Since pulling a back muscle at the softball game on Thursday, things have improved somewhat. I went back to work Sunday with mostly full movement back, though standing straight up was still uncomfortable. I'd take a muscle relaxer in the evening and do stretching, but when I woke up in the mornings, I'd have regressed to a sorer and stiffer state ( Read more... )

Last night we had a doubleheader softball game; the regular one at 8 p.m. and a makeup game at 6 p.m. to account for the game we didn't play a couple of weeks back when the lights didn't turn on. I was up in the bottom of the 1st inning and on my first pitch I hit a towering shot to center. The fielder didn't catch the ball and I would have had ( Read more... )

The weekend before last, Jessica and I drove down to Missouri for the main purpose of visiting my half-sister Melody, who was down there over the Memorial Day weekend.
We left Friday morning along the hour-longer but 100-mile-shorter path to Hermann via SW Minnesota, down through Iowa, and through Missouri. I recall nothing too noteworthy of the ( Read more... )