I put Ben-Gay on the part of my neck that was hurting before I went to bed, and it seems to be a bit better. Stupid stress...

Glad it’s improving.

I got a neck vertebrae to go back where it belonged but it’d been wrong so long that the correct alignment brought a heck of a headache with it and I just stretched and it moved back to the wrong spot. So that 36 hour experiment happened. Why are so many people calling with extended warranty offers on our cars when we need them on our bodies?

Prubsie is out the door, chauffeured by Hec, and I'm trying to herd Matilda off to the bus. Marceline, that pill, is hiding under the hammock and doesn't care about anything.

I want to join in fuck it all Friday! We’ll see if I can conquer my guilt enough. I have no meetings scheduled and may have connectivity issues, so wfh may yet turn into mowing the lawn…

I spent all day yesterday at a women's leadership symposium, in which lots of people talked about how to be change-agents and how to support change in your organization, and hardly anyone mentioned that as a military organization, a LOT of our change comes imposed from above, and that's a lot different to handle.

It was a nice event and I had some good networking moments, but... sigh. It seems like all our systems are being changed right now and it's just a lot, especially for the older civilian employees who are not being properly supported with training and guidance.

Anyway today is my day off and I can't go running because the dog was limping earlier this week, but we're going to go for a hike in the woods soon. And maybe later I will climb.

And maybe buy a new vacuum. The one I have is relatively new, but it's clunky and heavy and I hate using it. I want a lightweight one that I can use easily and often.

I'm cleaning for the maid service this afternoon. Well, tidying. They keep me honest!

We have a house guest this weekend. Pretty sure I've forgotten how that works. Well we'll keep her feed and watered for sure. Just like the cats, and they're doing fine.

There was just a turkey in my (well, neighbor's) tree. Way up high! A turkey! Pretty sure I've never seen a turkey in person before, so that's exciting to begin wit, but... in a tree! You know the phrase tat immediately came to mind, of course.

My sister and her husband have a cabin up in the Berkshires and there are wild turkeys EVERYWHERE. At dusk you can see whole flocks of them flying up to roost one by one, and they're just so big and ungainly it's hilarious to watch.

Wow, my psych's office has put in a new policy that if they prescribe you any benzos (such as klonopin, which I take maybe a few times a month), you have to submit to random mandatory drug screens twice a year.

You *will* be tested twice a year or you might be? Because maybe being subject to screening seems pretty common but definitely getting tested seems unnecessarily draconian. I'm not sure that's the word I want, necessarily, but it'll do. Unnecessarily a few things I don't like, probably.

I seem to be ok with reading fiction during the work day while I don't actually have anything to do but watching TV seems like going too far. I wonder how I decided that.

Yeah, it's not clear. It says "random", but I think that may mean that you don't know when it's coming, but it's definitely coming. I have to clarify with them. But I'm not amused.