martianmooncrab

martianmooncrab @ 2026-02-21T12:51:00

2026-02-21T20:54:57Z

its been awhile since I posted, mostly dr appts but I have been trying to get things done around the house and failing a lot. I am also still sleeping even more erratically.

I am turning more analog each day, I do take a lot of intense glee when asked for my phone number I give them my house number, which is a landline, wackiness ensues.

March brings more dr appts, seems I tore at least 2 muscles in my shoulder and impinged my roto cuff which is fraying a 3rd muscle. the 9th I see orthopedics about a fix for the shoulder, possibily surgery.

Still feeding the birdies and the stray cats, its why I get out of bed each day to get outside.. oh yeah, and getting dressed first.

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martianmooncrab @ 2026-01-01T15:41:00

2026-01-01T23:45:32Z

I got my van back yesterday, and they even cleaned the interior for me, my poor rolling dumpster of a van is now clean. I dont know if it or I am in shock .. grin.

now I can fill it back up with useful crap.

going to do some cataloging today, after my start, I did nothing, but, its a slow process, and I do love cataloging, I am relearning Readerware, and its soothing to me. I need to get a shelf or two done so I can stack some funko pops on top of the books.

I finally remembered how to delete the cover icons ... all that stuff just takes up valuable data space in my reality.

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The Great Work

2025-12-20T15:30:17Z

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.

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martianmooncrab @ 2025-12-20T06:49:00

2025-12-20T14:58:27Z

more van issues, seems I have a leaky gasket in the engine, so another week and another chunk of change.

cardiology ... my doc was having an emergency and I got one of the fellows ...she was a good doctor, but, english not her first language so I was flopping about trying to understand what she was saying. Got the mediation issues sorted out, I getting one of those small pedal exercise devices and they also dont claim the spot in my chest/lung. Picked up meds at pharmacy and reallly wasnt impressed with customer service.

After the VA I went about my errands, and I actually got all of them accomplished. At the holidays I gift the over 21 crowd with a bottle of booze, yeah, something I know they will use... grin. But this year they all getting the same bottle, its vodka, and its called Five Wives. Family history here, my dad was married 5 times. So, a tip of the old bottle to Daddy this year. Yes, I do have warped sense of humor. Sold a couple of books back to Powell's since I have restarted The Great Work. Thats my book inventory, sadly my old list got eaten by a computer issue and I was never able to reconstruct it. I may even utilze the cloud for storage this time, despite my neo luddite ideals.

I was exhausted when I got home and went to bed, where I proceeded to sleep a lot more.

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martianmooncrab @ 2025-12-17T12:11:00

2025-12-17T20:24:35Z

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!

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martianmooncrab @ 2025-11-16T18:39:00

2025-11-17T02:49:52Z

After playing phone tag I got the sleep study sorted out, seems they could change my pickup day to a friday and I dont have to drop it back off until monday, which they should have just done when I made the original appointment, but,...nooooo.... sigh.

Skin still healing up, but I do have one post injection side effect I need to chat with doctors about, its really only an event that happens once, 2-4 days after the injection. Or maybe I have delicate hemeriods. who knows.

Van goes in on the 24th, so far my insurance company has assigned liability to the person who hit me.

My allergy appointment was a colossal screw up, I wasnt sure what to expect, but, setting a low bar helps. Turns out that I was supposed to have a consult prior to this appointment, which I didnt, and I was to stop taking my antihistimines for 7 days. the test they were to administer was to put me into anaphylactic shock. When I was offered the do over, I declined, since I have heart issues now, and the not quite really diagnosed lung issues. Two of the major things with having a reaction is either to have a heart attack or stop breathing. so again, a very definate NO. getting tired of this.

Still having the erractic sleep issues of no sleep;, or lots of sleep.

I have been getting more reading done, which is a very nice things.

Went to see Nuremberg with my niece. I was impressed with it, the cineamtography was amazing, Russell Crowe was the epitomy of entitled banal evil, and the entire movie was well done. Yeah, there were some hollywood moments in there, but it was a historical moment in time.

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martianmooncrab @ 2025-11-01T17:26:00

2025-11-02T00:31:30Z

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.

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martianmooncrab @ 2025-10-16T22:41:00

2025-10-17T05:44:38Z

Started the new biologic psoraisis medication tuesday, its interesting to see how its side effects clash with my other current medication side effects. Wackiness ensues.

Tomorrow, Orycon, last of its kind.

I have a praying mantis living in the space between my front door and my storm door. every time I go in or out I make sure I know where it is so I dont hurt it.

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martianmooncrab @ 2025-10-11T21:27:00

2025-10-12T04:31:13Z

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.

