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I got an email message yesterday that my eye appointment - in January - was canceled because the doctor had left the practice. Best I can tell he was the only ophthalmologist there. And, my insurance has a very lame, and incorrect, directory of in-network doctors. Many of the ones listed may have practiced here once, but sure don't now. Ugh. I can't even decide whether or not to worry about it. I'll call over there this morning. 'There' is a large cadre of medical peops all over the northwest so I'm sure they will want me to go a doctor in Seattle and that is not happening. Now I'm worried about my primary care physician. I do not want to lose her!

It's so dark so late into the mornings these days. That will clear up next weekend when we switch the time again. But, now it's very spooky so, I'm thinking, seasonal.

Plus it looks like here it will be a rainyish day - spit rain - a little here, a little there - just constant. Which suits me fine.

It's new menu day. They publish the menus for next week. This week has been loaded with excellent options. If next week is back to not so excellent, I'll order up extra meals today to eat next week. Some of their stuff just freezes beautifully and serves me well when the menu is blah. New menu day is like planning the weekly grocery shopping except I don't have to go anywhere and it's already paid for... and cooked. The best of all.

I finished up Task on HBO. It was one of the more excellent series I've seen recently.

I think I'll go swim. I still have my Dollar Store list and the car still needs gas and still neither of those things has to be done today. Also I'm out of those good ham/cheese croisant-ish rolls that I like for breakfast. Costco. Sigh. So... who knows.

Just the usual

I have a couple of Dollar Store items I need but not critically. And I need to get gas, but not critically. So I might not do either today.

Last night's dinner with Bonny turned out to be dinner with Gail and Jim and Bonny. Jim lives across the hall next to the Jim who needs a lot of help. Gail lives on the other side of the complex. Neither are very interesting and I was not the one who invited them to join us. But, it worked out fine. The service was very slow. I like eating in the dining room once in a while but it is a production that eats up your evening. I have other, more interesting things to do. Plus there's the eating. Gail got a pork chop which she said was delicious and she really would have loved to have picked it up and gnawed all the good off the bone. But, she didn't and I wouldn't have either. HOWEVER, I will when I order it for take out tonight! Take out means you can spice your food to your heart's content and eat it any way you wish. Also some of their menu items do not 'take out' well. I had trout last night which was delicious.

Volleyball was short this morning. We usually play for 2 hours but a bunch of people were missing and the asshole was one of the few people who showed so we quit. The asshole says stupid, insulting things and has no player skills nor does he seem to be interested in acquiring any and he's dangerous to play next to. All of this annoys me but what annoys my friend, Steve, the most is that a few weeks ago, the asshole lost his swimming trunks and so now just wears his underwear. It's knitting boxers so not tightly whities but it really annoys the shit out of Steve. Which amuses me. So all is not lost. Anyway we quit after an hour. It was fine.

I've been on the hunt for a rain jacket for a while. It has to be the lightest of weights with a hood and pockets, of course, and room for a sweater under. I finally set Gemini to the task this morning and found a nice on on sale at Columbia. As much as I hate ordering from places other than Amazon, Columbia seems to have a fairly easy and straightforward return situation which, in my experience, means it won't need to be returned. hahah.

Ugh. I just saw an article about how successful TV drug ads are. Ugh.

Fog season

The part of the country I was raised in (Southeast) is so very different from where I have now lived twice as long (Northwest). But, I still kind of half expect early evening thunderstorms in hot weather and am always surprised and delighted by the early morning fog that greets most cooler days here. It's just so cozy and lovely. This morning it's rolling through so that even the part of the building just across the drive is shrouded.

I learned yesterday that they are trying to convince Hazel to move into assisted living. John is not dead yet but he's not ever going to move back to their apartment. She can't live there on her own - she has minor memory issues but mainly can't see shit. She can't work the telephone most of the time. She can turn on the TV but only to Netflix and if something screws with that, she's lost. She can't drive or figure out how to get a ride to anywhere and has had two major (stitches) falls since Labor Day. BUT denial is strong. She says the assisted living apartments are too small and she is claustrophobic. This is going to be a situation.

They are closing the pool down Monday-Thursday of next week to do work on the filters or something. Yesterday, I sent a note to the maintenance scheduler to ask if I could sneak in a swim Monday morning before they start and I just got the nicest note back saying they won't be closing the pool actually until about 9. So I can get easily get a Monday swim in before they do.

