2:02 PM 12/17/2022
Six-day course of MethylPREDNISolone taken in December of 2022.
2:17 PM 5/27/2023
Six-day course of methylprednisolone taken in May of 2023
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TRAINING LOG AND HEALTH RECORDS FOR 2023
11:29 AM 1/5/2023
Wednesday, 4 January 2023
First ride of year -- to Work Out Any Time.
10:50 -- leave
11:17 arrive Sprawls One and Two
11:24 - 12:05 Work Out Anytime
12:15 - 12:46 Big Lots.
13:06 left Burger King
13:18 - 13:45 Dollar General
14:19 home
4:01 PM 1/8/2023 -- 138.6 pounds
12:29 PM 1/9/2023
Saturday, 7 January 2023
First "I think you're crazy" ride of the year.
11:50 depart
12:34 - 13:03 Goodwill. Bought measuring cups and a pie server for the church
13:10 - 15:57 Meijer Plaza
<13:26 - 13:46 Panda Express. Lo Mein is chopped into snippets, don't buy again.
13:52 in Meijer
16:16 returned cart
16:26 bike unlocked
17:20 home
I did find some bras at Meijer, but the fitting rooms were closed. Did buy a bagfull of cat food.
5:47 AM 1/10/2023 -- 139.2 pounds
5:06 PM 1/10/2023 -- Al 5.48 pounds
9:15 AM 1/13/2023-- 137.8
10:01 AM 1/14/2023 -- 138.4
8:42 AM 1/16/2023 -- 138.0
4:31 PM 1/16/2023
Saturday, 14 January 2023
TOUR D' WARSAW
12:27 depart
12:40 - 13:03 Our Father's House -- found a tick-tock timer!
13:20 - 13:45 Warsaw Health Foods
14:04 - 14:40 Reinholts
14:57 - 15:03 Lowery's
??:?? - 15:20 El Paddrino
??:?? - 15:48 El Carniceria San Jose
16:11 home
Tuesday, 17 January 2023
8:55 PM 1/17/2023
I wonder whether I can work up to being strong enough to ride to Claypool for their sesquicentennial on June 16 & 17?
2:29 AM 1/20/2023 -- 140.4
8:45 AM 1/20/2023 138.6
8:17 AM 1/22/2023 -- 138.8
1:27 AM 1/23/2023 -- 140.8
8:50 AM 1/23/2023 -- 139.6
Friday, 27 January 2023
11:27 PM 1/27/2023
Went to Work Out Any Time with Dave just before lunch. After my work out, I sat on two of the stationary bikes across the front of the gym to wait for Dave to finish his. (I switched machines after going out to the car for my bottle.)
The bikes are really boring because you can't get down on the drops, and you can't stand on the pedals. (Also there is no steering and no change of scenery.) Dave says that there is a more-realistic stationary bike somewhere in the middle of the room.
I was amused to note that there was a bottle holder on the down-tube equivalent. Also two huge cup holders behind the seat, but no place to hang one's towel. The machine said I was doing ten miles an hour, and sometimes twenty, while I was working barely hard enough to go a mile and a half in fifteen minutes. I got a pain in my left thigh toward the end, possibly because one can't use the big muscles in one's butt.
I spent about ten minutes on the treadmill, working up to three miles an hour no hands.
I used dumbells for range of motion, wrist extensions, and wrist curls. I couldn't lift the bare bar of the barbell. Or, rather, I couldn't lower it below my waist. Seems to me I could the first time I tried it. Maybe I got sore on the dumbells.
8:29 AM 1/28/2023 -- 140.6 pounds
8:48 AM 1/29/2023 -- 140.2
8:24 AM 1/31/2023 -- 140.0
8:53 AM 2/1/2023 -- 140.0
8:08 AM 2/2/2023 -- 140.4
Saturday, 21 January 2023
4:17 PM 2/3/2023
11:17 depart
11:29 - 11:35 Finley fashion shop [all fashion, no clothing]
11:45 - 12:33 Work Out Any Time
12:42 - 13:19 Popeye
??:?? - 13:43 Dollar General
14:06 home
Thursday, 2 February 2023
4:23 PM 2/3/2023
11:24 forgot my notebook
11:29 depart
12:52 - 12:57 AWL
12:52 - 12:57 Indiana Restaurant Supply unexpectedly closed by corporate with no notice, explanation, or instructions and the employees are . . . annoyed.
13:13 - 13:34 Harbor Freight -- bought a pair of flashlights
The walking part of the path from here to Orthopedic Drive was covered with snow.
The snow having settled since the storm, I thought I could wade without getting my feet wet, but the snowplow had built a wall around the parking lot. It was not an impassible wall, but using Route 30 was easier. I couldn't make the left turn because of the wraps around my neck, and my non-adjustable helmet had non-adjusted to an angle that made using my mirror difficult. (Somebody makes a real bike helmet; I should try to find out who.)
So I turned into Orthopedic Drive, made a U turn, and crossed with the light. I was not the first vehicle, so it changed when I was halfway across.
13:58 - 14:25 Dollar Tree. No spoons.
??:?? - ??:?? MacDonald's
14:46 - 15:05 Dollar General
??:?? - 15:40 Big Lots -- bought a box of spoons, and a box of "Thai" noodles that we had for supper that night. Not bad; I intend to buy more of that brand.
16:02 home
7:07 AM 2/4/2023-- 141.0
8:28 AM 2/5/2023 -- 140.4 pounds
8:31 AM 2/10/2023 -- 139.8
8:34 AM 2/12/2023 140.6s
8:55 AM 2/13/2023 -- 138.8
8:57 AM 2/13/2023 -- 139.2
9:13 AM 2/13/2023 -- 138.8
9:15 AM 2/13/2023 -- 138.8
Saturday, 4 February 2023
6:09 PM 2/13/2023
Abrreviated Tour d'Warsaw.
10:48 Leave
??:?? - ??:?? Zale
??:?? - 12:01 Warsaw Health Foods. Still no sesame sticks.
12:11 - ??:?? Chimp's Comix
12:16 - 12:49 Carniceria San Jose'
And then I was tired, so I went straight home without trying to buy elastic or visiting the produce store across from Lowery's
13:11 home
Saturday, 11 Feb 2023
6:20 PM 2/13/2023
10:33 leave
10:45 - 11:27 Our Father's House Plaza
Hey! There's a new Mexican grocery a few doors from OFH! Seems to specialize in produce. [Just looked up "botanas". It's snacks that can be eaten with the fingers. Pout. I thought it meant botanical food: veggies.] I bought four small cans of La Preferida tomato sauce and a very thick carrot. Soaked the carrot a couple of days and cut some slices for the relish plate.
11:50 - 12:14 Warsaw Health Foods. Still no sesame sticks. I bought candy and nuts.
Then I was very hungry, so
12:28 - 12:57 Subway. 6" Meat Supreme on multi-grain. I brought half of it home.
In search of a way to cross the railroad to Winona, I followed Park Avenue to Market Street.
13:04 Discount Warehouse is closed until further notice.
13:07 - 13:29 Dollar General
Considered crossing the tracks twice, decided I was too tired to do both Winona and Kroger, and we were out of milk, and it's very lucky that I cut the trip short.
13:47 - 15:20 Kroger
15:40 Home.
Found Dave sound asleep, so I emptied my pockets onto the kitchen table instead of trotting around in the bedroom to put stuff away. I'd put away the groceries and taken off three of my four shirts when Dave came into the kitchen fully dressed and said he had to go to the emergency room, so I ran around in all four pairs of tights and my Sunday shirt (which buttons in the front and is meant to be worn over another shirt) until after half-past eight. My shins were still itching Sunday night. Didn't help that I wore tights under my Sunday dress.
8:56 AM 2/14/2023 -- 140.0 pounds
8:48 AM 2/15/2023 -- 139.2
9:05 AM 2/16/2023 -- 140.2
9:01 AM 2/17/2023 -- 139.6
8:54 AM 2/18/2023 -- 139.8
Saturday, 18 February 2023
4:14 PM 2/18/2023
Farmers Market
The red-wattle pork was there, but the weather wasn't quite cold enough to buy frozen food at the beginning of a ride. I settled for a bag of snickerdoodles even though I knew they weren't particularly good. Ate about half of them along the way.
10:12 depart
10:48 - 11:06 Winter Market
11:20 - 11:57 Goodwill. I bought a pair of tights that fit over the tights I was wearing.
??:?? - 12:30 Panda Express.
Ate outside to save peeling off clothes.
My fried rice wasn't just cold, but chilled, when I ate the last of it.
12:39 - 14:07 Meijer
Locked at 12:45
Checked out at 13:50
Regret not buying grape tomatoes to garnish the pasta salad
I bought for tomorrow's luncheon.
Perhaps I'll mound it in the center of a relish plate.
14:39 - 15:12 Kroger
15:16 - 15:23 Jimmy John
~15:49 Home
8:06 AM 2/19/2023 -- 139.4 pounds
8:44 AM 2/20/2023 -- 140.0
7:38 AM 2/21/2023 -- 140.8
8:50 AM 2/22/2023 -- 140.8
9:01 AM 2/22/2023 -- 140.6
9:02 AM 2/22/2023 -- 140.4
8:36 AM 2/23/2023 --140.8
8:48 AM 2/24/2023 -- 139.6
8:38 AM 2/26/2023 --141.8
Saturday, 25 February 2023
10:22 PM 2/26/2023
10:20 depart
before 10:40 - 10:55 Mi Poblanita
long before 11:30 - 11:45 Zales
11:51 finished rescarfing.