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martianmooncrab @ 2025-10-07T02:28:00

2025-10-07T09:35:00Z

the allergy appt was a bust... same old bs

And Portland is not a dumpster fire... the only bad part of town is the block where ICE is holed up with their aggressive goosesteppers and snipers on the roof. This last week they knocked down an 81 yr old vietnam vet and his spouse and they were on the sidewalk. Observing. Oh, and he was using a walker. A veritable threat

I start my biologic shots next week, it was an experience getting my meds from the post office because they lost the refrigerated box. Eventually they found it after over 30 mins of looking, and my post office branch isnt that big. Even with a tracking number it was messed up. And, its 7k a shot, and there were 8 doses in the box. sigh. I also had to get my covid booster at least 2 weeks before starting the new med ... and since the VA isnt giving those out til the end of October, I had hoop jumping to get that done.

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martianmooncrab @ 2025-09-22T01:22:00

2025-09-22T08:29:28Z

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.

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martianmooncrab @ 2025-09-11T09:34:00

2025-09-11T16:37:39Z

the rash is inverse psoraisis... and I have taken the blood screen tests (7 vials of blood!) if my blood chemistry is within specs I am might get a biologic treatment, but, then, Pharmacy has to approve it, and considering their track record in trying to kill me, I not getting my hopes up.

my 2nd CT scan was ambigious and I seeing pulmonary on monday, so they calling it ground glass opacity for now which is medical jargon for... yeah, something there dont know what it is... sigh.

still struggling, still depressed...

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martianmooncrab @ 2025-08-24T02:17:00

2025-08-24T09:27:41Z

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.

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martianmooncrab @ 2025-07-12T16:47:00

2025-07-13T00:03:37Z

survived my 71st birthday

still fighting the 3 rashes, have done 5 days antiobiotics, still taking the oral fungicide, still spackling my ass with the fungal ointment, the zinc oxide and the fluid for cleaning. I am not winning at all, and it itches, oh the itching.... sigh... they called me 3 days ago to find out how I was doing and I havent heard back since, some parts are drying up and others just dry and seep on their own schedules. its gross and all sorts of unpleasantness. I still shedding skin like a snake... lots of skin... dont know how I have any left. words I do not want to think about are moist, seeping and of course.. itch.... whimper whimper whimper.

Cant go outside in the heat, because. yanno heat rash, so the yard is overgrown, the garden what I have planted, is on its own other than me turning on the sprinkler, I am feeding the birdies, and we now have a Bobcat in residence. Looks like a young one and its dining on fine birdies from what I can see in the yard. Lots of feathers. I worry about my 2 time share kitties from the neighbors, I hope they are staying away.

I did get my personal chainsaw and cut the broken branch off the apple tree, it was just at dusk so it wasnt so hot out there. The blackberries have taken over several of my flower beds and I have 2 trash trees coming up in one. The wisteria has left the trellis and has tendrils (yeah, very large ones) snaking out to my curbside flower bed, so thats about 12 feet or more. I do adore the frondy bowers but, they are overgrowing the side yard and going for the garage and engulphing parts of the garden fence. My pomegranate tree has tons of flowers on it this year, I hope I get some kind of fruit.

welcome to my jungle, thats for sure. All the garden paths and my gravels are covered in strawberries and mint, so I could be making daquiris .. grin.

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martianmooncrab @ 2025-06-29T21:59:00

2025-06-30T05:03:04Z

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!

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martianmooncrab @ 2025-06-19T01:37:00

2025-06-19T08:37:09Z

I want to protest in front of an ICE building with marines in it holding a sign that says YANKEE GO HOME

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martianmooncrab @ 2025-05-28T12:57:00

2025-05-28T20:06:03Z

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.

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martianmooncrab @ 2025-05-18T03:23:00

2025-05-18T09:25:53Z

the new higher dose of Trulicity is kicking my ass. with side effects. My A1C only came down .3 on the 1.5 dose, so we are up to 3.0 now.

Saw ducklings, quail-ings, and the usual birdie suspects.

Still need to plant the garden and finish weed whacking the lawns.... if I can get the rains to coordinate with my schedule.

My Van needs repairs, seems trying to drive on the sidewalks is not good for front end mechanical bits.

still not giving up.

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martianmooncrab @ 2025-04-07T14:32:00

2025-04-07T21:43:09Z

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.

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martianmooncrab @ 2025-04-05T07:54:00

2025-04-05T15:00:38Z

been really slowing down on things, didnt fill my trash bin very full this week.

I did get the extra bin for my fridge door, both the fridge and its parts are all made in Mexico, so I bought while it was cheaper than it will soon be.

Been picking up some plants and flowers, I hope to get started outside in getting things cleaned up and replanted. Buying a lot less this year, the cost of things is really out of control. Before I would get 3 or 4 of something, and now I am debating if I should even get one.

with all the DEI book censorship going on, I fear for the Smithsonian Library, and for all Libraries for that matter. I wonder what Maya Angelou did to them to make them fear her so much, along with every author that isnt a straight white guy with a penis. If they are so weak and shallow, knowing History is the mind killer for them.. suck it up buttercup, the world isnt pretty for the majority of people in it. Get in line.

