I was at a doctors office on Friday, and an intern walked by. Her nametag read...

Racquel Roccoon

I bet she hates her parents.

I moved into my new home at the very end of March. One unintentional consequence of this was that I aggravated an old achilles tendon injury while moving all the furniture and boxes ( Read more... )

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I've been sick with a cold since the beginning of November. Two weeks of feeling very sick, then a week of slowly mending, followed by a week of feeling okay except for a lot of nasty phlegm when I woke in the morning. Then, it started getting worse again on Thanksgiving day, By Saturday, back to full-blown cold.

I declare JIHAD on all infidel ( Read more... )

Ten years ago, I got hit by a car. I was walking through a grocery store parking lot at the time. I saw the car, sitting there in front of the store. A Lincoln Town Car, idling, with two blue-haired old ladies in it, talking. The car wasn't moving, so I continued on, stepping in front of it about twenty feet away. And the little old lady driver, ( Read more... )

I thought that my earlier post comparing gyms to S/M dungeons was a joke, but after my latest workout with my personal trainer, I realize that I was oh so right. When the way to get relief from doing 50 reps on some body part is to do fifty reps of a slightly different sort on the same body part, the pain just builds and builds ( Read more... )

I am diabetic. In general, I have done pretty well since I was diagnosed 10 years ago, maintaining my health largely through healthy living. Over the past six months or so, however, my blood sugar readings and my weight have been creeping up. Bad news ( Read more... )