I’m going to assume that it’s bright red like that in celebration of the Chiefs win yesterday and their upcoming Superb Owl appearance with a chance to become the first team to win a “three-peat” in that event.
Right?
No?
Category Archives: Health
Surprise!
Trying to cram about two weeks of work into two days, it’s been a long weekend. And then this starts happening again, pretty much just like last weekend.
Not as high as last weekend, and the worst of the chills have stayed away, but I still would have preferred to te a 24 or 48 hour nap instead of a 24 or 48 hour cram session for our Budget meeting tomorrow.
Lessons learned while training and running marathons in the past have come in handy – sometimes when you really, really want to just sit down and rest and drop out, you need instead to just keep putting one foot in front of the other, regardless of the circumstances.
Or “Set SCE to AUX!” Same.
Filed under Critters, Health, Photography
Better
It’s been a rough 36 hours with the fever, headache, and body aches that I had yesterday. My thanks to everyone who passed on their well wishes! Tonight I’m feeling better.
It’s nice to get the friendly, green signal from the digital thermometer. Before yesterday I didn’t even know that it would glow yellow when you got up a degree or two, and last night I actually got it into the red a couple of times. But it started coming down before a trip to Urgent Care was needed, and today’s been a journey of recovery.
I didn’t have any respiratory problems at all, so I don’t think it was COVID. There wasn’t any nausea or other GI problems, so I don’t think it was the flu. No sneezing or coughing (had that last week), so probably not a cold. Even though I’m not having any of the agonizing pain that goes along with a kidney stone, I do wonder if it might have been a urinary tract infection or something of that nature.
Whatever! As long as it goes away!
Filed under Critters, Health, Photography
Fever
If we get to 103º, sell! Or get to Urgent Care.
I think tomorrow will be a work from home day.
Man, even this tiny post is hard. Brain is not braining.
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Merry Christmas 2024
Our Christmas was fine, filled with family and football.
I like this lower POV, wide angle shot a lot, especially with the clouds up above. I may have to play with that before the lights come down in a couple of weeks, making it look even more haunted and ominous.
My beloved Chiefs are now 15-1 with one game left and have locked up the #1 seed in the AFC playoffs starting in January. While nothing is guaranteed, they’re in a strong position to be the first NFL team to win a three-peat, three Super Bowl titles in a row.
Two of our three kids were able to be here along with spouses and in-laws, and we had BBQ shipped in from Joe’s BBQ in Kansas City, as is our wont. A good time was had by all, far too much food was eaten, at least by me. Tomorrow I start working on getting back down to my “fighting weight.” We may have some fights ahead of us in 2025 I’m thinking.
Filed under Christmas Lights, Health
Same, Watch, Same
I know the feeling. Getting older is not for the weak.
I’m fighting the good fight, I hope. The doctor has me on a CPAP machine night due to severe sleep apnea and while it’s telling me that I’m sleeping so much better, I’m not feeling it and sort of hate the CPAP with the white hot fire of a thousand brillian suns. I also got myself an Oura ring to be monitoring my vitals 24/7/365 – so far all it does is scold me for not going to bed earlier and congratulate me on using the CPAP.
Between the Apple Watch, the Oura ring, and the CPAP I’m turning Borg right before our eyes. It’s not nearly as much fun as Picard made it seem.
I would like to meet Seven of Nine or the Borg Queen. You know, just for kicks.
Random Old Photos – November 16th
I am chock o’ block full of flu and COVID vaccines – come at me, virii! (Viruses? Virususses?) I’m loaded for bear!
All of which has absolutely nothing to do with this nice old picture from 2013 of one of the only two flying B-25 bombers. It’s the CAF’s “Fifi”, coming into Camarillo to spend a couple of days with the CAF SoCal Wing. (At the time it was the only flying B-25, but since then “Doc” has started flying as well.)
That’s a LOT of flaps!
Filed under CAF, Flying, Health, Photography
Norms & Traditions
It’s no secret that I put up a LOT of Christmas lights and enjoy it. But they NEVER start going up before the day after Thanksgiving. Which would be two weeks from today.
But the Universe has decided that we’re shredding all norms and traditions – see “US 2024 elections,” “Constitutional rule of law,” and “fascism” for examples.
So we’re going to need all of the good cheer and happiness we can find, and if the bad guys can sell out the US government to the Nazis and Putin, how bad can it be if I put up a couple of strings of Christmas lights a few days early?
Tomorrow I’m going to get my flu and updated COVID vaccines, while they’re still legal. After that? Who knows, if I don’t feel like shit from the shots (and I rarely do) then maybe it’s time to pull out the laddars and string a few extension cords, C5s, C7s, LEDs, and icicle lights.
Maybe.
Filed under Christmas Lights, Health, Politics
Adulting Wednesdays Suck
“Adulting” is a curious term that apparently means doing things that you REALLY don’t want to do but you’re SUPPOSED to do because you’re an adult. Like getting a trainer and going to the gym every Wednesday after work and supposedly “enjoying” being so sore you can barely move for the next two days.
Those four green bars from 17:30 to 18:30? Yep, doing that to myself ON PURPOSE! And paying for the priviledge. At the end of a sort of sucky day to begin with.
This crap is for the birds!
Fumbly Fingers
I’m not as dexterous at 68 as I was at 18 (not news, not a surprise) and when I’m getting out of my Functional Strength Training session and just trying to walk and breathe at the same time (my trainer made me HURT today, which I guess is what I pay him for…), my fingers can get a bit more fumbly than usual.
Given the time stamp, I believe this is the back of the driver’s seat in the Volvo C70. Given the size and dimensions, I think it might have been taken with my watch, not my phone. (Can the Apple Watch take pictures? Maybe it just triggered the iPhone to take a picture?) Given everything, I would have been trying to stop the Workout app on my phone, but God alone knows what button or icon or combination I hit.
The good news is that I now have a suggestion for a new Olympic event, sort of an Ultra Modern Pentathalon! Combine a half hour of shoulder work, a half hour of leg work, fifteen minutes of push ups, a 5K race, finishing with solving a Rubic’s Cube. Strength, endurance, and dexterity when you’re ready to drop. What’s not to love?
Filed under Health, Paul, Photography
We Love The Stars Too Fondly 