12:01 - 12:46 Warsaw Health Food
Yup, that's what I wrote, and I remember writing "46" very carefully so I could read it in dim light. And I read my watch three times before writing
12:36 - 13:02 Lowery's. Bought twelve yards of 1/8" elastic, cord elastic is still not in.
- 13:10 bought avocado at El Padrino
13:31 - 14:43 Kroger -- noticed broken cable tie on right pannier
14:48 - 14:52 Jimmy-John. Most of that time spent tying sub to bike
15:05 home
9:10 AM 2/27/2023 -- 140.8 pounds
9:11 AM 2/28/2023 -- 141.6
8:45 AM 3/2/2023 -- 140.4
5:52 AM 3/4/2023 -- 142.4
9:43 AM 3/4/2023 -- 141.4
7:35 AM 3/5/2023 -- 141.44
7:41 AM 3/6/2023 -- 141.0
7:43 AM 3/8/2023 -- 140.2
Tuesday, 28 February 2023
9:44 PM 2/28/2023
Replaced the cable tie and put another into my little bag of stuff.
Wednesday, 1 March 2023
10:11 AM 3/9/2023
Blood draw
12:19 depart
12:45 - 13:33 Darr Lab
(blood draw complete at 13:15)
??:?? - 13:53 Zales
14:00 - 15:19 Kroger
15:23 message
15:28 - 15:34 JimmyJohn
??:?? home
Saturday 4 March
10:26 AM 3/9/2023
(changed clothes, pumped up tires, rode wheelchair bike down Boy's City Driveto see what was happening. Rack rattles; must look into that.)
11:01 AM 3/9/2023
11:27
11:31 OUT (Did I forget something?)
12:23 - 12:55 Bazaar. (Disappointing. Use Hepler instead of Old Thirty next year.)
13:34 Union Street
13:41 - 14:18 WLCC. Helped clean up kitchen after funeral dinner.
14:27 home
Wednesday 8 March 2023
11:09 AM 3/9/2023
Modified Dump Tour
$4.50 coins. [Quickened]
10:16 depart
10:22 - 10:26 Trailhouse
10:42 - 10:56 Kroger (dump bags)
11:00 - 11:06 ATM
11:13 - 11:32 Zales (change data, pick up Fosamax)
12:04 -12:20 Good Will. (Too hungry to try on tights.)
??:?? - 12:59 Panda Express
13:05 - 16:16 Meijer
17:23 Home
Not recorded: stop at Jimmy-John.
Thursday, 9 March 2023
8:44 AM 3/10/2023
Two laps around the block on the flatfoot, separated by an hour or so. I had to unbury it and pump up its tires, so the DIRT truck had gone before I started.
Someone appears to be building a mound to build a house on.
Friday, 10 March 2023
9:02 AM 3/10/2023
Beautiful out there. The snow is sticking to the trees, but not to the patio or the tracks in the driveway. Tomorrow's ride might still be on.
Saturday, 11 March 2023
7:00 PM 3/12/2023
Lots of sun, and the snow didn't stick to pavement or gravel. I didn't attempt to find the dirt path to Fairlane trailer park, but went out the back door to Grace College. This involved cutting across a lawn, around a flight of steps, to Presidential Drive. I think I could have used a lower driveway if I'd known my way around. There was a dearth of signs to tell me what building I was looking at -- perhaps they were all on the other side, since only students would want in from the side I was on.
10:27 depart
10:38 - 11:10 Gordon Rec Center
11:43 - 11:45 Animal Welfare League
11:52 - 11:56 Why Pay Retail
12:01 -12:09 Furniture Outlet.
This is the easternmost place where busineses on 100 S back up on parking lots in the Tractor Supply strip mall.
From Nest Furniture & Design to Lake City Honda, there is a ditch in between.
13:05 - ??:?? Culver, having a swiss and mushroom butterburger.
13:29 - 14:55 Aldi
15:10 - 15:18 Jimmyjohn
15:33 home
Sunday, 12 March 2023
8:07 PM 3/12/2023
Despite snow in the night, the streets and walkways were clean today, and I could have left my oxford shoes and cane at home. I climbed all the staircases today -- I climbed the one that is blocked with toy balloons from the top.
Saturday 18 March 2023
12:20 PM 3/21/2023
To the Farmers and Artizens Market, prepared to buy frozen chops -- actually, I prepared for frozen sausages, but she didn't have any. I needn't have bothered to insulate my pannier and carry Black Ice -- the water froze in my bottles.
10:48 depart
11:26 - 12:02 Farmers and Artizens Market
12:16 - 12:43 Dollar General
13:04 - 13:35 Lowery's (I walked most of the way)
13:38 - 13:50 El Padrino
13:57 - 14:14 Carniceria San Jose`
- 14:23 text message
14:34 - 14:52 Mi Poblanita
15:05 home
Tuesday, 21 March 2023
12:19 PM 3/21/2023
Lovely out today, but I don' wanna go. I think the difference is that on Saturday I had somewhere to go; today my best motivation is to find what's going on south of the lake that calls for a pile driver -- and I can't count on them to be pounding when I'm deciding which way to turn.
Forgot to climb staircases at the church on Sunday. That was the first Sunday that I wore sweat pants under my skirts. Almost forgot to take them off with my coat and hat. I think my shawl would have been warmer than my red coat, and it doesn't block access to my lip salve when I don't think of it until after getting all zipped up. (The red coat is not easy to zip.)
Friday, 24 March 2023
12:01 AM 3/26/2023
Trip to the doctor
10:04 AM 4/13/2023
9:41 depart
10:01 - 10:57 Darr
11:15 - 11:28 Zale's
11:35 - 12:05 Kroger
12:15 - 12:43 Our Father's House
12:55 home
Thursday, 30 March 2023
10:08 AM 4/13/2023
Sprawlmart tour
10:10 depart
10:36 - 11:18 Work Out Any Time
- 11:28 Shoe Sensation
11:35 - ??:?? Big Lots
12:44 - 13:32 Popeye's
13:42 - 14:00 Staples
1417 - R.P.
- 15:35
11:05 AM 4/16/2023 I no longer remember why I didn't record my arrival at home.
Monday, 3 April 2023
1:31 PM 4/3/2023
Climbed and descended two flights of stairs, carrying an 8.6-pound bag.
It felt a lot heavier than that.
Thursday, 6 April 2023
11:05 PM 4/6/2023
Thighs felt sore when climbing stairs today, so I knocked off the extra steps.
Friday, 7 April 2023
Bag now weighs 8.2
Saturday, 8 April 2023
4:13 AM 4/9/2023 took elevator
Saturday 8 April 2023
9:57 AM 4/13/2023
16:36 depart
16:52 Zale's closed
17:09 left KCH with cane. (Now LCH or something like that)
17:20 - 17:33 Kroger
17:43 left Jimmy John's
Too busy eating sub to note time of return
Thursday, 13 April 2023
11:07 AM 4/16/2023
$251 - bills. Which I remembered as $151 and didn't pay the dentist in cash.
10:41 leave
11:09 - 12:42 Dr. Hollar
11:14 locked
12:25 done
13:08 - 13:29 ATM
13:42 home
Saturday 15 April 2023
12:42 PM 4/15/2023
Hoot mon! I weigh 140.4, fully dressed and fully fed.
Pity I don't trust the scale.
Second weighing 141.6. Still not bad.
I rode to a Sewing Guild meet-and-greet. Pity I couldn't hang around for a couple of hours; they were serving lunch.
I bought Aquaphore and E-oil on the way back.
9:52 depart
10:16 - 10:38 Pete Thorne Senior Center
11:02 - 11:27 Zale's (Aquaphor and E-oil)
11:45 - 14:24 home
??:?? - 14:55 Zale's (socks and prescription)
15:18 - 19:32 home
19:55 back from redbud tour
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2:08 PM 4/15/2023 -- 139.8 without clothes
Sunday, 16 April 2023
Went up and down all staircases in church.
Did not attend service.
Thursday, 20 April 2023
8:17 AM 5/4/2023
15:20 depart
15:31 - ??:?? Lowery
15:39 - 15:43 El Padrino
15:53 - 16:10 Warsaw Health Food
16:20 - 16:50 Kroger
17:
04 Home
11:47 AM 5/8/2023
Friday, 21 April 2023
11:47 AM 5/8/2023
14:24 depart
15:08 - 1516 Zale's
15:30 Home
Monday, 24 April 2023
11:51 AM 5/8/2023
9:51 depart
<10:16 - 10:30 Zale's
10:35 - 11:16 Kroger
11:28 Home
Tuesday, 25 April 2023
11:54 AM 5/8/2023
15:20 depart
<15:51 - Zale's
<17:21 Home
Thursday, 27 April 2023
11:56 AM 5/8/2023
10:49 depart
11:01 - 11:10 Mi Poblanita
11:24 - 11:46 Library
12:12 - 12:34 Zale's
12:52 Home
Saturday, 29 April
12:00 PM 5/8/2023
10:46 depart
<11:04 - 11:14 Zale's
11:20 - 12:01 Kroger
12:15 home
Thursday, 4 May 2023
12:49 PM 5/8/2023
18:41 depart
18:54 - 20:17 Kroger
>8:42 p.m. home
Saturday, 6 May 2023
12:51 PM 5/8/2023
11:49 depart
11:56 - 12:05 Sunset Pavilion Market
12:17 no sign (except for sign) of fairgrounds market
12:30 - 12:38 courthouse market. Hill 'n Dale was at both markets.
