Definitely a blue sky day today in Iowa City. We got out for a beer run to Dirty John's Grocery (look it up already). Other than that I've been running the scanner and transferring files. Now I ...
No doubt about it. The right answer to yesterday was to sleep in until 1 PM today. There are two types of overdoing after surgery. The more drastic, actually injuring oneself, I have been carefu...
It's 00:22 and I should be long since asleep and dreaming. Train 49 arrived about 00:45 and we were on our way. The trip went well enough, even if I did have a headache for much of it. But here w...
Coffee to start the day and tea with lunch. Would that everything in life were that simple. Life is complicated and ambiguous, but you already knew that if you are the least bit honest with yours...
A new morning. Getting up to the alarm clock and not being exhausted. Being off the narcotics. Corky still in bed. A warm shower. Driving to work for the first time in a week. The rising sun. A lo...
It was a beautifully sunny day today and I got up. Does that count? I even made it to church this morning, standing up and sitting down carefully though I was. Son Robert is very impressed with ...
Good morning, Morning, cold and dreary though you are, hiding the sun with your clouds. It's a new day, full of promise and warnings. I slept well last night and I am grateful. It's time to be...
One of hidden blessings in recovering from surgery is the enforced helplessness and uselessness, neither of which do I like and both of which are good for my soul. Once they put the mask on the ...
Green is still largely a promise around Rochester though we'll see it soon enough. The first few days when the low temperature does not dip below freezing always make a big difference. We'll have...
With a whisper and a wince Wednesday made its way. The wince came first as I woke up early with a pain in the groin that hadn't been there yesterday. Seems that with the dressing no long giving s...