8/25/11-Thurs.-Skipped my library bookstore volunteer shift today in order to give my brother, Ron, a lift to and from a procedure he had on his neck at a pain clinic. Afterward, he, Fran, and I went out for another buffet at Golden Corral. Good vittles. I restrained myself but still ate more than I should have. Am a couple pounds over my current target weight, 150 pounds. At least I have come down in the past year or so from about 12 pounds above that. I have misgivings about what Ron is doing and with assisting him even by just giving him these rides - of which there will be more in September - for he is trying to get on Social Security disability, and I think he is quite capable of working, just no longer feels like doing so. If he succeeds in this venture, as he did already in getting on U.S. Postal Service disability (which he kept receiving while working for a number of years as a successful salesman, till he quit due to "stress" several months ago), I believe living the life of an "invalid" will undermine both his quality of life and life expectancy, not to mention that he will be ripping off the taxpayer to support such malingering. Still, it is not my business, and he has certainly not asked for my opinions.

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