Self Service

• Given the big winter storm bearing down on Boston, and 
• CVS not having pre-shipped my shots (as my nurse/care-manager had been assured) and
• not trusting that UPS would deliver overnight by 8am and
• needing to start a course of marrow-stimulating shots promptly this morning,

I drove to Milford MA to pick up my shots (8 syringes, 2 syringes per day, plus alcohol swabs and a Sharp's nest)

Self-service gas is prohibited in Milford. It's a town bylaw.

Of course right behind the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, don't we all keep the bylaws of Milford written on our hearts?

We hold these truths to be self-evident,
that no person shall pump their own gas in the Town of Milford.  

It is so self evident that they don't put it on any signs, anywhere (no signs on "the islands" at the Milford Shell, for example) unless, if you look really closely as you're already pumping, you'll see it hand scrawled in a slanted, wandering Sharpie script, about 1" high on a worn spot on the pump itself.

So, yes, I'm a fugitive from Milford justice. Developing.

Speaking of self-service pumping, I have now pumped neupogen into the folded flesh of my own belly.  More on this process later.