Guess was a sign in my last diary riff when i said:
“Well yeah, I’m wiped out from all the last while but was able to spread so much love to family and friends which is truly an honour. I’m not good at the “pacing” so much – When I get my mind on something, I burn through the adrenaline and related neuro-chemicals to do it.”
Blerg: From Jan 5 or so til Jan 31, mostly in bed, very ill. Various (backfilled and possibly previous published elsewhere) memos here for no reason aside from reminding myself. ergo:
Jan 19: Got some sleep last night, thanks new weighted blanket, crossed out “January“ on my to-do list and replaced with “February, maybe“. Gonna *try* to get up, catch up laundry and dishes (Including putting away the extra fancy China still out from holidays), and read some letters.
Weighted blanket came with a weighted eye mask which brings my total count of sleeping masks up to *at least* 37 but none of them are “perfect“. Note to self: consider giving out poetry and art and concentrating on just making great sleeping masks for the world. #SideHustle
Update: washed some dishes, folded some laundry, ate some food, took medicine, now will either organize next fortnight’s supplements or put away the “extra fancy dishes“. Rolling slow. Also packet of “A2” size drafting paper arrived for wife’s design project.
Jan 18: Left house, getting treatment. EOD
Note to a friend: “Was back at the doctors yesterday, got some more medication, managed some sleep last night so that helps. Tiny steps, trying to keep positive thoughts. PS A weighted blanket should be delivered today.
Some terrible stomach virus completely laid me out and just as I was getting bit better, what was suspected as “the thing” but test came back negative so more likely just some nasty nursery school cold/flu. My body is just completely battered and worn out & weak & immunity = 0 :(“
Notes: Thanks for your kind words, it’s really got me discouraged. I mean with this chronic/complex disease I live with (#MECFS), I spend a lot of time being “sick“ but this has smacked me upside the head and left me spinning & struggling
Thanks for all your sweetness kind people. Just fired up a 42° bath, going to rest a little bit more than have my very best time of the day with a soak with my little dude (who seems to be getting cuter every day still, and talking more and more every day as well)
Jan. 17: Still “deep in the shed“
Gonna fold some laundry in bed (and think about ordering a weighted blanket) + continuing listening to the @cbcgem series about Quebec from “dark years“ to bombs and such with the FLQ conundrums. Recall: How to Start a Revolution: Episode 2: The Stranger
Jan 16: Very sick for last 10+ days / many IVs, meds & frustration – did scribble some postcard therapy & listen to various radio/esque programmes, i.e.
- David Sedaris on CBC;
- NPR re: Mojave Payphone Booth ++ There is a book about this whole Mojave payphone booth incident (and the perils of introducing the mysterious item to the Internet) https://mojavephoneboothbook.com);
- curious about 400,000 new “classic jazz age mostly” songs now in public domain (via Open Culture);
- read about The Clash coming to Vancouver for their first ever North American show and playing football/soccer at a neighbourhood park;
- curious about these sort of prefab tiny houses using #hemp
- incredibly prolific and endlessly creative David Byrne made an interesting playlist I’ve been meaning to listen to
- Marshall McLuhan’s Massey Lecture ‘Canada: a Borderline Case’ as recorded on reel to reel from @cbcideas
- Might listen to Kevin Kelly’s Long Now talk shortly (ps purchased his 4 volume photo book “Vanishing Asia” book series which is slowly making its way from the printer in Turkey
- doc about Vancouver Asahis (pre interment debacle) baseball team who won everything all the time (via Canada National Film board)
- also investigated this more or less rewrite of human history, ergo: how we gather as groups & civilizations (for lack of a better word) assembled, grew, changed etc. (@TheAtlantic gives you 3 comp stories)
- Albert Camus — who died in a car crash 1960, with an unused train ticket to the same destination in his pocket “Oh Albert, you taught me to always take the train!” via @themarginlian
- spaced out on the train cruise through Nagano-ken. {Not sure how I feel about this fellow’s narration but whatever} – I like my TV programmes slow and uneventful.
Jan 16 con’t: Got to say, super grateful for medical system here in Japan. I go to the “Big Central Hospital” monthly to see neurologist (check-in) but for “day to day” incidents, see a kindly, diligent and thorough doctor at a nearby mini clinic w/ xray, ultrasound & lab, scrips, all in-house.
Jan 5: Come on you champion virologists and super computers and mathematicians and investigators and clinicians and researchers