It’s official. My brain hurts. Kinda works, though.

It’s official. My brain hurts. Kinda works, though.

And Stephen Harper is my country’s Prime Minister. I suppose it could be worse; Mugabe or somesuch.
I am experiencing almost the same amount of pain and hobbling as I did when I first sproinged my L5S1. Truly, it’s remarkable. I’m off to the clinic later to see if I can get some painkillers; sleep last night was a chimerical thing. They specifically tell you NOT to point your toes when you have this kind of muscle meshugas, but the only way I could sleep was on my stomach with my toes pointed. I’ve called in sick and I am supposed to have a scheduled vacation day tomorrow but there’s some really weird stuff happening at work that I think I’d prefer to be there to see, and it’s Mr. Clean’s last day before a month of leave, so we prob’ly have to do the download thing.
Onelegwest is staying on until February, Hurrah. So the Lunch Bunch Mark IV will not be sundered as soon as I feared.
I’m 17 days off cigarettes. I’ve had two bouts of cravings, both easily managed.
Kira is watching it snow with a look of utmost distaste and a very subdued twitching of her tail. Vis is down to about an eighth of a mile.

I’m walking like I did when I first hurt my back. I was going to console myself with a couple of containers of sushi, but LA Sushi doesn’t deliver any more!!!!
In the words of the immortal Nancy White, “Let me tell you, lads and missies, getting old is not for sissies.”
After the creative surge of November comes the dreaded deeps of midwinter, made somewhat better by there being more reflected light with all this snow. But I have the blahs right down to my toes. To quote a song I wrote a long time ago, “I feel like I’m swimming in glue”.
There’s only one thing to do:

Remiss of me in the Xtreme to not share this with the folks….
Peggy dubbed it Ingmar, and Ingmar it remains. Heinrich, Dr. Filk’s venerable old BMW touring bike, is being retired, as his starter is starting to get all swithery and cranky, in the not actually cranking, sense.
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More chimerical creatures here (including the manaphant).
But be warned some of the pix are disturbing.
Lady Miss Banjola has found a veritable cornucopia of moose.
As she remarked, Moosily Yours. Oh, and try to find the pic that has the charming translated from the Russian tag Sometimes calves sleep in a very discomfortable pose (from our point of view)