Third Time's a Charm
Highlights: I set up the "ascending alarm" again, and it worked well, at least well enough, until I went back to bed for a bit longer. I need to reset the SAD light timer tonight and see if I can get the proper coordination between the two. Getting up early was so much easier when it was warm and light. This whole "dark 'n cold" stuff makes hibernation sound appealing. Jen "tweaked" her back something awful today. I was on a work call and could hear her painful moans and breathing from the bathroom. I wasn't sure what to make of it until I got off the call momentarily and could help. She's moving super slow, and I'm hoping she recovers quickly. Getting old certainly sucks. I don't think she's experienced back pain before, so this is an eye-opener. I had a good counseling session today, and we discussed more "radical acceptance" concepts and how some of my recent "successes" (if you can call them that) appear to be gradual subconscious steps towards that. Knowing that a show will drop because that's what they do and embracing that you can not change that makes it less upsetting when one does. We had a low-key evening, given the back issues. I received my 3rd attempt to get "52nd Street," and this time, it didn't show up cracked in half (1st), and the record inside the cover wasn't a different album entirely (the 2nd had "The Stranger" LP in the "52nd Street" sleeve). And it played beautifully. I removed almost all the plastic sleeves I've acquired from the records because they get in the way of the tactile experience. My search has stalled at 12, which will come around eventually. I hope to do deep cleaning and refurbish the console in November/December. Still, October has enough going on between Paso and Vegas and various things in between.
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