Minutiae in 4 movements
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somedayseattle1=Monday, February 3, 2025. Roughly 2:58 PM, outside of the WakeMed Healthcare Rehab Center. Mostly sunny with a light breeze. 72°.—-The pinnacle of absolute perfection. Only a handful of days during the year reach this level of beauty. Being in North Carolina it makes sense this happens in the dead of winter. When I first moved to Carolina in the late '70's lot of local yokels told me 'if you don’t like the weather, just wait five minutes”' Absolute truth as right now it’s 7 AM and 31° iwith a high of 42 today. After Monday’s perfection the rest of 2025 is canceled.
2-I was watching my usual three hour Sanford & Son marathon this morning. The first episode of the day is one I did not instantly recognize. I sat through it waiting to see if any of it struck familiar. I did not. At its conclusion I grabbed my iPod and went to the Internet Movie Data Base (aka-IMDB). . I pulled up the shows entry, went to the episode guide. One by one I read the synopsis of every episode. Perusing this list has made my status official. I have seen each and every episode ever made. Every Aunt Esther insult, every Big Dummy joke and every old white lady comment. Part of me is swelling in pride and another part is coming to grips that I’ve watched too much TV in my life.
3-my newfound Gym Life is going well. It took a little while to get used to the machinery. I’ve pushed myself from three sets of 10 repetitions to four sets of 25 repetitions on two of the machines. It would’ve probably been easier if I just increased the weight. Either way I’m considering it a victory. I started last week on a machine called a NuStep. It’s a torture device for aerobic health. On my first attempt I barely broke one minute. Yesterday on my third day using the machine I stopped for a break after two minutes....they just over two again for a grand total of four minutes and 10 seconds.. I’m going to start being nicer to people because I have a feeling that hell means spending eternity on the Nu Step. Fuck that noise.
NOTE-thats not me on the machine. You'll never catch me grinning on that sumbitch.
4-after a mere 55 weeks of being out of the hospital I finally got full night sleep. The hospital sent me home with 13-15 drugs to take and since then added a couple more. The side effects were deafening. They were completely ruining my quality of life and making me a miserable human being. I tried to get Dr. Merwin to reduce them but he didn’t. I checked to see which had one or two refills after leaving the hospital. I felt deleting these was not life-threatening. Into the trash they go. I’m down to about five drugs and I would like to ultimately be down to just my thyroid meds. I gave up hard drugs years ago (you know...the fun ones) and most alcohol as well. I have one beer a day four days a week. That’s all I need to get me by.
2-I was watching my usual three hour Sanford & Son marathon this morning. The first episode of the day is one I did not instantly recognize. I sat through it waiting to see if any of it struck familiar. I did not. At its conclusion I grabbed my iPod and went to the Internet Movie Data Base (aka-IMDB). . I pulled up the shows entry, went to the episode guide. One by one I read the synopsis of every episode. Perusing this list has made my status official. I have seen each and every episode ever made. Every Aunt Esther insult, every Big Dummy joke and every old white lady comment. Part of me is swelling in pride and another part is coming to grips that I’ve watched too much TV in my life.
3-my newfound Gym Life is going well. It took a little while to get used to the machinery. I’ve pushed myself from three sets of 10 repetitions to four sets of 25 repetitions on two of the machines. It would’ve probably been easier if I just increased the weight. Either way I’m considering it a victory. I started last week on a machine called a NuStep. It’s a torture device for aerobic health. On my first attempt I barely broke one minute. Yesterday on my third day using the machine I stopped for a break after two minutes....they just over two again for a grand total of four minutes and 10 seconds.. I’m going to start being nicer to people because I have a feeling that hell means spending eternity on the Nu Step. Fuck that noise.
NOTE-thats not me on the machine. You'll never catch me grinning on that sumbitch.
4-after a mere 55 weeks of being out of the hospital I finally got full night sleep. The hospital sent me home with 13-15 drugs to take and since then added a couple more. The side effects were deafening. They were completely ruining my quality of life and making me a miserable human being. I tried to get Dr. Merwin to reduce them but he didn’t. I checked to see which had one or two refills after leaving the hospital. I felt deleting these was not life-threatening. Into the trash they go. I’m down to about five drugs and I would like to ultimately be down to just my thyroid meds. I gave up hard drugs years ago (you know...the fun ones) and most alcohol as well. I have one beer a day four days a week. That’s all I need to get me by.
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Date: 2025-02-06 12:20 am (UTC)