Winter Storm

Woke up this morning to a Winter Storm Warning. Problem with that is …… it’s Spring.

A rainy day on a Monday? Where’s the justice in that.

Heading to the Pain Cave, carrying an umbrella and wearing rain boots, I managed to make it there and back before it got too bad out there.

Trainer has a new client that comes in as I’m leaving. I don’t know how she found him — probably someone referred him, but she just moved into a nice area a few cities over and moved there from Beverly Hills.

That’s a HUGE change — from the land of Gucci, Prada, Versace, Chanel to a somewhat nice area and then to here to train.

She’s feeling the change because she’s never seen a homeless person before.

Seriously.

I believe it, because you can bet there are no homeless allowed in Beverly Hills.

They frighten her. She’s so nervous, so afraid of being attacked that Trainer had me reassure her the homeless have never approached, harassed or been a danger to me — a female client. I said that it’s smart to nevertheless stay alert to your surroundings when entering/exiting the car and, in the last analysis, not to worry because we have Trainer looking out for us.

Trainer is such a nice guy that once, seeing a homeless female out in the rain, he gave her a jacket from his truck, bought her food. He used to save cans for another homeless dude that frequented the area but is no longer around.

When he comes across those that don’t act right, he talks to them calmly, tells them he’d appreciate they’d not hang around his business. They seem to appreciate being talked to like the human they are underneath the down and destitute appearance they present. They also see Trainer’s gangster looking tattoos, can see from the equipment that Trainer is a trained fighter, and they comply.

The homeless respect him and, rather than harass Trainer’s clients, the homeless guys look out for his business. Like the time I blogged about how they warned him when a homeless lady began setting a fire, to warm herself, too close to his business.

At any rate, I don’t think Ms. Beverly Hills can overcome her fear.

Will be interesting to see how long before she stops coming.

Still no sign of my buddy Apache, but The Baker said he texted her last week, so I guess he’s okay.

Other news is the woman described in the blog as "The Little Helpful Lady" — because she was so helpful when we had activities … helping to set up, clean up, making birthday cakes finally moved out on Sunday.

I say finally because she didn’t want to go, dragged her heels and delayed as long as she could.

Living here almost from when the building first went up, some 20 years or so ago, Apache told me two/three months ago, when he was here helping her pack, that she was being forced by relatives to move in with them and she didn’t want to go.

Supposedly moving in with her son and his family, for her own best interest, because she’d fallen three times in her unit, injured herself.

You’d think that to be a good thing for her — to move in with relatives, but her issue was about losing her independence, "I’ll have to do what they want me to do".

I’ve seen it happen a few times that when one of our seniors loses their independence, move in with relatives and don't want to, they go down quickly — depressed, demoralized, don’t last long.

I had suggested he tell her to get a caregiver.

"That’s the thing" said he. "Her son IS her caregiver. He gets paid by the State to take care of her".

Ah Ha, the plot thickens, thought I. It’s all about the money the son has been collecting for caregiving when, actually, he wasn’t caregiving at all — she was living alone, caring for herself, letting the son receive extra income on a pretext of being her caregiver.

The accidents must have been bringing attention to the fraud, and he didn’t want to lose that source of income, so he pushed her to move in.

Hope it works out for her. That she doesn’t regret getting herself a real caregiver, continue to live where she was happy.

The slap seen around the world made it to Court TV this afternoon.

I just watched a discussion between the commentator and a lawyer. It was said Will Smith can be charged whether Chris Rock presses charges or not because it’s on video and so many saw it.

I saw it.

I’d be glad to sign on as a complaining party, a witness. Citizen's arrest maybe.

There was also a discussion as to the Academy’s responsibility. That security should have immediately escorted WS out of the venue.

I agree.

After being escorted out, they could have mailed his Oscar to him.

But, in all fairness, Production was probably in shock, as were we all.

It was a situation no one had ever seen before or could have anticipated.

I don’t expect anything like that to ever happen again but, if it does, Production will be ready with a plan.