Important topics for discussion.

Please allow me to extend my best wishes for a very happy Thursday to Howdygramsters near and far. That being said, now I can move on to more important issues.

I hate AT&T U-Verse.
Technically, I only hate the halfwit who writes their online MOVIE REVIEWS. A few days ago I recorded Dinner for Schmucks from one of the premium channels because the U-Verse reviewer gave it 3½ stars. THREE AND A HALF STARS. That’s half a star MORE than they gave Lawrence of Arabia, an epic blockbuster of the highest caliber that won seven Academy Awards and continues to be, nearly 50 years later, among the five finest films ever made. To me, it’s right up there with Ben Hur, The Bridge on the River Kwai, The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) and The Apartment.

So Sam and I are kind of excited to watch Dinner for Schmucks, which turns out to be 114 excruciating minutes of disastrous gross-out stupidity that’s geared to the mentality of middle school boys. Not only isn’t this a 3½ star movie, I wouldn’t even give it TWO. And just for the record, I’m really, really sick of Steve Carell constantly playing the same one-dimensional pathetic loser character. He and Adam Sandler are definitely in a class all by themselves.

Praying for a hurricane.
Tropical storm Don is in the Gulf of Mexico aiming for the Texas coast. Computer models on Weather.com show it arriving near Corpus Christi and then heading northwest once it’s onshore. I, for one, hope it intensifies into a category 1 hurricane ... which is the ONLY way we’ll ever get any rain here in the Dallas area. We haven’t had a drop since sometime last month and need at least 15 inches to catch up. In case you’re interested, today’s high will be 105°. And it will be 105° tomorrow, all weekend and most of next week. We’re frying.

A medical update.
I promised a quick summary of my doctor visit this morning, so here goes. Dr. M asked me to try taking Onglyza again because she doesn’t think it could have been responsible for that mysterious high fever I had last weekend. If I don’t have an adverse reaction this time she actually wants me to DOUBLE the dose. And — for added excitement — she’s referring me to a KIDNEY SPECIALIST because, according to last month’s lab results, the meds I’m taking for diabetes and high blood pressure are starting to affect my kidney function. This is frustrating because I’ve actually been feeling really good lately. Stay tuned and thank you for reading this.