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Author:	Booker B	Created:	4/29/2008 6:41 PM
The stupidest possible question: How are you? The best response I've been able to muster is "Peachy."

Rooftop, 11/29/2008

By Booker B on 11/29/2008 8:42 AM

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A friend my age who works in public health recently told me the story of his colonoscopy to get me comfortable with the idea of submitting to all the bullshit that the medical geniuses have determined, in their wisdom, that people like us have to endure. My response, quoting bits of his email, is below -- for posterity & stuff.

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My world is a green swarm

By Booker B on 7/26/2008 8:21 AM

I was just trying to take out the trash this morning. I have to do it in the morning, because I do NOT want to meet the white-striped neighbors in the process, and that's a whole lot more likely at dusk or during the evening. So now I have NEW neighbors to worry about.

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The neighbors

By Booker B on 6/25/2008 8:27 PM

No sure where Mama was.

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Floors are done!

By Booker B on 6/17/2008 7:18 PM

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Pattern mismatching

By Booker B on 5/21/2008 2:58 PM

So the paperwork seems to be resolved. I had the right collection of documents sufficiently well completed to handle what was needed. Or anyway I'm not aware of any glaring deficiencies, so the day caudle declared an editorial success. Not sure how much that gains me, overall.

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pattern mismatching

By Booker B on 5/1/2008 9:04 PM

So the paperwork seems to be resolved. I had the right collection of documents sufficiently well completed to handle what was needed. Or anyway I'm not aware of any glaring deficiencies, so the day could be declared an editorial success. Not sure how much that gains me, overall.

It was a harrowing couple hours of silent dissatisfaction -- almost exactly like . . .

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OK, come on now.

By Booker B on 4/30/2008 6:58 AM

People: They are Just. Shoes.

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Do you want this?

By Booker B on 4/15/2008 8:57 PM

So. The last of the court's paperwork is about complete. Didn't get it done within the 20 day period that would have avoided the requirement to have a court appearance. Oh, well. We'll spend 20 minutes at the City & County Building. I seriously don't expect it to take more trouble than a traffic ticket, and I don't know how I feel about that.

The weird thing is that it's paperwork. So I've been telling myself for a while. It's not the important part. But it turns out not to be just paperwork. It was already a very unexpectedly heavy slog. Then she looked at me and said "You want to do this?"

Well, fuck. It's only been years, with two useless turns through couples counseling and endless repetition of the same fucking discussion/argument and no change and not even any significant communication about anything not completely practical. So, yes I want to finish this stupid fucking paperwork.

But no, I don't want to rejec ... Read More »

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Circles of Time

By Booker B on 4/1/2008 8:55 PM

Dunno what I did to deserve these fucking back spasms. I've not had trouble with this for a long time now, pretty much since I started working on strengthening the core muscles after the pinched nerve incident 4 years ago. Before that, lower back pain was a pretty regular problem for me. But especially over the last couple years, when I've done a regular gym routine, I've had almost no problems.

Then wham yesterday morning. I was fine at the gym and when I arrived at work. Stood up to go to a meeting at 10 am, and my back informed me that it was just plain fucked up. I don't remember tweaking it in any specific event. The ache was just suddenly there, like it always had been, and I just wasn't noticing it for a while.

The only explanation I can think of is that I got out of the morning gym routine while traveling to the PCA event. I wonder if I'm now addicted to the stupid exercise, and the bod is going to go into withdrawal spasms if I ever skip. Weird. Read More »

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