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martianmooncrab @ 2025-03-28T05:20:00

2025-03-28T12:33:37Z

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

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martianmooncrab @ 2025-03-08T18:34:00

2025-03-09T02:40:23Z

new fridge is to be delivered and installed on monday. weee... water and ice in the door!

still slowly cleaning, have the trashbin almost full again. I keep washing things in the kitchen, since I really havent cooked or cleaned out there in way too long.... my dishwasher has done more loads in the last two weeks than in the past two years I think. Still throwing out a lot of stuff, I can just replace it as I go along in the food categories, and some items dont even have expiration dates on them that I can find.

Letting go of some items is hard, and I struggle with it. I have many pretty things I want to use and display rather than leaving them in a box or a bag and tucked away. My love of kitchen gadgets and tools is very much a problem on that front. I dont have that more storage space in my tiny pantry, and some things are awkward to store. I found the food slicer I got last year, I do want to use that ... lots of things I want to use now that I see them again. Like the ice cream attachment for my Kitchen Aid.

Tomorrow would have been my friend T's 71st birthday. We would always go to Red Lobster for her birthday observance.

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martianmooncrab @ 2025-03-01T12:33:00

2025-03-01T20:48:30Z

The new improved dosage of Trulicity is both good and bad, I am still adjusting to the new quirks and foibles. and I seem to have lost 10 pounds in the last week.

The new fridge was a No Fit, mostly because the small cabinet above the niche is uneven. I have a built out pantry that is on one side, and I guess when they put the small cabinet in, they just went for fit, not level. They will be ordering me a shorter fridge just like the other one. Hopefully I will be getting it around the 8th. The new microwave has been installed, and I havent used it yet, nor looked at the manual.

I have so much trash and debris and fridge deteris to dispose of, my bins were full, and I have refilled them again since trash pickup, I think I will be at maximum bin capacity for some time. I hope not to lose the cleaning momentum and quit, but I would like to have a less cluttered house.

Youngest Nephew was in town and got together with family. Interestingly, the kids wanted to play the arcade games in the pizza parlor, and I was the only adult that had any quarters on them. Mostly because I had the unicorn coin purse I keep my parking meter quarters in. I dont trust the new and modern parking kiosks with my debit card, nor the city for that matter. Cash. Yes, the kids cleaned me out.

I had another conflict with the VA Pharmacy, it was the english is not their first language person, and the arrogant young man that knows better than me. She screwed up my refill order, I got 3 out of the 5 I requested, one was expired, and they subsituted a totally different script because I had asked for my Vit D tablets and my Ergocalciferol gel caps. Both mind you are Vit D scripts but different. So they gave me Calium Citrate instead of the vit D3. When I tried to tell the young man there was a problem, he totally blew me off and insisted that I had gotten what I ordered. I left before I lost my cool (my brother wont bail me out if the federales arrest me), and called when I got home, and it took awhile for them to understand, and they promised to fix it. So, they sent me another bottle of Calcium citrate. I decided not to call Pharmacy direct because that isnt working out, and phoned it in to the care nurse to let my doctor know pharmacy is still trying to kill me. Over 30 years and they still not sucessful.

So, just chipping away at cleaning, and reading more, just living my life.

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martianmooncrab @ 2025-01-27T16:40:00

2025-01-28T00:41:16Z

trying to get things done, but, ennui is dominant...

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martianmooncrab @ 2025-01-11T11:54:00

2025-01-11T20:05:10Z

On the 7th I went to solar power as my main source of electrons. I havent tracked the usage yet on their handy dandy guide.

I measured where my new fridge will go, its going to be a very very tight fit. Its 71 inches and 1/16th and my spot is 71 inches and 1/4 . Looking for the magical shoehorn here. But, I wont find out until 14 february, having ice and water in the door I think will help me a lot, and looking forwards to the new microwave since my old one died last year. The new m/w is a very fancy thing with capabilities of convection and an air fryer. Both are black stainless steel.

Still learning the new phone, I got most everything deleted or turned off that doesnt apply to just being a phone. The annoying gif/emoji thing that launches when I open some emails (its preprogramed for dates or words from what I can tell) I cannot find to kill, so I may have to go back to the store to ask how to do it.

Replaced my cracked windshield yesterday. Its so clean!

The year started out with getting a phone call from an old and dear Navy friend that her husband had passed away, he was a friend too, one of the Marines who guarded our base, which is how they met. I was hoping to avoid death of people I care about this year, but it doesnt seem to be working either.

I have just about finished my list of things to do before You Kmow Who takes office and screws us all, and bunkering down.

My reading has picked up a bit, and I am happy about that.

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