Aches and pains today made me think "damn, I'm getting old!" but then I remembered that yesterday I hauled bags of rocks to fill in a sunken area around my carport gutter drain and the cesspool/water feature in my back yard, then repeatedly climbed up and down a ladder to install my hanging planter. And early this morning I tried unsuccessfully to dig up a nandina in the vacant lot down the street. So not exactly a case of just sleeping wrong.

I'm sore just thinking about it. Particularly the up-and-down ladder stuff gets to me.

Thanks, peeps! I'm really glad that my company has it as a holiday, but wow, it's disconcerting that now I have to compress everything I'm scrambling to get done into four days. Our brains and schedules still haven't got used to having it.

I hope your birthday was a good one, Plei.

We had Juneteenth off, but I work for a university, and it's a relatively easy time of year for them to offer a holiday. Last night I went to Tai Chi for the first time in nine years. My friend and I were two of the three youngest people there, which was a nice change for things athletic. It was still a bit of a workout. I came home sweaty and definitely feeling it in my thigh muscles. I'm looking forward to next week.

TCG and ltc both had yesterday off, but it was a day filled with appointments. So, it wasn’t exactly relaxing. We ate leftovers from our big Father’s Day gathering and watched Project Runway, which was fun. ltc had 6 snow days this year so her last day of school isn’t until Friday. Then she’s going to my mother’s for the weekend, which is halfway closer than she used to be since she moved last month!

I'm going to be the mystery next. I met with my lawyer about accepting the settlement. I feel a lot better about the whole thing and since it's going to be handled as a quasi termination I probably won't be going back to work. (I probably should have emptied out my locker yesterday but I dont' have anything important in there). The lawyer is going to try and get a little extra money for future medical expenses but she isn't sure it will happen. It will take about a month for me to get all the final stuff and sign the settlement.

At this point I feel like this is the best outcome.

sj--glad for the shorter trip to your mom's. And I hope that ltc has an awesome Grandma Weekend.

askye, I’m glad you finally have that settled. Are you able to look for other work at this point?

I hope that feels like a relief and you can move on from here, askye.

Aches and pains today made me think "damn, I'm getting old!" but then I remembered that yesterday I hauled bags of rocks to fill in a sunken area around my carport gutter drain and the cesspool/water feature in my back yard, then repeatedly climbed up and down a ladder to install my hanging planter. And early this morning I tried unsuccessfully to dig up a nandina in the vacant lot down the street. So not exactly a case of just sleeping wrong.

Yeah, you know, I was feeling a twinge in my back and pain in my knees this morning but I spent yesterday moving furniture up and down stairs! So I bet that would do it. Still, I am getting old.

sj-yes I'm working to update my resume on Indeed right now and I've been looking at jobs to apply for. I'm sticking with retail right now but trying to find something that isn't primarily a cashier job but that's kind of limiting. I don't want to deviate too much from what I'm doing just to make things easier for me. I'm also not looking at whatever job I get as necessarily a long term thing but accepting that it might be just something to figure out how I'll be doing wiht the concussion and stuff.

Best of luck askye.