It sucks to get old! I'm mostly sound of mind and body, but I have one weakness - my back. I think it started back when I was on the wrestling team in high school. I remember having it wrenched a few times and then sitting in the whirlpool trying to unwrench it. Since then, I've messed it up from time to time. Now is one of those times. I chopped a ( Read more... )

Yesterday I felt something hard in my jacket pocket. I reached in and found a bunch of old photos. When I mean old I mean 20 years old. How they got in my jacket I have no idea. I've worn that jacket several times since it started getting cold, and the jacket is only about a year old. But there they were, photos of Marie and I in our 20s. What a ( Read more... )

I stayed home from work today. My back has been aching for some time since I chopped a tree down. Then this past weekend, I visited my elderly parents in Richmond and overworked the back again. I hobbled into work yesterday, but all that sitting in front of the computer took its toll. So today, I simply let it rest and started doing some very mild ( Read more... )