Maintenance

Getting an extra day off (low census) this week, which happens to be great. Pain levels up, not so much the back as hips and down my legs, which is another whole ball of worrisome. But ice, nsaids, stim, etc, and the extra day to let the hot spots cool, seems to be having the desired, salutary effect. Hard to lose the hours, good to have the time when most needed. Not sure what else to do, if I can't get the pain down at tolerable levels to last. Today feels hopeful, comfortable.

Went into The King's English yesterday, ordered You CAN Train Your Cat: Secrets of a Master Cat Trainer.* Lovely conversation with the staff about cats, Cakewrecks, and Pratchett, old BBC sitcoms, and that she came from Lancashire (long ago, she sounded local) and that D and I might just be a bit anglophile. I got my English tinged sense of humor by being Canadian. No idea how D came by his. Throwback, I can only assume. Picked up the paperback of Monstrous Regiment.

Got the strong deodorizer on the carpet. Better work, the smell of it is bad enough all by itself, fading slowly. We're trying to be more conscientious about making sure Moby chases every day. Easy to get lazy and complacent. We're going to change that.





*Gregory Popovich