Well, it was a pretty uneventful weekend. The only thing I managed to do was update my laptop with some programs I had laying around. Now I need to find one more that's probably buried in the office closet, that way I can reduce the size of my photos to something that could be put up here. Right now every time I try to upload a picture my internet connection crashes. Odd that.

I found the install CD for my cell phone so I can work straight from my laptop. Oh, if ya didn't know I tend to write my posts here at work in my spare time on my phone. It's one of those "smart phones" with a full keyboard and Windows Word Mobile on it. This way I can hook up the phone to the laptop and, boom, my post is on the laptop. I just drop it into the Word program on the laptop and correct the spelling, change fonts and size and then cut & paste it into the website. Neat, huh?

We didn't get to ride the "snake" this weekend. M pulled a muscle in her neck and the back of her left shoulder sometime on Thursday so she wasn't feeling up to riding the twistys this weekend. She ended up dropping out of the bowling during the third game Friday night because it was hurting too much.

As it was we took a short ride on the bikes Sunday and we had to cut it short because of her neck hurting.

Now she thinks she pulled something in her belly and I'm worried she has a hernia. We both have felt the area and even she agrees that something doesn't feel right with those muscles, and she's a doggone RN fer petes sake! Argghhh!

I swear she's gonna sneeze one of these days and just fall apart... But I love that woman, fer some reason. I think it might have something to do with idiocy on my part. ;p

I'm a little worried right now about my hearing. In the last week or two it has gone right in the crapper. Maybe I should clarify; when there is no background noise I hear almost perfectly but add some background noise and I'm lost. I hear people’s voices but I simply cannot pick out the individual words and put them together to understand them as a whole. This is really making me nuts because at work I have to wear earplugs because of the noise so that makes it even harder to understand people.

I can't talk on the phone with the fan running or the TV on. I can't hear my wife if she is facing away from me, or if she's out of my direct line of sight. I should say that I CAN hear her, just not understand what she's saying.

It just gets so tiring to have to say, "Sorry. I didn't get that. Would you say it again?" and people get mad when you have to make them repeat themselves four or five times.

OK.

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