{"id":23916,"date":"2016-11-27T10:12:27","date_gmt":"2016-11-27T15:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/babakaps.net\/?p=23916"},"modified":"2022-11-25T04:21:56","modified_gmt":"2022-11-25T09:21:56","slug":"nov-27-16-my-a-team-swings-into-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/babakaps.net\/?p=23916","title":{"rendered":"NOV 27, 16 .. MY &#8216;A&#8217; TEAM SWINGS INTO ACTION .."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just in case you have not been following me for a few days, maybe you should scroll down two posts below to see the background to this Post.<\/p>\n<p>Or, to make it really easy on yourself, just click onto the two links below.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/babakaps.net\/?p=23901\">https:\/\/babakaps.net\/?p=23901<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Do you want powerlessness? Start a website. I have no idea why my server made these two links, above and below, so totally different. In the below link just click onto the NOV 26, 16 ..<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"of9LDiJIoe\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/babakaps.net\/?p=23925\">NOV 26, 16 .. WHAT A SATURDAY I HAD TODAY .. NOV 26th 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;NOV 26, 16 .. WHAT A SATURDAY I HAD TODAY .. NOV 26th 2016&#8221; &#8212; Baba Kaps Doxology\" src=\"https:\/\/babakaps.net\/?p=23925&#038;embed=true#?secret=eVqMuzDF8L#?secret=of9LDiJIoe\" data-secret=\"of9LDiJIoe\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Yes! Oh Yes! I have my, let&#8217;s see, what to call them, got it,\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>MY DETRACTORS.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Of course the worst of my (many, several, few) detractors is the one between my right and my left ear.<\/p>\n<p>Gratitude for the good news.<\/p>\n<p>My DETRACTOR&#8217;s have some Not Such Good News:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yaa-Dee-Yaa-Dee La La Captain!&#8221; .. &#8220;Eternal optimist.&#8221; .. &#8220;What have you to say now Captain?&#8221; .. &#8220;Broken Hip. You are in great pain. Come now Captain. Tell us all about the good news Captain!&#8221; .. &#8220;Let&#8217;s see your Gratitude List Captain!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993300;\">The Good News?<\/span> <span style=\"color: #800000;\">It only hurts when I move.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>My DETRACTOR&#8217;s reply with some Not Such Good News:<\/p>\n<p>Well Captain! Tell your followers that you only scream out loud, at the top of your lungs, when you do have to move. Otherwise it is just a dull, numbing, pain that does not allow you to get too comfortable.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">The Good News? I am able to sleep.<\/span> THAT solves many things.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">The Good News? I was able to get from a sleeping position to that of sitting on the edge of my bed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>My DETRACTOR&#8217;s Not Such Good News:<\/p>\n<p>It took you a full, honest, twenty minutes to perform the above <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>herculean<\/em><\/span> task.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">The Good News? <\/span>This, right here, I am able to use my computer to get my mind off the issue at hand.<\/p>\n<p>Enough of this nonsense Detractors.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #800000; font-size: 20pt;\">THE REALLY GOOD &amp; GREAT NEWS!<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #800000; font-size: 20pt;\">\u00a0MY<span style=\"font-size: 24pt;\"> &#8216;A&#8217;<\/span> TEAM ..<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, Steve K did not wait to ask me for permission to visit. Steve took action and came to my hotel. I am set up with a fully functioning China Mobile Cell Phone. We got to the hospital. I saw a Doctor. He ordered X-Rays. I have a broken hip. I am not imagining the issue with my left leg.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #800000; font-size: 20pt;\">MY<span style=\"font-size: 24pt;\"> &#8216;A&#8217;<\/span> TEAM ..<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>I called Patti.<\/p>\n<p>Patti called &#8216;Zilla.<\/p>\n<p>ON THE SPOT .. The two of them, &#8216;Zilla with Patti&#8217;s support in addition to input from &#8216;Zilla&#8217;s wife KB, set up my two airline flights. I am leaving Hong Kong, tomorrow Monday the 28th, at 12-noon for Seattle<span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em> in business class<\/em><\/span> no less. I will lay over in Seattle and then I catch a plane from Seattle down to Phoenix Arizona at 11:20AM <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>in first class.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Zilla has one class. The best. The very best. Nothing less will do for &#8216;Zilla or for his allies.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20pt; color: #800000;\"><strong>THANK YOU &#8216;ZILLA.\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: 16pt;\">You <em>know,<\/em> from actual experience in Atlanta, back a few years ago, about bad falls that change your life!<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Patti has been jumping through the proverbial hoops to take care of me!<\/span><\/em> She has contacted the Mayo Clinic in Scottsdale Arizona. She has us a hotel reservation set up near the Mayo Clinic Campus. Patti has arranged for the safe storage of our Chevrolet Suburban in Anchorage. Patti has .. Patti has .. Patti has done too much for me to possibly describe in detail here.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Patti has been jumping through the proverbial hoops to take care of her plans!\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Patti has had to make plans for her travel to Phoenix where she will be waiting for me to arrive from Hong Kong via Seattle Washington down to Phoenix Arizona.<\/p>\n<p>Do you want an <span style=\"font-size: 18pt; color: #800000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20pt;\">&#8216;A&#8217;<\/span> TEAM. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>If so, pattern your &#8216;A&#8217; TEAM after my <span style=\"font-size: 20pt; color: #800000;\">&#8216;A&#8217;<\/span> <span style=\"font-size: 18pt; color: #800000;\">TEAM.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Still (what else to do really) Smiling .. Cap<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">If one is still smiling in spite of all that is going around one, one does NOT really understand the situation. \/s\/ YOUR DETRACTOR<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Take a hike detractor.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just in case you have not been following me for a few days, maybe you should scroll down two posts below to see the background to this Post. 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