Hello Fellow Travelers !
I heard my Patient Spouse was driving north to Mt. Shasta, so I requested a picture to see if Shasta looks as dry as everything else. Shasta looks pretty dry.
How the drought is impacting Shasta County seems entirely secondary because there is a huge light pole in the center of the picture!
You don't even notice the dry mountains, do you? The stupid pole blocks most of the peak!
Don't get me wrong, I'm appreciative! I asked for a picture of Mt. Shasta and I got one! A picture with a big, metal, object in the center of it that pretty much completely obstructs the mountain, but there is, in fact, a picture from 10/3, of Mt. Shasta.
And there was a little snow! Bonus!
The "repurposing" of mountain climbing gear, is another skillset I have recycled for my post-cancer world.. I used to rappel off of mountains. Recently, I bought a rappelling harness from REI so I could safely practice standing! That's right, not even walking, just standing around! And even that makes the PS visibly nervous! I don't know what to do with the caribiners either.
Sacramento. It's pretty flat! And flat is good when you've "lost your place in space". I like flat surfaces right now! Any sort of incline is a challenge. A little walk is a surreal death march, with a walker!
Any house or restaurant becomes a gauntlet of unseen, unconsidered obstacles I have to instantly plan for. An unexpected curb seems insurmountable.
You want to know what else is impossible these days? Jury duty! I can't walk, talk or see but I was summoned to serve as a juror!
Oddly enough I think under normal circumstances I'd make an excellent juror I pay attention, I'm empathetic, non judgmental, and I always have to see how the story turns out.
I wish I could serve as a juror! Alas, I cannot! And I have a doctor's note indicating as much! I would love to be vetted as a juror! It's like voting, it's my job as a citizen! But not right now. Soon though.. I'll be ready for Jury Duty and then I'll go really wild and go to the DMV!
I heard my Patient Spouse was driving north to Mt. Shasta, so I requested a picture to see if Shasta looks as dry as everything else. Shasta looks pretty dry.
How the drought is impacting Shasta County seems entirely secondary because there is a huge light pole in the center of the picture!
You don't even notice the dry mountains, do you? The stupid pole blocks most of the peak!
Don't get me wrong, I'm appreciative! I asked for a picture of Mt. Shasta and I got one! A picture with a big, metal, object in the center of it that pretty much completely obstructs the mountain, but there is, in fact, a picture from 10/3, of Mt. Shasta.
And there was a little snow! Bonus!
The "repurposing" of mountain climbing gear, is another skillset I have recycled for my post-cancer world.. I used to rappel off of mountains. Recently, I bought a rappelling harness from REI so I could safely practice standing! That's right, not even walking, just standing around! And even that makes the PS visibly nervous! I don't know what to do with the caribiners either.
Sacramento. It's pretty flat! And flat is good when you've "lost your place in space". I like flat surfaces right now! Any sort of incline is a challenge. A little walk is a surreal death march, with a walker!
Any house or restaurant becomes a gauntlet of unseen, unconsidered obstacles I have to instantly plan for. An unexpected curb seems insurmountable.
You want to know what else is impossible these days? Jury duty! I can't walk, talk or see but I was summoned to serve as a juror!
Oddly enough I think under normal circumstances I'd make an excellent juror I pay attention, I'm empathetic, non judgmental, and I always have to see how the story turns out.
I wish I could serve as a juror! Alas, I cannot! And I have a doctor's note indicating as much! I would love to be vetted as a juror! It's like voting, it's my job as a citizen! But not right now. Soon though.. I'll be ready for Jury Duty and then I'll go really wild and go to the DMV!
Jury Duty is the price tag of having a home address and voting, and I have dreaded being pulled for it. It is very hard for me to sit, I do almost all om office and hospital work standing, prolonged sitting - even in a cozy driver's seat in a nice car - makes me ache and fidgity, and more, that I won't go in to. So I finally got a doctors note to wit, and the unbelievable happened: an "Excused from Jury Duty for Life" letter that I keep carefully filed...age has its fringe benefits of maturity...
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