Motor­head Mes­siah and the 100MPG Lincoln

Pie Day! Last night, we made pie. A slight alter­ation to my mother’s pecan pie recipe [maple syrup instead of corn syrup] and a new one, an Apple and Tart Cherry pie. Deb­bie made the crust from scratch, impress­ing the hell out of me. It took a few hours, and I was exhausted by the time I pulled the pecan […]

These signs have been around Down­town for a month or so now. I still don’t quite know how I feel about them. I don’t know how bad the homeless/​panhandling sit­u­a­tion is here in Cleve­land, and whether or not it war­rants a cam­paign with this level of blunt­ness or scope. It is sup­ported by The Home­less Grapevine, and var­i­ous other homeless-​targeted […]

Yup­pies With Spears • LOL

Birth­days get pro­gres­sively more bor­ing as one ages. Other than the ini­tial “Yay It’s my birth­day!” upon wak­ing up today isn’t going to be much dif­fer­ent than usual. Although I might stop by Dave’s and pick up a sugar-​cream pie on my way home. Oh man, I love me some sugar-​cream pie. One year ago, I put in my […]

A few weeks ago when I installed a dim­mer in the mas­ter bed­room, I was heart­ened to see that the wall box had a ground wire in it, wait­ing to be hooked up. I hoped that this was a good sign for the rest of the house, which has ungrounded sock­ets. Unfor­tu­nately, tonight when I tried to change a socket, there was no […]

I had my sec­ond phys­i­cal ther­apy appoint­ment today. The ther­a­pist put heat on my bicep for ten min­utes and then gave it a mas­sage for a bit more. She thought that it might be tight­ened and pre­vent­ing my arm from full exten­sion. She was right, a bit. I’ve made good progress with the exer­cises already, only 10° [the […]

I received an Air­port Express Base Sta­tion today and just got it con­fig­ured. It was nearly a life-​changing expe­ri­ence. My speaker-​out jack has been busted for 9 months or so, so lis­ten­ing to music on my com­puter while doing other work was nearly impos­si­ble. But thanks to Air­Tunes and the handy 3.5mm stereo-​mini jack on the base […]

I had a phys­i­cal ther­apy appoint­ment today at Metro­Health. I must say, I’m impressed with their hos­pi­tal. They’ve got excel­lent, good-​natured staff, and they follow-​up on small prob­lems like a dachs­hund down a bad­ger hole. I’m sans 70# of grip strength in my right arm because of the bro­ken elbow, and my range of motion degrees for straight­en­ing the arm […]

Indexed

My street just made the cut to be one of the pilot areas for a retry at Cleve­land Curb­side Recy­cling. I’m quite pumped about this because I recy­cle most of my waste, and pil­ing it into my car and dri­ving to the near­est dropoff point seemed a bit cock­eyed. My cans showed up today. In addi­tion to the […]

The doc­tor told me that I don’t need a sling any­more, [the elbow is still broke-​joke, but a sling would hin­der more than help heal­ing] and gave me a bet­ter boot to wear while my toe heals. What I haven’t fig­ured out is how the hydrocodone and prescription-​strength ibupro­fen is affect­ing me. I try to go at least 8 conscious-​hours per day […]