Anybody that’s seen the retro-anal ingestion episode of South Park, I think that’s what my system is attempting. Things don’t want to come out the back end and stomach contents are trying to come back up. And it tastes like it originated at the other end of the pipe.
Our Daily Bread, todays Bible verses, Luke 2:14, so badly needed in the world today.
8 And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night.
9 And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them: and they were sore afraid.
10 And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people.
11 For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord.
12 And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger.
13 And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying,
14 Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.
King James Version (KJV) by Public Domain
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_Is_Well_with_My_Soul for the story behind this song.
We sang this often in the prison chapel. It brought me a sense of peace and thankfulness in spite of my circumstances there.
Today it’s my ears that don’t want to equalize to changing atmospheric pressure instead of my sinuses.
This is the one big thing I dislike about the Pacific Northwest, the highly unstable weather here, not easy on my head.
I’m excited about the remote prospect for snow this Christmas. My son Carl thinks we’ll have the cold but may not have the moisture. Accu-weather thinks we’ll definitely have the moisture but not the cold. If both are right on one element and wrong on the other, then we’ll have snow.
The lab work came back, I have a group B strep and it’s apparently most sensitive to metronidazole. There will be no spirits for me for the next ten days:
Do not drink alcohol while you are taking metronidazole and for at least 3 days after you stop taking it. You may have unpleasant side effects such as fast heartbeats, warmth or redness under your skin, tingly feeling, nausea, and vomiting.
Well that sucks but if it succeeds in killing this stuff it will be worth while.
When I was a kid we used to catch salamanders at a swamp on 8th Ave and about 105th NE in Seattle, (behind what used to be Waldo hospital). The swamp has since been drained and the hospital removed and a strip mall put in.
A scene from Family Guy. This would be funnier if not so true.
We weren’t allowed to have Christmas Trees in prison. They had one briefly in the chapel but someone got a stick up their butt and it was removed.
This is the first year I had it together enough (3-1/2 years after release) to get one. Normally I go for a live tree and plant it afterwards but just haven’t been feeling up to a trudge into the woods so went with the dead variety this time. Sometimes the small things mean a lot.
And really, if you understand the symbolism it’s not so small. In Acts, Galatians, and Peter, Jesus is hanged on a tree, not a cross and likely that is the way it really went down as the Roman tradition of using a cross for crucification didn’t really take hold until about 100 years later.
