Mornin' Masters.

Thanks for all the thoughts, stories, recipes, and photos about mushrooms yesterday - who knew?

Very sorry to read the news about your friend, Dave. Yes, cancer still sucks.

Twocat, as others have said, mice can get in through incredibly small spaces. We've never been able to figure out where they get into our basement, but they do. Sorry, but we're not above using poison, and it works (they eat it and then go someplace else 'cause we rarely find them).

Deeze, I'm glad you don't appear to have a meniscus issue. A lot of what I do for my knee are leg lifts (raise and hold each for 10 seconds: front lifts - 3 sets of 10; side lifts - 2 sets of 10; back lifts - 1 set of 10 - do for both legs), 'dead bugs' (2 sets of 30 each), toe stretches (lying down, ankles on a foam roller - stretch up and down, both feet, 2 sets of 60). I also do planks, bridges, and hamstring and hip flexor stretches with a rope.

Speaking of all that stuff, I dd 80 minutes of knee and core work, weights, and stretches this morning. No ankle weights today because I'm suspecting that might add a bit too much strain on the knee. I didn't get out for a walk yesterday because of the day-long rain and wind, but hope to today, but I have 4 meetings and some errands to do, so finding time may be tough.

Have a greta Tuesday.

Jay

Jay - well done!

Dave - that is so sad for your friend.

C-R - safe driving today.

I got a new credit card yesterday (Capital One Visa) for the 75,000 frequent flyer miles, and I have to say, it is the heaviest credit card I have ever had.  Why is that, I wonder. Are all the new cards going to be this way?

45 minutes of weights and core for me today.

Tramps, thank you!  America at the Crossroads looks interesting to me.  It comes on here a little later than I want to be awake but I suppose it will be available to watch another time.

A rest day of sorts today. I’ll be at the food pantry all afternoon and consider it mild cross training.

 

SteveP I am scheduled to give blood tomorrow. I sure hope music over a tinny speaker system is not part of my fate.

 

The way the staff reacted last night, you’d think that they had never seen a guy slip on a pair of blood shot googlie eyes before.

I like Willie Nelson and I didn't realize until a PBS country music documentary how many hit sings he wrote (that other people sang.)  In the early days, people bought the song rights from him for pennies and then made a bunch of money off his work. Then someone tipped him off to stop doing that.

I ran an easy 3 miles this morning.

Not much else to say about that.

Good morning, all.  I'm rushing off to a lunch, so quick post.  Thanks for the start, Jay.  Good news, Deez.

I watched part of the Willie Nelson special, too.  Apparently, Luke Combs is the real deal.  Jordan Walker, one of the singer-songwriters we saw last week, talked about writing Luke's first hit with him (When it Rains it Pours).  He said Luke showed up in Nashville to try to "make it" as a singer wearing cargo shorts and crocs.  Jordan had to buy him drinks because he was out of money.  Luke is a big guy, and Jordan said he was ruining their "vibe" out on the town trying to pick up girls!  Anyway- once he heard Luke sing (at Jordan's apartment, which he was sharing with another songwriter) he went to his roommate and said "Hey- you need to get out here and help us write.  The fat guy on the couch is incredible."  The roommate declined since he was working on another song.  "When it Rains it Pours" became a huge hit and Jordan Walker didn't have to split it 3 ways- just two- since the roommate declined!  He thanked the roommate at the gold record party.  Jordan said Luke Combs is completely down to earth- hasn't changed a bit- and is just the best person there is.

7.1 miles in 23 degrees, which is very very cold for us.  I went over to the path.  It was sunny and I did OK, but it took my legs a bit to get going.

Jay - I’m definitely a long way from doing any of your dead bugs but your initial sets and repeats are pretty much what I’ve been doing as much as possible for the last 12 days. However, following it up with 80 minutes core stretches, weights, etc. are as unimaginable as being fast. No way.

