I'm fat. BP ok, cholesterol up. In surprisingly good shape otherwise, for my age and fatness.

PSA blood test: $100
Home Hemoccult test: $11
Telling the doc that he is NOT going to give me The Finger: Priceless.

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Last Friday, we had some heavy-duty work done on the building's power systems, along with my department's usual IT maintenance. This resulted in my having to come in two hours before normal on Monday, for what my boss calls "Code Red". First call of the day was about what I figured. Call description: My computer is dead. Close description: Turned ( Read more... )

Yesterday, moved a ton or so of wet, mucky clay out of our front yard. 200 or so pounds at a time. Did this with shovel and handcart. By dinnertime, I was feeling it. By 11, could barely bend down to pick up dropped objects. So, I emailed TPTB at work and said I'd be out sick today. Fistful of ibuprofen at bedtime, and I sort of slept through the ( Read more... )

For the first time since 1995, I'm going to miss Foods and Feasts at Jamestown. Typically, A. and I go down to Williamsburg, and have Thanksgiving dinner at a colonial tavern or the Yorkshire Inn. I went to bed last night, feeling yucky. There has been some form of phlegmatic humour bouncing around between my sinuses and lungs. This morning, woke ( Read more... )

Which I DIDN'T, yesterday. Would have posted this morning, but I was wallowing in a daze of pseudoephedrine-induced insomnia. I've still got the damn cold, but not as bad as the first two days.  I spent most of Sunday, and all of yesterday, down here in the Den of Iniquity, baking my bones with a space heater.  There was one up note yesterday. I ( Read more... )

School: Done with the semester. Grades were what I expected. I went into the Western Civ final needing a 52/90. On the Econ course, I didn't have to take the final - just email a summary of the last two chapters. I overdid it, answering chapter questions. Spent about 5x longer on the email, than I would have just taking the final.

Work: I'm getting ( Read more... )