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 <+>+<+>+<+>+<+>+<+>+<+>+<+>+<+>+<+>+<+>+<+>+<+>+<+> 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 posted in rec.bicycles.misc 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 && +end+   --X-- --X-- --X-- --X-- --X-- --X-- --X-- --X-- --X-- --X-- --X-- --X-- --X-- <   > 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