In the hospital. But this one is especially quiet. No tests, nothing but being under observation. Tomorrow is the big day. The day of getting cut, in a very advanced way.
I like to say I used up all my bad luck last year. We all hope this is true.
Personal Note
366 Days
If you have ever worked in a factory, you know the signs. X Days Since Last Accident. I’m going to add one of these to
my wall. X Days Until Last Hospital Vist.
It was 366 days since I was released from my TAVR/Heart_Attack/Stroke/etc visit. I was preparing to take my car into a mechanic, walk the six and a half miles home. It was part of my healing, rebuilding life.
And then I was up early, about 3:30. I coughed up something that didn’t feel right. So I spit into toilet paper. I will leave the description
Less than 24 hours later it was back. Jennifer called her friend Billy and he saved us a call to the ambulance. I’m back in. More consulets today. Probably surgery on Wednesday. We will see.
When I get home I’m putting the X Days Since sign. Shooting to keep it incrementing.
What I Do
What do I do? The list of things I have in my list, like:
- Drive Jen to
dentist - Letters !!
- Eye exerdises
- Select photos for October book
- Walk
- Test scanner for color film
Chickwheat
Remains largely undone that day. So, what do I do? I tracked them yesterday. As I finished something I would note the time. The start time would come from the prior entry. Yesterday’s entries included.
8:00 Morning pages
9:20 Coffee & emails, including Austin Kleon‘s weekly explorations
9:37 Brush teeth, shower, and shave
10:05 Latin lessons (3)
…
11:15 Breakfast
11:24 Emails
12:04 Mind of Watercolor YouTube and
…
1:07 Meditation
2:17 Eat lunch, watch Hank Green and Bosh! and Pasta Grannies on YouTube
3:47 Record blood pressure from 9/11 to today, email to
…
4:55 Reading and coffee
6:25 To library and a dinner out
7:55 Reading
11:00 Roku, Pinkly Blinders
Yes, I’m leaving some things out, as indicated by … I was surprised by how quickly I did dishes and how long it took to do things on the computer. Lots of time on YouTube and email processing. Do I need to cut them down? To be explored.
2019 October1
Welcome to October! In September I set out to do 30 Days of Ukulele. Which went, well, um, it went nowhere. I played less in September than I did in August. Count that as a big fail. What did I learn? Not to sign on to something that is more than I could handle. I’m not yet up to the level needed for the class. Which lead to my sidestepping on the entire thing. I also seem to do better with a thing I can do on my own. August had daily blogging. The point was to do a “something” each day.
I’ve got a couple of things in mind for October. Check back in four weeks to see how that works out
Notebooks
If you are reading this you are familiar with one way I track my life. It’s a journal of sorts. I have others.
Morning Pages in which I start (almost) every day with four pages of longhand. Part of the idea is to not reread it for at least a month or so. I’ve extended that to not rereading it at all. Well, at bit once in a while. It is approaching the completion of its twentieth book. See Daily DOs for morn information.
Sketch Journal, from Lynda Barry. I have all sorts of stuff in it. With the intent of going back and finding things later. It is actually a fun thing to keep. I’m currently rereading Syllabus with the intent of injecting some of Barry’s suggestions into it. I also have more of her instructional books.
Cooked a part cookbook, part food diary, it’s what I write down what I cook so I’ll have my own cookbook someday. This is not the kind of cookbook you see wherever. Ruth Reichl is kinda sorta a hero for me. Even if my Mom cooks well.
Uke, a ahem, book on learning Ukulele. This one is pretty lame. Hopefully I’ll pull it out of the bin.
Exercise in which I keep track of what I do. Well sorta. It is also lame. But I have aspirations and hopes.