12:52 - ??:?? Garage Sale
13:02 - 13:36 Kroger
13:35 - 17:08 home
17:19 - 17:23 Jimmy-John's
17:34 home
Sunday, 7 May 2023
climbed the staircases. Didn't attend the service, but did dress.
Wednesday, 10 May 2023
4:33 PM 5/14/2023
17:10 left
17:21 left Steve & Martha
17:32 - 17:40 Penguin Point
~six - 19:04 home
19:26 Lowery closes at 5:30 (3:00 on Saturday)
19:41 - 20:00 Dollar General
20:19 - 20:35 Kroger
20:49 home
Saturday, 13 May 2023
4:40 PM 5/14/2023
12:20 left
<12:44 - 12:48 Zale's
12:51 sent text
13:06 - ??:?? Library
14:17 - 14:32 Lowery's
14:34 - 14:43 El Padrino
14:46 sent text
??:?? - 15:15 Carniceria San Jose`
15:26 - 15:33 Sherman & Lin's
??:?? - 15:40 Mi Poblanita
15:49 home
Sunday, 14 May 2023
My left hip aches, and hurt all the way to the
church and back. Doing my exercises in Club 56
(where I could clearly hear prayer time; I may
spend more of the services there) helped, but the
relief didn't last a minute.
Now (1:01 pm) to see whether the hip interferes
with nap time.
4:00 pm. Stopped hurting during nap, but walking
around quickly brought it back.
4:30 PM 5/14/2023 I climbed all the staircases. I skipped the prayer room and did Club 56 twice, because church was still in session.
Monday, 15 May 2023
10:05 AM 5/15/2023
Hip doesn't hurt as much this morning. Did not hurt at all until I put weight on it.
Sitting, I think the ache has moved to my thigh.
I don't recall it hurting when I was walking Saturday, but don't know whether that was because it didn't hurt or becauseI didn't think it unusual.
I have an unusually-long ride planned for today.
11:53 - 11:55 went back for shopping list
12:12 - 12:21 ATM
12:49 - 13:26 Open Air Garden & Greenhouses
<13:59 - 14:15 Peking (poor grade of hot-and-sour soup)
14:33 - 14:50 Carniceria San Jose`
15: 05 - ??:?? Kroger
15:05 home.
I think that this ride would be worth measuring -- if I get the time.
Tuesday, 15 May 2023
12:43 PM 5/16/2023
Riding didn't hurt the hip any. Pedalling hurt slightly, but that stopped before I got out of town. I was increasingly intolerant of resting my weight on my bad leg at stoplights, and spending about three-fourths of an hour walking and standing in Kroger left me in such agony that I couldn't find the Toaster Scrambles and left without them.
I remembered to take aspirin with breakfast, Seems to be helping. Leg aches, but I don't mind walking much. Gets a lot worse when I stand still.
Pain didn't bother me much when in bed last night. Wished I'd remembered to take aspirin with bedtime snack. I've got aspirin in the evening-pill container, and I've laid out two pills to take with lunch.
2:53 PM 5/16/2023
I can put on shirt and go. Appt. @ 4:30, but taking book.
Hip hurts; shouldn't have more aspirin before suppertime.
15:23 leave
15:48 - 16:48 Forefront. Biggest chunk of time spent putting my sunscreen on.
15:53 - locked to cherry tree. Not covered in flowers when done.
Zigged when should have zagged coming back around other side of block,
but could see that 30 was on wrong side.
17:00 - 17:13 Aldi
17:26 - 17:37 Popeye's
18:00 home
Wednesday, 17 May 2023
8:46 AM 5/17/2023
9:32 AM 5/17/2023
I was entirely free of pain when I woke up just before eight, but it started up on my way back from taking my levothyroxin. Not too bad yet, but I'm going to have two aspirin with each meal, as I did yesterday. (total of eight aspirin). I haven't noticed painkilling, but it's also an anti-inflamatory.
Thursday, 18 May 2023
9:58 AM 5/18/2023
I'm trying it without aspirin today. I intend to lay out a bedtime-snack dose, though. Hurts, even while sitting, but doesn't seem to inhibit as long as I walk straight and even, and don't stand still.
Friday, 19 May 2023
12:57 PM 5/19/2023
Took longer than usual to get comfortable last night, and started hurting before I got out of bed, but hasn't been too bad this morning. But I've been careful not to aggravate it.
I'm going to give this evening's Critical Mass ride a miss, partly because I wouldn't want to wear a jersey (particularly my cotton-jersey jersey), would have to climb up into a hot attic to find our over-large fanny pack, and I don't think I could ride that far on the flatfoot. Not to mention that at the start of the ride they speechify for hours and there's no place to sit.
I'll need the stepladder to plug in the iron. With one leg wonky, I might fall off the Kik-Step.
Plan to ride the flatfoot on tomorrow's Historical Tour.
I have a dose of aspirin laid out for my bedtime snack.
1:06 PM 5/19/2023 -- time for a nap.
2:15 PM 5/19/2023
Never entirely stopped hurting during nap, but I appear to have slept.
Saturday, 20 May 2023
9:20 AM 5/20/2023
A great deal of trouble getting to sleep; got up from half-past midnight until a little after two.
Slept soundly when I finally got to sleep. Got a calf cramp getting out of bed. Hip pain not bad. Slight pain across lower back.
Numb spot stopped hurting when I rubbed it.
Planning farmer's market tour.
10:03 PM 5/20/2023 -- rats, I forgot to take aspirin with my bedtime snack. I hurt enough today to spoil the FM tour -- reminded me of 2020 when rides were boring because I couldn't go in anywhere. Did shop at all three markets: macaroon, noodles, turnips -- but wasn't able to make a side trip for milk and I did want to make creamed asparagus tomorrow.
In the afternoon, I almost caused a crash when I lost control of the flatfoot while crossing Parke Avenue while leaving the ice rink in hope of catching the historic tour. I toured all the Island, and didn't see them.
I'd tried to draisine it like a real bike, standing on the right pedal, instead of stitting down and pushing with both feet.
Transcript of scrappy notes:
10:44 leave
11:58 - 11:08 Ice-rink market
11:56 left courhouse markeet
12:38 - 15:00 home
15:30 home
Sunday, 21 May 2023
8:20 AM 5/21/2023 I woke up pain free, but with indications that that woiuld change when I got out of bed. Not too bad yet. I have taken my Fosamax.
8:14 AM 5/22/2023 Yesterday, I meant to use the stair lift, but standing hurt so much that I couldn't read the instructions. I kept my leg on the pew during the preliminary hymns and left the sanctuary during the first hymn after the announcements. Meant to lie in Club 56, where I can hear the sound system, but there were children in it. Did my morning exercises in the library. Skipped doing the stairs!
Got on fine with the flatfoot, but on the way home standing caused such agony that I had to give up trying to read the menus on the food trucks.
Monday, 22 May 2023
7:46 AM 5/22/2023 took hydrocone at 9:15 p.m. Still walking easily, but pain is returning. On waking, I felt two spots of sore muscle in lower back, close to the hip joints. As the thigh pain returns, I no longer feel them but I'm not sure I'm not sore in a streak across the back.
Meant to call Dr. Darr today, but I'll wait a few hours to see whether I'm getting better. I dared to put a sheet in the washing machine
3:10 PM 5/22/2023 called Darr. Have an appointment for Friday. Could have been squeezed in today, but I was hurting so bad I didn't want to get dressed that fast.
Bringing the clothes in was an ordeal.
8:01 PM 5/22/2023 Took an acetominiphen about five. Seems to have helped.
I've laid out a hydrocodoen for bedtime.
10:11 PM 5/22/2023 Too tired to brush teeth. Can't have the hydrocodone until eleven because I had acetominiphen at five and there is acetominiphene mixed with the hydrocodone.
I think that's a drug-warrior thing. The enemy drugs must never be dispensed straight.
9:33 AM 5/23/2023
slept well once the hydrocodone took effect. Not much pain on walking, but I feel that stress would change that. Subtle soreness across lower back.
1:15 PM 5/23/2023
Pain didn't get distracting until it was time for lunch anyway.
Took two aspirin and I'm going to bed.
10:18 PM 5/23/2023
took two more aspirin with supper, and have a hydrocodone in my pocket to take before brushing my teeth and going to bed.
Friday, 26 May 2023
2:21 PM 5/27/2023
Saw Dr. Darr, began methylprednisolone.
Saturday, 27 May 2023
2:19 PM 5/27/2023
I forgot to take hydrocodone last night, so I'm having aspirin with all three meals.
