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Today's images are of a shed cat's claw... the one on the left is the whole thing, mostly, the right image is of just the business end. Pretty innocuous-looking, eh? But they can sink quite quickly into flesh. Traces of blood removed for those with weak stomachs....

Today was a fun day, generally, if you consider that it started with an 06:30 wake-up and getting a finger stuck up my sore butt two hours later....

My doc said that he thought that I looked pretty good, all things considered... meaning I had a hundred-year-old body, an eighty-year old mind and a thirty-year-old attitude.

I will be seeing an ENT guy about my larynx... it hasn't really been right since I got tubed at the hospital. Voice is just really weak.

Part of that may be to the thicker mucus discharge, which I presume is a side effect of the diuretics. I hope so, anyway.

I'll also be getting lab work in the AM, along with Jean. 12 hours fasting, heh, a cinch.

We also went over my labs, and my A1C is 5.6; this is no even a pre-diabetic number, and it means that all of the meds that I'm taking are effective. I will get to keep my legs longer, which is a good thing.

He also told me to get some cortisone cream for my butt to help it heal... I have complied. O'yeah, the prostate is OK.

After seeing the doc, I came home and did the dishes and cleaned up the kitchen... Jean had stayed up when I got up, but I didn't make her go with me, given the routine nature of the visit, and she was happy about that.

We then went to Manhattan to meet with one of our friends for lunch, and we went to the First Edition and had a nice meal (omelet for me, no pancakes!) and very good conversation.

We were kinda planning on meeting YD for coffee afterwards, but couldn't get ahold of her for a confirmation... she has a neat new job, but she doesn't carry her phone around in the classroom.

So we went to a coupla junk stores on the east side of town and bought a few things of little consequence, except that I'll have to figger out how to drill holes in glass....

We also went to the water-bed store, and it was closed. In the middle of the day! We didn't really have anything that we needed there, I just wanted to look around.

Another part of our mission today was to look at a '08 CR-V in Wamego, and that required some schedule-juggling.

We finally got ahold of YD and several plans were discussed and discarded, and we met them at Radina's on the hill and had fun conversation for an hour or so. It was YD, K and K's sister E.

We had an offer to eat with them, but our schedule was too tight to allow that and we got a rain check, I think?

After that, we went to Jean's old house to pick up the old CR-V and bring it back to Topeka and start getting it ready to sell... we also picked up some more of the slate and several concrete blocks.

Then we went to see the newer CR-V, and Jean left the old one in the parking lot at a grocery and we found the house, an apartment that sits on the bank of the Kansas river. I would love to live there... I've always wanted to live on the bank of a river, so I could watch the ever-changing water flow by.

Getting off of the subject, of course... the vehicle is very nice, has some hail damage (They bought it new after a tornado in Manhattan) and a minor scratch, but excellent shape otherwise. Drives like a dream... well, a dream halfway between a F-150 and a Camry. Plenty of horsepower, very good on the highway at speed... and has lots of bells and whistles, including a retractable moon roof. No roof rack, though.

I will call the lady's hubby tomorrow and make an offer well below what they're asking and see what ahppens. Or, better yet, I'll let Jean make the call; she's a bargainer and I'm really not.

The drive home was OK, but the sunset colors and clouds needed sharing, and Jean wasn't in the car with me....

We both got home about the same time and we were both very hungry, it had been about nine hours since lunch, so we went down to Spanky's and had a hamburger and a beer.

And I feel pretty good about this day... it has been successfully and happily lived.

And nothing on the calender tomorrow except for the blood work.