Grace and I have to go to the doctor and it's proving to be a little complicated.  First, the reason we have to go.  In order to join a gym or an organized exercise program of some sort, you have to have a certificate from a doctor showing that you are healthy enough to participate.  I'm sure that somewhere in this, the government is making money, but I haven't figured out how yet.  There is no other logical reason for any kind of regulation in Italy.  All regulations are money making schemes for the government to cover their extremely generous social programs.  Anyhow, as Grace and I are starting Zumba on Tuesday, we need these certificates.  Last night at 7 we went to the doctor's office which is in a building at the bottom of our road.  As he is a doctor in the public health system you don't need to make an appointment, just show up during visiting hours and take a number and wait.  These are his visiting hours.  Mon.and Fri.  4:45 - 8, Tues. 1:45- 4:30, Wed. 10:45 - 1:00, Thurs. 8:00 - 11:00.  Suffice it to say I have them written down.  So I figured that Friday evening at 7 would be a good time to go.  Who's gonna be there?  5 people.  So I took a number and sat down to wait as usually these visits are very quick.  After 30 minutes when there still hadn't been any patient called into the doctor's office we had to leave as we were heading out to dinner with friends and still had to go home and change.  We'll try again on Monday evening.  Obviously this is the downfall of socialized medicine.  But had we actually been ill all we have to do is call and during those hours he isn't taking visits he makes house calls.  And it's pretty much free.  Can't complain.  We went to a restaurant in the center for dinner with friends I haven't seen in a couple years though Gp has been in touch.  It was lovely.  Very modern chic with guitar players entertaining us and really cool bathrooms.  We just had pizza and beers but it was nice.  Today is raining and we are staying home.  Grace has homework and I have to start studying for my license.  As  am starting work tomorrow will need a car of my own.  At one time this wouldn't have been a problem here, buy Italy has decided to get all civilized since the formation of the European Union and has decided there should be rules.  How could they?  Off to clean bathrooms and procrastinate as much as possible. xxoo me