I’ve modified my server so now I can write posts from any linux capable machine on my home network so now I really don’t have an excuse not to write every day (for awhile there it was because I didn’t have my blogging laptop nearby and/or wasn’t putting time aside to sit at my small…
Category: Health
Bad Manager
“As of this moment you’re no longer employed at [insert company name here].” The five minute dead man walking down to the dungeonous lair of the Human Resources office had not prepared me for these words, uttered so plainly and unapologetically from my then manager of several years, despite the Employee Improvement Plan (EIP) I’d…
Wagon Conundrum
I can never remember if it’s getting on the wagon or falling off the wagon. Anyway, long and short of it, yesterday I had a wagon based event. It all started out innocently enough. I was working–the literal kind one does to earn their daily bread–on a project that should have been complete a month…
Well, we did that again…
So yeah, it’s been over a week since I last wrote. Wasn’t feeling well. That’ll be a popular but regular topic here (so you might want to get used to it). I’ve been stopping smoking for the millionth time. I’m really good at it. But nicoteen is really good at keeping me emotionally stable, providing…
Guessing Games
Guessing games are fun. Is it Babesia (that bug I’ve probably been carrying since I caught it at 15 in Australia)? Bartonella (a.k.a “cat scratch fever)? Borrelia (a.k.a Lyme disease—which “doesn’t exist” in the Pacific Northwest)? Or maybe just candida again? Do you have shortness of breath? Chest pain? Constipation? Diarreah? Brain fog? Chronic fatigue?…
Yo-yo
My health is a like a yo-yo. That’s what they call a simile. My health is also a yo-yo, which is a metaphor. In both cases it’s a complete pain in the ass. What do I mean by all this obfuscation? Simply, that no matter what I seem to do my health goes up and…
Exercise
I was never a natural athlete. Growing up I would have much preferred a pencil and a pad of paper to doodle in. A quiet corner of the house and a book. A bike and a Queen of Hearts through the spokes. Imagine and creativity and learning, things of the mind, those were my things….