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Actually, doing relatively well, all things considered.  The Hyperbaric Oxygen treatments I’ve been taking since right after Thanksgiving ended three weeks ago, and it’s marvelous to not have to trot over there every weekday and kill 3-4 hours of my day with that.  The result is a tiny slit ( Read more... )

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https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=pcb.489091927809080&type=1  is the link to Mere’s FB post showing off her VW Microbus.

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Tomorrow, Meredith is leaving on a week-long expedition to Tennessee to see her twin sister and her family - including an expedition to Memphis, and back again to the Harrington farm (a really lovely place).    Her really big presents (woo-hoo wise) were a new set of Ugg boots, and her Sissy’s ( Read more... )

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My schedule has gotten wonked around a lot; spent the majority of time when not work or medical busy exhausted and sleeping. This means available time for house paperwork has sludges into the moral equivalent of ‘zzzzzz‘, ‘wha‘ and ‘bzzzooorrk‘. Tonight I’m trying to hack at it and see what I ( Read more... )

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Been home twice from the rehab center over the last couple of days; Susan comes over, drives me back, and I hang out there for several hours.  Wish it were under better circumstances.

Our oldest dog Dot, who’s been a biochemical mess since puppy hood - to the point where she’s miserable all ( Read more... )

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DRESS AND MAKEUP:

Part of what people do in any form of skating is to draw attention to themselves and their actions on the rink. This usually requires careful attention to what they’re wearing - hair, makeup and costuming.

Makeup - well, when I was an actor in high school, it used to bother me a good deal to have it on for the dress rehearsals and ( Read more... )

A skating meet is an odd collection of the senses and emotions, and a great crossection of raw human spirit. What follows are a few vignettes into what it’s like to be there.

MUSIC:

The first thing that catches me every time at a meet is the music; not much Tchaikovsky or languid Debussy here. Most of it is far livelier pop stuff, energy-laden ( Read more... )

The three of us wanted to get on the road for the eight-hour-plus trip to Lincoln, Nebraska, as early as was feasible; a lot of the packing was done the night before, but there were some last minute holdups, such as one of the dogs (Dot, often blamed as the model for Dick the wonder sheep) who is horribly diabetic and was going into hypoglycemia ( Read more... )

Just finishing up on my getting ready stuff for the trip to - oh, wait, I haven't really discussed that, have I ( Read more... )