Apparently I got a little too optimistic. I tried to do about 10 minutes' worth of work on a drainage ditch today, nothing major, and tweaked my back.

Dammit.

Well, the vacation was lovely, and I was really optimistic about my condition afterwards. Never tweaked my back, never ended up in crazy amounts of pain. It was so much better than this time last year, when things were pretty much unending pain and hardly able to walk straight ( Read more... )

Pics from Cedar Key

( Well, we just spent a half week in Cedar Key, a little island on the Gulf coast of Florida north of Tampa. )

Woke up last night smelling smoke. Wasn't in the house, smell went away eventually after I closed the window (drat, it's rare that it's cool enough to keep the windows open overnight by May). I got up to check the known locations of wildfires, and went outside to see if I could spot anything that looked like a wildfire ( Read more... )

I'm feeling really down about Saedy. It looks like we're going to lose her soon ( Read more... )

Lately insomnia has been bothering me, along with occasionally being awakened in the middle of the night by an elderly confused senile dog. But it's the insomnia I wished to tell you about here ( Read more... )

So. I've been doing better. I still have about as many bad days as good days (3-4 days good, 3-4 days bad), but some of the worst of it has let up. For example, the last time I had a bad dizzy episode was in January ( Read more... )

Rrrg.

Tachycardia again. Did almost nothing this time.

I got Kat's saddle back out after a couple of years of disuse, and I rode Kat on Monday. Glorious. Went to ride her again Weds, but body did not cooperate. Did ride her Thurs, and it was splendid, and I thought everything was fine ( Read more... )