Rode flatfoot to ice-rink market, then to backyard market, then to backyard market again.
Sunday 28 May 2023
10:26 PM 5/28/2023
No aspirin, but I feel the need to have hydrocodone before bedtime.
Went to church by flatfoot. Easier to walk up Sunday Lane than Chestnut: it's steeper, but shorter.
Climbed half the staircases.
Pain is back in the hip. I think it's been there all along, but the thigh covered it up. Now that I pay attention, there is pain across the lower back.
Monday 29 May 2023
8:55 AM 5/29/2023
Didn't take my bedtime steroid until 3:00 a.m.
Did take oxycodone half an hour before bedtime.
No aspirin yesterday. Don't plan on any today.
Pain has been ignorable.
Tuesday 30 May 2023
6:51 AM 5/30/2023
Took two aspirin with breakfast, and took oxycodone at bedtime last night, in case I have to drive today.
Wednesday, 31 May 2023
9:02 AM 5/31/2023
Took last steroid before breakfast.
Took oxycodone at bedtime because I stood too long at the library and at Kroger. I've got to work out some sort of portable stool for standing in line.
3:58 PM 6/21/2023
15:22 arrive Zale's
16:58 arrive Kroger
Thursday, 1 June 2023
8:07 AM 6/1/2023
Should have taken aspirin with bedtime snack, but forgot until it was too late to eat.
Friday, 2 June 2023
9:05 AM 6/2/2023
Absent-mindedly standing still doesn't hurt, but I don't intend to push it.
Pain in hip/thigh when I pay attention.
Going to ride downtown today.
3:06 PM 6/21/2023
Bought a bed. Skimpy notes
10:58 depart
11:26 arrive Reinholt
12:59 leave El Padrino
13:38 leave Carniceria San Jose'
13:44 arrive Lake View Plaza
Saturday 3 June 2023
3:20 PM 6/21/2023
10:08 depart
$4 Mango Lassi
10:31 leave ice rink
10:37 - 10:46 home
11:04 - 11:06 fairgrounds
11:27 - 11:30 Reinholt's
11:58 - 12:20 library
13:00 - 13:07 Trailhouse
13:22 - 13:54 home
(Went back for stuff out of pannier)
home again before 14:20
Saturday, 10 June 2023
1:16 PM 7/5/2023
11:23 leave home
11:38 leave ice rink
11:44 - 11:50 ATM
12:02 - ??:?? home
12:20 Enter Park (Avenue?)
12:38 - 13:00 home
13:13 - 13:57 Kroger
14:05 home
Bought candied walnuts at ice rink. Not very good.
Wednesday 14 June 2023
10:13 AM 7/6/2023
10:41 leave
11:03 -12:13 Darr
11:05 locked, 12:02 dismissed
12:34 - 12:54 Sub(way?)
12:58 - 13:51 library
<14:19 - 14:55 Kroger
15:04 roundabout
15:11 home
15:04 roundabout
Friday, 16 June 2023
8:33 PM 6/16/2023
Rode to Linda's house to deliver a mis-addressed card, she showed me how to come back through the woods.
Saturday, 17 June 2023
2:55 PM 6/21/2023
9:29 depart
9:35 - 9:41 ice-rink market
9:52 - 9:58 fairgrounds market -- duck eggs and radishes
10:14 -10:26 courthouse market
10:51 - 10:56 not-quite-open second-hand shop
11:03 - 11:04 ball card not a store
11:10 - 11:15 El Padrino
11:19 - 11:48 Carniceria San Jose'
12:02 - 13:01 Kroger
13:14 home
Thursday, 22 June 2023
8:17 AM 6/23/2023
Milk-and-Coke run
16:25 depart
16:.35 - 17:08 Kroger
17:22 home
Ten minutes up, fouirteen minutes down -- because of traffic conditions
I climbed McKinley quickly, coasted down at walking pace.
I felt very strong climbing despite having had no significant exercise for weeks.
I haven't even been climbing stairs on Sunday.
Saturday, 24 June 2023
7:59 PM 6/24/2023
10:24 depart
??:?? - 10:39 Ice-rink market
10:52 - 10:56 fairgrounds market
11:08 - 11:12 Zales
11:19 - 11:30 garage sale
11:39 - ??:?? courthouse market
??:?? - 12:44 garage sale
??:?? 12:53 Rotary Park
13:12 - 13:36 Dollar General
13:46 - 13:58 Sherman & Lin
Thought I'd bruised my calf when leaving Sherman & Lin's
But I have a bright-red scab there
Our Father'sHous is open on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday, 9 - 5.
13:59 - 14:08 Mi Poblanita
I'd been home for a while at 14:40
Google maps says that a route more-or-less approximating the one I took is 8.3 miles.
Wednesday, 28 June 2023
8:22 AM 6/28/2023
Only two week before the Tour des Lakes. I don't think I can train up to forty miles.
Not having a decent jersey has been inhibiting; I might finish today.
Friday, 30 June 2023
8:43 AM 7/1/2023
Milk-and-yogurt run:
12:53 leave
13:03 - 13:58 Kroger
14:10 home
Ten minutes out, twelve minutes back. Had McKinley to myself. Perhaps less time crossing Center and more time turning left onto Winona.
Plan to buy thread to finish jersey on farmers markets tour.
Saturday, 1 July 2023
9:36 AM 7/6/2023
Farmer's markets rained out, but I did get the thread & needles, between passing the fairgrounds and stopping at Carniceria.
11:56 leave
12:05 saw truck leaving fairgrounds
13:05 left Carniceria San Jose'
13:12 - 13:22 Warsaw Health Foods
13:35 - ??:?? Zales
14:14 homw
Wednesday, 5 July 2023
10:24 AM 7/6/2023
15:47 leave
Zale's -- prescription in her hand when I came in -- saw me coming
16:12 - 1641 Kroger
14:52 home
Shower starting when I left Kroger -- hadn't started here when I got home. Didn't get any wetter than was comfortable in the heat -- pants wet only on the upper surface.
The shower had cooled the air, but I kept getting slapped in the face with lumps of hot air. Only in the face; rest of me was covered with cold wet cotton.
Saturday, 8 July 2023
9:04 PM 7/8/2023
11:18 leave home
11:35 leave fairgrounds market
11:47 arrive ice rink market
12:02 arrive home
Once again, I couldn't get close enough to the cheese display at the ice-rink market to see whether I wanted any of the offerings. I did get close enough to see that I probably didn't -- which is one reason I didn't fight my way through the crowd.
I fiddle and faddled and faddled and fiddled with my fender stay and couldn't stop it rubbing on the tire. Finally I decided that I couldn't do too much damage going to the fairgrounds and back (what with having to bring the wash in rinse it and put it through the dryer it was too late to go anywhare else and it was going to rain any minute), set out, looked down, and saw that I'd been fiddling the wrong stay.
Once back home, the other stay was easy to fix because I didn't have to spend twenty minutes finding out that it needed a 5/16" wrench.
I stayed up late last night finishing my new jersey. Pout.
I should remove a little space from the wallet pocket and add it to the keys etc. pocket.
Monday, 10 July 2023
8:14 PM 7/10/2023
10:37 leave
10:55 Sprawl One: Big Lots
11:44 Gabes
12:18 Subway
13:05 - 13:50 Sprawl Two
13:59 arrive RP Home & Harvest
14:27 train delay. Traffic had begun moving again by the time I managed to park my bike (too heavy to lift into position against the post) and find a place where I could read my watch.
14:58 home
Tuesday, 11 July 2023
7:11 AM 7/11/2023
Usually I don't sleep well after skipping my nap, but I slept right through from eleven until about seven, when the doorbell rang and I got my daygown on just in time to see someone in a high-vis veste riding away on what looked like, in a quick glimpse, the standing lawn mower our lawn guy uses. Couldn't be him, as he carries it in a trailer.
Had a calf cramp about half-past six. Resolved itself without getting out of bed. It had been just before six when I took my levothyroxin, so I considered getting out of bed and drinking pickle juice. I think I'll go do that now -- 7:21 AM 7/11/2023.
Wednesday, 12 July 2023
10:28 AM 7/12/2023
My back and good leg hurt a lot in the night. I took half a melatonin half an hour after the levothyroxin. I feel better this morning, but still have a limiting pain in the lower back.
12:36 PM 7/12/2023
An old diary says that I used to do Wilson's Lower Back Exercises as a warm-up to weight lifting. Searching on that phrase turns up William's Flexion.
Thursday, 13 July 2023
8:09 AM 7/13/2023
Back to normal: I woke up limping on my left hip. No significant back pain.
Hip loosened up with walking.
6:59 AM 7/21/2023
woke up limping
Friday, 14 July 2023
8:53 AM 7/14/2023
Limping on left hip. Hope it clears up by the time I'm dressed.
Saturday, 15 July 2023
11:58 AM 7/15/2023
Dashed out between showers. Got back at 10:58.
Rain doesn't appear to have dampened the Tour des Lakes.
