Last night I had a multi-tasking dream. Espionage, aliens, a garage sale, a boat trip, climbing a tree, zombies, and time travel. I went back and forth between these dreamlets and many others before I finally dragged myself out of sleep. Really tired this morning and not looking forward to a day of multi-tasking at work. It was weird, I’m usually really on point when I dream. Defend the planet, rewrite history, destroy a sentient subway system – pretty basic stuff. This was all over the map.
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The recent rains – i.e. all summer – have brought back the slugs to my back porch. Huge ones – and as bright orange as sherbet.<\/p>\n
Great.<\/p>\n
Now I want orange sherbet and I’m also grossed out by the thought of eating it.<\/p>\n
I’ve been observing them and have avoided touching any of them – that orange “stuff” is insidious.<\/p>\n
I clearly have some issues with slugs and I’ve decided to start some aversion therapy on myself. I recently bought some fake banana slugs that claim to be sticky and slimy. I’m hoping that if I handle these in a controlled environment, I can work my way up to the real things – sometime before the summer ends and they go hide where-ever slugs hide for the winter. \u00a0Which, I suspect, is in the souls of innocents.<\/p>\n
Note that I said the fake slugs “claim” to be sticky and slimy. I haven’t actually taken them out of the package yet.<\/p>\n
Yeah.<\/p>\n
So, we’ll see how that goes…
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When I broke my arm, the muscles around the elbow got kinda messed up. That, along with not using that side for a long time, meant that my left hand has lost some strength.<\/p>\n
And my physical therapist has been on my case about not working it enough.<\/p>\n
Sigh.<\/p>\n
So, I’ve been using some – and this is the real name – Power Putty. It’s essentially silly putty, but blue. And the blue must make it firmer – this is not your dad’s silly putty. No, this is industrial strength silly putty.<\/p>\n
According to the packing, the Dark Blue (Medium) is one step down from the highest level – Firm (Dark Green).<\/p>\n
I’ve been squeezing this a few times a day until the heat of my hand makes it too easy. It’s working – the PT was impressed at my progress – but boring. I haven’t used it to copy comics from the newspaper or modeled this into any obscene shapes. I just squeeze it, fold it over, and squeeze it again. Over and over.<\/p>\n
I’m going to see if they’ll upgrade me next time I go in. Maybe with the Dark Green I’ll gain so much hand strength I’ll be able to crush a baseball.<\/p>\n
HULK SMASH! Huh, maybe that’s why the firmest is Dark green…<\/p>\n
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Today is the second of the days we’ve speculated that layoffs may come. End of the fiscal year and all. So far, all is quiet.<\/p>\n
The computer center had a minor flood, I had chicken and rice for lunch, and it’s pretty much a normal day here. If we don’t get any word today, then all bets are off and even the speculation breaks down.<\/p>\n
Normal and strange – all in one day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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