It's been 2 weeks since I last posted.  Much has occurred, but nothing momentous.  We held our monthly Lowcountry Myasthenia Gravis Support Group meeting last Saturday.  I began physical therapy again and my 2004 Kia Optima is mortally wounded, I fear.  It is in the Autokrankenhaus (car hospital) today and I don't know when it will be ready.  Probably tomorrow and I am seriously considering trading it.  The only question is "for what"?  Doing my due diligence now.

The political climate is darkening. The Repubs are holding their nominating convention in Tampa next week and it looks like Hurricane Isaac will be an unwelcome attendee.  The Dems are meeting in Charlotte the following week.  After that, the Presidential contest will begin in earnest.  More on it later.

Wow!  Over this past weekend we had our daughter, her husband and two of our three grandchildren plus a teen-age grandniece of Ute and a classmate of our granddaughter, Annabelle, visiting.  I can truly say, I now know why God doesn't let men my age have small children.  I dearly love them, but they are exhausting.  My grandson, Theo, is a ball of fire and a real boy. He wanted to find golf balls, catch frogs and play dominoes.  We did all and he and his dad played golf on both Saturday and Sunday at our club, RiverTowne Country Club.  I miss them already.

That said, the week is progressing "interestingly".  The Obama campaign has accused Mitt Romney of causing the death of a steel worker who was put out of work when a steel mill which was acquired by Bain Capital (several years after Romney left the organization).  According to the commercial, the steel worker lost his pension benefits and health care coverage and his wife subsequently ("shortly thereafter") died of cancer and it's all Romney's fault.  The truth is that, as stated above, Romney had left Bain Capital three years before the company went bankrupt.  Also, the steel worker's wife died SIX YEARS after the closing of the steel plant and, oh yes, she had health care coverage from her own employer.  But don't let facts get in the way of a good slander of your political opponent.  They have no shame.

I'm just sayin'.