Tuesday, 18 July 2023
forgot to note departure time
10:59 - 11:12 delivered unwanted case of water, changed ice trays
11:28 - 11:32 ATM @ Harrison Street
11:59 - 12:22 Good Will
12:29 - 14:19 Meijer
14:40 Vicky Lane
15:05 - 15:25 Sweet Corn Charley
15:43 home
Saturday, 22 July 2023
11:20 leave
10:28 - 10:37 ice-rink market
10:43 - 10:51 home
11:08 fairgrounds market
11:33 - 11:47 courthouse markeet
??:?? - 12:09 Emporium
12:19 - 12:26 El Padrino
??:?? - 12:50 Carneceria San Jose'
13:04 - ??:?? Kroger
14:01 home
Tuesday, 25 July 2023
13:51 leave
13:50 - 15:50 Grossnickle Eye Center
16:28 - 17:18 Kroger
17:35 home
Wednesday, 26 July 2023
10:43 leave
11:11 - 12:11 library
12:03 -12:11 McElroy Hill
Either the sign or the fence has changed;
there was plenty of room to pass my extra-wide panniers between them.
12:14 - 12:50 Family Express. Pizza, tea, orange juice
13:07 - 14:51 Walmart
15:05 - 15:48 Goodwill. found cotton pants, but way too small.
16:13 - 16:23 Beyer Farm Trail bench under walnut tree
16:36 - ??:?? Kroger
??:?? - 17:11 Jimmy-John
??:?? home
See today's Banner.
Thursday, 27 July 2023
9:49 PM 7/27/2023
car trip to Goshen.
Saturday, 29 July 2023
7:31 PM 8/18/2023
10:25 start
10:33 - 10:40 ice rink
1053 - 10:58 fairground
$2 beets
adjusting barrel
[finally remembered it today, stopped typing to adjust, found out that the brake-release lever had been released; flipped it backwhere it belongs and all is well.11:00 PM 8/18/2023]
11:15 - 11:33 courthouse
LOC:courtesy [Meant an essay on how showing courtesy reminds others to be courteous; no longer in the mood.]
11:42 - 11:50 [?]
11:57 - 12:19 Lowery [no sheets]
12:22 - 12:29 El Padrino
$1.00 nine avocados
12:31 - 12:50 Carniceria San Jose`
12:53 - ??:?? Chimp's Comics
15:22 home
Friday, 4 August 2023
8:16 AM 8/17/2023
1159
1250
I have no idea where or why
Thursday, 10 August 2023
11:10 AM 8/15/2023
Attempt to go to -Big R- R.P. Home & Harvest by way of Sunset Drive
9:44 start
Failed to find path to Sunset Drive,
did find wide, well-beaten path, followed it to
10:05 ? Saw cars, knew I could get to Wooster Road
10:08 Found sign saying I was on the Mission Point campus
10:21 - 10:39 Harbor Freight
10:56 - ??:?? Dollar Tree
11:34 - ??:?? R.P.
End of notes. I went to Sweet Corn Charley, Optical One, and Popeyes.
This entailed coming down the hill on -- Frontage? -- twice
Got home at 13:40
Saturday, 12 August 2023
9:43 AM 8/14/2023
9:43 start
9:58 - 10:07 fairgrounds $3.70
10:22 - 10:33 ice rink
10:41 - 11:02 home
11:24 - 11:27 garage sale
11:31 - 11:39 measuring bike lane on Fort Wayne
stripes are 4 1/2" wide
curb to inner stripe 55"
Overall 61"
"buffer" 20 1/2"
"buffer" outside to outside 29"
55 + 29 = 84
I'm going to have to do this measuring again, with better notes
Eighty-four inches minus four feet clearance leaves only a yard for the cyclist, and I suspect that it is much less than that.
At any rate, twenty-nine inches of "protection" is ludicrous.
11:17 - 12:14 courthouse
12:30 - 13:22 Open Air $10.00
14:15 home
Nearly an hour from Open Air to home, and I was hurrying because of the rain that was about to begin. Must go into Google Maps and measure this.
3.3 miles by Google's route. I probably went a bit farther.
My calculator makes it 3.7 mph. Not good.
Saturday, 12 August 2023
9:33 AM 8/14/2023
Farmers Markets tour, two loops
9:55 start
??:?? - 10:13 Fairgrounds. Bought Kale for $2.
10:28 - 10:35 Ice Rink
10:41 - 11:05 home
11:38 - 11:48 Courthouse
11:53 - 12:42 Library
12:53 - 13:11 Warsaw Health Foods
13:20 - 14:23 Kroger
14:37 home
I plan to bring what I bought at the fairgrounds market home before going to the courthouse whenever I get up early enough to make it to the courthouse before 13:00. I never buy anything but cookies at the courthouse, so I can venture on from there.
Wednesday, 16 August 2023
6:09 PM 8/16/2023
10:44 start
11:08 - 11:52 Menards
An eight-foot by two-foot wooden trellis panel is $15
11:59 - 12:56 Aldi
13:22 home
Friday, 18 August 2023
11:13 PM 8/18/2023
11:50 roll out on flatfoot
??:?? ATM
??:?? - 12:46 pick tomatoes
12:50 - 13:30 put away tomatoes, lunch, change to Fuji
<14:01 - 14:10 Zale's
<14:20 - 15:08 Kroger
15:22 home
Saturday, 19 August 2023
4:00 PM 8/19/2023
A muscle in my right arm, between the elbow and the shoulder, has been sore all day. I sat down here to say that I had no idea how I'd injured it -- and reaching for the mouse hurt so much that I had to support my wrist with my other hand. I think I have a clue.
Probably didn't help that I didn't do my range-of-motion exercises yesterday.
5:13 PM 8/24/2023 -- transcript:
10:43 start
10:58 - 11:11 fairgrounds market
??:?? - 11:36 ice-rink market
11:44 - 12:10 home
12:48 - 12:54 courthouse market (mostly sold out)
13:18 - ??:?? Dollar General
13:39 - 12:58 Carniceria San Jose'
about 14:20 home
Tuesday, 22 Auguset 2023
11:40 noticed had wrong shoes on
11:43 left
< 12:14 - ??:?? Warsaw Health Food
< 12:36 - 12:45 Zales
< 13:54 - 13:23 Kroger
Drove shopping cart into curb and bashed my shin.
13:37 home
9:16 AM 8/23/2023 -- pinched finger in ladder. May not be a bruise.
9:17 AM 8/24/2023 -- wasn't. The whap on my shin from running a shopping cart into a curb didn't develop either.
4:56 PM 8/24/2023 -- got into a nest of wasps yesterday, stings on big toe of left foot and base of left thumb, lots of itchy spots where they couldn't quite get through my clothes. (Calendula cream took care of those.) Stripped my pants off in the garage in full view of everyboday.
The toe sting was so painful that I decided, half an hour in, to read instead of napping, at which point I found that the Analog with the Asaro story in it had gone missing; still haven't found it. The Wrede (Revenge of the Sith) that I checked out of the library is rather disappointing. Thirty-one pages in, it's still the opening battle scene.
At bedtime the toe sting was pretty much gone, but the thumb sting had changed from visual only to "I must have bumped my knuckle agains a hot skillet". Still itchy today. Calendula cream helps, but I keep washing it off.
Friday, 25 August 2023
1:04 PM 8/25/2023
By flatfoot to Grace Lane and back. Less than a quarter hour.
Saturday, 26 August 2023
7:27 PM 8/28/2023
Pierceton Tomato Festival -- http://wlweather.net/LETTERS/2023BANN/2023BAN8.HTM#27Aug2023
9:53 start
10:08 - 10:14 fairgrounds market
10:28 - 10:33 ice rink market
10:39 - 10:53 home
11:16 exit Grace College campus
12:11 - ??:?? perennial garage sale outside Pierceton
12:25 - 14:32 Tomato Festival
14:53 - 15:07 Van Ness Road
15:22 glimpsed red squirrel --
seemed to be black with lipstick-red tips to its spiky fur.
16:10 Path isn't between two ponds, it's among three.
Third might be a swamp.
Google Maps shows only two ponds, but in Sattelite View
the greenery is suspiciously flat where I think the third pond is.
16:49 home
Monday, 28 August 2023
7:23 PM 8/28/2023
Wasp sting on toe seems to be gone. Sting on thumb still itches when I pay attention to it.
Saturday, 2 September 2023
7:12 PM 9/16/2023
9:15 leave
??:?? - 10:06 fairgrounds
10:19 - 10:29 ice
10:35 - 11:03 home
11:26 - Warsaw Health Foods
11:39 - 11:44 Garage Sale
11:47 - 11:52 Garage Sale
12:00 - 12:25 courthouse
12:32 - 13:34 library
13:48 - 13:52 Chimp/s
??:?? - 14:11 Carneceria San Jose
14:25 - 14:32 Zale
14:39 - 15:30 Kroger
15:46 home
Friday, 8 September 2023
12:51 PM 9/10/2023
Trip to Aldi. Chickened out because air felt damp, took car, bought two cartfuls. Everything had been thoroughly rained on when I came out of the store. Since it was cold, I wes very glad that I'd chickened out.
10:40 leave home
10:52 leave Trailhouse
11:00 back home
Saturday, 9 September 2023
12:58 PM 9/10/2023
10:05 leave
10:21 - 10:23 Fairgrounds market.
World record attempt going on in the lake, parking at fairgrounds.
