Still standing, still hurting, still dreaming

Last night was a busy one, I had a number of to do’s on the list.  I had to get the third new running club laptop set up now that I replaced the defective hard drive.  I also had to take the tv off the wall in the master bedroom so I could route another HDMI cable to be utilized by the new X1 box.  I was temporarily using the blu-ray hdmi cable to get by.   I had Cindy hold the tv upright on top of the dresser while I did the in-wall cable routing.

We handled other normal Thursday night chores like cleaning Tuki’s cage, laundry and watering the houseplants in short order.  Cindy also did her nightly blackberry harvest.  She has been harvesting every day to try to avoid what you see pictured, bird damage.

In the past I would only harvest berries during my once a week yard maintenance sweep.  The end result was many, many more berries wound up going to the birds than my freezer.  With Cindy harvesting daily we have collected 20-30 per day and have amassed quite a big bag full of them at this point.  The bush is showing no signs of slowing down either.  It seems the more we harvest the more it keeps producing.

The pain in my abdomen is still hanging around.  Last night I was doing some pressure tests to see where the pain is actually emanating from.  It seems to be above the belly button.  I am still hoping I am just experiencing an abdominal strain and not something more annoying like a hernia.

So I have gone through almost an entire work week with my new standing desk.  I have been utilizing the free Varidesk app to get me off my ass for 15 minutes every hour.  If you do the math it winds up being a total of 2 hours of standing time per day.  I have not had any issues doing computer tasks while standing, the position is surprisingly comfortable, at least for 15 minute segments.

The other aid I bought a few weeks to help my pc-centric job, the Gunnar glasses have not met the same sort of success.  For 2-3 weeks I was wearing them and my eyes felt definitively worse for it.  It almost felt like I was forcing my eyes to use readers even though they don’t require them.  After having bloodshot, tearing, painful eyes during those couple weeks I have gone Gunnar free.  Oh well.

This weekend I am helping Ali move to her new house (hopefully) for part of the day Saturday.  There has been some feet dragging at the mortgage company that may cause a problem.  Unfortunately Ali has already secured the truck and hands to help with the move so Saturday we will be moving furniture, however it may only be from her old place into the back of a straight body truck.

I have the parts I need to do a brake/rotor replacement on the Tacoma but that more than likely will be put off until some later time.  I’d like to get some endurance training in but I think the only things I could safely take on with my ab issue is biking or maybe swimming.

Last night I had a dream that LittleBeastM (real name Metin) showed up unannounced at my house.  LBM lives in the Netherlands and is famous in the calisthenics community for his hard core dedication to fitness, strength and healthy eating.   I remember first seeing videos of him doing all sorts of crazy hand balancing on the foot railing of his bed and thinking it was amazing.  He has an impressive mix of strength, balance and power.  He does a lot of movements that are normally reserved for the smaller, thinner, lighter calisthenic guys.

So not only did he show up at my door, he showed up with some large heavy rock.  The rock was utilized in the epic workout session we had in the backyard bar park.

This is the second time I had a dream about Metin showing up at my place, weird.