The title of this Blog is from an old joke out of the depths of my childhood... it amused my first wife as I remember and of course I got a chuckle out of it too. But the implications are that there are cycles in life that we should perhaps pay attention to since after all.. we are a part of life.
The one that comes to mind quite readily is the one described by the planet mercury. Mercury as well as the earth orbits the sun. Both planets of course travel in different orbits at different speeds. Mercury has an annual travel of approximately 88 days while earth takes about 365 days to orbit the sun. This happens approximately three times during the earth year when Mercury appears to be traveling retrograde in its orbit with respect to us here on earth. This is like the phenomenon some of you might remember when looking out a train window as your train passes another on a parallel track. Due to the different speeds it appears that the train on the other track is actually going backwards relative to your point of view. And this is retrograde motion.
On the period that started on Dec. 10 and will last til Dec. 30, I decided to fix the garae door opener.
So I climbed up a step ladder and re-progammed one of the remote door openers. Fine .. no problem.
The second one proved to be a problem. It proved to be defective but it took about a half hour standing on that ladder, in a garage at about 40 degrees, in order for this stubborn old sicilian to give up on it. As I came off the ladder, I started shivering like it had gone out of style. I quickly went inside and put on a long-sleeved shirt and a wool sweater and kicked back in the La-z-boy in front of the heat vent. Both Barb and Luke were out of the house so I went to sleep to get warm. It didn't work. When Luke came in he found me shivering up a storm so he woke me up... when Barb came in she took my temperature... whoopee... 101. And my left calf and ankle wouldn't work. In the team huddle, I vetoed going to the emergency room at least until morning. And between the three of us I managed the climb to the second floor, took some Ibuprofen, and crawled into bed.
The next day, the fever broke and the leg didn't look too bad so I decided to wait some more treating it with Ibuprofen for the swelling and staying off the leg with long bouts in the La-z-boy. By Sunday, I knew that I had made a mistake. The calf was the size of a small football. It hurt. It was bright red and quite warm so now I was determined to charge the Doctor's office first thing on monday morning.
In the meantime Barb says that it was a cellulitus and with my artificial knee.. that was a baaaad thing.
So now this definitely was a loose end that needed tying up. The Doc said "this is a cellulitus" and I told him that nurse Barb had already worked that out. He prescribed Keflex and pronto... so now it is Friday and the swelling has gone done, the itching has stopped and the redness is now only a non-threatening pink. So then I continue the Keflex till the pills are all gone. There should be no repercussions from my procrastination and all is well with the world. Except....
Now I am not saying that because Mercury appeared retrograde that I got a very serious cellulitus. What I am saying is that Mercury retrograde and the cellulitus signaled the need to resolve a huge mound of paper big enough to lose a small dog in, some legal matters which could come back to haunt, some last minute shopping that hasn't been done with the big "C" day coming up fast and oh so many other things that might need tidying up in order to make life simpler.
So what I am suggesting is for the next couple of weeks or so, look around to see what loose ends you might have that got lost in the excitement of the Christmas season and tidy them up so you can ring in the New Year with a fresh clean slate and a spirit of 'Go getem Tiger'.
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