Wednesday 7/19/23

9:19a.m. The aides let me sleep I until sixtoday. They were pretty good this morning giving me a sponge bath,changing my briefs and getting me out of bed.But I could not get started.  I slept in my wheelchair for the longest time. Not even a breakfast of pancakes and scrambled eggs with coffee and juice could get me going.i was just plain tired.

I did talk with Chococolatechip. She was doing a lot better than yesterday. Chococolatechip said she still has that appointment with Erica, the nurse practitioner. Chococolatechip feels she needs to be on an anti psychotic med . I disagree but that is not for me to say. We talked briefly thenj she had to start her day. 

I don’t have much else to say  I did reach my reading good of finishing  Chapter 6. I doubt I’ll be able to pass a test on the Supreme Court but I got her done. I stuck with it even though I was getting very sleepy. So I’m proud of myself. Next chapter is on states and territories.

10:35a.m. I made it to the Fiesta Room for the Coffee Social. I could use a good cup of coffee maybe two or three.

1:14p.m. I think today was my last Coffee Social. They pushed me back to my room before lunch. I was told they didn’t want me peeing on the floor. I cannot blame them. It was a bit embarrassing so I think no more coffee socials.

I talked to Chococolatechip when I got back to my room. She is completely fed up with George and Overbrook Towers. We were saying George ought to retire if he doesn’t want to help with the bb problem. Chococolatechip was  looking at a studio apartment in downtown Follansbee. It was for $500 a month

I thought that was a bad idea. I said your best bet would be D’alessio ManorI also Freedom Place in Weirton would also be good. I reminded her that $500 a month is over half your check.  She would not be able to afford her Comcast package. Chococolatechip agreed with me on that one. Then she started looking at D’alessio Manor’s website. 

I did agree that she should move. The landlord is not taking care of the bb situation .I hate to see her live under such conditions. But living on the “outside” would not be a good idea. I said the new landlord could raise the rent anytime. Then she would be screwed. 

We talked about  moving for the longest time. I was in a terrible position. The hoyer pad was cutting into my butt. I was also soaked to the gills. I wanted to get back in bed. But the aides did not come until 2:30.  I’m in bed now and dry,thank God.

I started started listening to an Audible book this morning. The title is Tne Framers’ Coup by Michal J Klarman. I haven’t given up on Akhil Reed Amar. I was just in the mood to listen to a narration. Anyway this book is about the Philadelphia convention in 1787 and the ratification process. I’m going to try to go through two books at the same time.

5:59a.m. I had a tuna melt sandwich and an orange sherbet for supper. That was enough to fill me up. I talked with Chococolatechip lot this afternoon. They made some changes in her psych medS. Starting on the 25th she is going to take a shot of Ability. That is supposed to help with the negative thinking and paranoia. Her mood improved somewhat after she got help from CMP. Ordering pizzaj for supper from Dominos also helped.

I intend to read my book America’s Constitution: A Biography tonight. I’d like to read all of Chapter 7. This chapter deals with states and territories . I’m halfway finished with this book. I intend to read this sucker if it’s the last thing I do. No

As each ratifying state pledged vertical allegiance to the United States, it simultaneously promised horizontal fidelity to other states and their citizens. Over a wide spectrum of civil rights, every state vowed to give citizens of sister states the same treatment that it gave its own citizens. Also, states agreed to pay special regard to one another’s laws and court decisions. As usual, the devil was in the details: Slave states won important concessions in Article IV. Slavery aside, Article IV envisioned a vast empire of liberty stretching to the Mississippi As each ratifying state pledged vertical allegiance to the United States, it simultaneously promised horizontal fidelity to other states and their citizens. Over a wide spectrum of civil rights, every state vowed to give citizens of sister states the same treatment that it gave its own citizens. Also, states agreed to pay special regard to one another’s laws and court decisions. As usual, the devil was in the details: Slave states won important concessions in Article IV. Slavery aside, Article IV envisioned a vast empire of liberty stretching to the Mississippi and perhaps beyond(Amar 248). 

Amar went on to write :

Ever the tinkerer, Benjamin Franklin in 1754 proposed to add a sturdier intercolonial rim. Franklin himself was a continentalist who had been born in one colony (Massachusetts), traveled as a young man to a second (New York) in an unsuccessful job search, and then relocated to a third (Pennsylvania). His 1754 plan, presented to a conclave of colonists meeting in Albany, envisioned the creation of an eleven-state Grand Council that would be elected by colonial assemblies and presided over by a Crown-appointed president

general with an absolute veto. (The plan subsumed Delaware within Pennsylvania And omitted Georgia, whose colonial legislature had yet to meet.) Franklin proposed to vest this council with broad control over Indian affairs, westward expansion, and continental defense, and with the power to levy its own taxes, duties, and imposts in order to finance its ambitious continental operations. Here, as elsewhere, Franklin was far ahead of his time. His imaginary new wheel went nowhere in the 1750s, thanks to colonial legislators who refused to endorse any system that transferred so much authority from themselves

Then came the  Articles of Confederation

The free inhabitants of each of these states, paupers, vagabonds, and fugitives from justice excepted, shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of free citizens in the several states; and the people of each state shall have free ingress and regress to and from any other state, and shall enjoy therein all the privileges of trade and commerce, subject to the same duties, impositions and restrictions as the inhabitants thereof respectively.