days with Pneumonia, but is better and is out of the hospital, Chris is coming home in February, date to be announced.

Everyone else is doing good.

Here is a link to Jackie's Grandson's pictures, (you probably have already seen them, but just in case).

http://picasaweb.google.com/kdmay50/JackiesGrandson?authkey=JRB1HxDoHoo#

He was a big one.

Feeling good

So far I am feeling good today. No pain or problems. That is a good thing.

I have some recipes that I will post when I get the chance. Thought they would be helpful.

Leave Comments

Hi, just wanted to let everyone know that I started this, anyone can leave comments, pictures, etc. I will try to post something once a week (if I can).

If you want to comment or post, feel free.

Thanks, Kevin

My first blog, what to do, what to do.