Currently Kieth

I'm counting down.

I've made no secret of my fondness for Keith Olbermann's show and how upset I was when he got into that kurfuffle with MSNBC which I essentially stopped watching after that. By essentially I mean I still download Rachel's pods and sometimes actually watch them. And I get Ed's newsletter and occasionally follow a link to watch a video a day or three or more after it aired.

But enough on all that. There have been enough words wasted on that whole mishmash.

Meanwhile, tonight, I'm counting and recounting stitches as I put back in the several rows I had to pull out of a bookmark I'm crocheting after discovering, while working the last row, that it wasn't laying flat because one side had 34 of what the other side had 22. I'm still not sure how I managed that. I gave up trying to diagnose it precisely after my eyes started crossing as I tried to count the stitches in the rows behind the row I was working on looking for the exact place the mistake began. I finally decided it would be quicker to take it out and put it back in taking care to count and keep my eyes on the work not the TV. To be sure I took out the original mistake, I took it all the way back to the end of row two. I was almost to the end of row 7 and about to begin the border when I discovered there was a problem.

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Olbermann Nails It

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Here is the first of the five videos available on MSNBC of Keith Olbermann's hour long special comment about health care reform. Finally someone is talking about what matters and why it should matter and why we should care. For Keith as for so many of us the political has become personal. As he has been forced into an all to0 intimate and intense dealing with the health care system as over the past several weeks he helped his elderly father deal with a major life-threatening crisis.

I highly recommend watching all five. It is not just moving and thought-provoking but educational. Plus the story of his father's health crisis and his personal reaction to what he encountered during his father's care is scattered throughout the five segments. As you might imagine, I am intensely identifying with him as memories of my own mother's broken hip, hip surgery and post op stroke eleven months ago are triggered by Keith's story.

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