Bonny and I are having dinner in the dining room tonight. I rarely eat there so this will be a treat for me. She eats there a couple of times a week but rarely with me so this will be a treat for her. hahahah

Otherwise, the day looks normal. Puzzling, TV, knitting - the usual. My knee is 99% healed and I'm so grateful. It's such a relief.

Ok. Time to hit the pool while we still have this fog.

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No more This Is What It's All About

Finally, in the 9th inning last night, I had to mute every announcer. The TV guys had already pissed me off and now the radio guys were dragging out and repeating every minute, every single idiotic sports idiom ever uttered by anyone. The Mariners lost by one run but, honestly, by the last out, I was just relieved to get 5 months without having to hear another sports announcer. If you can't say something not stupid, shut the fuck up. And, also, I'm tired of baseball.

So all's well that ends well. hahahahaha

I played volleyball this morning and it was fun. My knee twinged a couple of times but not badly and it is fine now. In all the knee madness, I'd taken to no longer wearing the brace for my elbow tendinitis. I need to still wear it. So I'll put it back in my swim bag.

My across the hall neighbor, Jim, has been deteriorating mentally for a while now. Yesterday afternoon, I ran into him coming back from dinner and he had a carer!! Finally. And she's a good one. We have a solid program here of careers. You can hire them for an hour a day or 24/7. They will help with every day things or just be with you in case you need help and, in Jim's case, they will make sure he's ok inside his apartment and goes to get meals. There are a bunch that work here a lot. The one with him yesterday took care of Gail, who lived down the hall, when her husband died. Jim appeared to be very comfortable with him. So, whew. I don't have to worry about his burning down the place or turning up as a corpsicle.

Today is house cleaning day - yeah!!! And that's about it for action. Fine by me. The only thing on my list today is lunch x 4. Their lunch menu this week includes Chicken Teriyaki Bowl. And theirs is better than anyone else's in Issaquah. PLUS. it reheats from freezing beautifully. So I'm going to order up a bunch today for the freezer (and lunch). This will also help my monthly meal credit balance. I think I'll order that up now for pickup later and then... go get dressed.

Is it memorex

Saturday night, Eero had an update. All day yesterday, I had random issues. The TV was working. Apps would come up but half errored out when I clicked on a particular show. My phone kept telling me I had to sign into my wifi network. I rebooted everything but the cats. This morning, half the websites I generally go to were semi - broken. Not totally. But mostly.

And finally I get a news notification from the New York Times that Amazon reports issues with AWS. HA! Yes. It's not me!! Hilariously, when I click on the article, it errors out. Oh well. At least I don't have to get a new router. Hope they fix their shit soon.

The Mariners lost again last night which means they play tonight - the final final final - last game. Unless they win and then the Dodgers will be at them four games in a row starting Friday. I am coming to believe that baseball needs to be over by mid October at the latest.

My knee is much better. Lying on my side to sleep still makes it complain a bit but standing, walking, moving around is fine. I think I'll take it for a swim this morning and play volleyball tomorrow. Nothing else on the agenda really.

Hmmmm Flickr is also dependent on AWS... Ok, while Amazon fixes their cloud, I think I'll go swimming.

Really really good

I have my legs back. Both of them. When I walk, there is a teensy weensy bit of discomfort. Under ordinary circumstances, I would hardly notice. I can get up from sitting without any pain. I get little stabs here and there and my back is now bitching about favoring the knee but mostly it's a miracle heal. So. I've been busy.

I washed my duvet cover and robe and a towel I used to mop up stuff and then put the duvet cover back on.

I went to UPS and did my Amazon returns and then popped into Safeway for some fried chicken.

Oh and I cleaned out the cat toy box. There is a big bag of cat toys in the storage area that will mostly likely go on to the trash room after it marinates there for a bit. The kitchen is clean and the dishwasher is loaded. I dug out a very old phone that long ago grew too old for updates so is not useful for much BUT, I did download an audiobook read by Angus King (the Scottish guy who put me to sleep last night) to it and it will stay charged up and by my bed.

Now it's baseball game time. Who is going to be Dodger fodder????

So weird

Last night, when I got into bed, I twisted my knee AGAIN! I was so pissed. I got out of bed and hobbled to the bathroom and put on a fresh lidocaine patch and went to bed and to sleep. At 3 am I woke up and got up to pee. The patch was still working. But then I could not go back to sleep. This rarely happens but by 4 I was over it. I've been listening to a novel set in Scotland read by a guy with a delicious Scottish accent. So I pulled out my phone and turned the book on and within minutes, I was asleep. I woke up briefly a couple of times and he was still going and I went right back to sleep. I had a bookmark set for when I stopped following the story so I can go back there and pick it up tonight, but for now I have a new sleep machine!!

