Taking Care of Business (Health Care)

No, this is not a commentary of the benefits or drawbacks of universal health care. It is merely my warped take on not getting to pick my own physicians. I don't even want an HMO.
How is Dad doing? I don't know. I haven't talked to him since Sunday. Bad son.

How are grandgirls doing? I will see them tomorrow morning at the local public pool. Why don't they come to our pool? Two words. Slide. OK, maybe one word, but you know what I mean. And there are other people to watch. There might be a kiddie pool, although I have not been there in 20 years or so. I remember Sandy Lake was my favorite pool back in the DFW area. However, as I write this, I can remember a pool within biking distance at Webbs Chapel near Rawhide. That was where we spent many a summer. And there was another even closer by Valwood Elementary. Maybe it came along later?

Kyle is thinking we may want to take the girls to a fireworks display. Could be fun, if a bit on the warm side.

See, like I said yesterday, I think about vacation pictures when I am sitting at work. So, no, I did not work on them again last night. We are off tomorrow, so maybe I will think of it then.

Alison played Apples to Apples last weekend. Just as Susan noted a couple of months ago, it is a fun game. We took the Scrabble-based card game, Slam, with us on vacation. We tweaked it a bit to make it more of a strategy game (instead of everyone playing at once). When Kyle played it last weekend, he decided spelling was incidental to getting the cards down. If we challenged a word, he said, "Oh well. It's already played and past, so let's keep going." And for Father's Day, I got a train card game, although I cannot remember the actual name right now. We played it Saturday night, also. Kyle won. And Dad gave me a copy of Bang! the Bullet. Nice. A couple of weeks ago, we played Mom's word game that we gave her for her birthday (Maze Amaze, maybe?). Dad won. He shined a light off his bald head and blinded us. Well, that is how I remember it. He might also have outplayed us. I got stuck in a corner for several turns, no thanks to Paul and Kari.