Done yesterday (20090607)

[mdlbear]

0607 Su
  * up 7:30ish; dozed until 9; W=191.0; drugs, nose; coffe, C; cyclobenzaprine
    | tried meditating while lying in bed; couldn't
  | cyclobenzaprine seems to be helping with the shoulder, or at least moving
    the tension to a different place.  Still a knot at the base of the spine.
  @ "Taking the Path of Zen" by Robert Aitken (from trogula) 
  @ Linguist Arika Okrent's new book from Spiegel & Grau "In The Land Of
    Invented Languages: Esperanto Rock Stars, Klingon Poets, Loglan Lovers,
    And The Mad Dreamers Who Tried To Build A Perfect Language"
    from ozarque
  & installed USB printer switch for LP.
  & Moved Jan-March to.done items to 2009/q1.done
  * Walk - 3 miles, Los Gatos Creek  
    | mindful much of the way, maybe.  Drifting in and out.
    ! not clear whether my mood improved or got worse.
  * buy coffee
  & made/ate dinner.  Steak with mushrooms & onions, summer squash, rice
    ! still feeling psychologically out of sorts in a very vague way
  & noodled a bit, mostly minor
    ! calm, mellow, not particularly happy.
  | having a great deal of trouble focusing/finding anything I want to do
  * 8:00 call to Mom.  nothing of great import.
  * 9:23 posted party invite
  & 10:00 fading out

I woke up around 7:30, but added another hour and a half of semi-conscious dozing. Took some cyclobenzaprine (it's not nearly as good a sleeping pill if you take it in the morning); it seems to have done a pretty good job on the various muscle spasms. I still don't like what "getting enough sleep" -- if that's what it is -- does to my day.

Added a couple more books to my Powell's order. Of course, my "to be read" shelf is already overflowing, but at least the psych stuff is important enough to go to the front of the queue. If I'm ever awake long enough to read anything.

Installed the cheap USB printer switch that I got at Fry's on Saturday, so that visitors like cflute can use the laser printer without having to mess with swapping cables. It still prints from Nova, at least, so I'm happy.

Took a 3-mile walk, but it felt like I was walking through invisible mud; I think I was more depressed afterward than when I started. Dinner, noodling on the guitar... At least I seem to have bounced back to "sort-of OK" as of this morning.