This morning when I finally work up for good and got up, I discovered that my knee is so much better! Like 95%. It's wild. I'm going to walk around some this morning - like up and down the hall - to test it but I think it may well have turned the corner which is just so curious. Just night before last, it was incredibly painful to walk from the bed to the bathroom. And now...

But, to celebrate, I also woke up this morning with a lovely case of the runs. No cramps. No pain. Just runs. Hopefully the Imodium I took will nip it in the bud but weird. So weird.

I went to Amazon and clicked return for all of the knee braces. The one that I had been tempted to keep said to keep it and they would refund the money anyway. So I have one to try for volleyball which now, it looks like, I may well just be able to play on Tuesday.

The Mariners play again tonight. But, as

jo pointed out, it's a game fraught with peril. If they lose, they play again tomorrow. If they win, they have to play the fucking Dodgers in the World Series and the Dodgers will wipe the field with them - it won't be a fair fight. At least the game starts at 5 here. She has to wait til 8 to even see the first pitch. That really sucks.

I think I'll get dressed and go test my knee.

Missed one

I have my doll/monster knitting kit well organized now in one small basket. Everything I need. So I took it to Elbow Coffee this morning. I was sitting next to Gail. Gail knows how to knit so she watched me closely. I finished up one and she took it to her physical therapist but then I realized, I did not get a photo of it. That's only the second one who escaped the camera. Sigh.

I decided that a knee brace is not helping. I've now tried 3 different ones and none seem to do anything really and this last one made the knee feel worse. So, Amazon, you can have them back.

My knee feels good enough to go down and pick up lunch so I ordered. A cheeseburger. With fries. Yep. That will work nicely. Plus, I think I'm being wussy about it anyway. I thought it kept me up all night but... my bed said my sleep was 94% out of 100. Arguing with the bed seems silly.

Laundry is laundrying. I have three more episodes of The Diplomat (Netflix) and, actually, lots of other TV to watch while I make more knitted things that will get camera action.

The Knee Report

Yesterday I was considering amputation. Every move was a killer. Last night I loaded up on voltaren and a lidocaine patch and it still bugged me all night. BUT this morning, it actually does seem better. Last night, Martha texted me that she'd left a surprise in my cubbie. At the time, I did not see how I was ever going to be able to walk to the mailroom again. This morning, it seems totally doable. Last night, I left a pile of trash on the island because walking it two doors down to the trash room seemed too painful to consider. This morning, that seems silly. So yeah, better. And now I need to make it all the way to 100%. I did get the brace but I can't tell if that makes any difference or not. I will be wearing it when I go back to volleyball, for sure. It amuses me how little patience I have for this kind of thing. It's only been a week since I wrenched it originally and I feel like it's been forever.

Lots of my friends from here - most of volleyball and 3 from elbow coffee - are going to the local no kings march. I am not. And, honestly, I would not even if I had two knees that worked well. I feel like I got all marched out in the 60's. I have a difficult time drawing a line between marches like these and changes in anything. And/or I'm lazy.

Last night's Mariners game was exhausting. It was won in one second, really, near the end of the game. A 4 run home run. So now we have to do it all over again Sunday. The odds are not in our favor so unless we pull out a win, we also play Sunday in a winner take all. Did I mention it was exhausting?

Elbow Coffee this morning then knee rest for the rest of the day.

phuque

I had a lovely swim and then retwisted my knee getting out of the pool. Goddmanit. It's now back to nearly what it was originally. Sitting and not moving it is pain free. Walking is fairly painful. So. I won't be doing much of that!

I iced it down and voltarened it up and it's responding well to both actions.

Happily, I have plenty of food right here and plenty of entertainment and no where I have to go or really even want to go.

I did pick up next week's menus and it looks like it's going to be an excellent meal week. An eat good and fill the freezer week. Yeah!

While I was swimming, I got to worry, again, about my TV subscriptions. Am I doing it right. Am I doing it smart. Am I understanding? In my mind, I developed a new spreadsheet giving every subscription a color and stringing them along a month in each column. All but 2 are annual.

