2024-03-28

This trip has been far from a vacation, and I might need a week alone in Atlanta to recover. In addition to everything else, yesterday I was ill and it still lingers currently. Of course unlike every other trip, I will have my buddy Hank as a passenger with me tomorrow, so I hope all goes okay with that.

I’m slightly annoyed by the past two weeks, and more than that I am disappointed in “the universe” for dealing me setback after setback. I had such high hopes for this trip and am ready to pack it in. Hell, if not for business and personal commitments today, I’d be packing the car and heading out this morning.

Wordle: three, my starter was REALM
Connections: perfect, Yellow > Green > Blue > Purple

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2024-03-27

I feel as if I am in the movie Groudhog Day, because I seem to be doing the same thing every day. I am sort of looking forward to returning to Atlanta at week’s end in order to change things up.

Wordle: three, my starter was DRAPE
Connections: one mistake, Purple > Yellow > Blue > Green

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2024-03-26

The baseball game was fun, and the rest of my day was struggling with pain and hanging out with buddies. We went to a new to me brewery in Bradenton called Motorworks Brewing, which is near the stadium in which the Pirates play.

Wordle: four, my starter was CURVE
Connections: one mistake, Blue > Yellow > Purple > Green

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2024-03-25

It has been a week since I drove to Florida and started having terrible pain. Things are getting worse, not better.

Wordle: five, my starter was REACH
Connections: perfect, Purple > Yellow > Blue > Green

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2024-03-22

Paddleboarder at Sunset

Wordle: four, my starter was GRAIN
Connections: fail, Green > Yellow > X > X
Strands: needed a hint before I could get with the program

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2024-03-21

Not much to report, my health continues to make my life difficult.

Weirdly I also forgot to practice Duolingo, so it’s a good thing I had a Streak Freeze available.

Wordle: six, my starter was CHASE
Connections: perfect, Yellow > Green > Blue > Purple (wouldn’t have guessed the Purple)

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2024-03-20

As of today I am officially 50% owner of the Florida House. To keep balance in the Universe I guess that I will claim the parts of the house with plumbing issues.

I clearly have something wrong with me; I think it’s called “empathy”. Yesterday I hobbled out to the dead tree stump with visions of taking it down to the ground when I once again saw many lizards scampering around it. Certainly this is their home and I, the big bad human, was going to make their lives a lot worse, so I backed off. Later in the evening I caught and released a cute little gecko who had decided to visit the inside of the house.

I got shut out trying to find a new brewery yesterday. My travels took me to Largo, FL and when I was returning I saw three breweries on the map:
– Arkane Aleworks is closed on Tuesdays
– Commerce Brewing is a brewery with no taproom
– Olde Florida Brewing Company has gone out of business

Fear not, I didn’t have to go all night without visiting a brewery. While I was out on a walk after eating dinner I walked too close to the brewery district and stopped in for one at Calendonia Brewing.

This piriformis syndrome, assuming that is my current affliction, is bugging the shit out of me. The only time I seem to be free of pain is after I have walked for a few minutes. I’m anxious to go out for a bike ride because I don’t know how my body will react. I’ll keep researching and stretch, hoping that it will literally work itself out.

Wordle: three, my starter was EJECT
Connections: perfect, Green > Blue > Purple > Yellow
Strands: no problem

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2024-03-19

As I mentioned yesterday I took a scenic (read “slow”) route upon entering Florida. My decision to opt for US19 paid off in spades when I saw what? A Vixen on the road!!! For you younger, non hashing types, a Vixen was an automobile, like a squatty RV, one of which was owned for a period of time by MC Hasher and Whiner.

Other than meeting with the lawyers today, I was hoping to get out for a bike ride. Unfortunately that exercise plan has been scrapped because of a seriously debilitating pain in my lower back / hip / buttock (sciatic?) I started suffering yesterday. My pain kept me from getting out for a walk last night. I seem to be a big bag of pain at the moment.

Wordle: five, my starter was DELAY
Connections: perfect, Green > Yellow > Blue > Purple

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2024-03-18

It was a good weekend, during which I found myself inside Westside Pizza twice. As an added bonus, I saw an old time hashing friend, Little Sister, who works there.

I spent some time cleaning up the outside portion of the ITP Estate, including pushing the hipster lawnmower over a tone of leaves and some burgeoning weeds. If nothing else, I chopped a bunch of dried leaves into smaller pieces of dried leaves so that they will breakdown quicker.

Yesterday was a lovely St Patrick’s Day spent, at least for a little while, at a Mexican bar. I’m saddened that I didn’t get to travel to Vern’s funeral in Columbia, SC, but that conflicted with my plan for today.

Today finds me on my way to Florida.

Wordle: four, my starter was MOUTH
Connections: perfect, Yellow > Purple > Green > Blue

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2024-03-15

Not much to report from my end.

I did the CVS ride last night. A small group of us rode from Decatur through Piedmont Park and back with mostly no issues. The only strange part of the evening was a homeless man came and essentially set up camp (no tent) right next to us, we were set up neighboring a spot that had a tree and was covered in pine straw, in the parking lot as we sat around drinking. The man didn’t ask us for anything, he really just wanted to lie down, and even asked that if we’d be bothered if he smoked a cigarette near us.

Wordle: three, my starter was LAUGH
Connections: perfect, Green > Yellow > Blue > Purple
Strands: no errors, though admittedly I didn’t know all of the words

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