Twocat - maybe do a super-sanitizing, decontamination-level cleansing of all the places the mice have been or could be and then start putting out food for them in a selected, far corner for, when they get used to it, your live traps. Good luck.

ps - happy OneDrive and OneDrive app. My cell phone pics go to a miniSD card that’s 75% full and, I guess, I can just exchange when it gets full instead of having to delete pics and/or apps I otherwise like. Othewise, I’ll have plenty of time in the next few months to delete, delete and delete as necessary. We’ll see.

pps - speaking 90th birthdays, there was one earlier in the week for a gal right down the hallway where, to my surprise when we moved in, the first Eskimo yoyo I’ve seen since moving down here from the Great Land and that I’m pretty good at doing too was hanging on her door as I later found out she’d been a ticket agent for ten years in the seventies for Alaska’s first (now defunct) airline in several places that I was flying in and out of at the same time so, kind of like finding runners who I’d run the same marathons with in decades past, we have a lot of shared stories that DW can now finally believe.

Roch - I was walking towards the up escalator in a department store and saw this old, fat guy walking toward it (and me too) from the opposite direction but, when I moved a little to the right to avoid him, he did too, . . . until we reached the elevator and I realized it was me in mirror.

Scheduled the re-order, will cancel once I receive my shipment.  Wonder how many times I'll be able to do that . . .

Leslie - sounds like Holly's airline miles.

Holly - I thought you had to get a Delta or other airline card to get their company mileage credits. How do you find out that Capital One and other cards also provide mileage credits on the airlines that fly to the places you like to go to?

Although the 30 page, indexed “joint Journey” and 21 of instructions I received on discharge indiates that “swelling is normal . . . for a few months after surgery” and there’s plenty of references to not hesitating to take the PK dosages “as needed,” other than three of the dozens medicals who attended to me in one way or the other during the hospital overnight (when all the anesthesias still had any pain under control) saying that I should expect some pain after the anestheias wear off that typically requires the PK’ers, none of the materials make a mention of the duration of it at all but, finally, after last night’s dosages (1) at 8:00 pm now 12 days after discharge before I went to sleep after struggling to stay awake for the unbelievable last minute end of the football game that Seahawk fans are getting used to losing and (2) again at midnight that worked so well through the night to 6am that, for the first time, the pain level is almost gone, if at all so, I guess, I won’t have anything to complain about, after all, at tomorrow’s first follow-up appointment. Yippee!

ps - Starbucks thanks all the lost and never used gift cards that gifted them an additional $164,500,000 of pure profit in 2020, to say nothing more than a billion dollars of interest free loans on ones that might eventually get used some day.

Tet! I stil have some Eskimo yo-yo's around here somewhere. I wonder where they went. And you're talking Wien Air Alaska? Richard Wien used to live up the hill from us. My GF bought his house when they moved and uses it for a rental. I have one of their daughters' dressers that I got many (many) years ago, refinished and still use. She's still a friend, too!

Sorry, but when that Willie Nelson 90th birthday party show came on after 60 Minutes, we changed the channel. Just not into that.

Jay, a lot of your work sounds like things my hospital PT gave me, too, although many of them I'd been doing in bed before getting up for quite a while. Those stretches do feel good!

Capital One is a pretty good card. They keep offering me an upgrade to the miles-earning card but I keep the one with cash back. Don't use it much, and I already have a mileage card so keep my old one that I've had for years. Mine weighs the same as any other.

Steve, those mushroom pics are fantastic! We get Lions' Mane mushrooms from a local shop that grows them domestically. That way = no bugs. And yes Leslie, not much out there that can't be improved by garlic, onions and butter. Except liver. Nothing improves liver.

So today is day #7 (surgery was last Wednesday) and I'm trying an experiment today: no heavy drugs, meaning nothing 'controlled' or with narcotics. So no Percocet (none yesterday either), no Tramadol. I took 3 Tylenol (975 mg total) this morning and will take 2 in 5 hours, see how things go after that. Pretty much done with the walker and usually forget where I leave the cane. I'm still under restrictions of no crossing legs, no extending right leg behind me and no twisting outside with that leg, but other than that since it's bear weight as tolerated, well I seem to be tolerating it pretty well. We'll see how it goes. Getting off those pain meds is key to driving again! But most people seem to take up to 4 weeks to get there, not 7 days, so again we'll see. Feeling pretty good though!

(Tet, I still have swelling around the operation site though, so can't wear my jeans yet.)