10:41 - ??:?? ice-rink market
10:55 - 11:14 home
11:22 - 11:38 ice rink, eating a samosa
12:03 - 12:36 courthouse market
13:05 left central park
13:30 - 13:58 Kroger
14:10 home
Thursday, 14 September 2023
7:27 PM 9/16/2023
9:38 leave
9:53 - 10:00 Kroger (dump bags)
10:06 - 10:31 Zale
10:44 - 10:47 boardwalk
10:53 spokes OK
10:59 turn onto Park Avenue
11:11 - 11:38 Goodwi<11:55 - 12:15 Panda Express
12:19 - 14:54 Meijer
12:22 locked to tree
15:31 - 15:37 Jimmy-John
15:50 home
Saturday, 16 September 2023
7:05 PM 9/16/2023
9:41 Leave
10:05 finish fiddling with fender and leave again.
10:22 - 10:28 Fairgrounds (Chard $2)
10:40 - ice-rink market
10:57 - 11:09 home
11:24 - 11:28 ATM
11:44 - 12:05 courthouse
12:15 - 13:05 safety day in Central Park
13:22 - 13:40 Carneceria San Jose (peanuts and Y1-Cool)
about 14:00 home
Monday, 18 September 2023
Packed bike with a tad more old clothes than possible and tied on two egg cartons, found hand-written sign saying Our Father's house is closed today, September 18.
leave 11:30
home 11:52
less than eleven minutes to ride to Our Father's House.
Thursday, 21 September 2023
2:42 PM 9/21/2023
10:24 leave
10:40 unloaded and in store. Found and bought a wine glass.
10:59 left Lakeview Plaza by way of North Bay Drive and Willow Lane
11:11 - 11:12 Zales, no AREDS
11:17 - 11:26 Kroger, no AREDS
Jimmy John italian wrap
??:?? - 11::47 Walgreen
12:00 home
Saturday, 23 September 2023
5:29 PM 9/23/2023
10:15 leave
10:27 - 10:30 garage sale on Willow Lane
10:39 - 10:43 fairgrounds
10:55 - 11:01 ice rink
11:08 - 11:14 home
11:41 - 12:01 courthouse
12:55 home
Forgot book I meant to return to the library.
In the afternoon, I rode the flatfoot to Kathy's house.
Walked up Sunday Lane.
Came back on Chestnut.
Only one bag of tomatoes this time even though I was a day late.
Saturday, 30 September 2023
1:18 PM 10/2/2023
10:17 passed ice rink
10:28 - 10:34 fairgrounds
10:42 - 10:50 ice rink
11:01 - ??:?? home
11:35 - 11:41 garage sale
12:01 - 12:30 courthouse
12:40 - 13:47 library
14:06 - 14:22 Carniceria San Jose
??:?? - 15:13 Krover
about 15:30 home
Monday, 2 October 2023
1:27 PM 10/2/2023
11:29 leave
11:35 - 11:38 walkway from Park to Chestnut
11:41 - 11:51 bank
12:02 - 12:07 Zales
12:14 - 12:22 Jimmy John (made phone call)
12:33 home
Tuesday, 3 October 2023
4:20 PM 10/3/2023
Dashed to bank and back on flatfoot.
Saturday, 7 October 2023
1:05 PM 10/16/2023
10:14
10:20 - 10:23 ice rink market
??:?? - 10:43 fairgrounds market
10:50 - 10:52 garage sale
11:01 - 11:10 courthouse market
??:?? - 11:19 chops at Legion hall
11:49 - 12:32 home
not much to the craft show; didn't note times
13:08 - 13:14 Sherman & Lin's
??:?? - 13:25 Mi Poblanita
13:36 home
Saturday, 14 October: rained out
Tuesday, 17 October 2023
4:37 PM 10/21/2023
11:39
11:47 leave again with gloves
12:02 - 12:48 Big Lots
12:52 - ??:?? Gabes (saw no reason to come back)
13:17 - 13:23 Shoe Sensation
13:34 - ??:?? Dollar General
(they no longer accept cash.
Self-check malfunctioned.)
14:05 - 14:19 Rural King
14:31 - 15:07 R.P. Home & Harvest
15:11 - 15:51 Dollar Tree
16:05 arrive cross-country trail
trail closed through January
??:?? - 17:14 home
17:28 - 17:37 Jimmy-John
17:48 home
Wednesday, 18 October 2023
4:54 PM 10/21/2023
9:42
10:11 - 11:50 Dr. Hollar
10:15 locked to rack
12:00 Asian Cajun (closes at noon)
12:08 finished walking to Prarie Street
12:22 - 12:50 Carniceria San Jose`
12:57 - 13:16 Warsaw Health Foods
??:?? - 13:35 ATM
13:40 - 14:47 Kroger
15:05 Home
Saturday, 21 October 2023
5:20 PM 10/21/2023
10:05
10:11 with handkerchief
10:17 with windbreaker
10:33 - 10:40 fairgrounds
$1.50 for chard
11:00 home
rest of ride rained out
Tuesday, 24 October 2023
11:12 AM 11/2/2023
10:57 leave
11:01 leave with shoes that fit into pedals
11:11 arrive Lake View Shopping Center
Our Father's House is gone
11:35 arrive home, drop donation
11:44 - 13:01 Kroger
13:15 home
Saturday, 28 October 2023
11:17 AM 11/2/2023
9:15 leave
??:?? - 9:45 fairgrounds
9:59 - 10:06 ice rink
10:15 - 10:37 home
11:03 pass sycamore tree. Can't spare another square inch of lawn.
11:16 - 11:32 courthouse market
11:35 - 12::25 Lowery's. Thought I'd never find gray floss.
forgot to takenotes at craft fair.
Did buy pulled pork for lunch.
<13:10 - 15:00 home. Lunch, nap
Trick or Treat on Heritage Trail. Also went to Christ's Covenent Church and Grace College. Saw a new-to-me cross-country trail off CCC branch. Can't explore it until January.
16:20 home
Saturday, 415:19 November 2023
emergency trip to Goshen
Tuesday, 7 November 2023
9:48 AM 11/8/2023
To Menard's to buy faucet. Meant to do more, but it was noon and I was tired and hungry.
10:33 leave
10:56 - 12:04 Menard's
12:26 leave Jimmy-John
12:37 home
Friday, 10 November 2023
10:37 AM 11/13/2023
11:50 roll out on flatfoot
12:14 leave WLCC
12:31 leave ATM
12:40 leave church
??:?? home
Saturday, 11 November 2023
10:41 AM 11/13/2023
7Extend my range ride
9:43 leave
10:08 - 10:13 boardwalk
10:35 - 10:51 Goodwill
11:09 - 13:33 Walmart Plaza
14:40 - 14:51 snack on Chinworth Bridge
14:58 - 15:03 pit stop at CCAC
15:14 end of Chinworth Trail
16:12 - 16:23 Mi Poblanita (bought onion)
16:32 home
Google Maps says it was twenty-one miles even.
I was exactly the right amount of tired.
Sunday, 12 November 2023
10:40 AM 11/13/2023
climbed four flights of stairs in the church
Wednesday, 15 November 2023
4:23 PM 11/16/2023
We-need-eggs tour to Kroger
11:24
11:41 - 13:01 Kroger
13:15 home.
Mentioned in Banner: http://wlweather.net/LETTERS/2023BANN/2023BANB.HTM#15Nov23
Saw a Roades Car with a huge wire box on the back. Duck-Ducked when I got home and found a link to "making a pick-up out of a Rhoades Car", but it turned out to be a cosmetic shell done as a portable billboard. No images looked anything like the cargo hauler I saw, so the guy who thought it was a custom build was probably right. I wish I'd taken a picture, as I don't even remember for sure that it was a single seat.
Saturday, 18 November 2023
5:23 PM 11/20/2023
10:35 depart
11:03 - 11:34 Pete Thorne Center (two bags cookies)
11:46 - 11:50 Carniceria San Jose`
12:15 - 12:58 home
14:21 turned back at 450 N
15:20 - 16:55 Aldi
17:29 home
What a struggle! Google maps adamantly refused to be anything remotely resembling predictable, and if I did succceed in grabbing a point to drag it, all the while I was dragging, it would zoom the magnification up and up until I couldn't get the point within ten miles of where I wanted it to go.
But I finally browbeat it into revealing that from home to Aldi by way of 450 N is 12.2 miles. I'm pausing to write that down in case further attempts to gain information erase it.
After five or ten minutes, I gave up trying to persuade it not to take a shortcut down Parker Street. It says that going that way is twelve miles for the loop.
I added Beyer Farm Trail to the destinations, and that did the trick, except that Google insisted that I cross the tracks on Argonne both going and coming. But before I could read the miles, it erased the entire route and I'm *not* going to start over.
Quick and dirty: the first loop of the ride was in the general neighborhood of six and a half miles.
To Aldi was in the general neighborhood of twelve miles.
Aldi to Beyer Farm Trail to McKinley to home 2.4 miles.
Nine plus twelve, twenty-one miles, same as the previous Saturday.
I am definitely not ready for Spring Creek.
But if I go up the west side of the lakes and go to Oswego by way of Levi Lee, it will be about twenty-five miles.
