Tytler Cycle

Temet Nosce

I don't even have any good skills...

 I told my wife I saw this fantastic video explaining how there is no excuse not to eat healthy while traveling...whether on the road camping or in a hotel. 

For $20ish dollars in ingredients, he showed how to make coffee pot shrimp and broccoli, cauliflower, and carrots. 

It made sense. 

Then my wife said, "have you ever seen sushi served on a naked lady?" 

In my mind, I was like, how can you be sure if it is fresh? 

I was thinking back several years, to when a lady had offered to buy us dinner. She said it was on her. 

I was like, can we have plates? Plates seem more sanitary. 

Anyhow, I went from wanting coffee pot shrimp, to not wanting seafood at all. 

Somehow, my mind moved to an accent in blockbuster films that bothered me. 

Nebula, in the Guardians of the Galaxy and Avengers films.

 Is that the female version of Napoleon Dynamite?  

I am not mocking. It is brilliant, how that character is done, whether it is what I hear, or if I am wrong. 

but damn...

Please Lord, make my wife stop saying " Coochi Sushi". 

Best Medicine.

 So...the best? week I have had in 6 months, healthwise.

I walked four days, on the fourth day walked twice, and the fifth day decided moving was a bad idea. Slept in the boot, but then did five hours of dishwashing and normal chores, and today walked a mile, plus two trips around wally world. So probably at least a mile and a quarter or more. The 5 hours dishwashing and chores....on my feet, was by far the hardest. 

That was it for me. 

When I say 5 hours of dishwashing....this is the week we are doing meal prep and don't have a dishwasher.  It will be getting hot outside soon, and we want to continue walking and such....so we are planning out meals, getting the hard work out of the way, and only have reheating to worry about. ( Utility bills in the hot months. Ovens are the enemy of A/C.) 

These are the things older people have to think about...what if one of us is in the hospital...what if we are both hurting....so we make sure we have lots of easy to prepare meal options. 

My best? comment had to do with the pain. 

My wife has taken care of me for months when I could not.  I hope I have earned that, 'cause none of us want to put it all on anyone else. 

It is amazing how much better pain feels when you know you earned it.  I know how my health issues work. I have seen the patterns. Immobility will be coming for me soon. I need sweat, and sunlight when I can get it.  Hope to see the kids and the grandkids soon.

 

Family.

Best medicine. 

Nicht Gut

 Got 4 days of short walks out of the ankle/foot....day five not so good.  The more I walk, the more edema and arthritis pain. 

I'm not on crutches or the walker yet, but feels like heel is worn down and I am walking on the outside of my foot whether I want to or not. 

Don't get me started on my hips, knees, back or my vision. 

Does this feel like a comic strip about a cat yet? 

(lasagna is in the oven)

Life has a fourth wall

 Look around. 

Unrelated

 The opposite of Occam is sometimes 

a magnum opus of true. 

There is time you can't get back

There are things you can't wash off

chasing redemption

You call it Ragnarok,

 I call it computer simulation.  

Events aren't story.  

Aren't they? 

Keep your mind on here and now

just keep your mind on

Too much Time to understand? 

It's only Monday

If you believe it is. 

Time is a self inflicted wound. 

Disability is a legal term

Moving forward while watching our back

Moving forward

being moved like chess pieces

by players on the outside looking in

we are avatars

can't the avatars move the players?

questioning weaponized absurdity

only makes it stronger

Demise

quality of life

a man's just got to live

long enough

Trade off...

wound that never heals

war stories...

better than I was

Pocket reality

play the charade

a life of being told

facts not facts

noticing things 

putting it together

watching it unravel

chasing a ball of string

noticing things I wasn't supposed to

writing a book 

that wants a better reader

time suck

shame on me

for acquiring just enough education

and experience

to know better

I'm a bit mouthy 

for a guy that's put on his own socks

6 times in 4 months

I leave the conversation

to see who follows

0 fucks given

I marvel 

at the passionless delivery

of frantic statement

The endless soliloquy

---Mark Burkenbine 2021

better than I was