While my knee was icing I did it. I have a big red cell for when they renew the monthly cost in each color. One question I was trying to answer was... IF I kept Hulu live and so no longer needed Paramount, Peacock and regular Hulu, even though it would not be quite as good, would it be worth the savings? Turns out, for me, Having annual Peacock and Paramount subscriptions plus the monthly Hulu (cause they don't offer annual) is still WAY cheaper than Hulu Live. This is great news cause I really do not like Hulu live.

Anyway, now it's all organized in a lovely at a glance way. And I'm a happy camper. With a crap knee.

And we're all shook out

The earthquake drill was actually a good one. No one caused problems. Bonny had it all under control and had help from the right people. We were all in the elbow. I was sitting away from the action and Jackie (the new person who's a little strange and mostly deaf) asked me what we were supposed to do. I told her that if they needed me, they would let me know and until then I'll be sitting out of the way being quiet. "Then I will copy you." Good answer.

My neighbor, Jim, was very confused. Bonny had gone in a couple of days ago and gone over everything that would happen and what he was to do but none of that stuck. We were supposed to put an OK sign outside our door. Bonny said she had left his on his shelf. But, I couldn't find her and he had no idea what I was talking about. I grabbed the first blank piece of paper I could find and said to him 'do you have something I can write with?' He handed me a fork. 'No, no, I mean a pen or marker' He handed me a spoon. I went back to my house and got a marker and make him an OK sign and took him up to the elbow where he sat for the rest of the drill. He did ask if he needed to do anything and I told him no. He just needed to hang. He did. And then we all went back home.

Jim does not seem unhappy or in danger but I'm not sure how long that last part is going to last. At least all of us here on the hall are aware and he does know to come ask me if he really needs help.

Biggie came out to join us and went around to everyone to say hi. There was a snafu with the radio (reporting in) but it was fixed soon enough. No one bitched too much and it was all ok.

We got a note yesterday that the pool will be closed Monday-Wednesday of next week. So no volleyball on Tuesday. I think I'm going to skip Saturday (tomorrow) as well and give this knee a chance to get 100%. It's about 75% now. I also ordered an action brace from Amazon which should be here today.

I'm really bummed about the Mariners. They took a 2 game lead and blew the next 2 games. They play today and then go back to Toronto and play again Sunday. And I'm stuck with the bill for another month of Hulu Live. I'm honestly kind of over the whole thing at this point. It went from FUN! to depressing really really fast.

It's a lovely, rainy morning with kind of a menacing sky but I just looked at the forecast and it looks like the sun will be out later. So I think I'll go on over and get my swim in before it does.

Shakey Shakey

Today is the earthquake drill. Bonny's in charge and she's all stressed about it and I don't blame her. On the up side, she did find out that Ingrid is not participating so that helps everyone. We have to do several things individually and report and then do a couple of group things and report. Then we are done.

I skipped volleyball today. I sent a text to Steve last night to tell him. Until I can walk down to the first floor mailroom and back with no pain, I ain't playing. I do not want Knee Issues.

I always worry about complaining about health related things. I do not suffer others' complaints well, so I am always super duper sensitive about my own. Martha was here Saturday night when my knee was the hurtiest. It was a killer to get up or down and I did both while she was here and explained why. aka complained. Then Tuesday she was here for something else and I was sure I bitched then as well. But, this morning, after volleyball, I got a text from her 'richard says you weren't at volleyball, you ok?' I guess maybe I don't complain as much as I think I do.

I didn't even wake up until volleyball was nearly over. A 93 (out of 100 - 86 on Fitbit) on my bed's sleep score.

The Mariners game was a disaster last night. Well, not a disaster for Blue Jay's fans but pretty ugly for us. Games tonight and tomorrow.

I need to get dressed and go down and pick up the Timber Ridge Times for our floor. I usually grab them on my way home from volleyball. Mickel, who sets them out, always does ours first (each floor gets a stack) cause he knows I'll be first to pick them up. I suspect he's wondering what the hell happened this morning.

Or he's like Martha and didn't even notice I wasn't there. hahahaha I'm soooooo important.

Attituditis

I'm still just over people. Especially old people. This is not a good place to live in this situation. I need to fix it. At least my house is clean and tidy and mine. And there are no other people in it.

I just went to a food and beverage meeting that I could have skipped. Except for one bit. Last week, the CEO in her weekly letter to the population said that there had been reports of whistling and finger snapping to get the attention of the servers and that that was not acceptable behavior. Now, I have a big problem with her handling such incidents this way but that aside...

