Am getting worried....

Have been down with a bug the past three days. I would have risked going to Gamlitz on Friday, but got a call at six a.m. They were taking him to Graz for tests, and by the time he would have gotten back, it would have been time for me to leave. Swell.

There ARE not direct connections to Gamlitz on the weekends. It is a nightmare. And on Monday, I HAVE to go to social services on his behalf, and present some documentation, what his pension and his rent costs, otherwise he can pay the whole shebang.

Cripes, all they need to is call the Pension insurance people and his social habitat service, and get the info, but no, I have to bring it in black on white. Buraucracy.. Horrible invention.

Since he got there, his sugar levels went up amazingly, his voice is very weak, and he surely isn't faking it. And they run over 4oo. This is not a good place for him to be.

Tonight's evening meal was Kaiserschmarrn. Herrgottnochmal. The last thing he should eat, and have only served it once, in a very small portion, without all the extras. Kaiserschmarrn is a sort of fried pankcake cut into noodle sized strips, and covered with apricot or plum jam, and then sugared. So tonight his sugar level was at 489. It has never been so high.

Are those people ticking correctly, as we say?

I don't wish to say more, as I still haven't been there, but that doesn't sound right at all.

And he doesn't have any money to bribe anyone, because I have his bank card, and he didn't have much when he got transferred.

And NO, I haven't touched his account, but I didn't want him doing unrash things with it or entrusting it to people who would take him for a ride.

Besides which, I need it for getting a print out to bring to the Social Service people so they can see what was going in for his pension, and out for his rent, and then they will take care of it.

I can get down there on Tuesday.

And am absolutely, totally... frustrated, and somewhat angry.

We shall see.

As for the rest---worry month. It comes down to the wire, as regards health-care reform in the US. Rachel Maddow had two very good segments the last two days regarding Bart Stupak and his obstruction regarding even stricter abortion rules, and she went for the juglar. He is part of a cult. Women should decide. Men should STFU. But oh no, they don't want government to interfere in people's personal decisions.... The hypocrisy stinks to high heaven. And this supposed Dem seems to be part of a cult.

And then she deconstructed the newest Liz Cheney logic in an ad her 'Keep America Safe' campaign put out, and it was so crass. So following her logic, she followed the 'leads', and it turns out EVERYBODY is linked to Al Quaeda, and because she greeted her once at an official gathering in Washington, it must mean she is a member as well.... and got 'arrested' at the end of her show. It was brilliant.

She always makes fun of the way the right uses the opening song of 'Carmina Burana' in their ads, because it makes people fearful. 'Oh. Fortuna'.

It sounds pagan, and skeery. True.

The composer was Austrian, Carl Orff. Scripts from monks were found here, and he pieced them together, and composed a very forceful piece of work from them, musically. A lot of it was in Latin. And sometimes very lyrical.

And 'Oh, Fortuna' was the opening number of the cycle. I have always loved it. 'Oh, Fortuna, velut luna, statu variabilis....' A huge cresendo. 'Oh fate, like the moon, always changing'. That is a loose translation...

I think Orff's heirs should sue. For misusing something to make people afraid, who do not know what the background is, and being as bad as Goebbels.

She has pointed this out often in the past few months, the 'scary music', but that was never what it was about.

Not originally, at least...

What comes next, demonizing Strawinsky?

In political ads?

It is mind-boggling.

I found a YouTube clip with English subtitles, and am putting it up here so you see what I mean. If the Republicans were smart, they might have found out what it had meant.

So, scary music....