Not ideal, small wins, 58

So I spent my entire 5 days off sick. I’m not quite sure what flavor of sickness this is but it has involved coughing fits where it feels like am coughing up a lung, lethargy, filling trash cans with tissues and a mild fever at times. It seems like once a year I get knocked on my ass with some sort of illness. There is definitely something going around. Maybe it’s this years version of covid, who knows. What I do know is it seems there are as many people sick as healthy right now. I HATE being sick. It makes me feel weak and sort of worthless. I have lost several pounds as well during this time period despite eating regularly, even though I don’t really have an appetite to do so.

I did very little besides lay around and binge watch Punisher episodes although I did have a couple wins. I managed to figure out what piece of coax runs to my master bedroom and used a splitter to get my OTA antenna feed to both my kitchen and bedroom. This means the next time the Eagles are on national TV I can watch it in my bedroom instead of the kitchen, which was less than comfortable.

Since I moved into my place in March of 23 I have had an annoyance in my master closet. It felt like there was a small hard object in the middle of the carpet. For reasons unknown to me I just let the situation remain unresolved for the last couple years although every time I would step on the hard spot it would annoy me, significantly. I finally decided to pull up the damn carpet and see what the irritating hard object was.

It wasn’t one thing, it was three. Three small shelf brackets that are used with the closet organizer set up. How they would have wound up under the carpet is a mystery but after removing them and being able to step anywhere in the closet without feeling like I had a rock in my shoe I felt much better. Sometimes those small wins feel disproportionately big.

The Eagles had a BIG win, destroying the Raiders 31-0. To me it felt like the game was much more about the Raiders being awful than the Eagles being great. Regardless I hope it gives the team a boost of confidence that gives them some forward momentum as they move through the end of the season.

The illness made me cancel the big live stream I had planned where I was going to give away a wheel. I postponed it for a week, hopefully I am in the clear by then.

Yesterday was my 58th birthday. Despite my illness sort of detouring some of our plans I had a really enjoyable day with my girlfriend. That’s the great thing about her. No matter the situation she makes me feel better.

Being 58 doesn’t feel different than 57 although if I allow myself to dwell on the idea that I am actually that old my mind goes into dark places. I still realize that in reality I am going pretty well as far as most 58 year old people go so I can’t complain, despite doing so regularly.