Today the Food and Beverage Director said much the same but also indicated it was in the bar. The bartender is a real diva so that's all making sense now. Plus drunk old people have a hard time getting up to the bar when they want another hit. Double making sense. Not that it's acceptable but at least it's now credible.

In the meeting today one old lady on the back row piped up that since the was announced, she and her friends had tried snapping their fingers "our arthritis make that impossible and none of us ever learned how to whistle". It just cracked me up.

I sent Christian an email about my closet yesterday. I heard nothing. So today I texted him 'is your email broken? or are you just ignoring me?' The phone rang. "You didn't say it was an emergency!!!" He cracks me up. He's one people I am not over. He promises to save the closet situation so whew. Actually he had a condition - our initial meeting must start with breakfast at the Issaquah Cafe. NO problem there. I wonder if Ichiro eats there ever?

Wednesday

Tree diversity! (Also windows will stay dirty til next June so I've come to think of it as rain art.)

I'm thinking about two major purchases. Well, one for sure and one maybe. I want a closet expert to fix my closet. I've done all I can do and now I need an expert. I sent an email to Christian last night asking him to help. I'd love to pay him and have him do it all but he might not want to. So then I'm hoping he 'knows a guy'.

Then my mattress. I don't have the usual mattress issue. It's fine to sleep on. It's a little dicey to get in and out of bed especially with hurt knees but that's not a showstopper either. It's the size. The mattress is too small for for the bed. And raising and lowering the bed every day makes the mattress slip and slide. It's the cheapest mattress I could find and actually weighs very little which I thought was a good thing until it started traveling. But, my plan is to wait until my brother comes in January and see if he and I can noodle out a solution and, if not, go mattress shopping. I'll go back to where I bought the bed and tell them to sell me a mattress that fits!

Today is food and beverage committee meeting. Always painless and sometimes interesting.

Oh I just read that Ichiro (retired Seattle baseball player) and his wife live here in Issaquah. A sighting in the wild would be wild.

My knee is still bitching. Not I'm-going-to-quit-on-you bitching just moaning and complaining. I'm going to go to volleyball tomorrow but I'm going to bail at the first sign of trouble. My swim today, however, was fine. It's just the walk home is where the bitching started.

The Mariners' next game is tonight at 5. I'll be ready.

The tweak to the mini monsters pattern has, apparently, been a hit. On Sunday night I had a healthy inventory. I only put out 2 or 3 at a time so that I'll always have something out there on the shelf, but they got me this week. The basket was empty most of yesterday. I've got work to do!

This Week On FilkCast - Pegasus Show #3

We will be playing the Best Classic Filk Song and Best Filk Song nominees. You can find all of the info at this link, oh, and you can vote, especially now that you've heard them all!

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Living with the olds

On my way to the pool this morning, I passed an EMT gurney in the hallway outside an assisted living patient. I don't think she actually took them up on their offer, though. She was still there and the gurney was not, when I came home.

When someone dies, they put their name in a frame with their birth dates and death dates and set it out with a vase of a red rose. This week's departed was born in 1921. I'll bet she was beyond ready.

Bonny just came in here to report on her latest encounter with JimAcrossTheHall. He's checking out fast. Bonny says he has a mountain of Cheetos and in his apartment and is no longer getting his meals which he was doing until a week or so ago. I just ran into him in the hallway, which I do every day, and he really can no longer carry on a conversation. He does get his walks in. He said they were coming today to tell him what's new. I hope that means that someone is behind the scenes making arrangements for his care.

And he's one month younger than I am.

The aqua fit class was not worth the wet. It was taught by the same guy who teaches aqua Stretch and I think one of his problems is that he's never been in the water. He comes up with these exercises that make perfect sense in the air and are impossible in the water. He had music, which was great, but his exercises were not even close to being in time with the music's beat. I finally just got over to the edge of the pool and did my own thing, making sure my knee was not tweaked and I was getting in some cardio. I do not need to go back to that class again. Ever. I think the knee will be fine by Thursday's volleyball game, but to be honest, if the game was tomorrow, I think I'd pass. I want this sucker healed!

I am impressed at the difference both Voltaren and the lidocaine patches make. Dr. Gemini says the Voltaren alone was probably best in my case since it goes after both the pain and the inflation. But both are really good at chasing the pain. I need to order up some more patches for next time.

I have a half a dozen tops that are really winter only and about the same amount that are only for summer. Today I swapped them. I have a rod in the storage area and that's where the off season stuff goes to live. The storage area is getting close to our of hand. I'm hoping it will hold off until January when my brother comes and I can con him into helping me get it shaped up.

