Saturday, October 25: Funeral @ Silver Spring

Good day in Silver Spring, Maryland. We woke up around 8:15 AM. Got quickly dressed and drove three minutes to IHOP. We realized we 

could’ve actually walked there but we didn’t know. Went to IHOP and it was a nice IHOP so much better than the one in Philly. It had the traditional pancakes and all that I had protein pancakes today

that’s a new thing and I had told Mary that. Lewis Black on the daily show complained about protein being a fad and I’ve been putting protein in every single little meal. Well, we got back. I showered

Mary got dressed up and I got dressed up and we’re heading to Mary’s mother’s funeral service. We got to the service

approximately 10:45 AM which was a little late, but it really wasn’t a big deal. We chatted up with Mike, David and Debbie. And then there was a very informal service led by a Catholic priest that was pretty 

nice. And after the service they invited us to an after funeral get to. they invited us to a after funeral get together at a place called McGlincy’s Public house, which is in the middle of downtown Silver 

Spring. It was kind of a pain ass to get there. Well, we got to the Public house and we really lucked out and found a decent parking spot and we didn’t have to go into a garage and we hung out there for about 40 minutes. Got to talk to Dave Debbie and Mike, 



which is good. We only a lot of ourselves a 40 minutes and then we had to split. I think we made an appearance enough to be OK with the rest of the family. We then drove the scenic route and we stopped

by Bikram Yoga. Chadds Ford. Somebody’s teaching a class, but we got to look at the studio. We were very impressed with it. The teacher teaching the nine minute class was very chill and 

asked us how we were doing. We told him that we were from Hot Yoga , Philadelphia and he was put at ease. after you left Bikram Yoga Chaddsford , and drove

back to Mary’s dumped off the stuff and then return the rental car. After that, we walked back towards Mary’s and picked up our Indian food


at the Royal Indian restaurant. We were both very hungry after all that running around we did today. Found out from Dave that Mom’s 

roommate has Covid so I can’t visit mom tomorrow. I’m gonna take advantage of that and sleep in tomorrow before my 2 o’clock Voice lesson 



that I’m having at home tomorrow..

Friday, October 24: Mike’s issues! Trip to Silver Spring

Good day everybody I think I slept pretty well, but I’m still a little bit tired of course. It’s a cool partly sunny day here in Philadelphia. I went back to Mike’s. He had to move from the bed and then the 

physical therapist came over. Tony encouraged Mike to get out of the bed. He asked Mike a series of questions and Courle and had the doctor call him back. The doctor called back and Mike managed

to get a 11:30 AM doctors appointment at 800 Walnut the place with the funky elevators and the security guards. I guess this was better than shipping them off to the emergency room. So 

We got there early and they saw him pretty quickly and they dosed him with OxyContin and some kind of heating pad thing. I don’t know. And then Mike has to make an appointment to get blood 

work done and possible x-ray to look at his neck. So there’s another stop at Measure so it’s now 2:58 PM and the pharmacy isn’t done with the OxyContin yet and Mike’s lobbing out in his bed doing

Mike things. I’m trying to get out at 3:30 so I can pick up the rental car at 30th St. I just thought of something maybe I’ll just take an Uber to 30th St. sounds like a waste of money when I can just catch

the Broad Street sub to 15th and then go to 30th. I don’t know it’s a bit funky. Looking forward to taking a nice road trip. I think I might just take myself another super coffee since I’m not doing yoga today. Mary has her

First act together and everything’s ready on her end. I’m just trying to clear up my end of things. Well, I came back to Pharmacy at 3:30 PM and they tell me then that the OxyContin isn’t available and I asked

them why they couldn’t have had it. They couldn’t have told me earlier making some ham-handed excuse about a secret lockbox for the OxyContin. So they also told me that the doctors office phone line wasn’t working 

and I tried it myself and lo and behold. It wasn’t ringing or anything. It was absolutely absurd, so I got back to Mike’s phone the bad news and we tried calling the doctors 

Aoffice and they did pick up and some guy answered and said he would contact the pharmacy. I also went back to the pharmacy and told them 

to call the doctors office since it wasn’t glitching anymore. I then dropped off Mike’s heart monitor thing at Staples where they have UPS drop off and then finally caught the train and headed

to 30th St. now 4:20 PM. I’m supposed to pick up my Rental at four. Yikes. Well, I got to pick up and Hertz gave no problem in picking up the car it went very smoothly. Anyhow, I went to Mary’s 

got last-minute provisions and then we headed down towards I-95. We then talked to Alice about our artwork and geezers are giving which was cool. After that, we had it on Down Penrose Ave.,

South Philly really slow and then we finally got on 95 we then got off at Newark Delaware to avoid the toll and decided we’d have our dinner at the Wawa on the way cause it’s a good time and it’s already 7:13 PM. We 

probably won’t arrive at the hotel till at least 8:30 PM. We arrived at the Marriott and checked in with much ease. We got ourselves organized and decided that we weren’t gonna watch any TV and stuff but the Toronto Blue Jays did whip up on the Los Angeles Dodgers game One 11–4. That was a good thing. They did play at Toronto in Toronto has to win its home games to have a chance to beat the Dodgers.