kirabug’s idea files

There’s a new Flight anthology coming!!!

Oooh!! Gimmie gimmie gimmie!!

Funny, I think this is the same dog that woke me up this morning.

At least, it’s definitely the same expression on said dog.

So a few weeks ago the arch of my right foot started to ache — not all the time, but sometimes when I walk on it funny or I’m on it too long. I stopped exercising to give it a chance to heal, but it’s been two weeks and healing has not accomplished itself according to plan. Went to the doctor today and he’s diagnosed tendon pulls with a possible very small fracture as well. X-rays were accomplished before work and all it theoretically going according to the new plan: advil, and heel cups in my shoes.

Of course it doesn’t help that the heel cup, while probably helping the tendons quite a bit, are making the bone ache like all hell.

What’s annoying (outside of the pain and inconvenience) is that I can’t walk the dog. But maybe that’s a blessing in disguise, considering that she’s currently scheduled for a specialist appointment later this week for a bad shoulder.

Anyway, today’s afternoon forecast is slightly grouchy with a chance of grousing, well on until morning.

Amen.

Huh. Ow. Ow. Ow. Ow. Fuck.

Ever notice how sometimes what happens to a fictional character hurts?

I’m declaring today Birnam Wood Tuesday.

In less than 12 hours I’ve passed (or been passed by) 5 landscaping trucks and one huge flatbed, all carrying coniferous trees jutting out at all angles.

If I’d've realized it was “drive your pine tree around town” day, I’d've thrown a seedling into the back seat before I left.

Strangely, discussing this at work has revealed that some of the smartest people I know don’t know what deciduous means. Or, for that matter, why I’d need to know what the antonym of deciduous is while at work.

I wonder what the slogan for Birnam Wood Tuesday should be.

Birnam Wood Tuesday: Because Dunsiane’s Gotta Be Around Here Somewhere.