Took a reading drive Monday…really excited…

by | Oct 8, 2014 | Journal

We haven’t done this often enough. Jane and I took off for a 200 mile drive to Missoula MT and Ruby’s Inn, where we got a lovely room by the streamside, and had a nice breakfast pre-paid in the room charge, sausage, biscuits and gravy, corned beef hash,...

Bliss…

by | Oct 4, 2014 | Journal

…is finally getting some sleep. Now that I can take the anti-inflammatory, I have some hope this may get better. I also found, amid the knee pain, that I’d run myself short of minerals—the body seems apt to do that, when it’s stressed. Meds can...

Discussing chirality…and other big words.

by | Sep 30, 2014 | Journal

Got into an interesting discussion on why life-molecules on Earth are of one chirality (handedness)—and lo! meteorites from elsewhere in the solar system that bring in such molecules are likewise -handed. Heard anything on this?

Catch-22….as in…bitchy moment…

by | Sep 29, 2014 | Journal

Catch-22 As in—I have to refrain from aspirin and blood thinners for the next 7 days because of a routine medical test… As in—all painkillers but Tylenol are in this category. As in—no amount of Tylenol works at all for me, except to give me an...

I have been remiss!

by | Sep 23, 2014 | Journal

Sorry, folks…these are the drapes. I made them wide enough so that the insulated drape tucks in behind. Some of you might recognize the top part of the hangy-down. They are the runners from the wedding! 😀

Well enough to start the walking campaign.

by | Sep 20, 2014 | Journal

So we walked down the block and back. Nothing like several weeks unable to get out of a chair to argue that all the excuses for not exercising are not all that persuasive. I did it, and hope I won’t kick the pain up again. It’s good for me, it’s good...

Plumbers. Got the leak fixed.

by | Sep 19, 2014 | Journal

Ordinarily WE do it…but when the pipe in question is the house water supply, connected to the city water supply, in our basement—we call the guys with the really big pipe wrenches and the knowledge. 300.00 later we have a new 5 dollar part installed: a...