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• Not Quite Almost good

  August 2, 2022

  Got a bit of work done at Pup's place. After allergy shots, I took bulgogi to the Hubbin crawling on hands and knees trying to get the tiny hallway done. The smallest space is the most labor intensive. He deserved bulgogi. I was delighted to discover I had 2 shelves left to paint, now just…

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• Sciatica you B@#%$!

  July 31, 2022

  Just because everything has been going so well (sarcasm) let's just make it extremely painful and near impossible to move. I thought I had it licked last night but today that's a big fat no. I feel really useless now and sad for Hubbin because he needs someone to give him some support. August is&...

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• Sometimes a Great Notion

  July 29, 2022

  Ken Kesey always gave me the impression that he was a kind of self-promoting wannabe. It wasn't that he didn't have the chops, it just felt like he tried a little too hard to keep up with other people whose antics, for better or worse, were a little more organic. Paul Newman in Sometimes a…

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• 104?

  July 28, 2022

  Yes, that sounds hot and it has my hippy hippy shake causing an achy achy ache... Hematology Dr. Aha! is the most asexual being I have ever met. This is not a problem but magnifies other interactional  "quirks." The revelation is in spite of massive amounts of iron pills I have absorbed none of i...

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• From The Bottom UP

  July 24, 2022

  Another one of those days when I'll be lucky to get dressed before noon. Do you really need to be uncomfortable to be productive? I went through a whole stack of stuff on my desk. When it just gets too much I pull from the bottom up. Found a $20 Walmart gift card. Now that's…

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• How long could it take?

  July 23, 2022

  Anemia is a weird little monster. I've gone from hanging metals on my walls documenting all the miles I've covered in years past to the daily question of how close can I get to an actual mile? If I manage it, I might feel pretty good for the rest of the day. If I manage it, tomorrow…

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• Mechanical Keyboard

  July 13, 2022

  I actually found one of the old-style keyboards that click. I love those. The gaming keyboard went blind. All the letters missing and I don't even type that much. I keep my nails short too.  I had a bright yellow keyboard for old farts, still new in the box (some kind of thing I bought…

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• April 22 and Beyond

  July 9, 2022

  After 2 months of going in circles, I got a new doctor. One who actually does stuff. My ferritin was 5 on June 15th. It takes time to get into seeing about help even after the referral letters come back. Reading up on anemia it seems that once you get iron back to the normal…

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• Winter Terms

  March 11, 2022

  It's been s struggle. Just as I was starting back to classes for the quarter Wu got Covid. That's a long story. I dropped all but the nonfiction class because that instructor is just wonderful. The remedial classes it turns out I DON'T need to get into the MFA program are taught by grad students&...

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