July is Gone Already?

Greetings, gentle readers.
Now that my surgery is upcoming, the past few days have been filled with paperwork, ensuring that there is insurance, that disabilities and recoveries are covered, and that all of the people who want post-dated cheques get them, along with a reminder that in Canada, we use the spelling of "cheques" with the "qu", not the "ck" of the unwashed masses south of the border.
Have also discovered that rather ordinary things like my sleeping position can greatly affect how I feel the next day.  That, and switching anti-convulsant medications was a bad idea.  After getting into a good rhythm with my pain meds and anti-convulsant, switching the medication basically dropped me back to square one, with the twitching, and the sweating, and the hey hey hey.
That being said, I barely made it through my last shower and, having done so, became a worthless, semi-comatose invalid for the rest of the day.  Here's what I heard over the course of that shower:

Music

• Sleep in Late, by Big Sugar
• Time After Time, by Cyndi Lauper, performed by Eva Cassidy
• Take Me Home, by Melanie Chisholm
• Digging for Words, by Juluka
• Big Shot, by the English Beat

The Eva Cassidy song (like most of her songs) seems a bit haunting considering her early death from a metastasized melanoma in 1996.  That reminder of the shortness of our existence seems to draw some sort of theme of the temporal around this entry.  It also seems poignant that Cyndi Lauper, eternally remembered for girls just wanting to have fun, penned this haunting song about two separated individuals who cannot see the future for one another.

Veterans

I find it interesting that it so much easier to donate to charities if you're in the UK.  For example, to donate toward the establishment of a Behavioural Health Division of the U.S. Armed Forces, you need to go through the rigamarole of using a credit card or PayPal to give them money and go to this site to complete all of the forms and paperwork:  https://secure.squarespace.com/commerce/donate?donatePageId=57ffe275be6594d853ccfe64
The other thing one could do would be to elect government representatives (like Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii)) that are committed to helping veterans, treating PTSD, and working towards establishing military processes to minimize the emotional impact of waging awful war against people who would prefer if you bombed someone else.  Or continue to vote for Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton or any other hypocrite committed to militarily-enforced regime change.
Meanwhile, in the UK, if one wanted to help wounded and damaged veterans debilitated during their service in the middle east, one simply needs to send "HERO29 £3" to 70070 on one's mobile phone to add three pounds to one's monthly mobile bill.  The complicated donation stuff is still there at https://www.ssafa.org.uk/give,  but surely the best way to garner donations for a charity is through the least tortuous path.  If it's simple, surely people would be more inclined towards it.
Actually, now I'm curious about the mechanics of the mobility networks and the ability to do those sort of text "SOMETHING" to XXXXX sorts of transactions.  I'll do some investigations.
But that's it for me for the nonce.
Good night England, and the colonies.
—mARKUS