The Good Letter

[magnusgreel]

The good letter arrived today. I decided to focus on it and actually read it, instead of waiting for the enlarger or someone to read it to me, because I had to know ASAP and was on my way to walk across town for groceries again. I think I've now taken all the pills needed to prevent the large resulting pain that would otherwise be in my future.

The Bad Letter arrived in early July, telling me I was out on the street with such a hyper-responsive nervous system that light would have had me screaming within hours or a day or so, if I'd been out on the street. It was just a sort of bureaucratic practical joke, I was told. So I hung in there, with a mixed message that they never send out housing recertification letters, and/or one would be coming soon. One month is "soon"... I'll have to make a note of that.

The Good Letter said in a highly detached way, relax, you're recertified, you're not doomed at least till next June. Now I need to persuade my nervous system to believe the good letter. It has a very firm memory of having seen the bad letter.

I'm drinking Purple Cows, favorite drink of WKRP in Cincinnati general manager Arthur Carlson, vodka and grape juice. A somewhat silly drink for an engagingly silly character. If there was ever a show that no one here but me would have seen it's that one I suppose, but try to see it. I marathoned my old tapes recently.

I'm listening to Armed Forces by Elvis now.

[jjpor]

Well, it's good to hear that you've had a bit of good news and that things are more secure for you for the time being. Of course, it would have been better if they could have avoided putting you through all of that in the first place, but that's bureaucracy for you. Anyway, best wishes and don't let them grind you down.

[librarylover]

Great news Magnus!

What you talking about, that you'd be the only one to remember WKRP in Cincinnati? I was a faithful watcher . . . truly one of the best sitcoms of that era. Besides, it is so rare to have a TV show set in Ohio that we Buckeyes tend to really support it! I laughed as soon as I read purple cow, because I remembered that Mr. Carlson liked those.

It is a little freaky that you mentioned it, because I was just thinking about the episode where Jennifer buys a house this morning.

[clocketpatch]

Happy to hear that Magnus! Though it is a pain that they had to put you through all that bother/stress/etc. it's good to hear that you're past the worst of it and onto somewhat firmer ground.

Though I've never heard of that show or that drink, the endearingly silly name makes me want to mix one up next time I have company... mostly so I can have an excuse to make inebriated mooing sounds, because, well, I do that.

[Stripes]

Aug 6, 2009 3:16:48 GMT clocketpatch said:

Happy to hear that Magnus! Though it is a pain that they had to put you through all that bother/stress/etc. it's good to hear that you're past the worst of it and onto somewhat firmer ground.

Though I've never heard of that show or that drink, the endearingly silly name makes me want to mix one up next time I have company... mostly so I can have an excuse to make inebriated mooing sounds, because, well, I do that.

I am up to drinking a cow drink someday.

[magnusgreel]

Thanks much clocket, jjpor, LL. As for WKRP (1978-82), it might just be only sitcom where every single ep is good. The one bad one turned out not to be, last time I watched... It also has the greatest sense of "reality" to it. It's about a rock radio station, and was the first point at which the world of rock music and radio made it into a sitcom, or any sort of fictional show possibly. Much of it was based on real situations and stories from radio.