Is your piriformis behaving? (That's the fanciest way I've ever asked someone about their ass!)

Yep. I still get some numbness in my lower leg, but I've learned some standing stretches that alleviate that. I always had some stretches I could do lying down but that didn't help when I was out and about and hammered with crippling pain. My sciatica is officially manageable now.

Considering that a year ago I couldn't walk one block to the corner store, I'm feeling a lot better about life from a physical standpoint.

Now if we could just get past the plague and this administration and get Matilda into a high school things would look rosier altogether.

I just saw Ken and got to hug him! We all wore masks, but after six months I hugged him!

Her knee replacement went GREAT

Great news! Also, I love you dearly for the most excellent names list.

I hugged him!

Ah, I bet that felt wonderful.

Oh, yay, Parker! How wonderful.

And also yay!Hec. Better is amazing. I'm all for better, whenever, however. Go you with the bettering.

Toddson, how is the new place? Are you feeling more settled as you unpack?

Loving the dog names. I can't pick a favorite.

We had a big ol' lug of a yellow tabby whose default name was Punkin. He was so laid back and unflappable though that he was universally referred to as the Dude. There was TC (tripod cat), solid cloudy grey, Merlin, a bruiser kitten of a yellow tabby we assumed was male, named ironically Buttercup (dear little Buttercup). Shoulda named her Miss Piggy--that would have been on the nose. Intense black and orange tortie named Ember. Dogs, Thisby, Sheba, and (I didn't name him) Spiffy. At some point I'd still like a pair of grey sister cats to name Hepzibah and Mehitabel. Or Grimalkin and Griselda. Most friends' dogs are called people names, though.

The ones listed here are the best ones I've heard.

Also, woohoo for the good experience with the knee replacement!

It did! And in more happy news, four members of the Horde are moving to Washington, and my sister has left Texas for Denver.

yay for good surgery and also for hugs.

OMG Notorious D.O.G. is awesome! Would be an excellent sibling for Doggy McDoggerson

I probably should not be allowed to have pets

yay for good surgery and also for hugs

Yes, this.

Y'all, I just did a work thing that was a bigger challenge than I expected but explaining what it was and why it was hard to anyone outside my department might be a bigger challenge. I am trying to content myself with basking in the glow of a job well done but I would like an appreciative audience for my accomplishment maybe more...

Today has not been a great mental health day. Did not wake up with alarm. Did not get out of bed when snooze went off - draggged which set the tone.

Emails from boss about doing something I thought someone else should take the lead on since I have to ask a million questions to do it.

Email from big boss asking for update on doc. Last one I did was 7/14 and I had gotten no feedback on it, so I say that. She needs update of doc in her email by Monday. There are emails that may or not affect it that I have no addressed in another email box. An email box that 4 of us were told to address and it has become only me and again, involves answering questions I very often do not have answers to and do not know where to get them - so another million questions.

Feeling very much I know nothing, am being asked to do things I cannot do. Also annoyed that I had asked someone people in other departments for assistance and GOT NO RESPONSE which I tried to explain to big boss.

ugh wah wah.

Work over I watched Frontline on Alex Jones. JESUS H CHRIST y'all, I mean I already knew, but to see it just so succinct. We are a giant shitshow right now and I think we are going to get it for 4 more years.

I think we are going to get it for 4 more years.

The Princeton Election Consortium gives him basically a zero percent chance of winning, based on current polling.

Ugh on the work stuff, msbelle.

I am so afraid of the 4 more years, msbelle. And I don't know how to turn it into useful prep or prevention or whatever. I mean, here it is about 5 pm and I am ready to go to bed, so my ability to change anything seems pretty low