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Not Over 🎶
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Three Things I’m Grateful For Today:
- MLB’s stateside opening day.
- Good weather for my baseball team’s practice tonight.
- Today is my Friday. No work tomorrow.
Pursuit of Wordle Godhood: Today’s result: THREE. BOOM!
Wordle 1,013 3/6
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Pursuit of Connections Godhood: PERFECT. Gotta admit, I guessed on the blues, which gave me the purples, which make no sense, which make sense because it’s The Purple Guy.
Connections
Puzzle #291
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The song in my head when I woke up: Once again, “It’s Not Over” by Daughtry, which is so weird to me. It’s not like I’m some big Daughtry fan, yet this song is making, what, it’s third or fourth appearance here? Why?
Favorite line from the song in my head when I woke up: This love is killing me, but you’re the only one/
It’s not over
Commute Tunes: It was a Staind concert for those in my car (which I’m pretty sure was no one) on my drive to work today.
- It’s Been Awhile
- Outside
- So Far Away
- Break Away
- Here And Now
- Something To Remind You
- For You
- Right Here
- Epiphany
- Mudshovel
- Tangled Up In You
- Fade
- King Of All Excuses
- Right Here (Live From Mohegan Sun)
Something I’m looking forward to today: Baseball practice with my team.
Something I’m looking forward to in the next seven days: Not working tomorrow. This place can make a guy feel pretty damn icky.
Something I’m grateful for from yesterday: Writing a first draft of the toast I’m going to give at Boy The Elder’s wedding.
What I’m writing: Yesterday’s Two Crappy Pages involved a lot of different stories about the Catholics. Two obits on the life of priests who recently died and a story from Haiti, where things are pretty shitty.
What I’ve written: So apparently the book I wrote on the electric cooperative I worked for on its 75th anniversary that was given away free to members can be purchased on ebay for $35 big ones. This was a fun project and actually turned into an interesting read.
Today’s Stoic Though of the Day: “Nothing is more shameful than uncertain and wavering conduct, and beating a cowardly retreat.” — Seneca
John’s translation of Today’s STD: “Don’t be so freaking stupid as to go into a big thing without a plan. Those who wing it on important things are dumb. And you’re not dumb. Are you?“
Wifey Poo is itchy. Really itchy. And she’s been that way for 11 weeks. What started out as a small rash has evolved into an ongoing medical affair that has brought her to three doctors and left her with zero answers. There have been numerous theories on what this rash, which has traveled to various places on her body, popping up here and disappearing there before disappearing from here and appearing there. It’s kind of like whack-a-mole, but more irritating.
I try not to be that guy who jumps into solve all his wife’s problems. Wifey Poo is highly intelligent and knows how to take care of herself. But she’s getting desperate. The itch is keeping her from sleeping well, and if there’s one thing 27 years of marriage has taught me is that Wifey Poo doesn’t do well when she isn’t sleeping well.
So yesterday, I googled her symptoms.
What I learned is that I either need to prepare myself to be a widower or Wifey Poo has something called chronic hives. I’m banking on the latter. Were I a betting man (I am) and there were a way to bet on what she has (there isn’t), I’d be putting a huge chunk of money on my own Dr. John diagnosis. Today, she’s making an appointment with an allergist. She has an appointment with a dermatologist next week and her primary care physician the week after that. She’s also lobbed an email to our functional medicine doctor. The hope is that somewhere in the midst of all the cells of those four brains there will be a definitive answer and she can find some relief.
Itching for 11 weeks straight kinda sucks.
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