martianmooncrab

for documention of progress ... 1207 fun item was Jobe vol 3 , worth 160 by the programs estimate, it will join its siblings on the Wall O Myth.

every now and then you see something right, so the other night I was waiting at a red light, and I watched some testosterone car make their left turn and right behind them was a city cop. Oh, yeah, the t car came thru the intersection hit the straight and gunned it. Oh its 30mph there, and the cop was right behind them, and before the next traffic light, the disco lit off... sigh.. so many times you see someone being stupid and they keep on going, well... it was gratifying.

I get my van back monday, its been up and down, and they did find a broken part and had to wait for the replacement to come in. they painting it at the moment.

cardiology on friday, niece on saturday to see Wicked, and family xmas on sunday.

pulmonology says my lung sparkle is caused by my reflux issues, saw speech therapist last week and she agrees, she scoped my vocal bits... which I do not recommend, it gave me flashbacks to covid testing... because they run the scope up the old nose and down the back of your throat. gag.

pulmonology was such a tap dancing moment, they were disavowing the spot on my lung, they blamed the old mammaries (hah! already had that checked!) and now they saying its heart tissue. Which I will address on friday. After trying to schedule me a year out for my next appt, its now on for March, since I told them I wasnt comfortable with waiting a year.

the shots for the psoraisis are still kicking my ass, but, my ass isnt as scaley and its slowly healing up, I still shedding skin but its not like I am molting full time. Still itchy as hell, but, not 24/7 ... slowly slowly slowly, but improving.

my sleep study ended up working. I do stop breathing at least 12 times an hour which is double normal. I even got 8. hours of sleep clocked in, and I thought I got only 5. I must have a very active brain because I swear I woke up at least once. Now I wait for my primary doc to chime in.

ouhmmm.. and my A1C had come down! not down enough, but, still... its single digits now.

lots of things to do, but not whipping up enough ambition.

Solstice is coming!

The new medication make me sleepy or not sleepy depends on the day, but my skin is healing up-

Orycon was the last, and its done. sigh.

Just been overwhelmed by many things up to and including getting my van bumped last night by a person making a right turn on red while I was transiting the intersection. seems to be minor damage but I cant open my passenger door, I think I have part of her bumper jammed in there, stuck behind my fender guard. Well part of one of her running lights. I will see when I get back outside and can see the damage in daylight. Now the joy of the electronic file circus.

Have a sleep study scheduled for next month on a take home device, but, they want it back the next day between 8-10am Which is not going to work, because for me to do that I have to stay up ... so no sleep.. sigh.. I am going to negotiate with community care about a late fee I will be hit with if I try to do it my way, otherwise its going to get cancelled.

too many little things breaking my back as it were.

took a drive thru the so called war torn SW side around the ICE facility. The worst part was the 3 bicycle cops that jumped the curb and cut in front of me mid block and I almost hit them.

More folks with cameras and such and of course the Portland police standing about, there werent many protestors or demonstrators, or as they say paid antifa there. Geez, this is Portland people, we have our own style here and having fun is the best part, make it festive while exercising our 1st amendment rights! Oh and if the protestors were being paid, you know they would have union reps to ensure that it was equal pay for all.

I got approval for the biologic injection for the psorasis but, there is confusion as to whom is going to administer the shots.... sigh.

Per pulmonology I got some kind of 3mm sparkles in my lungs, not anything like actual glitter in there (which they seem to know what it looks like) more testing in my future, and 4 more vials of blood were taken from me because the tests dermatology took blood for are not what they wanted blood for. Some ballparking ideas are I have a form of bronchitis pneumonia asthma.... whatever, its still testing for things one at a time to eliminate what it isnt.. or is.. or narrowing the field.

I have allergy testing on tuesday at the VA.... I wonder if they will actually do testing or its more BS chatting and them telling me stuff that has no bearing on my allergic reactions. Probably more blood tests not allergy tests because they do love my blood up there... and I have to check on my COVID booster for the year, and if its a live virus or whatever due to constraints on the biologic for the psorasis. I giving up hope of any outcome.

I went to worldcon in seattle, and it was a good con despite the death march from the hotel to the convention center. Uphill both ways... sigh. the only downside was I got a call from Doug to let me know his wife Ru Emerson died aug 14th ... I am devestated, we have been friends for 35-40 years, we did cons together.. she helped me with my yard and garden (she was a master gardener!) I could go on but she was my friend, and I miss her so. Almlost lost her a few years back to ovarian cancer but she was a fighter. Her Daddy was a Pearl Harbor survivor, I mean, she had stories... both the ones she wrote and the ones she lived. I even sold them my gold ford focus when I no longer needed it. sigh.