The house cleaners should be here in 30. If she's a no show this week, steps will have to be taken cause this place is in real need after skipping a week.

Better Better Better except

When I went to bed, I was 50-50 on whether or not I'd go to the aqua fit class today. The knee I sprained is my right knee and it was still kind of iffy plus, I fell yesterday because I was walking too fast down the hallway and I bruised the shit out of my right leg just under the knee. I had a hard time finding a comfortable position to sleep in so I figured, I'd just baby them both today. BUT this morning, they are both very very very much better. I think I'll go to the class.

I was walking too fast because of fried chicken. They had fried chicken on the dinner menu - the one you can order for take out - for the first time ever. I thought it would be a great after game dinner. The earliest you can do pick up is 3. The game started at 2. Who knows when it would end. So I figured it would be better to get the pickup at 3 which I did but wanted to get back to the game fast. So I fell.

It was not a tragic fall. One of the house keepers saw me fall from way down the hall and man, did she coming running. I tried to stop her by telling her I was fine but she was there in a heartbeat. Interesting to know that if it is a tragic fall, I won't die alone. (Although, I've never thought dying alone was such a horrible thing.)

The Mariners won the game quite handily. That's two out of the seven so far. The next game is Wednesday in Seattle. There are a whole lot of fair weather Mariner fans but the ones that amuse me the most are the local TV anchors. For most of the years, they barely cover the Mariners on TV news. Seahawks, yes. If a Seahawks football player farts, they have a 5 part special covering it. Mariners? Wait, isn't that a baseball team?

But, now, they are all over it. They know nothing about baseball and have very few of the facts correct - in one news report I heard that Friday night's game was 18 innings, 15 innings and 14 innings - one single report. And pronouncing players names is a challenge they just cannot conquer. But, they are soooooo excited.

Meanwhile the Brewers/Dodgers game also turned out to be must see TV but I didn't must see it. Reading about it was fun, though.

After aqua fit, the day turns back to normal, I hope. There's a meeting at 3 that I show up for but am going to weasel out of if at all possible.

I found yet another Gmail enhancement. There is a new folder called Purchases that goes back, for me and includes, for me, stuff I bought in 2018. How very handy. I used to try and filter shopping emails but I gave up on that a few years ago and here it is all done for me! Also my Pixel Watch (3) got a nice new update yesterday.

Time to suit up!

Way better

My hurty knee woke me up several times last night and it was hard to find a really comfortable position that didn't hurt it. So I was worried. But, this morning, it is way way way better. If it were a volleyball day, I'm not sure I'd play but otherwise, I don't feel like it needs any babying. I intend to walk to the pool and swim this morning.

Last night's Mariner game was a good one and they won. Both sides played really really well and it was fun baseball to watch. Made funner, of course, by the win. Also, the broadcasters weren't stupid. Way nicer. The next game is 2 pm today. I will be ready.

Timber Ridge is smack in the middle of forests. Hence the name. BUT the trees that surround us are mostly evergreens. It's kind of a dramatic backdrop, this time of year, for those that are currently changing colors. There is one outside my window that is a true diva. The rest are not working as hard at it this year. I looked out the window when I chose this apartment and thought, 'nice' but I didn't really give the view the total number of points it deserves. It's been nearly two years of solid pretty. I got very lucky.

Now I think I'll suit up and go swim while it's still grey and cloudy.

Update

I forgot to take my stupid pills yesterday. I keep them in their sun-mon cases in a cupboard in the bathroom because I hate counter clutter BUT if I forget one more time, they are going on the counter front and center where I have to look at them every morning.

The allergy pill is the one that I really hate forgetting. My nose is running like it's in marathon training.

BUT on the up side, my knee is way better. Yesterday, getting up and down from the sofa or the toilet was an ordeal of pain. Today, not at all. There is discomfort when I walk but not nearly the hurt there was yesterday. I did discover that I was walking all hunched over because of my knee??!!! Like there was a string from my knee to the back of my neck. No clue what that was about but I'm paying attention and standing up straight.

I fell across The Australian Bake Off episodes on You Tube and watched part of one and only then realized that the British Bake Off had a very important change this latest season. They have totally eliminate that 3 (felt like 15) minute segment of stupid banter between the hosts that always opened the show. I have bitched about that for years. They finally delete it and I don't even notice! I'm such an ingrate. (Australia's stupid intro segment is even stupider and longer but god gave me fast forward.)