LOSS

What happens when you feel like you have done something to lose a friend?

LeConteur

LAW OF MECHANICAL REPAIR

Ok, so we are now starting on the "finish the *(&^*%%) projects so we can get on with our lives" part of home ownership.

The Law of Mechanical Repair states: "After your hands become coated with grease, your nose will begin to itch and you will have to pee".

And this usually happens when you are in this, or some other equally hard to get out of position.

Sigh.

LeConteur

FIRST DATE

Hello All,

Well, I went on a first date yesterday...it does not bode well when the first thing out of his mouth is: "Your back is a mess".  Needless to say, this was a  Doctor of Neurology and he should have known that I would not be impressed by his brazenness and his attempt at humor...

this is a "normal" spine:

and this:

is mine...if you will note there is a slight discrepancy between the two.  No wonder I have intermittent (constant) back pain...The Gaffer refers to it as my usual pain in the upper ass.  Sigh, so I am bound for some injections that will KILL the offending nerve and get me to mind my posture and learn some back muscle strengthening tricks.

 I wonder, though, if the nerve that responds to pain is dead, won't that mean that I will just overdo it?

 

Hum.

 

LeConteur

 

 

STRENGTH

I  lay awake at night think of strange things..."If by simply downing a can of spinach you could temporarily bring superhuman strength to any part of your body, which part would it be?"

Sigh, I am not sure I have that part, but if I did...

On a brighter note...I have taken up the harp - no it is not for future lives, it is because I have always wanted to play the Celtic harp and by imposing my ineptitude with musical instruments on the residents of the Boarding House I seem to be doing an alright job of it.

I have also decided that it is about time that I honestly tackled this abode known as the Glory Hole. I have accumulated so many things that have sentimental value but I would never take with me to Corfu. (The hardest, if not the most impossible accumulation to get rid of are the books - at last count, over two tons of them) The accumulated treasures need to be given away, put in an estate sale, or let the youth fight over them.  A wonderful young woman, known to many as Phlemmy, is my muse...she is a woman who can inspire a hummingbird to the height of the eagle.  She lives in a tightly arranged abode that she variously purges, straightens, rearranges  and yet has multiple friends over to enjoy her company. Oh, did I mention that she lives with three wonderful dogs, goes to nursing school (a straight A student, I understand) and holds down one and sometimes two jobs...all while enchanting her roommate. 

And what will   I find is included in the next chapter of this travel on this globe of adventure?

LeConteur