I was in Bremerton visiting friends, another old friend is currently dying so I had a chance to visit him in his care facility, he may be gone by Yule.

health update, since I actually saw Dermatology this week, new diagnosis is psorasis, so treatments have changed, and pretty much other than the antibiotics I have wasted the last 3 months trying to get the rash under control. Biopsy was taken, so in 1-2 weeks, I will find out my schedule for the injections in the clinic to get this under control. I hope. I still shedding skin off my ass at an alarming rate, so I am still in my reptile era.

next week is sibling birthdays my sister would have been 77 on monday and my brother will be 73 on wednesday

I am tired and yes, I am depressed. Seems my world is getting smaller, each loss diminishes me a bit more. It really amps up my abandonment issues.

I have a rash thats spreading, its from a heat rash and other factors gone wild. I have already had a medication issue (and ER visit) ... plus the Va pharmacy thinks I am using up the ointments at a faster rate than they think is allowed. sigh.. I have a lot of ass to spackle there, so I calls into my primary care doctor.

waiting on my brain MRI to see if I still little friend free.... I do apprecaite their followups.

I did score a new upright walker this week, it folds down better and its bright blue!

have given money to ford and firestone in honor of still driving my van. sigh. I am trying to collect the rebate on the new tires, but, they are bound and determined to make me use a QR code, give them my email, or do crap I dont want to on electronic devices. What ever happened to just filling out a piece of paper, xeroxing the invoice and mailing it in? so simple and easy. And it doesnt take screen time, just a xerox machine. I am really rejecting this modern age now. Of course they want to track you and sending you emails and texts, because thats what they are rebating you for I guess. Maybe they should call it a ReBait instead. I already have their damn credit card, I think thats enough data sharing.

this is the 3rd week of the 3.0 dose of trulicity. Still having odd moments, and when it hits the sleep phase its 10-12 hours before I can function. If this higher dose doesnt bring down my A1C then the last increase will be to 4.5 and thats it on the diabetes train for me.

Got 2 raised beds cleared and planted with tomatoes, weed whacked the front lawn only, and have been attacking the blackberries that think my flower beds are their new homes. Not.

went and saw the new Stitch movie with my niece, its movie lite.... and they left out my favorite line "its okay, my puppy has a chainsaw" We both wanted to see the new Karate Kid movie, but its not out yet.

Some days its a struggle to read, and to even play my game online, but I still not giving up.

I had a bad body day last week, as if I was at 60% of functional and extremely tired. I went to bed at 930pm which is normally when Istart to become functional. I slept until I had to get up, then I played on my game, I also put the new bin in the fridge door which was fun, as I didnt know they had two sets of supports to chose from for the bin holder, and I couldnt get it it work until I saw that , I wanted to put the bin in one spot, but that didnt work for the fridge now I have my mill container sized bin in the middle of the door rather than at the bottom but I now have cold juice that fits, then back to bed and woke up early afternoon. I felt better.

The county sent me a jury summons, silly them.

Worked in the yard during a break in the rains for about 3 hours, I got me a replacement weeping pussy willow tree and spent most of the time digging a hole to plant it in. I am so out of shape, I spent half the time sitting in a chair while digging. My balance is off a bit anymore, and I dislike the minor wobblies. Tree got planted, I got the tools put away, oh, and I feed the birdies and watched the side yard while I was sitting, I even spotted a young chipmunk out there feeding. Silly thing, their tails are hyperactive. Two bunnies, young grey squirrels, older reddish squirrel with bright orange belly, the wood ducks were back (they are smaller and prettier than the mallards) the second type of quail showed too. It was good. I got the new finch feeders filled and hung, and suet was dispensed.

I forgot to post last time I was on... yeah, that short term memory issues...

I spent 20 years dealing with COMSEC and with the latest BS from the administration, the old adage of Loose lips Sink Ships is brought to mind. On the positive side, no US personnel were lost. Our enemies dont have to break our comm and cryptos, we just blab it out it bits and they connect the dots.

Still not a fan of Elon and the Musk-rats ..

New fridge is great, still havent used the water and ice functions yet, but I keep cycling the systems to flush them out.

A friend gifted me an advance copy of the new Miller & Lee book, so I am nibbling on it in small pieces...yeah, I wanted more Tree! Turtles! and stuff, but, no author ever writes what we truly want to come next, just MORE STORY please...

another friend recommended the Dungeon Crawler books by Matt Dinniman, and I am a couple chapters in. Not a a gamer here, so I taking that one even slower.

I have been trying to get the new Gigi Pandian secret staircase mystery, and my local B&N has failed for two weeks now.

I have gotten a lot of new non fic, mostly Ancient Egypt (and more Aidan Dodson work) and I am looking forwards to the new Ada Palmer history. And reading about the German peasant revolt of 1536.. because as the saying goes, peasants are revolting.

Continuing the cleaning, trash bin is only half full this week, but, I just seem to have slept most of the week away.

I dont have any appointments for at least a week, other than meeting my stepcousin and her grandsons at OMSI next week to look at Lego Dinos, and to get Voodoo Donuts and shave ice. I can also give her the xmas gift I have for her