Saturday, 25 November 2023
9:11 PM 12/6/2023
10:30 depart
10:46 - 10:51 ATM
10:57 - 11:11 Zale's
11:55 - 12:03 McElroy Hill
Had to pick way around construction or repair or something.
The stub of a telephone pole had been left
at the top of the hill for my personal convenience.
Mentioned in Banner.
1208 - 1243 Family Express (pizza)
13:07 reached Levi Lee by way of SR15, as Google Maps suggested.
Don't EVER do that again.
13:33 turned off 450 N onto 175 E
(The Oswego Mini-Mart ads are taunting me: so near, and yet so far.)
14:42 - 16:13 Aldi
16:34 - 16:40 Jimmy-John
16:55 home
Wednesday, 29 November 2023
9:25 PM 12/6/2023
9:35
9:57 - 11:55 Grossnickle
10:02 locked
12:17 - 13:00 Kroger
13:04 13:10 Jimmy-John
13:28 home
Came home with three appointments to get a needle stuck into my eye. Kept the first of them last Tuesday, December 5th.
Was that only yesterday?
Saturday, 2 December 2023
7:49 PM 12/13/2023
10:59
11:23 -11:42 Warsaw Health Food
??:?? - ??:?? Kroger
12:25 - 12:33 Jimmy-John
12:45 home
Monday, 11 December 2023
8:59 PM 12/11/2023
Dash to Kroger for eggs and milk
10:25 leave
10:40 leave again, wearing windbreaker
??:?? - ??:?? ATM
11:95 - 12:36 Kroger
12:42 - 12:46 Jimmy-John
13:04 home
Tuesday, 12 December 2023
5:29 AM 12/12/2023
01:10 took levothyroxin
Before half-past two rolled out
Goshen almost Three?
Left 4:45 ?
Passenger to Goshen & back
Wednesday, 13 December 2023
7:36 PM 12/13/2023
Semi-annual exam. Flying colors, pending blood tests. Keep an eye on blood pressure and trigger finger.
10:18
Went by way of Lincoln Street, got lost approaching Darr's office from the north -- also, Provident Family Health Care has changed the sign.
But the appointment was for 11:45
10:40 - 12:53 Darr
13:15 -14:01 Kroger
14:19 home
Thursday, 14 December 2023
6:29 PM 12/14/2023
I'd sure like to get some dust on my go bag. We are off to Goshen or Parkview soon.
8:17 PM 12/14/2023
Left at 18:45
In media res at 19:18
home at 20:15
false alarm, praise the Lord.
Saturday, 16 December 2023
6:29 PM 12/16/2023
Cookie run and pill pick-up
10:42
11:09 - 1211:31 Pete Thorne Center
no cookies. Empanadas looked good, but
would have been cold before I got home with them
11:56 - 12:09 Zales
12:16 - 12:37 Kroger -- frozen greens
12:53 home
9:17 PM 12/17/2023
Dave didn't quite make it to Monday's appointment.
A calf cramp when you are getting up off the floor is no fun.
I managed to stretch it out by pulling on my toes with my hand,
Soreness seems to have worked out while I was walking around to get Dave's bottle of eye drops out of my go bag.
I took a sip of giardineria vinegar brine before going back to my exercises. 9:25 PM 12/17/2023
Monday, 18 December 2023
11:23 AM 12/18/2023
The day we would have driven to Goshen. Dave found blood in his urine while preparing for bed Saturday night. I drove to Parkview emergency, glad that we'd had a dress rehearsal with the false alarm. Still shaky upon arrival. I don't do well in the dark when it is raining, but there was very little traffic, so it wasn't desperately important that I couldn't tell where the lanes were.
They gave up and sent Dave to Fort Wayne Sunday morning; I came home and slept a couple of hours, then called Steve and Martha and they took me to the hospital where we spent most of the day watching Dave sleep. We went to Culver's after they told Dave he could have lunch. They dropped me at home around maybe four p.m.
I took my breakfast pills and fiddled around a while, went to bed about maybe six. Got up at eight for supper pills and the rest of Dave's sandwich, got up for levothyroxin at midnight.
We are hoping that Dave will call and asked to be picked up and taken home.
I have cleaned up my go bag and put my extra pill sticks into it. I have an uneasy feeling that this is not closing the barn door after the horse is stolen. Also printed out my medication list and replaced all the obsolete copies that I know of.
Now I can go to making the house welcoming -- putting away the laundry, washing the dishes, and so forth.
Also must bring the Banner up to date. 11:38 AM 12/18/2023
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stopped scattering weight record among the entries
8:58 AM 3/21/2023: noticed last night that stepping on and off the scale
gets readings that vary by up to two pounds.
8:8:31 AM 3/22/202335 AM 3/10/2023 -- 140.2 pounds
8:31 AM 3/11/2023 -- 140.4
8:53 AM 3/12/2023 -- 140.4
3:40 PM 3/14/2023 -- 142.0
8:52 AM 3/15/2023 -- 139.2
8:54 AM 3/16/2023 -- 138.6
9:07 AM 3/17/2023 -- 137.6
8:42 AM 3/18/2023 -- 137.4
7:32 AM 3/19/2023 -- 138.2
8:20 AM 3/20/2023 -- 137.8
8:22 AM 3/20/2023 -- 139.4
8:57 AM 3/21/2023 -- 138.0
8:28 AM 3/22/2023 -- 140.8
8:29 AM 3/22/2023 -- 140.6
8:31 AM 3/22/2023 -- 140.6
8:13 AM 3/23/2023 -- 140.0
8:46 AM 3/26/2023 -- 140.0
8:14 AM 3/30/2023 -- 142.4
4:16 AM 4/9/2023 -- 141.0
4:27 AM 4/9/202 138.2
3:53 PM 4/18/2023 -- scale has new battery; may be trustworthy now
4:01 PM 4/18/2023 -- 142.2, fully dressed
4:04 PM 4/18/2023 -- 142.0
4:05 PM 4/18/2023 -- 142.0
5:47 AM 5/9/2023 -- 138.4
3:14 AM 5/10/2023 -- 139.2
4:09 AM 5/11/2023 -- 138.4
9:31 AM 5/11/2023 -- 137.2
9:24 AM 5/12/2023 -- 138.4
9:23 AM 5/13/2023 -- 137.6
8:35 AM 5/14/2023 -- 138.2
8:55 AM 5/18/2023 -- 136.4
9:18 AM 5/20/2023 -- 138.0
8:23 AM 5/21/2023 -- 139.2
7:45 AM 5/22/2023 -- 138.4
9:31 AM 5/23/2023 -- 137.4
1:37 AM 5/24/2023 -- 139.2
4:36 AM 5/24/2023 -- 139.2
9:18 AM 5/27/2023 -- 137.8
1:38 AM 5/28/2023 -- 141.0
5:06 AM 5/28/2023 -- 139.8
9:17 AM 5/28/2023 -- 138.6
8:53 AM 5/29/2023 -- 138.8
2:58 AM 5/31/2023 -- 139.6
7:50 AM 5/31/2023 -- 138.0
7:58 AM 5/31/2023 -- 137.8
2:21 PM 6/21/2023 -- 140.4
3:57 AM 6/1/2023 -- 138.0
7:20 AM 6/1/2023 -- 137.2
1:25 PM 6/1/2023 -- 138.4
8:30 AM 6/3/2023 -- 138.0
8:51 AM 6/6/2023 -- 138.8
