I’m not writing for tomorrow. Day 89 is already here. Yesterday I went to physical therapy, and Lady Torquemada worked me over big time. When I returned home the pain was too severe for sleep, but moving hurt sufficiently to prevent doing much more than trying. I have a big mess to clean up, as I ate without doing the dishes. I finally fell asleep and just woke up. I’m sure I have lots of research to do, as I understand both Ben “The Kosher Butcher” Netanyahu (R-IS) and Vladimir “GOP Pootie” Putin (R-RU) are hard at work committing Republican war crimes. I hope to be able to write for tomorrow later today… MUCH later.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 5:08 (average 5:10). To do it. click here. How did you do?
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5:48. The average is up (to all of 5:11). I knew it was going to be tough though. TC doesn't get slowed down that much by therapy alone.
The problem with therapy is often that the sessions are too far apart and your muscles recover in idleness, so they don't actually build. I know you cringe at the thought of back to back sessions (and also that they are probably impossible, due to both mobility and insurance) but if they could only be shorter and more frequent they might get easier in the long run.
Environmental Defense Fund is working (with Google Earth Outreach) on a project to map methane leaks in cities around the nation. http://www.edf.org/climate/methanemaps?path=hp&postion=1 You can nominate your own city to be next (well, at least if you live in the US).
Speaking of natural gas (seriously), you all I'm sure know about those trains carrying it in cars about as sturdy as a pop can (some are calling them "bomb trains"). Well, I found out my house is within a half mile of one of the tracks. So let's all hope I don't disappear, but if I do, somebody look into whether there was an explosion in Colorado Springs.
I agree with JD. Physio has to be done more often, but with a day inbetween sessions to let your muscles etc recover. I do physio 3 days per week — one day for back, one for neck and one for knee. I do 1 hour of exercise each time in addition to the physio. Exercising at home can also help. I have exercises I do lying on my bed or on the floor so I don't have to wait for a session. But I am very lucky that my physio is relatively close, and I can get in my car to go home, not struggle with transit like you. Transit would work for me though as well with a 1.5 block walk. See my Care2 message to you.
Here's my reply to Lynn's Care2 message.
You're right. This was just my third session, and while I do have exercises to do between sessions, but I think what gets me is the mile and a half of walking in addition to the exercises. I could take the lift bus and eliminate the walking, but that would make it an all day event due to the waiting, whereas I'm home 2 1/2 hours after leaving now.
See my reply to Lynn.
I don't want to nominate Portland. Because of my infernal chili, I could be mapped as a methane source. 🙁
Good luck with your trains. I hope they don't frack under Portland's volcano.
Well done on day 89 TC! So sorry your physio is such a painful person to experience, it must be truly awful! Is it possible to do as Joanne suggests and do a little of the exercises on your own to reduce such hideous pain?
Joanne – I hope that was a joke about the train – the rest of the world couldn't believe the things the rail/carriers are allowed to transport in the US without a) telling residents living near the railtracks and b) without telling Fire Departments about what they were carrying!!! It is unbelievable – yet true – and it must be rectified!
According to the BBC the Palestinian deaths in Gaza are over 300 now – and who knows how many wounded and traumatised for years/decades – apparently including some lads playing on a beach. Unbearably awful. Have signed Amnesty International and other petitions to try and get our political masters to press for peace.
Aftere Butcher Ben does this to people, is it any wonder that some become terrorists?
Pat A, Sorry to say I am dead serious (pun intended) about living in the blast zone. See http://explosive-crude-by-rail.org/ I put in my address and came up in the red (the yellow is one mile, when you zoom in you can see that within it there's a half-mile red area). I have left instructions with my executor about notifying people including Care2, but the instructions are all on my home computer. So I need to copy them to a USB stick and give it to her. She lives across town so ot would likely be safe. And I am sure you know how tough it is to bite the bullet and do that.
3:26 ~ Looks like a Rasta dog.
3:55 I am not in the hunt on this puzzle.
3:13 I felt like I was going in reverse but I guess I wasn't. That is one hairy mutt!
Bigfooted! 🙁
Sorry for your torture. Those physical therapists can be brutal but it's a neccessary evil in this world. GOPootie and the Kosher Butcher are not nccessary. They are just EVIL.
In response to Joanne's blurb about methane leaks, a huge one was discovered in the far reaches of Siberia known as the "end of the earth". Scientist are investigating it now. Put that in your search engine and read on. Dtilling in the Arctic? No danger? Think again!
"Bomb trains" travel along the Hudson River here in NY state. The rich people of Westchester County are up in arms and demand answers and a change.
Thanks for the tip on Siberia, Patty. If it isn't oil drilling, maybe it is from all the years as the gulag.
No doubt the Westchester rich want the trains to go through an area of middleclass or poor people because hey, they don't count and have nothing to lose while the rich have all that STUFF. Of course there is no class warfare! 🙄
Thanks Patty!
No Pain – No Gain … or so they say.
Looks like Screwy Louie Gohmert has an evil twin over in eastern Ukraine. The top pro-Russian separatist commander over there is now claiming that the Malaysian jet was filled with dead bodies on take-off!
So a large contingent of Dutch and other nations' citizens were buckled in as corpses then shot down just to plant a False Flag to make Putin look bad. Yep – something that Screwy Louie could easily come up with … not even breaking a sweat for utter stupidity.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/rebel-leader-malaysia-plane-filled-with-already-dead-bodies
Nameless, you're right! Goh-merde has an evil twin. This is just the sort of thing that Goh-merde is capable of making up! Has the whole world gone nuts?
Isn't it reassuring that there are sheeple all over the world? NOT!
The only question is, if the Republicans can get him here, will Repunblicans run him for the House or the Senate?
TC, I hope you get plenty of rest and feel better tomorrow. I am taking PT right now for bursitis in both hips. They have me do exercises at home between visits. That seems to help. Maybe there are some you can do at home too. Old age ain't for sissies.
Everyone should read Nameless's link. It is horrifying.
I did. You're right. It is!
6:39 – Puzzle 🙄