Today is December 6, 2015. I am sitting on the Norwegian Sun as we are docked in Uruguay. My operation will soon be four weeks ago. I remain in pain and cannot walk more than 50 yards, which is another good reason not to tour Montevideo, not that I needed one. I have lasting memories of this place being El Dumpo from the last tour in 2009, which I prefer not to revise.
I fear walking on the ship, particularly near the feeding stalls. There is nothing worse than being in the way of a fat hungry Latino with a chocolate mousse in direct view.
Since this operation, I have felt very old. The pain is constant. My energy level has waned. Being an invalid is not as attractive as I had first imagined. It is a lonely place to be. This idea of a two week cruise is not as much fun as I had contemplated.
The ship is old but still quite nice. Apart from the agony of pain and no mobility and being alone, it is not so shabby.
It is now Monday, December 7, day 3. I have not been feeling well but today there seems to be a revival happening, This is a sea day. I awake at 545 am to get some coffee and breakfast. Then I went back to bed and slept until 930 am. Last night was Obama’s speech from the Oval Office. I see myself as his supporter but even I had to agree with the Fox commentators that his 13 minute speech was pathetic. The world wanted to hear some new dramatic measure that he was taking to counter this recent surge of terrorism after San Bernadino and Paris but no such thing was forthcoming. Most people would be willing to allow the review of their individual metadata tracking, if done with such an objective in mind. At the very least he could have allowed for this instead of droning on about gun control. It is far too later for gun control measures, not that it is a bad idea.
The Republicans are all crazy, going on about putting in troops on the ground to counter ISIL, bombing them to oblivion and how Obama has created this mess by getting out of Iraq too early – USA was there for 11 years, yet. George II never should have lifted the lid from Sadam. At least he knew how to keep the craziness of the Kerds, Sunnis and Shiites in check.
Imagine when this mess started who in NA knew that there was such divisions in the Arab world. How could all this have come undone so dramatically. The US had no knowledge of WMD. All this was based on a fairy tale. I can remember thinking when George II was on the US Destroyer giving the thumbs up of success in what – 2 years after the invasion of Iraq – likely sooner…thinking that the US has now unleashed a civil war in Iraq which will blow up the Middle East – imagine what the CIA thought and knew…and sure enough…kaboom.
What a mess we have now – crazies bathed in Islamic Nonsense, resident in the USA with access to guns as easy as buying a carton of milk. This is a tinder box about to explode….again.
It is difficult to conceive of how two people, with a six month old baby yet, could
willingly cause the deaths of innocent people by such barbaric acts.
The CNN commentator was urging people to arm themselves with guns…yep, that is the solution ! unbelievable. We are sooo lucky to be Canadians.