8:39 AM 6/8/2023 -- 137.8
9:00 AM 6/10/2023 -- 138.4
8:51 AM 6/11/2023 -- 138.2
8:56 AM 6/11/2023 -- 138.0
8:43 AM 6/12/2023 -- 137.8
8:24 AM 6/13/2023 -- 139.2
8:33 AM 6/13/2023 -- 138.8
8:16 AM 6/14/2023 -- 138.8
7:29 AM 6/15/2023 -- 140.0
7:03 AM 6/16/2023 -- 140.4
7:41 AM 6/18/2023 -- 139.6
7:11 AM 6/19/2023 -- 139.6
1:42 AM 6/20/2023 -- 140.4
6:45 AM 6/20/2023 -- 139.4
3:38 PM 6/20/2023 -- 140.0
7:36 AM 6/21/2023 -- 138.8
7:58 AM 6/22/2023 -- 139.2
1:46 AM 6/23/2023 -- 139.6
8:14 AM 6/23/2023 -- 138.2
1:37 AM 6/24/2023 -- 140.6
8:01 AM 6/24/2023 -- 139.2
8:13 AM 6/24/2023 -- 138.2
8:15 AM 6/25/2023 -- 138.4
7:33 AM 6/27/2023 -- 140.0
8:10 AM 6/28/2023 -- 139.6
8:25 AM 6/30/2023 -- 138.8
8:18 AM 7/1/2023 -- 138.6
8:37 AM 7/2/2023 -- 138.8
7:49 AM 7/3/2023 -- 139.4
8:48 AM 7/4/2023 -- 140.2
1:44 AM 7/5/2023 -- 140.4
4:30 AM 7/5/2023 -- 139.8
9:10 AM 7/5/2023 -- 139.4
9:16 AM 7/5/2023 -- 138.0
1:26 AM 7/6/2023 -- 141.0
7:54 AM 7/6/2023 -- 139.4
8:08 AM 7/6/2023 -- 138.8
9:01 AM 7/7/2023 -- 139.4
9:15 AM 7/7/2023 -- 139.2
8:43 AM 7/9/2023 -- 140.0
1:34 AM 7/10/2023 -- 141.6
8:03 AM 7/13/2023 -- 139.8
8:48 AM 7/14/2023 -- 140.6
6:00 AM 7/15/2023 -- 142.4
8:22 AM 7/15/2023 -- 141.0
8:25 AM 7/16/2023 -- 140.6
8:41 AM 7/17/2023 -- 139.8
8:09 AM 7/18/2023 -- 139.6
8:17 AM 7/18/2023 -- 139.4
9:05 AM 7/19/2023 -- 139.2
8:04 AM 7/20/2023 -- 140.4
6:56 AM 7/21/2023 -- 140.4
7:37 AM 7/21/2023 -- 140.2
8:51 AM 7/22/2023 -- 139.4
7:42 AM 7/23/2023 -- 139.6
9:06 AM 7/25/2023 -- 140.0
9:12 AM 7/25/2023 -- 139.6
8:25 AM 7/26/2023 -- 140.4
8:15 AM 7/28/2023 -- 140.6
8:29 AM 7/29/2023 -- 140.2
8:36 AM 7/30/2023 -- 140.4
8:45 AM 7/30/2023 -- 140.2
8:29 AM 7/31/2023 -- 140.4
4:11 PM 7/31/2023 -- 140.2
7:20 AM 8/1/2023 -- 139.4
1:53 AM 8/2/2023 -- 140.4
7:08 AM 8/2/2023 -- 139.6
8:34 AM 8/3/2023 -- 138.8
8:14 AM 8/4/2023 -- 139.6
8:14 AM 8/5/2023 -- 140.0
9:00 AM 8/6/2023 -- 140.0
8:57 AM 8/7/2023 -- 140.6
8:04 AM 8/10/2023 -- 141.4
7:41 AM 8/11/2023 -- 140.4
2:00 AM 8/12/2023 -- 142.2
8:43 AM 8/16/2023 -- 142.2
5:36 AM 8/17/2023 -- 142.0
7:51 AM 8/17/2023 -- 140.6
9:13 AM 8/18/2023 -- 141.8
7:53 AM 8/21/2023 -- 142.6
9:28 AM 8/22/2023 -- 141.4
8:39 AM 8/23/2023 -- 142.6
7:47 AM 8/24/2023 -- 142.2
8:36 AM 8/26/2023 -- 141.0
1:51 AM 8/27/2023 -- 142.0
9:00 AM 8/27/2023 -- 141.4
5:06 PM 8/27/2023 -- 140.8
8:18 AM 8/30/2023 -- 140.6
8:48 AM 8/31/2023 -- 140.0
2:14 AM 9/2/2023 -- 141.0
5:31 AM 9/2/2023 -- 140.2
8:21 AM 9/2/2023 -- 139.4
8:57 AM 9/3/2023 -- 140.2
9:44 AM 9/4/2023 -- 140.2
2:08 AM 9/5/2023 -- 140.6
8:46 AM 9/5/2023 -- 139.2
8:17 AM 9/6/2023 -- 140.0
8:21 AM 9/7/2023 -- 140.6
8:16 AM 9/9/2023 -- 140.8
8:25 AM 9/9/2023 -- 140.0
2:22 AM 9/10/2023 -- 141.0
8:23 AM 9/10/2023 -- 140.0
7:04 AM 9/12/2023 -- 141.0
7:46 AM 9/13/2023 -- 141.4
3:03 PM 9/13/2023 -- 141.4
7:29 AM 9/14/2023 -- 140.0
8:06 AM 9/16/2023 -- 140.6
8:02 AM 9/17/2023 -- 140.6
8:27 AM 9/18/2023 -- 140.4
8:12 AM 9/19/2023 -- 140.2
8:15 AM 9/20/2023 -- 139.6
1:03 AM 9/21/2023 -- 141.0
8:57 AM 9/22/2023 -- 140.2
8:41 AM 9/23/2023 -- 139.8
8:55 AM 9/25/2023 -- 139.5
8:08 AM 9/26/2023 -- 139.6
8:30 AM 9/27/2023 -- 139.6
8:39 AM 9/27/2023 -- 139.2
9:36 AM 9/28/2023 -- 138.8
8:52 AM 9/29/2023 -- 138.6
9:01 AM 9/30/2023 -- 139.2
9:15 AM 10/1/2023 -- 140.2
6:36 AM 10/2/2023 -- 141.4
8:37 AM 10/2/2023 -- 140.8
8:38 AM 10/3/2023 -- 139.6
8:51 AM 10/4/2023 -- 140.6
8:29 AM 10/5/2023 -- 140.8
9:15 AM 10/5/2023 -- 140.6
8:51 AM 10/6/2023 -- 140.8
9:13 AM 10/7/2023 -- 140.6
8:58 AM 10/8/2023 -- 140.0
8:48 AM 10/9/2023 -- 140.6
9:00 AM 10/10/2023 -- 141.8
8:54 AM 10/11/2023 -- 140.6
8:34 AM 10/12/2023 -- 141.0
8:49 AM 10/13/2023 -- 141.0
8:56 AM 10/14/2023 -- 140.8
9:00 AM 10/15/2023 -- 141.4
9:29 AM 10/16/2023 -- 141.0
9:35 AM 10/17/2023 -- 140.6
8:33 AM 10/18/2023 -- 141.8
8:37 AM 10/18/2023 -- 140.5
4:36 PM 10/19/2023 -- 141.0
8:55 AM 10/21/2023 -- 140.8
8:35 AM 10/22/2023 -- 140.0
8:52 AM 10/23/2023 -- 139.8
9:18 AM 10/24/2023 -- 140.2
8:45 AM 10/25/2023 -- 139.8
8:04 AM 10/26/2023 -- 140.2
8:08 AM 10/27/2023 -- 140.6
7:53 AM 10/28/2023 -- 140.2
8:02 AM 10/29/2023 -- 140.2
8:14 AM 10/30/2023 -- 139.6
9:03 AM 11/1/2023 -- 139.6
1:15 AM 11/2/2023 -- 142.0
9:19 AM 11/2/2023 -- 139.6
7:35 AM 11/3/2023 -- 138.8
9:46 AM 11/4/2023 -- 139.4
1:30 AM 11/5/2023 -- 141.0
8:07 AM 11/6/2023 -- 139.4
8:12 AM 11/6/2023 -- 139.2
7:33 AM 11/7/2023 -- 139.2
8:11 AM 11/8/2023 -- 140.4
7:44 AM 11/9/2023 -- 139.4
8:16 AM 11/9/2023 -- 139.2
8:19 AM 11/10/2023 -- 139.6
7:35 AM 11/11/2023 -- 140.0
7:46 AM 11/12/2023 -- 139.8
7:35 AM 11/13/2023 -- 140.2
8:39 AM 11/13/2023 -- 140.0
7:48 AM 11/14/2023 -- 141.0
7:55 AM 11/14/2023 -- 140.4
8:22 AM 11/15/2023 -- 141.4
8:28 AM 11/15/2023 -- 140.6
8:23 AM 11/16/2023 -- 140.2
7:35 AM 11/18/2023 -- 139.4
8:30 AM 11/19/2023 -- 139.8
8:13 AM 11/21/2023 -- 140.0
8:37 AM 11/22/2023 -- 141.0
9:06 AM 11/23/2023 -- 140.8
8:50 AM 11/25/2023 -- 140.8
8:12 AM 11/26/2023 -- 140.6
7:17 AM 11/27/2023 -- 140.4
8:08 AM 11/28/2023 -- 140.6
7:56 AM 11/29/2023 -- 140.6
8:34 AM 12/1/2023 -- 141.8
8:58 AM 12/2/2023 -- 140.4
4:28 PM 12/2/2023 -- 141.0
8:57 AM 12/3/2023 -- 140.4
8:55 AM 12/4/2023 -- 140.0
8:13 AM 12/6/2023 -- 141.0
8:24 AM 12/7/2023 -- 142.0
8:40 AM 12/9/2023 -- 140.8
7:41 AM 12/11/2023 -- 142.2
8:43 AM 12/12/2023 -- 141.0
8:20 AM 12/13/2023 -- 141.4
8:19 AM 12/14/2023 -- 140.8
3:55 PM 12/14/2023 -- 141.8
7:18 AM 12/16/2023 -- 140.4
7:25 AM 12/16/2023 -- 140.2
8:09 AM 12/18/2023 -- 139.6
9:33 AM 12/19/2023 -- 139.4
9:43 AM 12/21/2023 -- 138.6
8:19 AM 12/22/2023 -- 139.6
7:37 AM 12/23/2023 -- 139.2
8:23 AM 12/24/2023 -- 139.4
9:25 AM 12/25/2023 -- 138.8
8:56 AM 12/27/2023 -- 139.8
8:40 AM 12/28/2023 -- 140.4
5:55 AM 12/29/2023 -- 140.2
8:04 AM 12/29/2023 -- 139.6
8:34 AM 12/30/2023 -- 139.6
8:46 AM 12/31/2023 -- 139.8