Grumblegrumblegrumble

Had to wake up last night, water my nose, and sit up for half an hour before I could breathe well enough to get back to sleep. Grrrrrrr. Couldn't even take drugs for it; everything I'm taking is either 12- or 24-hour.

Just emailed in sick for the day. Hopefully I can shake this thing before Baycon. Even if I can't, though, my throat should be ok for singing as long as I can keep the post-nasal drip suppressed.

Where my day go? I missed it.

It hasn't been a terribly productive day. Decided to stay home sick mainly so that I could take a nap if I started to fall over in mid-afternoon. And did lie down for about an hour, though I didn't actually sleep.

Watered my nose three times so far, plus once in the middle of the night last night. Will do it again before bed. It's roughly as effective as a dose of sudafed, but doesn't dry out my throat.

Had a great phone call this morning from cflute, who'd seen my morning post and offered to sing lead on a couple of songs in our concert Friday night. Quickly rejiggered the setlist, adding crypto, alphabet, rrprayer, and lcm; and removing heaven and demon, which is too much of a vocal stretch for me right now. Many of the remaining songs have Joyce on unison, so I can lean on her for support and sit close to the mic. Yay for cflute getting her brain back! Glad somebody has a brain right now -- I don't. More on that sort of thing later.

The setlist is still running a little light; about 50 minutes. That's what it's supposed to be, of course, but as it's the last concert we can run over a little. I'll plan to make it up on patter.

Joyce and I had a short practice session - basically ensuring that we had a good grasp of the additions, and going over the few remaining rough spots, mainly "The Toolmakers" and "I Have a Song to Sing, O", which we're still pretty shaky on. The melody line is tricky. I copied the sheet music at work on Monday, which helped a lot.

Skipped my walk today in favor of the aforementioned lie-down, and had hot buttered rum with honey instead of my usual gin.

Basically a wasted day otherwise. A little reading (re-reading Mount Analogue, which I haven't read for a while), LJ, and ripping CDs. Including tracking down many of the CDs that had been ripped before but not marked. I'm putting little sticky dots on the spines now so I can keep track. I'm up around 200 disks now. Useful, in other words, but totally mindless. Of all the things I've lost...

Finding my heart

Was reminded this morning of cflute's jubilant post announcing that she'd "gotten her brain back".

It occurred to me that I seem to be finding my heart, sometime this year, or at least getting re-acquainted with it. This is sometimes a painful process -- we appear to have been strangers for nearly six decades, and we have a lot of catching up to do.

Watch out for the mood swings, though. I don't guarantee that I'll stay particularly sane through this process.