Feeling the hot, sticky weather, I suppose, like everyone else, I was droopy.
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Photograph credit: Gregory H. Revera
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Commentary
Thursday, July 18, 2019
A hair blocked a gland which by a hair and created a lump on the back of my neck.
At clinic, a nurse practitioner painlessly inserted a needle into the lump and a day later it has shrunk to little.
Not much to report.
Except that in taking my vitals, the take-in staff exclaimed, “Excellent,” when she took my blood pressure.
My history is borderline, a systolic of 130, even with a pill I agreed to take to give my doctor peace of mind.
Thinking about the lump, I didn’t follow through the significance of “Excellent.”
Until yesterday.
Feeling the hot, sticky weather, I suppose, like everyone else, I was droopy.
Now wondering whether my lowered blood pressure, an improvement in my overall well-being, of course, causing the droop.
Wondering now what caused this sudden and precipitous improvement.
Is this the new norm for me?
Is it the weather?
Is it the two miles-long walks I’m taking in the nice weather?
Called the doctor’s office.
Am waiting for the nurse to get back to me.
Am wondering if I may stop taking that high-blood pressure pill.
Am wondering whether I should be looking a gift horse in the mouth.
In the event, I missed the call.
Twice.
Late afternoon I pulled out my blood pressure gauge and took a measurement.
133/77/62.
My normal.
No change.
It’s either Roseanna’s ‘allus sonthin,’ or, as that other writer said, it’s
Much ado about nothing.
The next days look like hot but ongoing threats of rain for a while to come.
This is where people start complaining.
Not me.
Except for A/C which has several times in the past made me sick.
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Tracking Postings – Tracking Time
Thursday, July 18, 2019
Our 468th consecutive posting, committed to 5,000.
After 468 posts we’re at the 9.36 percentile of our commitment, that commitment a different way of marking the passage of time.
Posting always done by 6.00am the day of, but usually by 6pm of the night before.
On this day Boston will enjoy moderate temperatures, with a high of 72* and a feels-like of 72* with rain
Spinacia oleracea flowering
Rasbak - Own work
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Dinner
Thursday, July 18, 2019
Tuesday’s dinner was a simple Broiled/Seared NY Steak with a side of spinach and potatoes sautéed in garlic oil with hot crushed pepper.
Yum.
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Chuckle of the Day:
Thursday, July 18, 2019
During the funeral service for her husband, wife sees the pallbearers accidentally bump the casket into a wall.
From the casket, a faint moan.
They open the casket and find that husband is actually alive.
Ten years pass and the husband dies a second time.
At the end of the funeral service, the pallbearers lift the casket.
The frantic wife calls out,
"Watch out for the wall!."
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Today’s Thumbnail
Thursday, July 18, 2019
Shine on
The Moon is the only natural satellite of Earth and the fifth largest moon in the Solar System.
Owing to its synchronous rotation around Earth, the Moon always shows essentially the same face: its near side, which is marked by dark volcanic maria, as well as the bright ancient crustal highlands and the prominent impact craters.
However, variations in the Moon's orbital speed due to its orbital eccentricity cause a libration of several degrees of longitude; the alignment of the Moon's orbital plane causes a similar libration in latitude.
The Moon was first reached in September 1959 by the Soviet Union's unmanned Luna 2, followed by the first successful soft landing by Luna 9 in 1966.
The United States Apollo program achieved the only manned lunar missions to date, including Apollo 8 in 1968, the first manned orbital mission, as well as Apollo 11, the first of six manned landings between 1969 and 1972.
This picture shows the near side of the Moon close to its greatest northern ecliptic latitude, so the southern craters are especially prominent. Tranquility Base, Apollo 11's landing site, is located near the mid-right in the photograph.
It’s not that I’m a hypercondriac, I’m more a hypocondriac.
I have eleven different pills in a pill-wheel designed for eight.
We double up some of them.
____________________________________________On this Thursday, the eighteenth day of July, 2019
Our lead picture is a shot of the full moon.
Our commentary speaks of worrying about an improvement in health.
We posted a Boston weather report, the ticking calendar, and the growing number of posts as calendar markers.
We posted a chuckle (“Watch out for the Wall!”) and shared that we ate Broiled/Seared NY Steak w spinach and potatoes.
Our Thumbnail dealt with the moon.
And now?
Gotta go.
Che vuoi? Le pocketbook?
See you soon.
Your love.