And so it goes …

Been an interesting few days, oh few and faithful. I know quite well that the best laid plans of mice, men and salamanders oft go astray, but somehow I continually fail to take that into account. Here is a summary of this past weekend. My six-month regular dental appointment was 8:45am Saturday. I like to…

It was a beautiful morning to be out. After dealing with a frosted windshield and warming up the car, the chill in the air was actually invigorating. And the trees were magnificent. After days of rain (sorry about that California; I’d have sent it your way if I could) there wasn’t a cloud in the…

Cardiohypertrophy can mean lowered stroke volume and low output. It depends on the kind of hypertrophy, and the elasticity of the heart muscle. Some athletes have hypertrophic hearts (which literally means “bigger sized”) that are very efficient and have above average outputs. I, on the other hand, missed out on getting hypertrophy as a sequella…

For the first time in perhaps half a year, the Professor went to bed when I did. He got up when I did too, although that was hunger driven rather than his being ready to rise. In fact, when I came home from work today, he was back in bed. He said he only got…

One of the few pictures I took that includes any portion of it. This was last February, during the snow storm that dumped over eighteen inches on my area. Picturesque it was not, though I suspect by the set of its trunk it had been a fine sapling. It didn’t fork, it didn’t kink, and…

I can’t seem to shake this thing, whatever it is. I barely made it through the morning, and when my doctor’s office called to say they needed some bloodwork on me to day, I used it as an excuse to take the rest of the day off, even though I had plenty of time to…